In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
[1-2] Allah's "Judgment" has come:1 so do not clamor for hastening it; He is free from every defect, and exalted high above the shirk that they are practicing.2 He sends down by His command through His angels the Spirit3 on that one of His servants whom He chooses,4 (bidding), “warn the people that there is no other deity than I. Therefore, fear Me.”5
[4-9] He created Man from an insignificant sperm-drop, and behold, by and by he became a manifest disputant.7 He has created cattle, which provide you with clothing and food, and there are other benefits also for you in them; they look pleasant when you drive them to the pasture in the morning and bring them home in the evening. They carry your burdens to far-off lands, which you could not reach without painful toil. Indeed your Lord is All-Compassionate and All-Merciful. He has created horses, mules and donkeys so that you may ride them, and they may add splendor to your life. He creates for you many other things, of which you have no knowledge at all.8 Allah has taken upon Himself to show the Right Way, when there exist crooked ways too.9 He would have guided all of you aright, if He had so willed.10
[10-11] It is He, Who sends down for you water from the sky, which provides drinking water for you and brings forth fodder for your cattle. And thereby He grows for you crops and olives and date-palms and vines and different kinds of many other fruits. Surely there is a great Sign in this for those people who ponder.
[12-13] He has subjected to your service the day and the night and the sun and the moon: likewise all the stars are subjected by His Command. In this there are many Signs for those who make use of their common sense. And in the things of different colors He has created for you in the Earth, there is indeed a Sign for those who learn lessons from them.
[14] It is He Who has subjected the sea to your service so that you may get fresh flesh from it to eat and bring out of it articles of ornament, which you wear, and you see that the ship sails her course through it. He has done all this so that you may seek of His bounty11 and show gratitude to Him.
[15-16] He has driven mountains firmly into the earth lest it should turn away from its usual course along with you:12 He has caused rivers to flow and made natural ways13 so that you may be directed aright. He has placed landmarks14 to direct people, and by stars, too, they are directed aright.15
[17-19] Is, then, He, Who creates, like those who create nothing?16 Do you not understand even this much? If you try to reckon up Allah's blessings, you cannot count them. Indeed, He is Forgiving and Compassionate17 though He knows all that you conceal and all that you reveal.18
[20-21] And the other beings, whom the people invoke, create nothing; nay, they are themselves created. They are dead, not living, and they do not know at all when they shall again be raised to life.19
[22-23] Your Deity is One Allah, but the hearts of those, who do not believe in the Hereafter, are given to denial, and they are puffed up with pride.20 Surely Allah has full knowledge of all their deeds, both secret and open. He does not like those people, who are puffed up with pride.
[24-26] And21 when they are asked, "What is it that your Lord has sent down?" they say these are mere fairy tales of the ancients.22 They say such things so that they should bear the full brunt of their own burdens on the Day of Resurrection together with some of the burdens of those whom they are leading astray in their ignorance. Behold! what a heavy responsibility they are taking on themselves! Many of those who have gone before them also contrived such cunning devices to defeat the Truth, but behold! Allah smote the edifice of their evil designs at its foundations and its roof fell down upon their heads from above them, and the scourge overtook them from the direction they little dreamed that it would come.
[27-29] Then on the Day of Resurrection Allah will disgrace and degrade them. He will say to them: "Now where are My partners concerning whom you used to dispute (with the truthful)?"Those,23 to whom Knowledge had been given in the world, will say, "Today there is ignominy and misery for the disbelievers." Yes24 , this is for those disbelievers, who, while they are still engaged in wronging themselves, shall surrender themselves when seized by the angels,25 saying, "We were doing nothing wrong at all." The angels will retort, "What, dare you deny this! Allah is fully aware of what you were doing. Now, go and enter the gates of Hell, where you shall abide for ever."26 The fact is that a very miserable abode it is for the haughty ones.
[30-32] On the other hand, when the God-fearing people are asked, "What is it that has been sent by your Lord?" they say, "It is the best thing that has been sent down."27 There is good for those righteous people who do good works in this world, and far better is their abode in the Hereafter." Blessed indeed is the dwelling place for the pious people. There will be gardens for their permanent residence into which they will enter: canals will be flowing underneath them: above all, they will find there everything as they would desire:28 this is the reward for those pious people whose souls are received in a pure state, by the angels, who welcome them, saying, "Peace be on you: enter into Paradise as the reward of your good deeds."
[33-34] O Muhammad! are these people still waiting, though now nothing has been left but that angels should come or your Lord's judgment be passed on them?29 Many people before them behaved audaciously like them, and had to take the consequence: it was not Allah Who was unjust to them but they were unjust to themselves. In the end their evil deeds brought upon them the consequences and that very thing, they used to scoff at, overwhelmed them.
[35-37] The mushriks say, "Had Allah willed, neither we nor our forefathers would have worshiped any other than Allah nor made anything unlawful without His will."30 Such excuses were put forward also by those who went before them.31 Have the Messengers any more responsibility than to convey the Message clearly? Accordingly, we sent to every community a Messenger, saying, "Worship Allah and keep away from the taghut."32 After that Allah showed guidance to some of them, while deviation took hold of others.33 So, roam about in the earth and behold what has been the end of the rejectors of the Messengers.34 O Muhammad! howsoever desirous you may be of their guidance, (know) that Allah does not show guidance to those whom He lets go astray, and such people have no helpers.
[38] They solemnly swear by God with their most sacred oaths that "Allah will never raise him who once is dead".Why will He not raise? It is a promise He has made binding on Himself, but most people do not know it.
[39-40] And It must be fulfilled so that He may reveal to them that thing about which they are differing, and that the disbelievers might know that they were liars.35 (As regards its possibility.) when We desire to bring a thing into existence, We need only say, "Be", and it is there.36
[41-42] As for those, who after persecution, left their homes for the sake of Allah, We will give them a good abode in this world, but the reward in the Next World is far better.37 Would that those who have borne oppression with fortitude, and are performing their mission with full trust in their Lord, knew (what a happy end awaits them!)
[43-44] O Muhammad! whenever We sent before you Messengers to whom We revealed Our Messages, they were but human beings.38 You (people of Makkah) may inquire from the people who possess Admonition39 if you do not know this yourselves. We sent the former Messengers with clear Signs and Books, and now We have sent the Admonition to you (O Muhammad!), so that you should make plain and explain to the people the teachings of the Book which has been sent for them;40 and so that they (themselves) should ponder over it.
[45-47] What! Do those people, who are practicing evil devices (to oppose the Message), feel fully secure from the danger that Allah will cause them to sink into the earth? Or that He will bring scourge upon them from whence they little suspect that it will come, or that He will seize them all of a sudden while they are roaming about fearlessly, or that He will seize them when they themselves are on the alert about the impending danger? These people have no power to frustrate His plans. The fact is that your Lord is very Lenient and Compassionate.
