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[1] THE MOST GRACIOUS
[2] has imparted this Qur’an [unto man].
[3] He has created man:
[4] He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech.
[5] [At His behest] the sun and the moon run their appointed courses;
[6] [before Him] prostrate themÂselves the stars and the trees.
[7] And the skies has He raised high, and has devised [for all things] a measure,
[8] so that you [too, O men,] might never transgress the measure [of what is right]:
[9] weigh, therefore, [your deeds] with equity, and cut not the measure short!
[10] And the earth has He spread out for all living beings,
[11] with fruit thereon, and palm trees with sheathed clusters [of dates],
[12] and grain growing tall on its stalks, and sweet-smelling plants.
[13] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[14] He has created man out of sounding clay, like pottery,
[15] whereas the invisible beings He has created out of a confusing flame of fire.
[16] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[17] [He is] the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunrise, and the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunset.
[18] Which, then, of your SustainÂer’s powers can you disavow?
[19] He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet:
[20] [yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress.
[21] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[22] Out of these two [bodies of water] come forth pearls, both great and small.
[23] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[24] And His are the lofty ships that sail like [floating] mountains through the seas.
[25] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[26] All that lives on earth or in the heavens is bound to pass away:
[27] but forever will abide thy Sustainer’s Self, full of majesty and glory.
[28] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[29] On Him depends all creatures in the heavens and on earth; [and] every day He manifests Himself in yet another [wondrous] way.
[30] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[31] [ONE DAY] We shall take you to task, O you sin-laden two!
[32] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[33] O you who live in close communion with [evil] invisible beings and humans! If you [think that you] can pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, pass beyond them! [But] you cannot pass beyond them, save by a sanction [from God]!
[34] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[35] A flash of fire will be let loose upon you, and smoke, and you will be left without succour!
[36] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[37] And when the sky is rent asunder and becomes red like [burning] oil
[38] which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[39] For on that Day neither man nor invisible being will be asked about his sins.
[40] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[41] All who were lost in sin shall by their marks be known, and shall by their forelocks and their feet be seized!
[42] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[43] This will be the hell which those who are lost in sin [now] call a lie:
[44] between it and [their own] burning-hot despair will they wander to and fro!
[45] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[46] BUT FOR THOSE who of their Sustainer’s Presence stand in fear, two gardens [of paradise are readied] -
[47] which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –
[48] [two gardens] of many wondrous hues.
[49] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[50] In [each of] these two [gardens] two springs will flow.
[51] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[52] In [each of] these two will two kinds of every fruit be [found].
[53] Which, then, of your Sustainer s powers can you disavow?
[54] [In such a paradise the blest will dwell,] reclinÂing upon carpets lined with rich brocade; and the fruit of both these gardens will be within easy reach.
[55] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[56] In these [gardens] will be mates of modest gaze, whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then.
[57] Which, then, of your SusÂtainer’s powers can you disavow?
[58] [When you are promised splendours] as though [of] rubies and [of] pearls –
[59] which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[60] Could the reward of good be aught but good?
[61] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[62] And besides those two will be yet two [other] gardens -
[63] which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –
[64] two [gardens] of the deepest green.
[65] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[66] In [each of] these two [gardens] will two springs gush forth.
[67] Which, then, of your SusÂtainer’s powers can you disavow?
[68] In both of them will be [all kinds of] fruit, and date-palms and pomegranates.
[69] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[70] In these [gardens] will be [all] things most excellent and beautiful.
[71] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[72] [There the blest will live with their] companions pure and modest, in pavilions [splendid] -
[73] which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –
[74] [companions] whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then.
[75] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[76] [In such a paradise will they dwell,] reclining upon meadows green and carpets rich in beauty.
[77] Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?
[78] HALLOWED be thy Sustainer’s name, full of majesty and glory!