["What are these idolaters asking one another about, after Allah has sent His Messenger (peace be upon him) to them?","They are asking each other about the great news. It is this Qur’ān that has been revealed to their Messenger, which contains the news of the resurrection.","This Qur’ān that they differ in how they should describe it: is it sorcery, poetry, fortune-telling or the tales of old?","The matter is not as they claim. These rejectors of the Qur’ān will soon know the evil outcome of their rejection.","Then, that will be reemphasised for them.","Did I not make the earth spread out evenly for them so that it is fit for them to live on?","And did I not put mountains on it like pegs to stop it from shaking?","And O people! I created you of different types: some of you are males while others are females.","And I made your sleep the end point of your activeness, so that you may rest.","And I made the night a cover for you with its darkness, like a garment that you cover your private parts with.","And I made the day a field for earning and finding provision.","And I made above you seven, solid skies, perfect in their creation.","And I made the sun an extremely bright and hot lamp.","And I sent some clouds for which the time has come to pour down with abundant rain.","So that through it I can extract different types of grains and crops.","And extract gardens that entwine with one another due to the closeness of the branches of their trees.","After Allah mentioned these blessings that prove His power, He followed it up with mention of the resurrection and the Day of Judgement, because the one who is capable of creating these blessings is also capable of resurrecting the dead and taking them to account. He says: Indeed, the day of separation between the creation was appointed and fixed on a time that will not change.","On that day, the angel will blow into the horn the second time, upon which, O people, you shall come in groups.","And the sky will open up; it will have gaps like open doors.","And the mountains will be made to move until they become like dispersed dust particles; becoming like a mirage.","Indeed, hell is watchful, lying in wait.","For the oppressors, as a point of return they will be made to return to.","Wherein they shall stay for endless ages and years.","They will not experience cold breezes in it that will cool them from the heat of the blaze, nor will they taste any drink that they will enjoy.","They will only taste extremely hot water, and the flowing pus of the people of hell.","As a requital in accordance to the disbelief and deviance they were on.","Indeed, in the world, they did not fear the Allah taking them to account in the afterlife, because they did not bring faith in the resurrection. So if they had feared the resurrection, they would have brought faith in Allah and performed good deeds.","And they vehemently rejected My verses I revealed to My Messenger.","I recorded and counted each of their deeds; they are all written in their books of deeds.","O transgressors! So endure this everlasting punishment; I will not increase you except in punishment upon your punishment.","Indeed, for those who are mindful of their Lord by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things he has not allowed, there is a point of success they will succeed on, by achieving the Paradise they sought.","It is full of gardens and grapevines.","And women of similar ages.","And full glasses of wine.","In Paradise, they will not hear any false speech, nor lies. Neither will they lie to one another.","All that will be from what Allah will give to them in graciousness and benevolence, and it will be sufficient for them.","He is the Lord of the heavens, the earth and whatever is between them; the benevolent of the world and the afterlife. No one on earth or in the heavens is able to question Him except when He gives them permission.","On the day when Gabriel and the angels will stand in rows, not speaking to intercede on behalf of anyone except whom the Benevolent grants them permission to intercede for, and has made a straight statement i.e. the statement of oneness of Allah.","That which has been described to you is the day in which there is no doubt regarding its occurrence. So whoever wishes salvation on it from the punishment of Allah, he should take the path to it through performing good deeds that will please his Lord.","O people! Indeed, I have warned you of an impending punishment which will occur on the day when a person will see what deeds he sent forth in the world, and the disbeliever will say, wishing safety from the punishment: “If only I had become dust like the animals!” when it is said to them on the Day of Judgement: “Become dust”.","Allah takes an oath on the angels who pull out the souls of the disbelievers with severity and harshness.","And He also takes an oath on the angels who gently remove the souls of the believers with ease and smoothness.","He also takes an oath on the angels who float from the heavens to the earth, by the command of Allah.","And He also takes an oath on the angels who compete with one another to carry out the command of Allah.","He also takes an oath on the angels who execute the decree of Allah that He has commanded them to, i.e. the angels appointed to the deeds of the servants. He takes an oath on all that, that He will definitely resurrect them for accounting and requital.","On the day when the earth will tremble upon the first blowing of the horn.","The second blow will follow it.","The hearts of some people will be fearful on that day.","The effects of humiliation will be apparent on their faces.","They would say: “Will we be returned to life after we have