Al-'Alaq

(1)Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),

(2)Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).

(3)Read! And your Lord is the Most Generous,

(4)Who has taught (the writing) by the pen [the first person to write was Prophet Idrees (Enoch) >>],

(5)Has taught man that which he knew not.

(6)Nay! Verily, man does transgress all bounds (in disbelief and evil deed, etc.).

(7)Because he considers himself self-sufficient.

(8)Surely! Unto your Lord is the return.

(9)Have you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) seen him (i.e. Abû Jahl) who prevents,

(10)A slave (Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) when he prays?

(11)Tell me, if he (Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) is on the guidance (of Allâh)?

(12)Or enjoins piety?

(13)Tell me if he (the disbeliever, Abû Jahl) denies (the truth, i.e. this Qur'ân), and turns away?

(14)Knows he not that Allâh does see (what he does)?

(15)Nay! If he (Abû Jahl) ceases not, We will catch him by the forelock,

(16)A lying, sinful forelock!

(17)Then, let him call upon his council (of helpers),

(18)We will call the guards of Hell (to deal with him)!

(19)Nay! (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him))! Do not obey him (Abû Jahl). Fall prostrate and draw near to Allâh!

At-Tin

(1)By the fig, and the olive,

(2)By Mount Sinai,

(3)And by this city of security (Makkah)[] ,

(4)Verily, We created man of the best stature (mould),

(5)Then We reduced him to the lowest of the low,

(6)Save those who believe (in Islâmic Monotheism) and do righteous deeds, then they shall have a reward without end (Paradise).

(7)Then what (or who) causes you (O disbelievers) to deny the Recompense (i.e. Day of Resurrection)?

(8)Is not Allâh the Best of judges?

Ash-Sharh

(1)Have We not opened your breast for you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him))?

(2)And removed from you your burden,

(3)Which weighed down your back?

(4)And raised high your fame?

(5)So verily, with the hardship, there is relief,

(6)Verily, with the hardship, there is relief (i.e. there is one hardship with two reliefs, so one hardship cannot overcome two reliefs).

(7)So when you have finished (from your occupation), then stand up for Allâh's worship (i.e. stand up for prayer).

(8)And to your Lord (Alone) turn (all your intentions and hopes and) your invocations.

Ad-Duha

(1)By the forenoon (after sun-rise);

(2)And by the night when it is still (or darkens);

(3)Your Lord (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) has neither forsaken you nor hated you.

(4)And indeed the Hereafter is better for you than the present (life of this world).

(5)And verily, your Lord will give you (all i.e. good) so that you shall be well-pleased.

(6)Did He not find you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) an orphan and gave you a refuge?

(7)And He found you unaware (of the Qur'ân, its legal laws, and Prophethood, etc.) and guided you?

(8)And He found you poor, and made you rich (selfsufficient with selfcontentment, etc.)?

(9)Therefore, treat not the orphan with oppression,

(10)And repulse not the beggar;

(11)And proclaim the Grace of your Lord (i.e. the Prophethood and all other Graces).

Al-Lail

(1)Truly! Ours it is (to give) guidance,

(2)And by the day as it appears in brightness;

(3)And by Him Who created male and female;

(4)Certainly, your efforts and deeds are diverse (different in aims and purposes);

(5)As for him who gives (in charity) and keeps his duty to Allâh and fears Him,

(6)And believes in Al-Husna.[]

(7)We will make smooth for him the path of ease (goodness).

(8)But he who is greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient[] .

(9)And gives the lie to Al-Husna (see Verse No: 6 footnote);

(10)We will make smooth for him the path for evil;

(11)And what will his wealth benefit him when he goes down (in destruction).

(12)Truly! Ours it is (to give) guidance,

(13)And truly, unto Us (belong) the last (Hereafter) and the first (this world).

(14)Therefore I have warned you of a Fire blazing fiercely (Hell);

(15)None shall enter it save the most wretched,

(16)Who denies and turns away.

(17)And Al-Muttaqûn (the pious and righteous - see V.2:2) will be far removed from it (Hell).

