صورة 45 of the Holy Qur'an translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This LibriVox recording is in the public domain صورة 45 Crouching Al Ghafea revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful حا ميم The revelation of the book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise Most surely in the heavens and the earth there are signs for the believers And in your own creation and in what he spreads abroad of animals There are signs for people that are sure And in the variation of the night and the day And in what Allah sends down of sustenance from the cloud Then gives life thereby to the earth after its death And in the changing of the winds There are signs for the people who understand These are the communications of Allah Which we recite to you with truth In what announcement would they believe after Allah and his communications Who to every sinful liar Who hears the communications of Allah recited to him Then persists proudly as though he had not heard them So announced to him a painful punishment And when he comes to know of any of our communications He takes it for a jest These it is that shall have abasing chastisement Before them is hell And there shall not avail them Out of what they earned Nor those whom they took for guardians besides Allah And they shall have a grievous punishment This is guidance And as for those who disbelieve In the communications of their Lord They shall have a painful punishment On account of uncleanness Allah is He who made subservient to you The sea that the ships may run therein by His command And that you may seek of His grace And that you may give thanks And He has made subservient to you Whatsoever is in the heavens And whatsoever is in the earth All from Himself Most surely there are signs in this for people who reflect Say to those who believe That they forgive those who do not fear the days of Allah That He may reward a people for what they earn Whoever does good It is for his own soul And whoever does evil It is against himself Then you shall be brought back to your Lord And certainly we gave the book and the wisdom And the prophecy to the children of Israel And we gave them of the goodly things And we made them excel the nations And we gave them clear arguments in the affair But they did not differ until after knowledge had come to them Out of envy among themselves Surely your Lord will judge between them On the day of resurrection Concerning that wherein they differed Then we have made you follow a course in the affair Therefore follow it And do not follow the low desires of those who do not know Surely they shall not avail you in the least against Allah And surely the unjust are friends of each other Because Allah is the guardian of those who guard against evil These are clear proofs for men And the guidance and the mercy for a people who are sure Nay, do those who have wrote evil deeds Think that we will make them like those who believe and do good That their life and their death shall be equal Evil it is that they judge And Allah created the heavens and the earth with truth And that every soul may be rewarded for what it has earned And they shall not be wronged Have you then considered him who takes his low desire for his God And Allah has made him earth Having knowledge and has set a seal upon his ear And his heart And put a covering upon his eye Who can then guide him after Allah Will you not then be mindful And they say there is nothing but our life in this word We live and die and nothing destroys us but time And they have no knowledge of death They only conjecture And when our clear communications are recited to them Their argument is no other than that they say Bring our fathers back if you are truthful Say Allah gives you life Then he makes you die Then will he gather you to the day of resurrection Wherein is no doubt But most people do not know And Allah is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth And on the day when the hour shall come to pass On that day shall they perish who say false things And you shall see every nation kneeling down Every nation shall be called to its book Today you shall be rewarded for what you did This is our book that speaks against you with justice Surely we wrote what you did Then as to those who believed and did good Their lord will make them enter into his mercy That is the manifest achievement As to those who disbelieved What were not my communications recited to you But you were proud and you were a guilty people And when it was said Surely the promise of Allah is true And as for the hour There is no doubt about it You said we do not know what the hour is We do not think that it will come to pass Save a passing thought And we are not at all sure And the evil consequences Of what they did shall become manifest to them And that which they mocked shall encompass them And it shall be said Today we forsake you as you neglected the meeting Of this day of yours and your abode is the fire And there are not for you any helpers That is because you took the communications of Allah For a jest And the life of this word deceived you So on that day they shall not be brought forth From it Nor shall they be granted goodwill Therefore to Allah is you all praise The lord of the heavens and the lord of the earth The lord of the worlds And to him belongs the greatness in the heavens And the earth And he is the mighty the wise End of Surah 45 Surah 46 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovox Recording Is in the public domain Surah 46 The Wind Curved Sandhills Al-Ahqaf Revealed at Mecca In the name of Allah The Most Beneficent The Most Merciful The revelation of the book is from Allah The Mighty the Wise We did not create the heavens and the earth And what is between them To save with truth and for an appointed term And those who disbelieve Turn aside from what they are warned of Say Have you considered what you call upon besides Allah Show me what they have created of the earth Or have they a share in the heavens Bring me a book before this Or traces of knowledge If you are truthful And who is in greater error Than he who calls besides Allah Upon those that will not answer him Till the day of resurrection And they are heedless of their call And when men are gathered together They shall be their enemies And shall be deniers of their worshipping them And when our clear communications Are recited to them Those who disbelieve Say with regard to the truth When it comes to them This is clear magic They say He has forged it Say If I have forged it You do not control anything for me from Allah He knows best what you utter concerning it He is enough as a witness Between me and you And he is the forgiving the merciful Say I am not the first of the messengers And I do not know what will be done with me Or with you I do not follow anything but that Which is revealed to me And I am nothing but a plain warner Say Have you considered If it is from Allah And you disbelieve in it And the witness from among The children of Israel Has born witness of one like it So he believed While you are big with pride Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people And those who disbelieve Say concerning those who believe If it had been a good They would not have gone ahead of us Therein And as they do not seek To be rightly directed thereby They say It is an old lie And before it The book of Musa Was a guide and a mercy And this is a book verifying it In the Arabic language That it may warn those who are unjust And as good news For the doers of good Surely those who say Our Lord is Allah Then they continue on the right way They shall have no fear Nor shall they grieve These are the dwellers of the garden Abiding therein A reward for what they did And we have enjoined On man doing of good To his parents With trouble did his mother bear him And with trouble did she bring him forth And the bearing of him And the