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

¹ Praise belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth and made darkness¹ and the light! Then those who ignore warning² ascribe equals to their Lord.

² He it is that created you from clay; then He decreed a term¹ — and a stated term is with Him; then do you doubt.

³ And He is God¹ in the heavens and in the earth; He knows your inward and your outward;² and He knows what you earn.

⁴ And there comes to them no proof¹ among the proofs² of their Lord but they turn away therefrom:³

⁵ So have they denied the truth¹ when it came to them; and there will come to them a report of that whereat they mocked.

⁶ Have they not considered how many a generation We destroyed before them? We established them in the earth as We have not established you, and We sent the sky upon them in abundant rains and made the rivers flow beneath them; then We destroyed them for their transgressions,¹ and produced after them another generation.

⁷ And had We sent down upon thee a Writ¹ upon parchment, then they had touched it with their hands, those who ignore warning² would have said: “This is only obvious sorcery.”³

⁸ And they say: “Oh, that an angel had but¹ been sent down upon him!” But had We sent down an angel, the matter would have been concluded; then would they not have been reprieved.

⁹ And had We made him¹ an angel, We would have made him a man, and covered them in what they do cover.²

¹⁰ And messengers were mocked before thee; then there surrounded those who derided them that whereat they mocked.

¹¹ Say thou: “Travel in the earth, then see how was the final outcome of the deniers.”

¹² Say thou: “To whom belongs what is in the heavens and the earth?” Say thou: “To God.” He has prescribed upon Himself mercy;¹ (He will bring you all together to the Day of Resurrection whereof there is no doubt; those who have lost their souls: they do not believe.²

¹³ And to Him belongs what rests in the night and the day; and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

¹⁴ Say thou: “Is it other than God I am to take as ally — the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, and who feeds but is not fed?” Say thou: “I have been commanded to be first among those who submit”; and: “Be thou not among the idolaters.”¹

¹⁵ Say thou: “I fear, if I should oppose my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous day.”)

¹⁶ From whom it is averted, that day, He will have had mercy¹ upon him; and that is the clear achievement.²

¹⁷ And if God touches thee with affliction, then is there no remover thereof save He; and if He touches thee with good, then is He over all things powerful.

¹⁸ And He is the Conqueror over His servants; and He is the Wise, the Aware.

¹⁹ Say thou: “What thing is greatest in witness?” Say thou: “God is witness between me and you; and this Qur’an¹ has been revealed² to me that I might warn you thereby, and whom it reaches. Do you bear witness that there are other gods with God?” Say thou: “I bear not witness.” Say thou: “He is but One God, and I am quit of that to which you ascribe a partnership.”³

²⁰ Those to whom We¹ gave the Writ² recognise it³ as they recognise their sons.⁴ Those who lose their souls, they do not believe.

²¹ And who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about God, or denies His proofs?¹ The wrongdoers² are not successful.

²² And the day We gather them all together, then will We say to those who ascribe a partnership:¹ “Where are your partners² that you claimed?”

²³ Then will their means of denial¹ be but that they will say: “By God! Our Lord, we were not idolaters!”²

²⁴ See thou how they will lie against themselves; and strayed from them will be what they invented.

²⁵ And among them are some who listen to thee, but We have placed upon their hearts coverings lest they should understand it, and in their ears deafness; and if they see every proof,¹ they will not believe in² it. When³ they have come to thee, they argue against thee, those who ignore warning,⁴ saying: “This is only legends of the former peoples.”

²⁶ And they forbid it, and are far from it; and they destroy not save themselves, but they perceive not.

²⁷ And if thou couldst see when they are set before the Fire: — then they will say: “Would that we were sent back! Then would we not deny the proofs¹ of our Lord, but be among the believers.”²

²⁸ The truth is,¹ what they concealed before will be clear to them; and if they were sent back, they would return to what they were forbidden; and they are liars.

²⁹ And they say: “There is only our life in the World, and we will not be raised.”

³⁰ And if thou couldst see when they are set before their Lord: — He will say: “Is then this not¹ the truth?”² They will say: “Verily,³ by our Lord!” He will say: “Then taste the punishment for what you denied!”

