In the name of God, the Almighty,¹ the Merciful.

¹ Blessed be He who has sent down the Division¹ upon His servant, that he might be a warner to all mankind,

² He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and has not taken a son or had a partner¹ in dominion, but created everything, then ordained it entirely.²

³ And they have taken, besides¹ Him, gods which create nothing, but are created, and possess for themselves neither harm nor benefit; and they possess neither death nor life nor resurrection.

⁴ And those who ignore warning¹ say: “This is only a falsehood; he invented it, and other people assisted him in it.” And they have brought injustice and falsehood.

⁵ And they say: “Legends of the former peoples he has written,¹ and they are dictated to him morning and evening.”

⁶ Say thou: “He sent it down who knows the secret in the heavens and the earth; He is forgiving and merciful.”

⁷ And they say: “What is this messenger that eats food and walks in the markets? Oh, that an angel were but¹ sent down to him to be a warner with him!

⁸ “Or a treasure were but sent to him! Or there were for him but a garden from which he ate!”¹ And the wrongdoers² say: “You follow only a man taken by sorcery.”³

⁹ See thou how they strike similitudes for thee, and go astray, and cannot find a path.

¹⁰ Blessed be He who, if He wills, will make for thee better than that, — gardens beneath which rivers flow — and will make for thee palaces!

¹¹ The truth is,¹ they have denied the Hour; and We have prepared for him who denies the Hour an inferno.²

¹² When it sees them from a place far away, they will hear the fury and the roaring¹ thereof.

¹³ And when they are cast therefrom¹ into a narrow place bound together, they will call thereupon for destruction.

¹⁴ “Call not this day for one destruction, but call for many destructions!”¹

¹⁵ Say thou: “Is that better, or the Garden of Eternity which is promised to those of prudent fear?”¹ It will be for them a reward and a journey’s end.

¹⁶ They have therein all that they desire, they abiding eternally; it is upon thy Lord a promise requested.¹

¹⁷ And the day He gathers them and what they serve, besides¹ God, and says: “Was it you who led astray these My servants, or did they stray from the path?”

¹⁸ They will say: “Glory¹ be to Thee! It behoved us not to take, besides² Thee, any allies! But Thou didst give them and their fathers enjoyment until they forgot the remembrance³ and became a people ruined.”

¹⁹ “They¹ have denied² you³ for what you say,” — and you are able neither to avert⁴ nor to find help;⁵ and whoso does wrong among you, We will let him taste a great punishment.

²⁰ And We sent not before thee any emissaries, but that they ate food and walked in the markets. And We made some of you a means of denial¹ for others. Will you be patient? And thy Lord is seeing.

²¹ And those who look not for a meeting with Us say: “Oh, that the angels were but¹ sent down upon us, or we but saw our Lord!” They have waxed proud concerning themselves, and scornful with great scorn.

²² The day they see the angels: — no glad tidings, that day, for the lawbreakers; and they will say: “A complete partition!”¹

²³ And We will come to what they did of deeds, and make it scattered dust.

²⁴ The companions of the Garden, that day, are better in dwelling-place and better in resting-place.

²⁵ And the day the sky is rent asunder with the clouds, and the angels are sent down in successive descent,

²⁶ True¹ dominion, that day, belongs to the Almighty;² and it will be a difficult day for the false claimers of guidance.³

²⁷ And the day the wrongdoer¹ will bite his hands, he will say: “Would that I had taken with the Messenger a path!

²⁸ “Woe is me! Would that I had not taken such-and-such for a friend!

²⁹ “He led me astray from the remembrance¹ after it reached me.” And the satan² is to man a traitor.

³⁰ And the Messenger will say: “O my Lord: my people took this Qur’an¹ as a thing abandoned.”²

³¹ And thus We appointed for every prophet an enemy¹ from among the lawbreakers; but thy Lord suffices as a guide and a helper.

³² And those who ignore warning¹ say: “Oh, that the Qur’an² were but³ sent down upon him all at once!” Thus — that We might strengthen thy heart thereby; and We have recited it distinctly.⁴

³³ And they bring thee not a similitude save We bring thee the truth¹ and better in explanation.

³⁴ Those who are gathered on their faces into Gehenna: those are worse in position, and further astray in the path.

³⁵ And We gave Moses the Writ,¹ and appointed with him his brother Aaron as an assistant.

³⁶ And We said: “Go¹ to the people who have denied Our proofs”;² then We annihilated them completely.³

³⁷ And the people of Noah: when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and made of them for mankind a proof;¹ and We have prepared for the wrongdoers² a painful punishment.

