Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His servant, to be a warner to all the worlds.
He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, who has taken no son and has no partner in His dominion, who created everything and measured it precisely.
Yet they have taken gods besides Him that create nothing and are themselves created, that have no power to harm or benefit themselves, and have no control over death, life, or resurrection.
Those who disbelieve say, "This is nothing but a lie he invented, and other people helped him with it." They have committed injustice and falsehood.
They say, "Legends of the ancients that he has written down, dictated to him morning and evening."
Say, "It was sent down by the One who knows every secret in the heavens and the earth. He is Forgiving, Merciful."
They say, "What is with this messenger? He eats food and walks through the markets. Why was an angel not sent down to him to be a warner alongside him?"
"Or a treasure thrown down to him, or a garden from which he could eat?" The wrongdoers say, "You are only following a man bewitched."
See how they strike comparisons for you, but they have gone astray and cannot find a way.
Blessed is He who, if He willed, could give you better than that: gardens with rivers flowing beneath them, and palaces.
But they deny the Hour, and We have prepared a blazing fire for those who deny the Hour.
When it sees them from a distant place, they will hear its raging and roaring.
When they are thrown into a narrow place within it, chained together, they will cry out for destruction.
Do not cry out for one destruction today, but cry out for many destructions.
Say, "Is that better, or the Garden of Eternity promised to the mindful? It will be their reward and destination."
There they will have whatever they wish, dwelling forever. It is a promise binding upon your Lord.
On the Day He gathers them and what they worship besides God, He will say, "Was it you who led these servants of Mine astray, or did they stray from the path themselves?"
They will say, "Glory be to You! It was not for us to take any protectors besides You. But You gave them and their fathers comfort until they forgot the reminder and became a ruined people."
They have denied what you say, so you cannot avert punishment or find help. Whoever among you does wrong, We will make him taste a terrible punishment.
We never sent any messengers before you who did not eat food and walk through the markets. We have made some of you a trial for others: will you be patient? Your Lord is All-Seeing.
Those who do not expect to meet Us say, "Why are angels not sent down to us, or why do we not see our Lord?" They have grown arrogant within themselves and exceeded all bounds in insolence.
The Day they see the angels, there will be no good news for the criminals. They will cry, "A barrier forbidden!"
We will turn to whatever deeds they did and scatter them like dust.
The people of Paradise that Day will have the best dwelling and the finest resting place.
The Day the sky splits open with clouds and the angels are sent down in streams.
True sovereignty that Day belongs to the Most Merciful, and it will be a hard Day for the disbelievers.
The Day the wrongdoer bites his hands, saying, "If only I had taken a path with the Messenger!"
"Woe to me! If only I had not taken so-and-so as a close friend!"
"He led me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me." Satan has always been a betrayer of man.
The Messenger said, "My Lord, my people have abandoned this Quran."
This is how We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. Your Lord is sufficient as a Guide and Helper.
Those who disbelieve say, "Why was the Quran not sent down to him all at once?" It was sent this way to strengthen your heart, and We have revealed it in measured stages.
They never bring you an argument except that We bring you the truth and a better explanation.
Those who will be gathered on their faces to Hell, they are in the worst position and the most astray from the path.
We gave Moses the Scripture and appointed his brother Aaron as his assistant.
We said, "Go to the people who have denied Our signs." Then We destroyed them utterly.
The people of Noah, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them and made them a sign for humanity. We have prepared a painful punishment for the wrongdoers.
And Aad and Thamud and the people of the Well and many generations in between.
To each We gave parables, and each We destroyed completely.
They have passed by the town that was showered with a dreadful rain. Did they not see it? No, they never expected resurrection.
When they see you, they only mock you: "Is this the one God sent as a messenger?"
"He nearly led us astray from our gods, had we not held firmly to them." They will know, when they see the punishment, who was more astray from the path.
Have you seen the one who takes his own desire as his god? Will you be a guardian over him?
Or do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are like cattle. No, they are even more astray from the path.
Have you not seen how your Lord stretches the shadow? Had He willed, He could have made it still. Then We made the sun its guide.
Then We draw it back to Us, a gradual withdrawal.
He is the One who made the night a garment for you, and sleep a rest, and made the day a resurrection.
He is the One who sends the winds as heralds before His mercy. We send down from the sky pure water.
To revive with it a dead land and give drink to countless livestock and people We have created.
We have distributed it among them so they may reflect, yet most people refuse anything but ingratitude.
Had We willed, We could have sent a warner to every town.
So do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with it, a great striving.
He is the One who merged the two seas, this one fresh and sweet, that one salty and bitter, and placed between them a barrier and an impassable boundary.
He is the One who created from water a human being, then made from him relations by blood and marriage. Your Lord is All-Powerful.
Yet they worship besides God what neither benefits them nor harms them. The disbeliever is ever a supporter against his Lord.
We have sent you only as a bearer of good news and a warner.
Say, "I ask no payment from you for this, only that whoever wishes may take a path to his Lord."
Put your trust in the Ever-Living who never dies, and glorify Him with praise. He is fully aware of the sins of His servants.
He who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days, then established Himself upon the Throne. The Most Merciful, so ask someone well-informed about Him.
When they are told, "Prostrate to the Most Merciful," they say, "What is the Most Merciful? Should we prostrate to whatever you command us?" And it only increases their aversion.
Blessed is He who placed constellations in the sky and placed in it a lamp and a luminous moon.
He is the One who made the night and day follow each other for whoever wants to reflect or wants to be grateful.
The servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth humbly, and when the ignorant address them, they say, "Peace."
Those who spend the night before their Lord, prostrating and standing.
Those who say, "Our Lord, turn away from us the punishment of Hell, for its punishment is relentless."
It is a terrible settlement and residence.
Those who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor stingy, but maintain a balance between the two.
Those who do not invoke another god alongside God, do not kill the soul that God has forbidden except by right, and do not commit adultery. Whoever does this will face punishment.
The punishment will be multiplied for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will remain in it, humiliated forever.
Except for those who repent, believe, and do righteous deeds. For them, God will replace their evil deeds with good ones. God is Forgiving, Merciful.
Whoever repents and does righteous deeds truly turns to God in sincere repentance.
Those who do not bear false witness, and when they pass by idle talk, they pass with dignity.
Those who, when reminded of the verses of their Lord, do not fall upon them deaf and blind.
Those who say, "Our Lord, grant us from our spouses and offspring comfort to our eyes, and make us leaders for the righteous."
They will be rewarded with the highest chambers for their patience, and they will be met there with greetings and peace.
They will remain there forever. What an excellent settlement and residence.
Say, "My Lord would not care about you were it not for your supplication. But you have denied, so it will be inevitable."