weaning of him Was 30 months Until when he attains his maturity And reaches 40 years He says My Lord Grant me that I may give thanks For thy favor Which thou hast bestowed on me And on my parents And that I may do good Which pleases thee And do good to me In respect of my offspring Surely I turn to thee And surely I am of those Who submit These are they From whom we accept The best of what they have done And pass over their evil deeds Among the dwellers of the garden The promise of truth Which they were promised And he who says to his parents Fie on you Do you threaten me That I shall be brought forth When generations have already passed Away before me And they both call for Allah's aid Who to you Believe surely the promise of Allah is true But he says This is nothing but stories of the ancients These are they Against whom the world has proved Through among nations Of the jinn and the men That have already passed Away before them Surely they are losers And for all our degrees According to what they did And that he may pay them Back fully their deeds And they shall not be wronged And on the day when those who disbelieve Shall be brought before the fire You did away with your good things In your life of the world And you enjoyed them for a while So today you shall be rewarded With the punishment of abasement Because you were unjustly proud In the land and because you transgressed And mentioned the brother of A'ad When he warned his people In the sandy plains And indeed warners came before him And after him Saying serve none but Allah Surely I fear for you The punishment of a grievous day They said Have you come to us To turn us away from our gods Then bring us what you threaten us with If you are of the truthful ones He said The knowledge is only with Allah And I deliver to you the message With which I am sent But I see you are a people who are ignorant So when they saw it As a cloud appearing in the sky Advancing towards their valleys This is a cloud which will give us rain Nay, it is what you sought to hasten On a blast of wind In which is a painful punishment Destroying everything by the command Of its Lord So they became such that Not could be seen except their dwellings Thus do we reward the guilty people And certainly we had established Them in what we have not established You in And we had given them Ears and eyes and hearts But neither their ears nor their eyes Nor their hearts availed them out Since they denied the communications Of Allah And that which they mocked Encompassed them And certainly we destroyed The towns which are around you And we repeat the communications That they might turn Why did not then those help them Whom they took for God's besides Allah To draw them nigh to Him Nay, they were lost to them And this was their lie And what they forged And when we turned towards you The majority of the jinn Who listened to the Quran So when they came to it They said be silent Then when it was finished They turned back to their people Warning them They said O our people We have listened to a book Revealed after Musa Verifying that which is before it Guiding to the truth And to a right path O our people Accept the divine caller And believe in him He will forgive you Of your faults And protect you from a painful Punishment And whoever does not accept The divine caller He shall not escape in the earth And he shall not have guardians Besides him These are in manifest error Have they not considered that Allah Who created the heavens and the earth And was not tired by their creation Is able to give life to the dead I he has surely power over all things And on the day When those who disbelieve Shall be brought before the fire Is it not true They shall say Why by our Lord He will say Then taste the punishment Because you disbelieved Therefore bear up patiently As did the messengers Endowed with consistency Bear up with patience And do not seek to hasten For them Their doom On the day that they shall see What they are promised They had not paired Saved an hour of the day A sufficient exposition Shall then any be destroyed Saved the transgressing people End of Surah 46 Surah 47 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This liberal wux recording Is in the public domain Surah 47 Muhammad Revealed at Medina In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful As for those who disbelieve And turn away from Allah's way He shall render their works ineffective And as for those who believe And do good And believe in what has been revealed to Muhammad And it is the very truth from their Lord He will remove their evil from them And improve their condition That is because Those who disbelieve Follow falsehood While those who believe Follow the truth From their Lord Thus does Allah Set forth their parables For mankind So when you meet in battle Those who disbelieve Then smite the necks until when You have overcome them Then make them prisoners And afterwards Either set them free as a favor Or let them ransom themselves Until the war terminates That shall be so And if Allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted What is due from them But that he may try some of you By means of others And as for those Who are slain in the way of Allah He will by no means Allow their deeds to perish He will guide them And improve their condition And cause them to enter the garden Which he has made known to them Or you who believe If you help the cause of Allah He will help you And make firm your feet And as for those who disbelieve For them is destruction And he has made their deeds ineffective That is because they hated What Allah revealed So he rendered their deeds null Have they not then Jurned in the land And seen how was The end of those before them Allah brought down destruction Upon them And the unbelievers Shall have the like of it That is because Allah Is the protector of those who believe And because the unbelievers Shall have no protector for them Surely Allah Will make those who believe And do good enter gardens beneath Which rivers flow And those who disbelieve Enjoy themselves and eat As the beasts eat And the fire is their abode And how many a town Which was far more powerful Than the town of yours Which has driven you out We destroyed them So there was no helper for them What Is he who has a clear argument From his Lord Like him to whom the evil Of his work is made Fair seeming And they follow their low desires A parable of the garden Which those guarding Against evil are promised Therein are rivers of water That does not alter And rivers of milk The taste whereof does not change And rivers of drink delicious To those who drink And rivers of honey clarified And for them therein Are all fruits and protection From their Lord Are these like those Who abide in the fire And who are made to drink Boiling water So it runs their bowels ascender And there are those of them Who seek to listen to you Until when they go forth from you They say to those who have been given The knowledge what was it That he said just now These are they upon whose hearts Allah has set a seal And they follow their low desires And as for those who follow The right direction He increases them in guidance And gives them their guarding Against evil Do they then wait for ought But the hour that it should come To them all of a sudden Now indeed the tokens of it Have already come But how shall they have their reminder When it comes on them So know that there is no God But Allah And Allah knows the place of your returning And the place of your abiding And those who believe say Why has not the chapter been revealed But when a decisive chapter is revealed And fighting is mentioned Therein you see those in whose hearts Is a disease Look to you with the heart And you see those in whose hearts Is a disease Look to you with the look of one Thinking because of death Who to them then Obedience and a gentle word Was proper But when the affair becomes