Yunus
ALIF LAM RA. These are the verses of the authoritative Book.
Are the people astonished that a man who is one of them was commanded by Us to warn them and to bring glad tidings to those who believe that they have true precedence with their Lord? (Yet) the unbelievers say: \He is a clear sorcerer.\
Your Lord is God who created the heavens and the earth in six spans, then assumed His power, dispensing all affairs. None can intercede with Him except by His leave. He is God, your Lord, so worship Him. Will you not be warned?
To Him will you all return: God`s promise is true. It is He who originates creation, then will revert it, so that He may reward those who believe and do good things in all justice. But those who deny the truth will receive boiling water to drink and grievous punishment, for their disbelieved.
It is He who gave the sun its radiance, the moon its lustre, and appointed its stations so that you may compute years and numbers. God did not create them but with deliberation. He distinctly explains His signs for those who can understand.
In the alternation of night and day, and all that He has created in the heavens and the earth, are certainly signs for people who fear God.
As for those who do not hope to meet Us (after death), and are content with the life of this world, who are oblivious of Our signs,
Will have Hell as their abode for what they have earned.
But those who believe and act for a beneficial end will be guided by their Lord for their good faith. At their feet shall flow streams of running water in gardens of delight.
Their invocation will be: \All glory to you, O God,\ and \Peace\ will be their salutation, and the end of their prayer (will be): \All praise be to God, the Lord of all the worlds.\
Hud
ALIF LAM RA. This is a Book whose verses are indeclinable and distinct, which comes from One who is most wise and all-knowing,
(Proclaiming) that you should worship none but God. Verily I bring to you from Him a message of warning and rejoicing,
And that you should seek His forgiveness and turn towards Him. He will bestow the best things of life on you for a time ordained, and favour those with blessings who are worthy of grace. But if you turn away, I fear the punishment of a terrible Day for you.
To God have you to go back, and He has power over everything.
Look, how they double up their breasts in order to hide from Him. But when they cover themselves up with their garments, He knows what they hide and what they expose. Indeed, He knows the secrets of the hearts.
There is not a creature that moves on the earth whose nourishment is not provided by God, whose place of sojourning and depositing is not known to Him. All things conform to a manifest law.
It is He who created the heavens and the earth In six spans and has control over the waters (of life) so that he may bring out the best that every one of you could do. Yet if you said to them: \You shall certainly be raised from the dead,\ the unbelievers will say: \This will be nothing but sorcery.\
If We defer their punishment for a certain time, they will say: \What is keeping it back?\ And yet, the day it comes, they will not be able to avert it; and what they used to laugh at will encompass them.
Yusuf
ALIF LAM RA. These are the verses of the Immaculate Book.
We have sent it down as a clear discourse that you may understand.
Through the revelation of this Qur`an, We narrate the best of histories of which you were unaware before.
When Joseph told his father: \O my father, I saw eleven stars and the sun and the moon bowing before me in homage,\
He said: \O son, do not narrate your dream to your brothers, or they will plot against you. Surely Satan is man`s acknowledged foe.
Your Lord will choose you and teach you to interpret events and confer His favours on you and the house of Jacob, as He had done in the case of two ancestors of yours, Abraham and Isaac, before you. Indeed your Lord is all-knowing and all-wise.\
Ar-Ra’d
ALIF LAM MIM RA. These are the verses of the Scripture. Whatsoever is sent down to you from your Lord is the truth; but most men do not believe.
It is God who raised the skies without support, as you can see, then assumed His throne, and enthralled the sun and the moon (so that) each runs to a predetermined course. He disposes of all affairs, distinctly explaining every sign that you may be certain of the meeting with your Lord.
It is He who stretched the earth and placed upon it stabilisers and rivers, and made two of a pair of every fruit; (and) He covers up the day with the night. These are signs for those who reflect.
On the earth are tracts adjoining one another, and vineyards, fields of corn and date palm trees, some forked, some with single trunks, yet all irrigated by the self-same water, though We make some more excellent than the others in fruit. There are sure signs in them for those who understand.
If you are surprised, then astonishing is the speech (of those who say:) \Having turned to dust shall we be raised as a new creation?\ They are the ones who deny their Lord, and they will have collars around their necks. They are the inmates of Hell, where they will abide forever.
They want you to hasten the evil before the good, even when there have been examples of retribution before them. Though certainly, your Lord forgives human beings for their iniquities, your Lord is severe of retribution.
The unbelievers say: \Why no miracle was sent down to him by his Lord?\ But you are only a bearer of warnings and a guide for every nation.
Ibrahim
ALIF LAM RA. A Book We have sent down to you that you may lead men out of darkness into light, by their Lord`s command, to the path of the mighty, the worthy of praise.