died?”","“When we will become decomposed, empty bones, will we be returned then?!”","They say: “If we are returned, that return will be a loss, and the person returning will be defrauded.”","The matter of the resurrection is easy. It will only be a single scream from the angel appointed to blow.","Then suddenly, everyone will be alive on the face of the earth, after they were dead within it.","O Messenger! Has the news of Moses, his Lord and enemy, Pharaoh, come to you?","When his Lord may He be glorified called out to him at the blessed valley of Tuwa.","Among the things He said to him was: “Go to Pharaoh; indeed, he has trespassed the limits of oppression and arrogance.”","“Then say to him: “O Pharaoh! Do you want to purify yourself from disbelief and sins?”","“I will guide you to your Lord who has created you and provided for you so that you can fear Him and act according to His pleasure, together with refraining from things that cause His wrath.”","Moses (peace be upon him) then showed him the great miracle that proved he was a Messenger from his Lord, i.e. the Hand and the Staff.","Pharaoh did not do anything except reject these signs, and disobeyed the instruction Moses (peace be upon him) gave to him.","He then turned away from bringing faith in what Moses had brought.","And turned his attention to mobilising his armies to overpower Moses. He called out to his people, saying:","“I am your highest Lord; you are not to be obedient to anyone except me.”","So Allah seized him and punished him in the world by drowning him in the sea, and He will punish him in the afterlife by entering him into the severest punishment.","Indeed, in My punishing of Pharaoh in the world and the afterlife, there is admonition for the one who fears Allah, because it is he who benefits from the admonitions.","O rejectors of the resurrection! Is your origination, or the origination of the heavens that He has created, harder for Allah?","He raised the peak of the heaven vertically, and made it smooth: there is no break, crack or defect in it.","And He darkened its night when the sun set, while manifesting its light when it rose.","As for the earth after He created the heavens, He spread it out and placed within it its benefits.","He extracted water from it in the form of flowing springs, and made plants grow on it which the livestock graze.","And He made the mountains stand firm on the earth.","O people! All that is for your benefit, and for the benefit of your livestock. So whoever created all that, is not incapable of recreating you anew.","So when the second blowing will come, which will cover everything with its terror, and the judgement will occur.","On the day when it will come, the human will remember what deeds he sent forth: whether good or bad.","And hell will be brought and unveiled clearly for all to see.","As for the one who transgressed the limits into deviance.","And gave priority to the temporary worldly life over the everlasting afterlife.","Then indeed, the hellfire is his abode he will take shelter towards.","40 & 41. And as for the one who feared his standing before his Lord and stopped himself from following his desires that were made impermissible by Allah, then Paradise is his abode he will take shelter towards.","40 & 41. And as for the one who feared his standing before his Lord and stopped himself from following his desires that were made impermissible by Allah, then Paradise is his abode he will take shelter towards.","O Messenger! These rejectors of the resurrection ask you: “When will the Hour occur?”","You do not have any knowledge regarding it that you can mention to them; nor is it befitting of your duty to, because your duty is only to prepare for it.","The total knowledge of the Hour is with your Lord alone.","You are only a warner to the one who fears the Hour, because he is the one who benefits from your warning.","It is as if on the day they see the Hour for themselves, they will not have remained in their worldly lives except for a single evening or morning.","The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) frowned and turned away.","Because of the arrival of ‘Abdullah ibn Umm Maktūm who came asking for guidance. He was blind, and had come when the Messenger (peace be upon him) was busy with the seniors of the idolaters, hoping they would be guided.","O Messenger! What do you know, maybe this blind man may be purified of his sins?","Or that he may take heed of the advices he hears from you and benefit from them?","As for those who feel they have no need to bring faith in what you have brought, due to the wealth they possess.","You persevere behind them and are attentive to them.","What blame will there be on you if he is not purified of his sins by not repenting to Allah?","As for the one who comes to you running, searching for goodness.","And he fears his Lord.","You are preoccupied from him with others i.e. the senior idolaters.","It should not be like that; it is only admonition and a reminder for those who pay attention.","So whoever wishes to remember Allah should remember Him, and take heed of what is in this Qur’ān.","Because this Qur’ān is in blessed scrolls, with the angels.","They are raised on a high place, pure; no dirt or filth reaches them.","And they are in the hands of Messengers among the angels.","They are honourable in the eyes of their Lord, frequent performers of goodness and obedience.","The disbelieving human is cursed; how severe is his disbelief in Allah!","What substance did Allah create him from, that he has the right to display arrogance on earth and disbelieve in Him?!","He created him from a small amount of fluid, and managed his creation in stages.","Then after these