³¹ They have lost who deny the meeting with God; when¹ the Hour has come upon them unexpectedly, they will say: “O our regret over what we neglected concerning it!” And they will bear their burdens upon their backs; in truth,² evil is what they will bear.

³² And the life of this world is only play and diversion; and the abode of the Hereafter is better for those of prudent fear.¹ Will you then not² use reason!

³³ We know that it grieves thee what they say; and they deny not thee, but the wrongdoers¹ reject the proofs² of God.

³⁴ And messengers were denied before thee; but they were patient over that wherein they were denied and hindered¹ until Our help came to them. And there is none to change² the words of God; and there has already come to thee some of the report of the emissaries.

³⁵ And if their evasion be hard for thee: if thou art able to seek a tunnel in the earth or a stairway in the sky to bring to them a proof[...].¹ And had God willed, He would have gathered them together to the guidance; so be thou not of the ignorant.

³⁶ There respond only those who hear; and the dead, God raises them — then to Him will they be returned.

³⁷ And they say: “Oh, that a proof¹ had but² been sent down upon him from his Lord!” Say thou: “God is able to send down a proof.”³ But most of them know not:⁴

³⁸ And there is no creature in the earth, nor bird flying on its wings save they are communities the likes of you — We have not neglected anything in the Writ¹ — then to their Lord will they be gathered.

³⁹ And those who deny Our proofs¹ are deaf and dumb, in darkness.² Whom God wills, He leads him astray; and whom He wills, He sets him on a straight path.

⁴⁰ Say thou: “Have you considered:¹ if the punishment of God comes upon you, or the Hour comes upon you, will you call to other than God, if you be truthful?”²

⁴¹ The truth is,¹ to Him will you call; and He will remove that for which you call to Him if He wills; and you will forget that² to which you ascribe a partnership.³

⁴² And We have sent to communities before thee; then We took them with affliction and adversity, that they might humble themselves.

⁴³ Oh, that when Our disaster came upon them they had but¹ humbled themselves! But their hearts hardened, and the satan² made fair to them what they were doing.

⁴⁴ So when they forgot that whereof they had been reminded, We opened upon them the gates of all things; when¹ they had exulted in what they were given, We took them suddenly; and then were they in despair,

⁴⁵ And cut off was the root¹ of the people who did wrong; and praise belongs to God, the Lord of All Creation!

⁴⁶ Say thou: “Have you considered:¹ if God takes away your hearing and your sight and seals your hearts, who is the god save God who will restore it to you?” See thou how We expound the proofs;² then they turn away.

⁴⁷ Say thou: “Have you considered:¹ if the punishment of God come to you unexpectedly or with warning,² will there be destroyed save the wrongdoing³ people?”

⁴⁸ And We send the emissaries only as bearers of glad tidings and warners; then whoso believes and makes right: no fear will be upon them, nor will they grieve.

⁴⁹ And those who deny Our proofs:¹ the punishment will touch them because they were perfidious.²

⁵⁰ Say thou: “I say not to you: ‘I possess the treasuries of God,’ or: ‘I know the Unseen,’¹ nor do I say to you: ‘I am an angel.’ I follow only what is revealed² to me.” Say thou: “Are the blind and the seeing equal?” Will you then not³ take thought!

⁵¹ And warn thou thereby¹ those who fear that they will be gathered to their Lord, — they have no ally or intercessor besides² Him — that they might be in prudent fear.³

⁵² And drive thou not away those who call to their Lord morning and evening, seeking His face — not upon thee is anything of their account, and nothing of thy account is upon them — for thou shouldst drive them away, and be of the wrongdoers.¹

⁵³ And thus¹ We subjected some of them to means of denial by others:² that they might say: “Are these they whom God has favoured among us?” Does then God not³ best know the grateful?

⁵⁴ And when there come to thee those who believe in¹ Our proofs,² say thou: “Peace be upon you! Your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy,³ that whoso of you does evil through ignorance, then turns in repentance after that and makes right: He is forgiving and merciful.”

⁵⁵ And thus¹ We set out and detail² the proofs;³ and that the path of the lawbreakers might be made manifest:⁴

⁵⁶ Say thou: “I have been forbidden to serve those to whom you call besides¹ God.” Say thou: “I do not follow your vain desires,² else had I gone astray, and would not be of the guided.”