(18)He who spends his wealth for increase in self-purification,

(19)And have in his mind no favour from anyone for which a reward is expected in return,

(20)Except only the desire to seek the Countenance of his Lord, the Most High;

(21)He surely will be pleased (when he will enter Paradise).

Ash-Shams

(1)And by the sun and its brightness;

(2)And by the moon as it follows it (the sun);

(3)And by the day as it shows up (the sun's) brightness;

(4)And by the night as it conceals it (the sun);

(5)And by the heaven and Him Who built it;

(6)And by the earth and Him Who spread it,

(7)And by Nafs (Adam or a person or a soul, etc.), and Him Who perfected him in proportion;

(8)Then He showed him what is wrong for him and what is right for him;

(9)Indeed he succeeds who purifies his ownself (i.e. obeys and performs all that Allâh ordered, by following the true Faith of Islâmic Monotheism and by doing righteous good deeds).

(10)And indeed he fails who corrupts his ownself (i.e. disobeys what Allâh has ordered by rejecting the true Faith of Islâmic Monotheism or by following polytheism, etc. or by doing every kind of evil wicked deeds).

(11)Thamûd (people) denied (their Prophet) through their transgression (by rejecting the true Faith of Islâmic Monotheism, and by following polytheism, and by committing every kind of sin).

(12)When the most wicked man among them went forth (to kill the she-camel).

(13)But the Messenger of Allâh [Sâlih (Saleh) >>] said to them: "Be cautious! Fear the evil end. That is the she-camel of Allâh! (Do not harm it) and bar it not from having its drink!"

(14)Then they denied him and they killed it. So their Lord destroyed them because of their sin, and made them equal in destruction (i.e. all grades of people, rich and poor, strong and weak, etc.)!

(15)Then they denied him and they killed it. So their Lord destroyed them because of their sin, and made them equal in destruction (i.e. all grades of people, rich and poor, strong and weak, etc.)!

Al-Balad

(1)I swear by this city (Makkah);

(2)And you are free (from sin, to punish the enemies of Islâm on the Day of the conquest) in this city (Makkah)[] ,

(3)And by the begetter (i.e. Adam >>) and that which he begot (i.e. his progeny);

(4)Verily, We have created man in toil.

(5)Thinks he that none can overcome him?

(6)He says (boastfully): "I have wasted wealth in abundance!"

(7)Thinks he that none sees him?

(8)Have We not made for him a pair of eyes?

(9)And a tongue and a pair of lips?

(10)And shown him the two ways (good and evil)?

(11)But he has made no effort to pass on the path that is steep.

(12)And what will make you know the path that is steep?

(13)(It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc.)[]

(14)Or giving food in a day of hunger (famine),

(15)To an orphan near of kin.

(16)Or to a Miskîn (poor) afflicted with misery.

(17)Then he became one of those who believed, and recommended one another to perseverance and patience, and (also) recommended one another to pity and compassion.

(18)They are those on the Right Hand (the dwellers of Paradise),

(19)But those who disbelieved in Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), they are those on the Left Hand (the dwellers of Hell).

(20)The Fire will be shut over them (i.e. they will be enveloped by the Fire without any opening or window or outlet.

Al-Fajr

(1)By the dawn;

(2)By the ten nights (i.e. the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Hîjjah) [],

(3)And by the even and the odd (of all the creations of Allâh)[] .

(4)And by the night when it departs.

(5)There is indeed in them (the above oaths) sufficient proofs for men of understanding (and that, they should avoid all kinds of sins and disbeliefs, etc.)!

(6)Did you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) not see (thought) how your Lord dealt with 'Ad (people)?

(7)Who were very tall like lofty pillars,

(8)The like of which were not created in the land?

(9)And (with) Thamûd (people), who cut (hewed) out rocks in the valley (to make dwellings)?[]

(10)And (with) Fir'aun (Pharaoh), who had pegs (who used to torture men by binding them to pegs)?

(11)Who did transgress beyond bounds in the lands (in the disobedience of Allâh).

(12)And made therein much mischief.

(13)So your Lord poured on them different kinds of severe torment.