stages, He made the exit from his mother’s belly easy for him.","Then, after spending the amount of life decreed for him, Allah caused death upon him and made a grave for him wherein he remains until he is resurrected.","Then, when He wishes, He will resurrect him for accounting and requital.","It is not like this disbeliever imagines: that he has fulfilled the rights of Allah upon him, because he has not fulfilled the obligatory actions Allah put upon him.","So the human who disbelieves in Allah should look at the food he eats: how did he come to acquire it?","It originates from the rain descending from the sky with force and in abundance.","Then, I split open the earth, so it springs forth with plants.","I then make grains grow on it, i.e. wheat, corn etc.","And I make fresh grapes and fodder grow on it, so it can be feed for your livestock.","And I also make olives and date palms grow on it.","I also make abundant gardens and trees grow on it.","And I make fruits grow on it, together with things your livestock graze.","For your benefit, and the benefit of your livestock.","So when the great shriek will come that will deafen the ears i.e. the second blowing.","On that day a person will run from his brother.","And he will run from his parents.","And he will run from his wife and children.","Each one of them will be in a state where he will be preoccupied from them due to the extreme anxiety on that day.","The faces of the fortunate ones that day will be bright.","Laughing in happiness due to what Allah has prepared for them out of His mercy.","And the faces of the wretched people will have dust on them on that day.","Darkness will come over them.","Those described above in that state will be the ones who combined disbelief and transgression.","When the mass of the sun is gathered and its light vanishes.","When the stars fall one after the other and their light is taken away.","When the mountains are moved from their places.","When pregnant she-camels, which were their most valuable wealth, are neglected by being abandoned by their owners.","When wild animals are gathered with human beings on one plain.","When the seas are lit until they become a fire.","When souls are joined with their likeness. A sinner will be joined with a sinner and a pious person will be joined with a pious person.","When the girl buried alive is asked by Allah.","For what crime were you killed by the person who killed you?","When the servants’ books of deeds are spread open, so that each person can read his book of deeds.","When the sky is stripped like how the skin is stripped away from a sheep.","When the Fire is lit.","When Paradise is brought near to those who are Mindful.","When that occurs, every soul will know what actions it sent forward for that day.","Allah took an oath by the stars that are hidden until they emerge at night.","That run in their orbits and disappear when dawn rises, like a gazelle that goes into its den i.e. its home.","He took an oath by the first part of the night when it approaches, and the last part when it recedes.","He took an oath by the morning when its light emerges.","The Qur’ān that is revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him) is Allah’s speech that was conveyed by a trusted angel, Gabriel (peace be upon him), whom Allah entrusted it to.","One who possess strength and great rank in the sight of the Lord of the Throne, may He be glorified.","He is obeyed by the inhabitants of the heavens and trusted in the revelation that he conveys.","Muhammad (peace be upon him), who is in your company and whose intellect, trustworthiness and truthfulness you know, is not insane as you slanderously claim.","Your companion had seen Gabriel in the form that he was created in the clear horizon of the sky.","Your companion is not miserly with you by not conveying what he was instructed to convey to you, nor does he take any reward like how fortune-tellers take.","This Qur’ān is not the speech of a satan distanced from Allah’s mercy.","So which path will you tread to deny that it is from Allah after all these evidence?!","The Qur’ān is only a reminder and counsel to the jinn and mankind.","For those of you who wish to be steadfast on the path of truth.","You can only will to remain steadfast or do anything else if Allah, the Lord of all created things, wills that.","When the sky will split apart because of the angels descending from it.","When the stars fall one after the other and are scattered.","When the seas are opened into one another and they merge.","When the soil of graves is turned over to resurrect the dead in them.","At that time, every soul will know the actions it sent forward and those it left behind and did not do.","O man who has rejected his Lord! What has made you go against the instruction of your Lord when He gave you respite and did not punish you quickly, as a favour from Him?!","The One Who gave you existence after you were non-existent, and Who proportioned and balanced your limbs.","In whatever form He wished to create you, He created you. He favoured you as He did not create you in the form of a donkey, monkey, dog or other form.","O you who are deceived, the matter is not as you thought! In fact, you deny the day of recompense and do not work for it.","Over you are angels who record your deeds.","Noble in Allah’s sight, scribes who write down your deeds.","They know of every action you do and they write it down.","Those who do abundant acts of good and obedience will be in everlasting bliss on the day of judgment.","Those who committed iniquity will be in a fire that will be burned over them.","They will enter it on the day of recompense and suffer from its heat.","They will never be absent