⁵⁷ Say thou: “I am upon clear evidence from my Lord, and you have denied it. I have not that which you seek to hasten;¹ judgment is but for God. He relates the truth,² and He is the best to decide.”³

⁵⁸ Say thou: “Had I what you seek to hasten, the matter would have been concluded between me and you; and God best knows the wrongdoers.”¹

⁵⁹ And with Him are the keys of the Unseen; and none knows them but He. And He knows what is in the land and the sea; and not a leaf falls but He knows it; nor is there a grain in the darknesses of the earth, and nothing moist or dry, but is in a clear writ.¹

⁶⁰ And He it is that takes¹ you at night, and knows what you earned by day; then He raises you up therein² that there be fulfilled a stated term; then to Him will be your return; then will He inform you of what you did.

⁶¹ And He is the Conqueror over His servants; and He sends guardians over you. When¹ death has come to one of you, Our messengers² take him, and they fail³ not;

⁶² Then are they sent back to God their true¹ protector. In truth,² His is the judgment, and He is the swiftest of account-takers.

⁶³ Say thou: “Who delivers you from the darknesses of the land and the sea? You call to Him humbly and in secret: ‘If He delivers us from this, we will be among the grateful.’”

⁶⁴ Say thou: “God delivers you from it and from every¹ distress; then you ascribe a partnership.”²

⁶⁵ Say thou: “He is the one able to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet,¹ or to confound you through sects and let some of you taste the might of others.” See thou how We expound the proofs,² that they might understand,

⁶⁶ But thy people have denied it when it is the truth.¹ Say thou: “I am not a guardian over you.”

⁶⁷ Every report has a dwelling-place;¹ and you will come to know.

⁶⁸ And when thou seest those who discourse vainly¹ concerning Our proofs,² turn thou away from them until they discourse vainly concerning a subject³ other than it; and if the satan⁴ cause thee to forget, then sit thou not ­after the reminder with the wrongdoing⁵ people.

⁶⁹ And not upon those of prudent fear¹ is any account for them in anything but a reminder,² that they might be in prudent fear.³

⁷⁰ And leave thou those who take their doctrine¹ as play and diversion, and whom the life of this world has deluded; and remind thou with it² lest a soul be given up to destruction³ for what it earned; it has not, besides⁴ God, ally or intercessor. And though⁵ it offer in compensation every equivalence, it will not be accepted from it: those are they who are given up to destruction for what they earned; they have scalding water and a painful punishment for what they denied.

⁷¹ Say thou: “Shall we call, rather than¹ to God, to what neither profits us nor harms us, and be turned back on our heels after God has guided us? — like one whom the satans² seduce in the earth, lost in confusion, he having companions inviting him to guidance:³ ‘Come thou to us!’” Say thou: “The guidance of God, that is guidance; and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of All Creation”;

⁷² And: “Uphold the duty,¹ and be in prudent fear² of Him”; and He it is to whom you will be gathered.

⁷³ And He it is that created the heavens and the earth in truth.¹ And the day He says: “Be thou,” then it is. His word is the truth.² And to Him belongs the dominion the day the Trumpet is blown — the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen — and He is the Wise, the Aware.

⁷⁴ And when Abraham said to his father Āzar:¹ “Takest thou idols² as gods?³ I see thee and thy people in manifest error.”⁴

⁷⁵ And thus¹ We showed Abraham the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; and that he might be of those who are certain.²

⁷⁶ Then when the night covered him, he saw a star. He said: “This is my Lord.” Then when it set¹ he said: “I love not those that set.”²

⁷⁷ Then when he saw the moon rising¹ he said: “This is my Lord.” Then when it set² he said: “If my Lord guide me not, I will be of the people who stray.”³

⁷⁸ Then when he saw the sun rising¹ he said: “This is my Lord; this is greater!”² Then when it set³ he said: “O my people: I am quit of that to which you ascribe a partnership.⁴

⁷⁹ “I have turned my face towards Him who created the heavens and the earth, inclining to truth;¹ and I am not of the idolaters.”²

⁸⁰ And his people disputed with him. He said: “Dispute you with me concerning God, when He has guided me?¹ And I fear not that to which you ascribe a partnership,² save that my Lord should will anything. My Lord encompasses all things in knowledge. Will you then not³ take heed!