(14)Verily, your Lord is Ever Watchful (over them).

(15)As for man, when his Lord tries him by giving him honour and gifts, then he says (puffed up): "My Lord has honoured me."

(16)But when He tries him, by straitening his means of life, he says: "My Lord has humiliated me!"

(17)Nay! But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity (i.e. you neither treat them well, nor give them their exact right of inheritance)!

(18)And urge not on the feeding of AlMiskîn (the poor)!

(19)And you devour inheritance all with greed,

(20)And you love wealth with much love!

(21)Nay! When the earth is ground to powder,

(22)And your Lord comes with the angels in rows,

(23)And Hell will be brought near that Day. On that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance (then) avail him?

(24)He will say: "Alas! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my life!"

(25)So on that Day, none will punish as He will punish.

(26)And none will bind as He will bind.

(27)(It will be said to the pious): "O (you) the one in (complete) rest and satisfaction!

(28)"Come back to your Lord, Well-pleased (yourself) and well-pleasing unto Him!

(29)"Enter you, then, among My honoured slaves,

(30)"And enter you My Paradise!"

Al-Ghâshiyah

(1)Has there come to you the narration of the overwhelming (i.e. the Day of Resurrection);

(2)Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.).[]

(3)Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allâh), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace)[] .

(4)They will enter in the hot blazing Fire,

(5)They will be given to drink from a boiling spring,

(6)No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant,

(7)Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.

(8)(Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful,

(9)Glad with their endeavour (for their good deeds which they did in this world, along with the true Faith of Islâmic Monotheism).[]

(10)In a lofty Paradise.

(11)Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood,

(12)Therein will be a running spring,

(13)Therein will be thrones raised high,

(14)And cups set at hand.

(15)And cushions set in rows,

(16)And rich carpets (all) spread out.

(17)Do they not look at the camels, how they are created?

(18)And at the heaven, how it is raised?

(19)And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm?

(20)And at the earth, how it is spread out?

(21)So remind them (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)), you are only a one who reminds.

(22)You are not a dictator over them.

(23)Save the one who turns away and disbelieves[]

(24)Then Allâh will punish him with the greatest punishment.

(25)Verily, to Us will be their return;

(26)Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.

Al-A'lâ

(1)Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most High,

(2)Who has created (everything), and then proportioned it;

(3)And Who has measured (preordainments for each and everything even to be blessed or wretched); then guided (i.e. showed mankind the right as well as wrong paths, and guided the animals to pasture);

(4)And Who brings out the pasturage,

(5)And then makes it dark stubble.

(6)We shall make you to recite (the Qur'ân), so you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) shall not forget (it),

(7)Except what Allâh, may will, He knows what is apparent and what is hidden.

(8)And We shall make easy for you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) the easy way (i.e. the doing of righteous deeds).

(9)Therefore remind (men) in case the reminder profits (them).

(10)The reminder will be received by him who fears (Allâh),

(11)But it will be avoided by the wretched,

(12)Who will enter the great Fire and made to taste its burning,

(13)Wherein he will neither die (to be in rest) nor live (a good living).

(14)Indeed whosoever purifies himself (by avoiding polytheism and accepting Islâmic Monotheism) shall achieve success,

(15)And remembers (glorifies) the Name of his Lord (worships none but Allâh), and prays (five compulsory prayers and Nawâfil additional prayers).

(16)Nay, you prefer the life of this world;

(17)Although the Hereafter is better and more lasting.

(18)Verily! This is in the former Scriptures,

(19)The Scriptures of Ibrâhim (Abraham) and Mûsa (Moses).

At-Târiq

(1)By the heaven, and At-Târiq (the night-comer, i.e. the bright star);

(2)And what will make you to know what At-Târiq (night-comer) is?

(3)(It is) the star of piercing brightness;

(4)There is no human being but has a protector over him (or her) (i.e. angels incharge of each human being guarding him, writing his good and bad deeds, etc.)[]

(5)So let man see from what he is created!

(6)He is created from a water gushing forth

(7)Proceeding from between the back-bone and the ribs,

(8)Verily, (Allâh) is Able to bring him back (to life)!