settled Then if they remain true to Allah It would certainly be better for them But if you held command You were sure to make mischief Out of the ties of kingship Those it is whom Allah has cursed So he has made them deaf And blinded their eyes Do they not then reflect on the Quran Nay, on the hearts there are locks Surely as for those who return On their backs after that guidance Has become manifest to them The shaitan has made it a light matter to them And he gives them respite That is because they say to those who hate What Allah has revealed We will obey you in some of the affairs And Allah knows their secrets But how will it be when the angels Cause them to die smiting their backs That is because they follow What is displeasing to Allah And are averse to his pleasure Therefore he has made nal their deed Or do those in whose hearts is a disease Think that Allah will not bring forth their spite And if we please We would have made you know them so That you would certainly have Recognized them by their marks And most certainly you can recognize them By the intent of their speech And Allah knows your deeds And most certainly we will try you Until we have known those among you Who exert themselves hard And the patient and made your case manifest Surely those who disbelieve And turn away from Allah's way And oppose the messenger After that guidance has become clear to them Cannot harm Allah in any way And he will make nal their deeds Or you who believe Obey Allah and obey the messenger And do not make your deeds of no effect Surely those who disbelieve And turn away from Allah's way Then they die while they are unbelievers Allah will buy no means for give them And be not slack so as to cry for peace And you have the upper hand And Allah is with you And he will not bring your deeds to note The life of this word is only Idol sport and play And if you believe and guard against evil He will give you your rewards And will not ask of you your possessions If he should ask you for it And urge you You will be niggardly And he will bring forth your malice Behold You are those who are called upon To spend in Allah's way Among you are those who are niggardly And whoever is niggardly Is niggardly against his own soul And Allah is self-sufficient And you have need of him And if you turn back He will bring in your place Another people Then they will not be like you End of Surah 47 Surah 48 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Libro Vox Recording Is in the public domain Surah 48 Victory Conquest الفتح Revealed at Madina In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Surely we have given To you a clear victory That Allah may forgive Your community Their past faults And those to follow and complete His favor To you and keep you On a right way And that Allah Might help you with the mighty help He it is Who send down tranquility Into the hearts of the believers That they might have more Of faith Added to their faith And Allah's are the hosts Of the heavens and the earth And Allah is knowing Wise That He may cause The believing men And the believing women To enter gardens Beneath which rivers flow To abide the rain And remove from them their evil And that is a grand achievement With Allah And that He may punish The hypocritical men And the hypocritical women And the polytheistic men And the polytheistic women The entertainers Of evil thoughts About Allah On them is the evil turn And Allah is Roth with them And has cursed them And prepared hell for them And evil is the resort And Allah's are the hosts Of the heavens and the earth And Allah is mighty wise Surely we have sent you As a witness And as a bearer of good news And as a warner That you may believe In Allah and his messenger And may aid him And revere him And that you may declare his glory Morning and evening Surely those who swear allegiance to you Do but swear allegiance to Allah The hand of Allah Is above their hands Therefore whoever breaks his faith He breaks it only To the injury of his own soul And whoever fulfills That he has covenanted with Allah He will grant him a mighty reward Those of the dwellers of the desert Who were left behind Will say to you Our property and our families Kept us busy So ask forgiveness for us They say with their tongues What is not in their hearts Say then And control anything for you from Allah If he intends to do you harm Or if he intends to do you good Nay, Allah is aware of what you do Nay, you rather thought That the messenger and the believers Would not return to their families ever And that was made fair seeming To your hearts And you thought an evil thought Was where a people doomed to perish And whoever does not believe In Allah and his messenger Then surely we have prepared Burning fire for the unbelievers And Allah is the kingdom Of the heavens and the earth He forgives whom he pleases And punishes whom he pleases And Allah is forgiving merciful Those who are left behind Will say When you set forth for the gaining Of acquisitions Allow us that we may follow you They desire to change The word of Allah Say, by no means Shall you follow us Thus did Allah say before But they will say Nay, you are jealous of us Nay, they do not understand But a little Say to those of the dwellers Of the desert Who were left behind You shall soon be invited to fight Against a people possessing Mighty prowess You will fight against them Until they submit Then if you obey Allah will grant you a good reward And if you turn back As you turned back before He will punish you With a painful punishment There is no harm in the blind Nor is there any harm in the lame Nor is there any harm in the sick If they do not go forth And whoever obeys Allah And his messenger He will cause him to enter Gardens beneath which rivers flow And whoever turns back He will punish him With a painful punishment Certainly Allah was well pleased With the believers When they swore allegiance To you under the tree And he knew What was in their hearts So he sent down tranquility On them And rewarded them With a near victory And many acquisitions Which they will take And Allah is Mighty Wise Allah promised you many acquisitions Which you will take Then he hastened On this one for you And held back the hands Of men from you And that it may be a sign For the believers And that he may guide you On a right path And others Which you have not yet Been able to achieve Allah has surely encompassed them And Allah has power over all things And if those who disbelieve Fight with you They would certainly turn their backs Then they would not find Any protector or a helper Such has been the course of Allah That has indeed run before And you shall not find a change In Allah's course And he it is who held back Their hands from you And your hands from them In the valley of Makkah After he had given you victory over them And Allah is seeing what you do It is they who disbelieved And turned you away from the sacred mosque And turned off the offering And held from arriving At its distant place And where it not for the believing men And the believing women Whom not having known You might have trodden down And thus something hateful Might have afflicted you On their account without knowledge So that Allah may cause To enter into his mercy Whomsoever he pleases Had they been widely separated One from another We would surely have punished Those who disbelieved From among them with a painful punishment When those who disbelieved Harbored in their hearts Feelings of disdain The disdain of the days of ignorance But Allah sent down his tranquility On his messenger And on the believers And made them keep the word Of guarding against evil And they were entitled to it And worthy of it And Allah is cognizant Of all things Certainly Allah had shown to his messenger The vision with truth You shall most certainly enter The sacred mosque Where Allah pleases In security some having their heads shaved And others