⁸¹ “And how should I fear that to which you ascribe a partnership¹ when you fear not that you ascribe a partnership² with God to that for which He has not sent down upon you authority? Then which of the two factions is worthier³ of security, if you know?

⁸² “Those who heed warning¹ and clothe not their faith in injustice: those have security, and they are guided.”

⁸³ And that¹ is Our argument² We gave to Abraham against his people. We raise in degree³ whom We will; thy Lord is wise and knowing.

⁸⁴ And We gave him Isaac and Jacob; each We guided; and Noah did We guide before; and of his progeny David and Solomon and Job¹ and Joseph² and Moses and Aaron; and thus³ We reward the doers of good;⁴

⁸⁵ And Zachariah and John¹ and Jesus² and Elijah;³ each was among the righteous;

⁸⁶ And Ishmael and Elisha¹ and Jonah² and Lot;³ and each did We prefer above all mankind;

⁸⁷ And some of their fathers and their progeny and their brethren; and We chose them and guided them to a straight path:

⁸⁸ That is the guidance of God wherewith He guides whom He wills of His servants; and had they¹ ascribed a partnership,² vain for them would have been what they did.

⁸⁹ Those are they to whom We¹ gave the Writ² and judgment and prophethood; so if these³ deny them,⁴ We have already entrusted them to people who do not deny them.

⁹⁰ Those are they whom God has guided; so follow thou¹ their guidance. Say thou: “I ask of you for it no reward; it is only a reminder to all mankind.”

⁹¹ And they measured God not with the measure due¹ Him when they said: “God has not sent down upon a mortal anything.” Say thou: “Who sent down the Writ² which Moses brought as a light and guidance for men?” (You make it into parchments which you show; and you conceal much; and you were taught what you knew not, you and your fathers.) Say thou: “God”; then leave thou them playing in their vain discourses.³

⁹² And this¹ is a Writ² We have sent down,³ one blessed, confirming what was before it,⁴ and that thou warn the mother of cities⁵ and those around her; and those who believe in⁶ the Hereafter believe in⁷ it, and they preserve their duty.⁸

⁹³ And who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about God, or says: “It has been revealed to me,”¹ when nothing has been revealed² to him, and who says: “I will send down the like of what God sent down”? And if thou couldst see when the wrongdoers³ are in the throes of death and the angels stretching out their hands: “Bring forth your souls; this day are you rewarded with the punishment of humiliation because you ascribed to God other than the truth,⁴ and waxed proud at His proofs!”[...].⁵

⁹⁴ “And now have you come to Us alone, as We created you the first time; and you have left all that We conferred upon you behind your backs; and We see not with you your intercessors which you claimed were among you as partners;¹ it² is cut off between you, and strayed from you is what you claimed.”

⁹⁵ God splits the seed and the kernel; He brings forth the living from the dead and is the bringer-forth of the dead from the living. That is God, — how then are you deluded? —

⁹⁶ The cleaver of daybreak; and He has appointed the night as rest, and the sun and the moon for reckoning.¹ That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

⁹⁷ And He it is that made for you the stars, that you might be guided thereby in the darknesses of the land and the sea; We have set out and detailed¹ the proofs² for people who know.

⁹⁸ And He it is that produced you from one soul, then a dwelling-place and a repository[...].¹ And We have set out and detailed² the proofs³ for people who understand.

⁹⁹ And He it is that sends down from the sky water; and We bring forth thereby the growth¹ of all things; and We bring forth from it greenery, bringing forth from it grain heaped up; and from the date-palm, from its spathes, bunches of dates within reach; and gardens of grapevines and olives and pomegranates, similar yet different. Look upon the fruit thereof when it bears fruit and it ripens: in that are proofs² for people who believe.

¹⁰⁰ And they make for God partners¹ of the domini,² when He created them; and they ascribe to Him sons and daughters without knowledge. Glory³ be to Him! And exalted is He above what they describe!