(9)The Day when all the secrets (deeds, prayers, fasting, etc.) will be examined (as to their truth).

(10)Then will (man) have no power, nor any helper.

(11)By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again.

(12)And the earth which splits (with the growth of trees and plants),

(13)Verily! This (the Qur'ân) is the Word that separates (the truth from falsehood, and commands strict legal laws for mankind to cut the roots of evil).

(14)And it is not a thing for amusement.

(15)Verily, they are but plotting a plot (against you O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)).

(16)And I (too) am planning a plan.

(17)So give a respite to the disbelievers. Deal you gently with them for a while.

Al-Burûj

(1)By the heaven, holding the big stars[] .

(2)And by the Promised Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection);

(3)And by the witnessing day (i.e. Friday), and by the witnessed day [i.e. the day of 'Arafât (Hajj) the ninth of Dhul-Hîjjah];

(4)Cursed were the people of the ditch (the story of the Boy and the King).[]

(5)Fire supplied (abundantly) with fuel,

(6)When they sat by it (fire),

(7)And they witnessed what they were doing against the believers (i.e. burning them).

(8)They had nothing against them, except that they believed in Allâh, the All-Mighty, Worthy of all Praise!

(9)Who, to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allâh is Witness over everything.

(10)Verily, those who put into trial the believing men and believing women (by torturing them and burning them), and then do not turn in repentance, (to Allâh), will have the torment of Hell, and they will have the punishment of the burning Fire.

(11)Verily, those who believe and do righteous good deeds, for them will be Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise). That is the great success.

(12)Verily, (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) the Grip (Punishment) of your Lord is severe.

(13)Verily, He it is Who begins (punishment) and repeats (punishment in the Hereafter) (or originates the creation of everything, and then repeats it on the Day of Resurrection).

(14)And He is Oft-Forgiving, full of love (towards the pious who are real true believers of Islâmic Monotheism),

(15)Owner of the throne, the Glorious

(16)He does what He intends (or wills).

(17)Has the story reached you of the hosts,

(18)Of Fir'aun (Pharaoh) and Thamûd?

(19)Nay! The disbelievers (persisted) in denying (Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and his Message of Islâmic Monotheism).

(20)And Allâh encompasses them from behind! (i.e. all their deeds are within His Knowledge, and He will requite them for their deeds).

(21)Nay! This is a Glorious Qur'ân,

(22)(Inscribed) in Al-Lauh Al-Mahfûz (The Preserved Tablet)!

Al-Inshiqâq

(1)When the heaven is split asunder,

(2)And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so;

(3)And when the earth is stretched forth,

(4)And has cast out all that was in it and became empty,

(5)And listens and obeys its Lord, and it must do so;

(6)O man! Verily, you are returning towards your Lord with your deeds and actions (good or bad), a sure returning, so you will meet (i.e. the results of your deeds which you did).

(7)Then, as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand,

(8)He surely will receive an easy reckoning,

(9)And will return to his family in joy!

(10)But whosoever is given his Record behind his back,

(11)He will invoke (his) destruction,

(12)And shall enter a blazing Fire, and made to taste its burning.

(13)Verily, he was among his people in joy!

(14)Verily, he thought that he would never come back (to Us)!

(15)Yes! Verily, his Lord has been ever beholding him!

(16)So I swear by the afterglow of sunset;

(17)And by the night and whatever it gathers in its darkness;

(18)And by the moon when it is at the full,

(19)You shall certainly travel from stage to stage (in this life and in the Hereafter).

(20)What is the matter with them, that they believe not?

(21)And when the Qur'ân is recited to them, they fall not prostrate,

(22)Nay, (on the contrary), those who disbelieve, belie (Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) and whatever he brought, i.e. this Qur'ân and Islâmic Monotheism, etc.).[]

(23)And Allâh knows best what they gather (of good and bad deeds),

(24)So announce to them a painful torment.

(25)Save those who believe and do righteous good deeds, for them is a reward that will never come to an end (i.e. Paradise).