from it. Instead they will remain in it forever.","O Messenger! What will tell you what the day of justice is?","Again, what will tell you what the day of justice is?","A day when no one will be able to benefit anyone. The entire matter on that day will belong to Allah alone, to deal as He wishes, and not to anyone besides Him.","Destruction and loss be for those who give short measure.","They are the ones who, when they measure for themselves from others, they take their full right without any reduction.","But when they measure or weigh for people they reduce the measurement and weight. This was the practice of the people of Madinah at the time the Prophet (peace be on him) migrated to them.","Do these people who do this evil act not know that they will resurrected before Allah?!","For the reckoning and recompense on a day that is great because of the trials and horrors it contains.","The day when people will stand before the Lord of all creation, for the reckoning.","The matter is not as you thought - that there is no resurrection after death. The book of the people of iniquity from amongst the disbelievers and hypocrites will be in loss in the lower earth.","O Messenger! What will tell you what Sijjin is?!","Their book is written and will not vanish. Nor will there be any increase or decrease in it.","Destruction and loss on that day will be for those who deny.","Those who deny the day of recompense in which Allah will give His servants the recompense of the actions they did in the world.","None denies that day except every person who transgresses Allah’s limits and commits abundant sins.","When My verses revealed to My messenger are recited to him, he says: These are stories of the earlier nations and are not from Allah.","The matter is not as these deniers thought. Instead, the sins they used to commit has dominated and covered their minds and they therefore have not seen the truth with their hearts.","Indeed, they will be prevented from seeing their Lord on the day of judgment.","Then they will enter the Fire, to suffer from its heat.","Then on the Day of Judgement it will be said to them in rebuke and censure: This punishment that you received is what you used to deny in the world when your messenger told you about it.","The matter is not as you thought - that there will be no reckoning or recompense. The book of the people of obedience will be in Illiyyun.","O Messenger! What will tell you what Illiyyun is?!","Their book is written and will not vanish. Nor will there be any increase or decrease in it.","This book is witnessed by the angels brought near in every heaven.","Those who do an abundance of good deeds will be in everlasting bliss on the day of judgment.","On decorated couches looking at their Lord, and at everything delightful and pleasing to their souls.","If you see them, you will see in their faces the effect of luxury; in their beauty and splendour.","Their servants will give them wine from sealed containers to drink.","It will give off the fragrance of musk until its very end. For this noble reward the competitors must compete, by doing what pleases Allah and leaving what angers Him.","This sealed drink will be mixed from the spring of Tasnim.","This is a spring in the highest part of Paradise, from which those brought near will drink purely and the rest of the believers will drink from it mixed with other drinks.","Those who committed wrong by the disbelief they held used to mockingly laugh at those who had faith.","When they passed by the believers they would wink at one another in ridicule and amusement.","When they returned to their families they would go back happy with their acts of disbelief and ridicule of the believers.","When they saw the Muslims, they would say: These people are astray from the path of truth, as they abandoned the religion of their forefathers.","Allah did not appoint them to guard their deeds so that they could make this statement of theirs.","On the Day of Judgment, those who have faith in Allah will laugh at the disbelievers just as the disbelievers used to laugh at them in the world.","On decorated couches they will look at the everlasting bliss that Allah prepared for them.","The disbelievers have been given the humiliating punishment as recompense of the actions they did in the world.","When the sky ruptures because of the angels descending from it.","And listens submissively to its Lord, as it rightly should.","When the earth is stretched by Allah as leather is stretched.","And throws out the treasures and the dead in it and becomes rid of them.","And listens submissively to its Lord, as it rightly should.","O man, you are either doing good or evil and you will meet it on the Day of Judgment, so that Allah can give you the recompense for that.","Since Allah mentioned man’s action in brief, he details the condition of those who did action on the day of judgment by saying: As for him who is given his book of deeds in his right hand.","He will have an easy reckoning by Allah and his actions will be presented to Him without his being taken to task.","And he will return to his family delighted.","As for him who is given his book in his left hand behind his back.","He will call out for destruction to himself.","And he will enter the fire of Hell to suffer from its heat.","In the world he was amongst his family rejoicing with his acts of disbelief and sins.","He thought that he will not come back to life after death.","Indeed, Allah will bring him back to life just as He created him the first time. His Lord was watchful of his condition. Nothing of that was hidden from Him and He will give him the recompense for his actions.","Allah took an oath by the redness that is in