¹⁰¹ The Originator of the Heavens and the Earth:¹ how could He have a son when He has no companion, and He created all things? And He knows all things.

¹⁰² That is God, your Lord; there is no god save He,¹ the creator of all things, so serve Him; and He is guardian over all things.

¹⁰³ Vision comprehends Him not, but He comprehends vision; He is the Subtle, the Aware.

¹⁰⁴ Means of insight¹ have come to you from your Lord; and whoso sees, it is for his soul; and whoso is blind, it is against it; and: “I am not a custodian over you.”²

¹⁰⁵ And thus¹ We expound the proofs:² both³ that they might say: “Thou hast studied,” and that We might make it plain⁴ for people who know.

¹⁰⁶ Follow thou what has been revealed¹ to thee from thy Lord — “There is no god save He”;² — and turn thou away from the idolaters.³

¹⁰⁷ And had God willed, they would not have ascribed a partnership;¹ and We have not made thee a custodian over them; and thou art not a guardian over them.

¹⁰⁸ And revile not those to whom they call besides¹ God lest they revile God in enmity without knowledge. Thus, to every community have We made fair their doings;² then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them of what they did.

¹⁰⁹ And they swore by God their strongest oaths that if a proof¹ came to them they would believe in² it. Say thou: “The proofs³ are only with God.” And what will make you perceive that, if⁴ one comes, they will not believe?⁵

¹¹⁰ And We will turn away their hearts and their eyes, even as they believed not in¹ it the first time;² and We will leave them wandering blindly in their inordinacy.³

¹¹¹ And were We to send down to them the angels, and the dead to speak to them, and We to gather everything to them before their very eyes, they would not believe save if God wills; but most of them are ignorant.¹

¹¹² And thus¹ have We appointed for every prophet an enemy² — satans³ of servi⁴ and domini⁵ — instructing⁶ one another in the decoration of speech as delusion,⁷ (and had thy Lord willed, they would not have done it; so leave thou them and what they fabricate)

¹¹³ And that the hearts of those who believe not in¹ the Hereafter might incline thereto, and be pleased therewith, and that they might commit what they are committing.²

¹¹⁴ “Is it other than God I should seek as judge¹ when He it is that sent down to you the Writ² set out and detailed?”³ And those to whom We gave the Writ⁴ know that it is sent down from thy Lord with the truth;⁵ so be thou not of those who doubt.

¹¹⁵ And perfected¹ is the word of thy Lord in truth and justice; there is none to change His words;² and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

¹¹⁶ And if thou obey most of those upon the earth, they will lead thee astray from the path of God; they follow only assumption, and they are only guessing.¹

¹¹⁷ Thy Lord: He best knows who strays from His path; and He best knows the guided.

¹¹⁸ So eat of that over which the name of God has been remembered, if you believe in¹ His proofs.²

¹¹⁹ And what is with you that you eat not of that over which the name of God has been remembered when He has set out and detailed¹ to you what is forbidden you save that you be compelled thereto? And many lead astray by their vain desires,² without knowledge;³ thy Lord: He best knows the transgressors.

¹²⁰ And leave the outwardness of sin¹ and the inwardness thereof; those who earn sin² will be rewarded with what they committed.³

¹²¹ And eat not of that over which the name of God has not been remembered;¹ and it is perfidy.² And the satans³ instruct⁴ their allies to dispute with you; and if you obey them, you are idolaters.⁵

¹²² Is one who was dead ­and to whom We gave life and for whom We appointed a light wherein he walks among men like one in darkness¹ from which he cannot come out? Thus is made fair to the false claimers of guidance² what they do.³

¹²³ And thus¹ have We appointed in every city its greatest lawbreakers, that they should scheme therein; and they scheme only against themselves, and they perceive not.

¹²⁴ And when a proof¹ comes to them, they say: “We will not believe until we be given the like of what was given the messengers of God.”² God best knows where He places His message; there will befall those who are lawbreakers humiliation before God and severe punishment for what they schemed.