God, to whom belongs all there is in the heavens and the earth. Woe to the unbelievers for the terrible punishment (that awaits).
Those who hold the life of this world dearer than that of the next, who obstruct the path of God and seek obliquity in it, have wandered far into error.
We never sent a messenger who did not speak the tongue of his people, that he may explain to them distinctly. God leads whosoever He wills astray, and shows whoever He wills the way: He is all-mighty and all-wise.
Remember when We sent Moses with Our signs (We said): \Bring your people out of darkness into light and remind them of the visitations of God. Indeed there are signs in this for every steadfast, thankful soul\
So Moses said to his people: \Remember the favours of God when He saved you from the people of Pharaoh who afflicted you with oppression, slaying your sons but keeping alive your women, which was a great trial from your Lord.\
Al-Hijr
ALIF LAM RA. These are the verses of the Book and the perspicuous oration.
The unbelievers would haply like to wish that they had submitted (and become Muslim).
Leave them to feast and revel, beguiled by hope; they will come to know soon.
Not one habitation have We destroyed but at the time determined for it.
No people can hasten or delay the term already fixed for them.
And yet they say: \You, to whom this Exposition has been sent are surely possessed of the Devil.
If you are a man of truth, why can`t you bring the angels to us?\
But then We never send the angels down save with the purpose (of enforcing their doom), after which they will not be given more respite.
We have sent down this Exposition, and We will guard it.
We had also sent apostles to people of earlier persuasions.
But never once an apostle came to them at whom they did not scoff.
We place in the hearts of sinners (disbelief)
So, they will not believe in it: The example of former people is there.
Even if We open a door in the heavens and they ascend through it in broad daylight,
They will say all the same: \Our eyes were dazed (and clouded over). We were a people ensorceled.\
An-Nahl
THE DECREE of GOD will surely come; so do not try to hasten it: Too glorious and high is He for what they associate with Him.
He sends the angels with revelation by His command, to any of His creatures as He please, (saying): \Warn that there is no god but I, so fear Me.\
He created the heavens and the earth with reason. Too glorious and high is He for what they associate with Him.
Man He created from a drop of semen; and still, he becomes an open contender.
He created the cattle from whom you get warm clothing and (other) advantages, and some you eat.
There is life and cheer for you as you drive them home in the evening, and lead them out in the morning to graze.
They carry your burdens to lands so distant you could not have reached without much hardship. Indeed your Lord is compassionate and kind.
He created horses, mules and donkeys for riding and for splendour. He created other things too which you do not know.
To God leads the right path, though some deviate. If He willed He could guide you all to the right way.
An-Israa
GLORY TO HIM who took His votary to a wide and open land from the Sacred Mosque (at Makkah) to the distant Mosque whose precincts We have blessed, that We may show him some of Our signs. Verily He is all-hearing and all-seeing.
We gave Moses the Book and made it a guide for the children of Israel that they should not take another protector apart from Me.
O you, the offspring of those We bore (in the ark) with Noah, he was indeed a grateful votary.
We announced to the children of Israel in the Book: \You will surely create disorder twice in the land and become exceedingly arrogant.\
So, when the time of the first prediction came, We sent against you Our creatures full of martial might, who ransacked your cities; and the prediction was fulfilled.
Then We gave you a chance against them, and strengthened you with wealth and children, and increased your numbers (and said):
\If you do good, you will do so for your own good; if you do ill, you will do it for your own loss.\ So, when the time of the second prediction comes, (We shall rouse another people) to shame you, and enter the Temple as they had done the first time, and to destroy what they conquered utterly.
Your Lord may haply be merciful to you. But if you repeat it, We shall do the same. We have constituted Hell as a prison for unbelievers.
Verily this Qur`an directs you to the path that is straight, and gives happy tidings to those who believe and do the right: For them is a great reward.
As for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have prepared a painful punishment.
Al-Kahf
ALL PRAISE BE to God who has revealed to His votary the Book which is free of all obliquity,
Immutable, so that it may warn of a severe punishment from Him; and give happy tidings to those who believe and do the right that there is a better reward (of Paradise) for them,
Where they will abide forever;
And that it may warn those who say: \God has begotten a son.\
They have no knowledge of this, as their fathers did not have. How terrible are the words they utter! They speak nothing but lies.
Will you kill yourself for the grief of them if they do not believe in this presentation?
We have made whatever exists on the earth its adornment to test and try them (and) know who acts better;
For We shall certainly turn it to barren dust.
Do you think the men of the cave and Ar-Raqim were so strange among Our signs?
When those young men took shelter in the cave and prayed: \O Lord, grant us Your favour and dispose of our affair aright,\
We sealed off their ears in the cave for a number of years,
Then roused them to ascertain which of the two groups could account for the period they had stayed.