having their hair cut You shall not fear But he knows what you do not know So he brought about a near victory Before that He it is who sent his messenger With the guidance and the true religion That he may make it prevail All the religions And Allah is enough for a witness Muhammad is the messenger of Allah And those with him are firm of heart Against the unbelievers Compassionate among themselves You will see them bowing down Prostrating themselves Seeking grace from Allah and pleasure Their marks are in their faces Because of the effect of prostration That is their description in the Torah And their description in the Injeel Like a seed produced That puts forth its sprout Then strengthens it So it becomes a stout And stands firmly on its stem Delighting the sewers That he may enrage The unbelievers on account of them Allah has promised those among them Who believe and do good Forgiveness and the great reward End of Surah 48 Surah 49 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This liberal box recording is in the public domain Surah 49 The private apartments Revealed at Madina In the name of Allah The most beneficent, the most merciful O you who believe Be not forward in the presence of Allah And his messenger And be careful of your duty to Allah Surely Allah is hearing, knowing O you who believe Do not raise your voices Above the voice of the Prophet And do not speak loud to him As you speak loud to one another Lest your deeds became null While you do not perceive Surely those who lower their voices Before Allah's messenger Are they whose hearts Allah has proved For guarding against evil They shall have forgiveness And the great reward As for those who call out to you From behind the private chambers Surely most of them do not understand And if they wait patiently Until you come out to them It would certainly be better for them And Allah is forgiving, merciful O you who believe If an evil doer Comes to you with a report Look carefully into it Lest you harm a people in ignorance Then be sorry for what you have done And know that among you Is Allah's messenger Should he obey you in many a matter You would surely fall into distress But Allah has endeared the faith to you And has made it seemingly in your heart And he has made hateful to you unbelief And transgression and disobedience These it is That are the followers of right way By grace from Allah And as a favor And Allah is knowing wise And if two parties of the believer's quarrel Make peace between them But if one of them acts Strangfully towards the other Fight that which acts Strangfully until it returns To Allah's command Then if it returns Make peace between them With justice and act equitably Surely Allah loves Those who act equitably The believers are but brethren Therefore make peace between your brethren And be careful of your duty to Allah That mercy may be had on you O you who believe Let not one people laugh at another people Per chance they may be better than they Nor let women laugh at other women Per chance they may be better than they And do not find fault with your own people Nor call one another by nicknames Evil is a bad name after faith And whoever does not turn These it is That are the unjust O you who believe Avoid most of suspicion For surely suspicion in some cases is a sin And do not spy Nor let some of you backbite others Does one of you like to eat The flesh of his dead brother But you abhor it And be careful of your duty to Allah Surely Allah is oft returning to mercy Merciful O you men Surely we have created you Of a male and a female And made you tribes and families That you may know each other Surely the most honorable of you With Allah is the one among you Most careful of his duty Surely Allah is knowing aware The dwellers of the desert say We believe Say you do not believe But say we submit And faith has not yet entered into your hearts And if you obey Allah and his messenger He will not diminish out of your deeds Surely Allah is forgiving Merciful The believers are only those Who believe in Allah and his messenger Then they doubt not And struggle hard with their wealth And their lives in the way of Allah They are the truthful ones Say do you apprise Allah of your religion And Allah knows what is in the heavens And what is in the earth And Allah is cognizant of all things They think that they lay you under an obligation By becoming Muslims Say lay me not under obligation By your Islam Rather Allah lays you under an obligation By guiding you to the faith If you are truthful Surely Allah knows the unseen things Of the heavens and the earth And Allah sees what you do End of Surah 49 Surah 50 of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovox Recording Is in the public domain Surah 50 The letter Kaaf Kaaf revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Kaaf I swear by the glorious Quran That Muhammad is the messenger of Allah Nay, they wonder that there has come to them a warner From among themselves So the unbelievers say This is a wonderful thing What? When we are dead and have become dust That is afar from probable return We know indeed what the earth diminishes of them And with us is a writing that preserves Nay, they rejected the truth When it came to them So they are now in a state of confusion Do they not then look up to heaven above them How we have made it and adorned it And it has no gaps And the earth we have made it plain And cast in it mountains And we have made to grow the ring Of all beautiful kinds To give sight And as a reminder to every servant Who turns frequently to Allah And we send down from the cloud water Abounding in good Then we cause to grow thereby gardens And the grain that is reaped And the tall palm trees Having a space disease Closely set one above another A sustenance for the servants And we give life thereby to a dead land Thus is the rising Others before them rejected prophets The people of Noah And the dwellers of Arras And Samoon And A'ad and Pharaoh And Lot's brethren And the dwellers of the grove And the people of Tobba All rejected the messengers So my threat came to pass Were we then fatigued With the first creation Yet are they in doubt With regard to a new creation And certainly we created man And we know what his mind suggests to him And we are nearer to him Than his life then When the two receivers receive They are sitting on the right and on the left He utters not a word But there is by him a watcher at hand And the stupor of death will come in truth That is what you were trying to escape And the trumpet shall be blown That is the day of the threatening And every soul shall come A driver and a witness Certainly you were heedless of it But now we have removed from you Your veil So your sight today is sharp And his companions shall say This is what is ready with me Do cast into hell every ungrateful Rebellious one Forbidder of good Exceder of limits Doubter Who sets up another God with Allah So do cast him into severe chastisement His companion will say Our lord I did not lead him into inordinacy But he himself was in a great error He will say Do not quarrel in my presence And indeed I gave you the threatening beforehand My word shall not be changed Nor am I in the least unjust to the servants On the day that we will say to hell Are you filled up And it will say Are there any more And the garden shall be brought near To those who guard against evil Not far off This is what you were promised It is for everyone Who turns frequently to Allah Keeps his limits Who fears the beneficent Allah In secret and comes with a penitent heart Enter it in peace That is the day of abiding They have the ring What they wish and with us is more yet And how many a generation did we destroy Before them who were miter in prowess than they So they went about and about in the lands Is there a place of refuge Most surely there is a reminder in this for him Who gives heart or he gives ear And is a