Surah “The Angels, Originator, The Creator”

as rendered by Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto — 45 verses

Praise be to Allah, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Maker of the angels as messengers having wings, two or three or four. He increases in the creation whatever He wills. Indeed, Allah is over every thing competent.
Whatever Allah grants to people of mercy, then none can withhold that; and whatever He withholds, then none can release that thereafter. And He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.
O mankind, remember the favour of Allah upon you. Is there any creator other than Allah who provides for you from the heaven and the earth? There is no deity except Him, so how are you fooled?
And if they belie you [O Muhammad], already were messengers belied before you. And to Allah return all the matters.
O mankind, indeed Allah's promise [in Qur'an 11:119] is true, but not that should fool you in the life of the world nor that should fool you about Allah, like the deceiver [Iblees did to himself, Qur'an 7:16, Qur'an 15:39]?
Indeed Satan is an enemy to you; so take him as an enemy. He only invites his party to be of the companions of the Blaze.
Those who disbelieved, for them is a severe torment, and those who believed and worked righteous deeds, there is for them forgiveness and a great reward.
Is then he who sugar-coated for him, his evil deed then considers it as good [is good]? Thus indeed, Allah strays whomever He wills and He guides whomever He wills. So do not let your life [O Muhammad] go waste regretting over them. Indeed, Allah is Knowing about whatever they are producing.
And Allah is the one who sends the winds, then it stirs up the clouds, then We drive it to a dead land and give life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness. Thus will be the resurrection.
Whoever wants might - so to Allah belongs all might. To Him ascends the good speech while the righteous work He exalts that. And they who scheme evil, for them is a severe torment in addition the plots of those - it will fail.
And Allah created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop [Adam by self procreation of Eve]; then He made you through pairs [hetero sexual procreation]. And no female conceives nor does she give birth except with His knowledge. And no aged person is granted [additional] life nor is his lifespan shortened except that it is in a Book. Indeed, that is easy upon Allah.
And not the two bodies of water are alike. This is fresh, sweet, palatable its drink, and this is salty and bitter. And from each, you eat tender meat and extract ornaments which you wear, and you see the ships gliding through that you may seek of His bounty; and perhaps you may be thankful.
He causes to enter the night in the day, and He causes to enter the day in the night and has subjected the sun and the moon - each running for a stated term [Qur'an 75:9]. That is Allah, your Lord; to Him belongs sovereignty. And those whom you invoke other than Him do not own as much as the membrane of a date seed.
If you [men] invoke them, they do not hear your supplication; and even if they heard, they would not respond to you. And on the Day of Resurrection they will disbelieve with your association. And none can inform you [O Muhammad] like [one] who is All-Acquainted.
O mankind, you are the poor to Allah, and Allah is the Rich, the Praiseworthy.
If He wills, He can eliminate you and bring in a new creation.
And that is not in mighty upon Allah.
And no bearer of burdens will bear a burden of another. And if a heavily weighted person calls [anyone] to [carry some of] its load, nothing of it will be carried, even if he was a warmly related. You can only warn [O Muhammad] those who fear their Lord about the unseen [destiny] and establish the prayers. And whoever purifies himself [by doing] so he only purifies for himself. And to Allah belongs the destiny.
Not equal are the blind and the seer,
Nor are the darknesses and the light,
Nor are the shade and the scorching heat,
And not equal are the living and the dead. Indeed, Allah makes whom He wills hear, and you [O Muhammad] will not make whoever is in the graves [self made bubbles] hear.
Left is nothing you are to be except a warner.
Indeed, We sent you with the truth as a deliverer of good news and a warner. And left was no community except a warner has passed through.
And if they belie you - so those before them already belied. Their messengers came to them with the proofs, and written ordinances [Zubura], and with the enlightening Book.
Then I seized the ones who disbelieved; so how it was [how], My rejection.
Have you [O man] not considered that Allah sent down water from the heaven [outer space]. So We bring forth by it fruits of varying colors? And of the mountains some are streaks of white and red of varying shades and [some] are extremely black.
And of the mankind and the moving creatures and the livestock are various colors likewise. Only fear Allah, from His slaves, the learned ones. Indeed, Allah is Almighty, All-Forgiving.
Indeed, those who recite the Book of Allah and establish the prayers and spend from what We have provided them, secretly and openly, can expect a trade that will never fail.
That He may give them in full their rewards and increase for them of His bounty. Indeed, He is Forgiving, Thankful.
And any that We revealed to you from the Book [Qur'an] is the truth, self-confirming what is in between its two hands. Indeed, Allah is about His slaves, Well-Acquainted, Seer.
Then [O Muhammad] we would cause to inherit the Book those We have chosen of Our slaves; and from them is he who wrongs to himself, and from them is he who is moderate, and from them is he who is foremost in good deeds by permission of Allah. That [inheritance of the Qur'an] is the bounty, the great.
Eden Paradises, they will be entering. They will be adorned therein from bracelets of gold and pearls, and their garments therein will be of silk.
And they will say, "All praise be to Allah, the one who has removed [all] sorrow from us. Indeed, our Lord is Forgiving, Thankful.
He who has settled us in the home of eternity out of His bounty. No fatigue touches us in it, and no weariness touches us in it."
And for those who disbelieved, the fire of Hell is for them. [Death] is not decreed upon them so they may die, nor will be lightened upon them of its torment. Thus We will reward every infidel.
And they will cry out therein, "Our Lord, remove us; we will work righteous - other than what we were doing!" But did We not grant you life what is enough for whoever would be remembering therein to remember, and the warner had come to you? So taste. So for the oppressors there is no helper.
Indeed, Allah is Knower of the unseen [aspects] of the heavens and earth. Indeed, He is Knowing about what is in the breasts.
He is the one who made you successors in the earth. So whoever disbelieved - only against him would be his disbelief. And the disbelief of the infidels will not increase them with their Lord except in hatred; and the disbelief of the infidels does not increase them except in loss.
Say, "Have you considered your associates whom you invoke other than Allah? Show me what they have created from the earth, or for them is a share in the heavens? Or had We given them a book so they be upon a proof thereof?" No but is there [they didn't]. Left is nothing the oppressors can promise one another except delusion.
Indeed, Allah upholds the heavens and the earth, lest they cease. And if they ceased, no one could uphold them [functioning] after Him. Indeed, He is Tolerant, Forgiving.
And they swore by Allah their strongest oaths that if a warner came to them, they would be better guided than [any] one of the [other] communities. But when a warner came to them, it did not increase them except in aversion.
Behaving arrogantly in the land and scheming the evil; but the evil scheming coils none except its own people in. So do they await except the way of the former peoples? But you will never find in the way of Allah any change, and you will never find in the way of Allah any alteration.
Have they not traveled in the land, so seen how was the outcome of those before them? And they were stronger than them in power. And Allah was to be escaped in it [their evil scheme, Qur'an 35:43] by nothing in the heavens or on the earth. Indeed, He is ever Knowing, Competent.
And if Allah were to punish the people about what they have earned, He would leave upon the earth no creature. But He respites them till a stated term [Qur'an 11:7]. And when their term has come, then indeed Allah is ever in His slaves, All-Seer.