³⁸ And ʿĀd, and Thamūd, and the companions of Al-Rass,¹ and many generations in-between,²

³⁹ And for each We struck similitudes; and each We destroyed utterly.¹

⁴⁰ And they have passed by the city whereon rained a rain of evil;¹ so did they not see it? The truth is,² they expect not a resurrection.

⁴¹ And when they see thee, they only take thee in mockery: “Is this he whom God sent as messenger?

⁴² “He had almost led us astray from our gods, were we not steadfast towards them.” And they will know, when they see the punishment, who is further astray in the path.

⁴³ Hast thou seen¹ him who has taken as his god his vain desire? Wouldst thou then be a guardian over him?

⁴⁴ If¹ thou thinkest that most of them hear or reason² — they are only as the cattle; nay,³ they are further astray in the path.

⁴⁵ Hast thou not considered¹ thy Lord, how He spread the shadow? And had He willed, He would have made it still. Then We made the sun its guide;²

⁴⁶ Then We took it to Ourselves in an easy taking.¹

⁴⁷ And He it is that appointed for you the night as a covering, and sleep as a rest, and appointed the day as a resurrection.

⁴⁸ And He it is that sends the winds as glad tidings at the time¹ of His mercy. And We send down from the sky pure water,

⁴⁹ That We might give life thereby to a dead land, and give it as drink to many of what We have created of cattle and men.

⁵⁰ (And We have expounded it¹ among them that they might take heed; but most men refuse save denial.

⁵¹ And had We willed, We would have raised up in every city a warner;

⁵² So obey thou not the false claimers of guidance,¹ and strive thou against them thereby² with a great striving.)

⁵³ And He it is that loosed the two seas: the one fresh and sweet, and the other salty and bitter, and made between them¹ a barrier, and a complete partition.²

⁵⁴ And He it is that created from water a mortal, and made for him blood relations and marriage relations; and thy Lord is powerful.

⁵⁵ And they serve, besides¹ God, what neither benefits them nor harms them; and the false claimer of guidance² is a helper against his Lord.

⁵⁶ And We sent thee only as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner.¹

⁵⁷ Say thou: “I ask not of you for it any reward save that whoso wills might take to his Lord a path.”

⁵⁸ And place thou thy trust in the Living, who dies not; and give thou glory¹ with His praise. And sufficient is He, of the transgressions² of His servants, as one aware

⁵⁹ Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them¹ in six days,² then established Himself upon the Throne — the Almighty³ — so ask thou about it⁴ one aware.⁵

⁶⁰ And when it is said to them: “Submit¹ to the Almighty,”² they say: “And what is the Almighty?³ Are we to submit⁴ to what thou commandest us?” And it increases them in aversion.

⁶¹ Blessed be He who has made in the sky constellations, and made therein a torch, and an illuminating moon.¹

⁶² And He it is that made the night and the day a succession for him who desires to take heed, or desires gratitude.

⁶³ And the servants of the Almighty¹ are they who walk upon the earth modestly,² and when the ignorant address them, they speak peace;³

⁶⁴ And who spend the night to their Lord submitting¹ and standing;

⁶⁵ And who say: “Our Lord: avert Thou from us the punishment of Gehenna”;¹ (the punishment thereof is unrelenting,

⁶⁶ Evil is it as a dwelling-place and a residence)

⁶⁷ And who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor miserly; — and there is a place in-between —

⁶⁸ And who call not, with God, to another god, nor kill the soul which God has made unlawful save with justice,¹ nor commit unlawful sexual intercourse;² (and whoso does that will meet with a penalty,³

⁶⁹ The punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide eternally therein, humiliated,

⁷⁰ Save he who repents and believes and works righteousness, and those: God will change their evil deeds¹ to good deeds; and God is forgiving and merciful;

⁷¹ And whoso repents and works righteousness, it is he who repents to God completely.¹)

⁷² And who do not bear witness to falsehood, and when they pass by vain speech, pass by with dignity;

⁷³ And who when they are reminded of the proofs¹ of their Lord, fall not down upon them deaf and blind;

⁷⁴ And who say: “Our Lord: give Thou to us from our wives and our progeny a comfort of the eyes, and make Thou us a model¹ for those of prudent fear,”²

⁷⁵ Those will be rewarded with the upper chamber¹ because they were patient, and they will be met therein with greetings and peace,

⁷⁶ They abiding eternally therein; good as a dwelling-place and a residence.

⁷⁷ Say thou: “My Lord would not concern Himself with you were it not for your call;¹ but you have denied, so it² will be requisite.”³