witness And certainly we created the heavens and the earth And what is between them in six periods And there touched us not any fatigue Therefore be patient of what they say And sing the praise of your Lord Before the rising of the sun Before the setting And glorify him in the night and after the prayers And listen on the day when the cryer shall cry From a near place The day when they shall hear the cry in truth That is the day of coming forth Surely we give life and cause to die And to us is the eventual coming The day on which the earth shall cleave a thunder Under them They will make haste That is a gathering together easy to us We know best what they say And you are not one to compel them Therefore remind him by means of the Quran Who fears my threat End of Surah 50 Surah 51 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This liberal box Recording is in the public domain Surah 51 The Winnowing wins A Zariyat Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful I swear by the wind That scatters far and wide Then those clouds bearing the load Of my new things in space Then those ships that glide easily Then those angels who distribute blessings By our command What you are threatened with And most surely true And the judgment must most surely come about I swear by the heaven full of ways Most surely you are at variance With each other in what you say He is turned away from it Who would be turned away Cursed be the liars Who are in a gulf of ignorance neglectful They ask when is the day of judgment It is the day on which they shall be tried at the fire Taste your persecution This is what you would hasten on Surely those who guard against evil Shall be in gardens and fountains Taking what their lord gives them Surely they were before that The doers of good They used to sleep but little in the night And in the morning they asked forgiveness And in their property was a portion Due to him who begs and to him Who is denied good And in the earth there are signs For those who are sure And in your own souls too Will you not then see And in the heaven is your sustenance And what you are threatened with And by the lord of the heavens and the earth It is most surely the truth Just as you do speak Has there come to you information About the honored guests of Abraham When they entered upon him They said peace Peace said he a strange people Then he turned aside To his family secretly And brought a fat roasted calf So he brought it near them He said what will you not eat So he conceived in his mind A fear on account of them They said fear not And they gave him the good news Of a boy possessing knowledge Then his wife came up in great grief And she struck her face and said An old barren woman They said thus says your lord Surely he is the wise the knowing He said what is your affair then All messengers They said surely we are sent to a guilty people That we may send down upon them Stone of clay Sent forth from your lord For the extravagant Then we brought forth such as Where the ring of the believers But we did not find the ring Save a single house of those who Submitted the Muslims And we left the ring a sign For those who fear the painful punishment And in Musa when we sent him to Pharaoh With clear authority But he turned away with his forces A magician or a mad man So we seized him and his horse And hurled them into the sea And he was blamable And in Haid when we sent upon them The destructive wind It did not leave out on which It blew but it made it like ashes And in Samud When it was said to them Enjoy yourselves for a while But they revolted against The commandment of their lord So the rambling overtook them While they saw So they were not able to rise up Nor could they defend themselves And the people of Noah More surely they were a transgressing people And the heaven we raised it high with power And most surely we are the makers Of things ample And the earth we have made it a wide extent How well have we then spread it out And of everything we have created Pears that you may be mindful Therefore fly to Allah Surely I am a plain warner To you from Him And do not set up with Allah another God Surely I am a plain warner To you from Him Thus there did not come to those Before them a messenger But they said a magician Or a mad man Have they charged each other with this Nay they are an inordinate people Then turn your back upon them For you are not to blame And continue to remind For surely the reminder Prophets the believers And I have not created the jinn And the men except that they should serve me I do not desire from them any sustenance And I do not desire that they should feed me Surely Allah is the bestower of sustenance The Lord of power, the strong So surely those who are unjust Shall have a portion Of their companions Therefore let them not ask me To hasten on Therefore who To those who disbelieve Because of their day Which they are threatened with End of Surah 51 Surah 52 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Libru Vox recording Is in the public domain Surah 52 The mountain The tour Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful I swear by the mountain And the book written In Ann our stretch Fine Parshman And the house Ka'ba That is visited And the elevated canopy And the swollen sea Most surely the punishment Of your Lord Will come to pass There shall be none to avert it On the day when the heaven Shall move from side to side And the mountains shall pass away Passing away altogether So who on that day To those who reject the truth Those who sport Entering into vain discourses The day on which They shall be driven away To the fire of hell with violence This is the fire Which you use to give the lie too Is it magic then Or do you not see Enter into it Then bear it patiently Or do not bear it patiently It is the same to you You shall be requited Only for what you did Surely those who guard Against evil Shall be in gardens and bliss Rejoicing because of What their Lord gave them And their Lord saved them From the punishment Of the burning fire Eat and drink pleasantly For what you did Reclining on thrones Set in lines And we will unite them To large-eyed beautiful ones And as for those who believe And their offspring Follow them in faith We will unite with them And we will not diminish to them Out of their work Every man is responsible For what he shall have Wrote And we will aid them With fruit and flesh Such as they desire They shall pass the ring From one to another a cup Wherein there shall be Nothing vain nor any sin And round them shall go Boys of theirs As if they were hidden pearls And some of them Shall advance towards others Questioning each other Saying Surely we feared before On account of our families But Allah has been gracious to us And he has saved us From the punishment of the hot wind Surely we called upon him before Surely he is the Benayan The Merciful Therefore continue to remind For by the grace of your Lord You are not a sooth sayer Or a mad man Or do they say A poet We wait for him the evil Accidents of time Say wait Surely I too With you am of those who wait Nay Do their understandings Bid them this Or are they An inordinate people Or do they say He has forged it Nay They do not believe Then let them bring An announcement like it If they are truthful Or where they created Without their being anything Or are they the creators Or did they create The heavens and the earth Nay They have no certainty Or have the treasures Of your Lord with them Or have they been Set in absolute authority Or have they the means By which they listen Then let their listeners Bring a clear authority Or has he daughters While you have sons Or do you ask them For a reward So that they are Overburdened by a debt Or have they the unseen So that they write it down Or do they desire a war But those who disbelieve Shall be the vanquished ones In war Or have they a God other than Allah Glory be to Allah