Al-Mutaffifîn

(1)Woe to Al-Mutaffifin [those who give less in measure and weight (decrease the rights of others)],

(2)Those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, demand full measure,

(3)And when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due.

(4)Think they not that they will be resurrected (for reckoning),

(5)On a Great Day,

(6)The Day when (all) mankind will stand before the Lord of the 'Alamîn (mankind, jinns and all that exists)?

(7)Nay! Truly, the Record (writing of the deeds) of the Fujjâr (disbelievers, sinners, evil-doers and wicked) is (preserved) in Sijjîn.

(8)And what will make you know what Sijjîn is?

(9)A Register inscribed.

(10)Woe, that Day, to those who deny [(Allâh, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers, the Day of Resurrection, and Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments)].

(11)Those who deny the Day of Recompense.

(12)And none can deny it except every transgressor beyond bounds, (in disbelief, oppression and disobedience of Allâh, the sinner!)

(13)When Our Verses (of the Qur'ân) are recited to him he says: "Tales of the ancients!"

(14)Nay! But on their hearts is the Rân (covering of sins and evil deeds) which they used to earn[] .

(15)Nay! Surely, they (evil-doers) will be veiled from seeing their Lord that Day.

(16)Then, verily they will indeed enter and taste the burning flame of Hell.

(17)Then, it will be said to them: "This is what you used to deny!"

(18)Nay! Verily, the Record (writing of the deeds) of Al-Abrâr (the pious who fear Allâh and avoid evil), is (preserved) in 'Illiyyûn.

(19)And what will make you know what 'Illiyyûn is?

(20)A Register inscribed.

(21)To which bear witness those nearest (to Allâh, i.e. the angels).

(22)Verily, Al-Abrâr (the pious who fear Allâh and avoid evil) will be in delight (Paradise).

(23)On thrones, looking (at all things).

(24)You will recognise in their faces the brightness of delight.

(25)They will be given to drink pure sealed wine.

(26)The last thereof (that wine) will be the smell of musk, and for this let (all) those strive who want to strive (i.e. hasten earnestly to the obedience of Allâh).

(27)It (that wine) will be mixed with Tasnîm.

(28)A spring whereof drink those nearest to Allâh.

(29)Verily! (During the worldly life) those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed.

(30)And whenever they passed by them, used to wink one to another (in mockery);

(31)And when they returned to their own people, they would return jesting;

(32)And when they saw them, they said: "Verily! These have indeed gone astray!"

(33)But they (disbelievers, sinners) had not been sent as watchers over them (the believers).

(34)But this Day (the Day of Resurrection) those who believe will laugh at the disbelievers[]

(35)On (high) thrones, looking (at all things).

(36)Are not the disbelievers paid (fully) for what they used to do?

Al-Infitâr

(1)When the heaven is cleft asunder.

(2)And when the stars have fallen and scattered;

(3)And when the seas are burst forth (got dried up);

(4)And when the graves are turned upside down (and they bring out their contents)

(5)(Then) a person will know what he has sent forward and (what he has) left behind (of good or bad deeds).

(6)O man! What has made you careless concerning your Lord, the Most Generous?

(7)Who created you, fashioned you perfectly, and gave you due proportion;

(8)In whatever form He willed, He put you together.

(9)Nay! But you deny the Recompense (reward for good deeds and punishment for evil deeds).

(10)But verily, over you (are appointed angels in charge of mankind) to watch you[] ,

(11)Kirâman (honourable) Kâtibîn writing down (your deeds)[] ,

(12)They know all that you do.

(13)Verily, the Abrâr (pious and righteous) will be in delight (Paradise);

(14)And verily, the Fujjâr (the wicked, disbelievers, sinners and evil-doers) will be in the blazing Fire (Hell),

(15)In which they will enter, and taste its burning flame on the Day of Recompense,

(16)And they (Al-Fujjâr) will not be absent therefrom (i.e. will not go out from the Hell).

(17)And what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?

(18)Again, what will make you know what the Day of Recompense is?

(19)(It will be) the Day when no person shall have power (to do) anything for another, and the Decision, that Day, will be (wholly) with Allâh.