¹²⁵ And whom God wills to guide, He expands his breast towards submission;¹ and whom He wills to lead astray, He makes his breast constricted, distressed, as if he were ascending into the sky; thus does God appoint abomination for those who do not believe.²

¹²⁶ And this is the path of thy Lord, one straight; We have set out and detailed¹ the proofs² for people who take heed;

¹²⁷ They have the Abode of Peace with their Lord, and He is their ally because of what they did.

¹²⁸ And the day He gathers them all together: “O congregation of domini:¹ you have desired many² among the servi.”³ And their allies⁴ among the servi⁵ will say: “Our Lord: we benefited one another; but we have reached our term which Thou appointedst⁶ for us.” He will say: “The Fire is your dwelling, you abiding eternally therein!” save that God should will; thy Lord is wise and knowing.

¹²⁹ And thus¹ do We make the wrongdoers² allies of one another by what they earned.

¹³⁰ “O congregation of domini¹ and servi:² came there not to you messengers from among you, relating to you My proofs³ and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours?” They will say: “We bear witness against ourselves.” And the life of this world deluded them; and they will bear witness against themselves that they were false claimers of guidance.⁴

¹³¹ That is because thy Lord would not destroy the cities in injustice, while their people¹ were unaware.

¹³² And for all are degrees for what they did; and thy Lord is not unmindful of what they do.

¹³³ And thy Lord is the Free from Need, the Possessor of Mercy. If He wills, He will remove you and appoint to succeed after you whom He wills, as He produced you from the progeny of other people.

¹³⁴ That which you are promised is coming; and you cannot escape.¹

¹³⁵ Say thou: “O my people: work according to your power¹ — I am working; and you will come to know for whom is the final outcome of the Abode; the wrongdoers² are not successful.”

¹³⁶ And they make for God, of what He creates¹ of tilth and cattle, a portion; they say: “This is for God,” — according to their claim — “and this is for our partners”.² And what is for their partners,³ it does not reach God; and what is for God, it reaches their partners.⁴ Evil is what they judge.

¹³⁷ And thus¹ have their partners² made fair to many among the idolaters³ the killing of their children, to bring them to ruin, and to obfuscate⁴ their doctrine⁵ for them. And had God willed, they would not have done it; so leave thou them and what they fabricate.

¹³⁸ And they say: “These cattle and tilth are taboo; none is to eat them save whom we will,” — according to their claim — “and cattle whose backs are made unlawful,”¹ and cattle over which they remember not the name of God, as an invention against Him; He will requite them for what they invented.

¹³⁹ And they say: “What is in the bellies of these cattle is exclusively for our males and forbidden our wives; but if it be dead, then they are all¹ partners² therein.” He will requite them for their description; He is wise and knowing.

¹⁴⁰ They have lost, those who have foolishly killed their children without knowledge, and made unlawful what God provided them, as an invention about God; they have gone astray and were not guided.¹

¹⁴¹ And He it is that produces gardens, trellised and untrellised, and the date-palms, and crops diverse in their food, and the olive and the pomegranate, similar yet different.¹ Eat of the fruit thereof when it bears fruit, and render its due² on the day of its harvest; and commit not excess, He loves not the committers of excess.

¹⁴² And of the cattle for burden and for skin:¹ eat of what God has provided you, and follow not the footsteps of the satan;² he is an open enemy to you.

¹⁴³ “Eight pairs: of sheep two and of goats two––”¹ Say thou: “Is it the two males He has forbidden or the two females? If² what the wombs of the two females contain:³ inform me with knowledge, if you be truthful.”⁴

¹⁴⁴ “And of camels two and of oxen two––”¹ Say thou: “Is it the two males He has forbidden or the two females? If² what the wombs of the two females contain:³ — or if⁴ you were witnesses when God enjoined this upon you:⁵ — then who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about God, that he might lead people astray without knowledge? God guides not the wrongdoing⁶ people.”

¹⁴⁵ Say thou: “I find not in what has been revealed¹ to me what is unlawful to one who would eat it² save it be carrion, or blood poured forth, or the flesh of swine — and it is an abomination — or perfidy³ dedicated to other than God”;⁴ but whoso is forced, neither desiring nor transgressing: thy Lord is forgiving and merciful.