From what they set up with him And if they should see A portion of the heaven Coming down They would say Piled up clouds Leave them then Till they meet that day Of theirs Wherein they shall be made To swoon with terror The day on which their struggle Shall not avail them out Nor shall they be helped And surely those who are unjust Shall have a punishment Besides debt in the world But most of them do not know And wait patiently For the judgment of your Lord For surely you are before our eyes And sing the praise of your Lord When you rise And in the night give him glory too And add the setting of the stars End of Surah 52 Surah 53 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovox Recording is in the public domain Surah 53 The Star And Nighm Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful I swear by the star When it goes down Your companion does not air Nor does he go astray As he speaks out of desire It is not but revelation That is revealed The Lord of mighty power Has taught him The Lord of strengths So he attained completion And he is in the highest part Of the horizon Then he drew near Then he bowed So he was the measure of two bows Still And he revealed to his servant What he revealed The heart was not untrue In making him see What he saw What? Do you then dispute with him As to what he saw? And certainly he saw him In another descent At the farthest Louty 3 Near which is the garden The place to be resorted to When that which covers Covered the Louty 3 The eye did not turn aside Nor did it exceed the limit Certainly he saw Of the greatest signs Of his Lord Have you then considered The lat and the auza And Manet the third the last What? For you the males And for him the females This indeed is an unjust division They are not but names Which you have named You and your fathers Allah has not sent for them Any authority They follow not But conjecture And the low desires Of souls inclined too And certainly The guidance has come to them From their Lord Or shall man have What he wishes For Allah is the hereafter And the former life And how many an angel Is there in the heavens Whose intercession Does not avail at all Except after Allah Has given permission To whom he pleases And chooses Most surely They who do not believe In the hereafter Name the angels With female names And they have no knowledge Of it They do not follow anything But conjecture And surely conjecture And they feel against the truth At all Therefore Turn aside from him Who turns his back Upon our reminder And does not desire anything But this world's life That is the goal of knowledge Surely Your Lord knows best Him who goes astray From his path And knows best Him who follows The right direction And Allah is What is in the heavens And what is in the earth That he may reward Those who do evil According to what they do And that he may reward Those who do good With goodness Those who keep aloof From the great sins And in desenses But the passing idea Surely Your Lord is liberal In forgiving He knows you best When he brings you forth From the earth And when you are In the wombs Of your mothers Therefore Do not attribute purity To your souls Who guards against evil Have you then seen him Who turns his back And gives a little And then withholds Has he the knowledge Of the unseen So that he can see Or has he not Been informed Of what is in the scriptures Of Musa And of Ibrahim Who fulfilled The commandments That no bearer of burden Shall bear the burden Of another And that man Shall have nothing But what he strives for And that his striving Shall soon be seen Then shall he be rewarded For it With the fullest reward And that Your Lord is the goal And that he it is Who makes men Laugh and makes them Weep And that he it is Who causes death And gives life And that he created Purs the male and the female From the small seed When it is adapted And that on him Is the bringing forth Of Ibrahim And that he it is Who enriches And gives to hold And that he is The Lord of the serious And that he did destroy The aid of old And Samud So he spared not And the people of Before Surely they were Most unjust And the overthrown cities Did he overthrow So they covered them That which covered Which of your Lord's Benefits Will you then dispute about This is a warner Of the warners Of old The near event draws Nigh There shall be none besides Allah To remove it Do you then wonder At this announcement And will you laugh And not weep While you are indulging In varieties So make obeisance To Allah and serve him End of Surah 53 Surah 54 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovox Recording is in the public domain Surah 54 The moon Al Qamar Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful The hour drew Nigh And the moon did rend asunder And if they see A miracle They turn aside And say Transient magic And they call it a lie And follow their low desires And every affair Has its appointed term And certainly some narratives Have come to them Wherein is prevention Consumate wisdom But warnings do not avail So turn your back On them For the day when the inviter Shall invite them to a hard Task Their eyes cast down Going forth From their graves As if they were scattered Low costs Hastening to the inviter The unbelievers shall say This is a hard day Before them The people of Nuh Rejected So they rejected our servant And called him Mad And he was driven away Therefore he called upon His lord I am overcome Come thou Then to help So we opened the gates Of the cloud with water pouring And we made water To flow forth In the land in springs So the water gathered Together according To a measure already Ordened And we bore him On that which was made Of planks and nails Sailing before our eyes A reward for him Who was denied And certainly We left it as a sign But is there anyone Who will mind How great was Then my punishment And my warning And certainly We have made the Quran Easy for remembrance But is there anyone Who will mind I had treated the truth As a lie So how great was my punishment And my warning Surely We sent on them a tornado In a day of bitter ill luck Tearing men away As if they were The trunks of palm trees Torn up How great was Then my punishment And my warning And certainly We have made the Quran Easy for remembrance But is there anyone Who will mind Samoud rejected The warning So they said What a single mortal From among us Shall we follow him Most surely we shall In that case be in sure Error and distress Has the reminder Been made to light upon him From among us May He is an insolent liar Tomorrow Shall they know Who is the liar The insolent one Surely we are going to send The sheikamel As a trial for them Therefore watch them And have patience And inform them That the water is shared Between them And the share of the water Shall be regulated But they called their companion So he took the sword And slew her How great was Then my punishment And my warning Surely we sent upon them A single cry So they were like The dry fragments of trees Which the maker Of an enclosure And certainly We have made the Quran Easy for remembrance But is there anyone Who will mind The people of Lot Treated the warning As a lie Surely we sent upon them A stone storm Except Lot's followers We saved them A little before they break A favor from us Thus do we reward him Who gives thanks And certainly he warned them Of our violent seizure But they obstinately Disputed the warning And certainly they endeavored To turn him from his guests But we blinded their eyes So taste my chastisement And my warning And certainly A lasting chastisement Over took them in the morning So taste my chastisement And my warning And certainly We have made the Quran Easy for remembrance But is there anyone Who will mind And certainly The warning came to theater And the warning came to theater And certainly the warning came to Pharaoh's people They rejected all our Communications So we overtook them After the manner of Almighty Powerful one Are the unbelievers Of yours Better than these Or is there an exemption For you in the scriptures Or do they say The host allied together To help each other Soon shall the hosts Be routed And they shall turn their backs Nay, the hour Is their promised time And the hour shall be most Grievous and bitter Surely the guilty Are in error And distress On the day when they shall be Dragged upon their faces To the fire Taste the touch of hell Surely we have created Everything According to a measure And our command Is but one As the twinkling of an eye And certainly we have Already destroyed the likes Of you But is there anyone Who will mind And everything they have done In the writings And everything Small and great is written down Surely those Who guard against evil Shall be in gardens And rivers In the seat of honour With the most powerful king End of Surah 54 Surah 55 Of the Holy Quran Translated by محمد الشيكر This Libro Vox Recording is in the public domain Surah 55 The beneficent Ar-Rahman Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful The beneficent Allah Tought the Quran He created man Tought him The sun and the moon Follow a reckoning And the herbs and the trees Do prostrate to him And the heaven He raised it high And he made the balance That you may not be Inordinate In respect of the measure And keep up the balance With equity And do not make the measure Deficient He has set it for living creatures Therein is fruit and palms Having cheese Clusters And the grain With its husk and fragrance Which then of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny He created man From dry clay Like earthen vessels And he created The gin of a flame Of fire Which then of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Lord of the east And Lord of the west Which then of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny He has made the two seas To flow freely So that they meet Together And then them is a barrier Which they cannot pass Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny There come forth from them pearls Both large and small Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny And his are the ships And the sea like mountains Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Everyone on it Must pass away And there will endure Forever the person Of your Lord The Lord of glory and honour Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord All those who are in the heavens And the earth Ask of him Every moment he is In a state of glory Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Soon will we apply Ourselves to you All you two armies Which then Of the bounties Which you deny Or assembly of the jinn And the men If you are able to pass Through the regions of the heavens And the earth Then pass through You cannot pass through But with authority Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny The flames of fire Then you will not Be able to defend yourselves Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny And when the heaven Is rent a sander And then becomes red Like red hide Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny And when the man Nor jinny Shall be asked about his sin Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny The guilty shall be Recognized by their marks So they shall be Seized by the forelocks And the feet Which then Of the bounties And the hell Which the guilty called alai Round about Shall they go between it And hot boiling water Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny And for him Who fears to stand before his Lord Are two gardens Which then Of the bounties Having in them Various kinds Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny In both of them Are two founties Flowing Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny In both of them Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Reclining on beds The inner coverings Of which are Of silk brocade And the fruits of the two gardens Shall be within reach Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny In your eyes Before them Neither man nor jinn Shall have touched them Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny As though they were Rubies and pearls Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny And besides these Two are two other gardens Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Both in climbing To blackness Which then Of the bounties In both of them Are two springs Gushing forth Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord In both are fruits And palms And palm granites Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny In them are goodly Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Pure ones Confined to the pavilions Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Man has not touched them Before them nor jinn Which then Of the bounties Reclining on green cushions And beautiful carpets Which then Of the bounties Of your Lord Will you deny Blessed be the name of your Lord The Lord of Glory and Honor End of Sura 55 Sura 56 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This LibroVox Recording Is in the public domain Sura 56 The event Al-Waqaa Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful When the great event comes to pass There is no belying It's coming to pass Abazing When the earth Shall be shaken With a severe shaking And the mountains Shall be made to crumble With an awful crumbling So that They shall be As a scattered dust And you shall be Three swords Then as to the companions Of the right hand How happy are the companions How happy are the companions Of the right hand And as to the companions Of the left hand How rich are the companions Of the left hand And the foremost Are the foremost These are They who are drawn Now to Allah In the gardens of bliss A numerous company From among the first And a few from among The latter On thrones decorated Reclining on them Facing one another Round about them Shall go youth Never altering In age With goblets and jewers And a cup of pure drink They shall not Be affected With headache thereby Nor shall they get Exhausted And fruits such as They choose And the flesh of foul Such as they desire And pure beautiful ones The like of the hidden Pearls A reward for what They use to do They shall not hear The ring then or Sinful discourse Except the word Peace And the companions Of the right hand How happy are the companions Of the right hand Amid thornless Looty trees And banana trees With fruits One above another And extended shade And water flowing Constantly Neither intercepted Nor forbidden And exalted Thrones Surely we have made them To grow into a new Growth. Then we have Made them versions Loving equals In age. For the sake of the companions Of the right hand A numerous company From among the first And a numerous company From among the last And those of the left hand How rich are those Of the left hand In hot wind And boiling water And the shade of black smoke Neither cool nor Honorable Surely they were Before that Made to live in ease And plenty And persisted In the great violation And they used to say What? When we die And have become dust and bones Shall we then indeed Be raised Or our fathers of yore Say the first and the last Shall most surely Be gathered together For the appointed hour Of an own day And call it a lie Most surely Eat of a tree of zakum And fill your bellies With it. Then drink Over it of boiling water And drink As drinks the thirsty camel This is their entertainment On the day Of requital We have created you Why do you not Then ascend Have you considered the seed Is it you That create it Or are we the creators We have ordained death Among you And we are not to be overcome In order that we may bring In your place The likes of you And make you grow into What you know not And certainly You know the first growth Why do you not Then mind Have you considered What you saw Is it you that cause