¹⁴⁶ And to those who hold to Judaism¹ We made unlawful every animal with a claw;² and of oxen and sheep We made unlawful to them the fat thereof save what their backs bear, or the entrails, or what is mixed with bone; that We rewarded them for their sectarian zealotry;³ and We are truthful.

¹⁴⁷ And if they deny thee, say thou: “Your Lord is the Possessor of Mercy; but not repelled is His wrath from the lawbreaking people.”

¹⁴⁸ Those who ascribe a partnership¹ will say: “Had God willed, we would not have ascribed a partnership,² nor would our fathers, nor would we have made anything unlawful.” Thus did those who were before them deny until they tasted Our might. Say thou: “Have you any knowledge to bring forth for us? You follow only assumption, and are only guessing.”

¹⁴⁹ Say thou: “Then to God belongs the conclusive¹ argument:² had He willed, He would have guided you all together.”

¹⁵⁰ Say thou: “Bring your witnesses who bear witness that God has made this unlawful.” Then if they bear witness, bear thou not witness with them; and follow thou not the vain desires¹ of those who deny Our proofs² and those who believe not in³ the Hereafter; and they ascribe equals to their Lord.

¹⁵¹ Say thou: “Come, I will recite what your Lord has made unlawful for you: that you ascribe a partnership¹ with Him ­­to anything (while towards parents good conduct); and kill not your children out of poverty,” — We will provide for you and for them — “and approach not sexual immoralities,² whether open or concealed; and kill not the soul which God has made unlawful save with justice;³ ­— that He enjoined upon you, that you might use reason.

¹⁵² “And approach not the property of the fatherless¹ save with what is better before² he reaches his maturity; and fulfil the measure and the balance with equity,”³ — We burden not any soul save to its capacity — “and when you speak, be just (though he be a relative⁴); and the covenant of God⁵ fulfil; — that He commanded you, that you might take heed.”

¹⁵³ And this is My straight path,¹ so follow it; and follow not other ways,² for they will separate you from His path; — “that He commanded you, that you might be in prudent fear.”³

¹⁵⁴ Then We gave Moses the Writ,¹ complete² for him who does good, and an explanation of everything, and as guidance, and as a mercy, that they might believe in³ the meeting with their Lord.

¹⁵⁵ And this is a Writ¹ We have sent down,² one blessed, so follow it; and be in prudent fear,³ that you might obtain mercy,

¹⁵⁶ Lest you say: “The Writ¹ was but sent down upon two groups² before us, and we were of their study unaware,”

¹⁵⁷ Or you say: “Had the Writ been sent down upon us,¹ we would have been better guided than they.” And there has come to you clear evidence from your Lord, and guidance, and a mercy; then who is more unjust than he who denies the proofs² of God, and turns away from them? We will reward those who turn away from Our proofs³ with an evil punishment for their turning away.

¹⁵⁸ Look they save for the angels to come to them, or thy Lord to come, or for there to come some of the proofs¹ of thy Lord? The day there come some of the proofs² of thy Lord, the faith of a soul will benefit it nothing which had not believed before, nor by its faith earned good. Say thou: “Wait — we are waiting.”

¹⁵⁹ Those who have divided their doctrine¹ and become sects: thou art not of them in anything; their affair is but with God; then will He inform them of what they did.

¹⁶⁰ Whoso brings a good deed, he has tenfold the like thereof; and whoso brings evil,¹ he is not rewarded save with the like thereof; and they will not be wronged.

¹⁶¹ Say thou: “As for me, my Lord has guided me to a straight path, a right doctrine,¹ the creed of Abraham, inclining to truth;² and he was not of the idolaters.”³

¹⁶² Say thou: “My duty¹ and my penance and my living and my dying are for God, the Lord of All Creation.

¹⁶³ “He has no partner,¹ and that have I been commanded; and I am the first of those submitting.”²

¹⁶⁴ Say thou: “Is it other than God I should desire as Lord when He is Lord of all things?” And every soul earns not save for itself, and no bearer bears the burden of another; then to your Lord is your return, and He will inform you of that wherein you differed.

¹⁶⁵ And He it is that made you the successors of the earth, and raised some of you above others in degree,¹ that He might try you by what He has given you. Thy Lord is swift in retribution; and He is forgiving and merciful.