it to grow Or are we the causers Of growth If we pleased We should have certainly Made it broken down into pieces Then would you begin To lament Surely we are burdened With death We are deprived Have you considered The water which you drink Is it you That send it down from the clouds Or are we the senders If we pleased We would have made it salty Why do you not Then give thanks Have you considered The fire which you strike Is it you that produce The trees for it Or are we the producers We have made it a reminder And an advantage For the wayfarers Of the desert Therefore Glorify the name of your lord The great But nay I swear By the falling of stars And most surely It is a very great oath If you only knew Most surely it is An honoured Quran In a book that is protected None shall touch it save The purified ones A revelation By the lord of the worlds Do you then hold This announcement In contempt And to give it The lie you make Your means of Subsistence Why is it not Then that when its soul Comes up to the throat And you at that time Look on And we are nearer To it than you But you do not see Then why is it not If you are not held under Authority That you send it Not back If you are truthful Then If he is one of those Drawn nay to Allah Then happiness And bounty And the garden of bliss And if he is one of those On the right hand Then peace to you From those on the right hand And if he is One of the rejecters The airing ones He shall have an entertainment Of boiling water And burning in hell Most surely This is a certain truth Therefore Glorify the name of Your lord The great End of Surah 56 Surah 57 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovox recording Is in the public domain Surah 57 The Iron Revealed at Madina In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Whatever is in the heavens And the earth Declare the glory of Allah And he is the mighty The wise His is the kingdom And the heavens And the earth He gives life And causes death And he has power Over all things He is the first And the lost And the ascendant Over all And the knower Of hidden things And he is cognizant Of all things He knows that which Goes deep down into the earth And that which Comes forth out of it And that which Comes down from the heaven And that which goes up Into it And he is with you Wherever you are And Allah sees what you do His is the kingdom Of the heavens and the earth And to Allah And all affairs Returned He causes the night to enter Upon the day And causes the day to enter Upon the night And he is cognizant Of what is in the hearts Believe in Allah And his messenger And spend out of what He has made you to be successors Of For those of you who believe In great reward And what reason Have you that you should not Believe in Allah And the messenger calls on you That you may believe in your lord And indeed He has made a covenant With you If you are believers He it is Who sends down clear Communication Upon his servant And brings you forth From utter darkness Into light And most surely Allah is kind Merciful to you And what reason Have you that you should not spend In Allah's way And Allah's is the inheritance Of the heavens and the earth Not alike among You are those who spent Before the victory And fought They are more exalted In rank Than those who spent And fought afterwards And Allah has promised good To all And Allah is aware of what you do Who is there That will offer to Allah A good gift So he will double it for him And he shall have an excellent reward On that day You will see the faithful Men And the faithful women Their light running before them And on their right hand Good news for you today Gardens beneath Which rivers flow To abide therein That is the grand achievement On the day When the hypocritical men And the hypocritical women Will say to those who believe Wait for us You may have light from your light It shall be said Turn back and seek a light Then separation Would be brought about Between them With a wall having a door in it As for the inside of it There shall be mercy in it And as for the outside of it Before it there shall be Punishment They will cry out to them Where we not with you They shall say But you caused yourself To fall into temptation And you waited and doubted And then Desires deceived you Till the threatened punishment Of Allah came While the harsh deceiver Deceived you about Allah So today Ransom shall not be accepted From you Nor from those who disbelieved Your abode is the fire It is your friend and evil Is the resort Has not the time yet Come for those who believe That their hearts should be Humble for the remembrance Of Allah And what has come down of the truth And that they should not Be like those who were Given the book before But the time became prolonged To them so their hearts Were not hardened And most of them are transgressors Know that Allah Gives life to the earth After it's death Indeed we have made The communications clear To you that you may Understand Surely as for the charitable Men and the charitable Women And those who set apart For Allah a goodly portion Shall be doubled for them And they shall have a noble reward And as for those Who believe in Allah And His messengers These it is That are the truthful And the faithful ones In the sight of their Lord They shall have the reward And their light And as for those who disbelieve And reject our communications These are the inmates Of the hell Know that this world's life Is only sport and play And gaiety And boasting among yourselves And avying In the multiplication Of wealth and children Like the rain Who's causing the vegetation To grow Pleases the husband men Then it withers away So that you will see A yellow Then it becomes dried up And broken down And in the hereafter Is a severe chastisement And also forgiveness From Allah and His pleasure And this world's life Is note but means Of deception Hassan to forgiveness From your Lord And to a garden The extensiveness of which Extensiveness of the heaven And the earth It is prepared for those Who believe in Allah And His messengers That is the grace of Allah He gives it to whom He pleases And Allah is the Lord Of mighty grace No evil befalls On the earth Nor in your own souls But it is in a book Before we bring it into Existence Surely that is easy to Allah So that you may not grieve For what has escaped you Nor be exultant At what He has given you And Allah Does not love any arrogant Boaster Those who are Negardly and enjoying Negardliness on men And whoever turns back Than surely Allah Is He Who is the Self-sufficient the praised Certainly We sent our messengers With clear arguments And sent down with them The book and the balance That men may conduct Themselves with equity And we have made The ire Wherein Is great violence And advantages to men And that Allah may know Who helps him and his messengers In the secret Surely Allah Is a strong mighty And certainly We sent Nooh and Ibrahim And we gave to their offspring The gift of prophecy And the book So there are among them Those who go right And most of them are transgressors Then we made Our messengers In their footsteps And we sent Isa Son of Maryam Afterwards and we gave him The injeel And we put in the hearts Of those who followed him Kindness and mercy And as for Monkri They innovated it We did not prescribe It to them Only to seek Allah's pleasure But they did not observe With it With its due observance So we gave to those Of them who believed their reward And most of them Are transgressors O you who believe Be careful of your duty To Allah And believe in his messenger He will give you two Portions of his mercy And make for you a light With which you will walk And forgive you And Allah is forgiving Merciful So that the followers of the book May know that they do not Control out of the grace Of Allah And the grace is in Allah's hand He gives it to whom He pleases And Allah is the Lord of mighty grace End of Surah 57