the horizon after the sun sets.","And He took an oath by the night and what is gathered therein.","And the moon when it comes together and is complete becoming a full moon.","You, O man, will mount one state after another from a drop, then a clot, then a piece of flesh, then life, then death and then resurrection.","What is the matter with these disbelievers who do not have faith in Allah and the last day?!","When the Qur’ān is recited to them, they do not prostrate to their Lord?!","In fact, those who disbelieve reject what their messengers brought to them.","Allah knows well what is contained in their hearts. Nothing of their actions is hidden from Him.","Tell them, O Messenger, about a painful punishment that awaits them.","Except those who have faith in Allah and do good deeds, for them is a reward that will never terminate: Paradise.","Allah took an oath by the sky that contains the phases of the sun, moon etc.","He took an oath by the day of judgment in which He promised to gather all creation.","He took an oath by every witness, like the prophet who is a witness over his nation, and every thing witnessed, like the nation that is a witness over its prophet.","Those who made a huge crevice in the ground are cursed.","In which they lit a fire and threw the believers into it alive.","While they sat around that crevice filled with fire.","They were witnesses to the torture and ill-treatment they meted out to the believers, as they were present there.","These disbelievers found no fault in the believers except that they had faith in Allah, the Mighty, Whom none can overpower, the One Praised in everything.","The One to Whom alone belongs control of the heavens and control of the earth. He is aware of everything. No affair of His servants is hidden from Him.","Those who tortured the believing men and women with the fire in order to turn them away from having faith in Allah alone, and then did not repent to Allah from their sins, for them on the day of judgment is the punishment of Hell and for them is the punishment of the Fire that will burn them, as a recompense for their burning the believers in the fire.","Those who have faith in Allah and do good deeds, for them will be gardens under whose palaces and trees rivers flow. That reward, which is prepared for them, is the supreme success that no other success comes close to.","The seizure of your Lord, O Messenger, of the wrongdoer - even if He gives his respite for a while - is forceful.","He begins the creation and the punishment and repeats them.","He is Forgiving of the sins of His servants who repent and He loves His allies who are Mindful.","Possessor of the Noble Throne.","Doer of the what He wills such as pardoning the sins of whoever He wills and punishing whoever He wills. There is none that can compel Him, may He be glorified.","Has the news of the forces who enlisted to combat and be an obstacle to the truth reached you, O Messenger?!","Pharaoh, and the Thamud, the people of Salih (peace be upon him).","The obstacle to the faith of these people is not that the incidents of the destruction of the nations who denied did not come to them. Instead, they deny what their messengers brought to them due to following desires.","Allah surrounds and keeps a record of their actions. Nothing of that misses him and He will give them the recompense for the same.","The Qur’ān is neither poetry nor rhyme as the deniers claim. Instead, it is a noble Qur’ān.","In a tablet that is protected against alteration and distortion, and decrease and increase.","Allah took an oath by the sky and He took an oath by the star that knocks at night.","O Messenger! What will tell you the status of this great star?!","It is the star that pierces the sky with its glowing light.","There is no soul except that Allah has assigned to it an angel to record its deeds for the reckoning on the day of judgment.","So let man reflect over what Allah created him from, so that Allah’s power and man’s inability becomes clear to him.","Allah created him from a spurting liquid that is split into the womb.","This liquid emerges from between the spinal column of a man and the bones of the chest.","He, may He be glorified - since He created him from that despised liquid - has the power to bring him back to life after death for the reckoning and recompense.","On the day when secrets will be tried and the intentions, beliefs etc. that the hearts conceal will be exposed, and the righteous will be distinguished from the corrupt.","On that day man will not have any power to protect himself from Allah’s punishment, nor any helper to assist him.","Allah took an oath by the sky that contains rain, because it comes down from its direction time after time.","He took an oath by the earth that cracks open to reveal the plants, fruit and trees in it.","This Qur’ān that is revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him) is a word that separates truth from falsehood, and fact from lie.","It is not a game and falsehood, but it is serious and the truth.","Those who deny what their messenger brought to them plot and scheme to reject and refute his call.","I too plot and scheme to make the religion victorious and to disprove falsehood.","So give respite, O Messenger, to these disbelievers. Give them respite for a short while, and do not seek to hasten their punishment and destruction.","Declare the transcendence of your Lord Who is High above His creation, by uttering His Name when you remember and revere Him.","The One Who created man in due proportion and balanced his stature.","The One Who determined for all created things their species, types and attributes and Who guided every creation to what is appropriate and suitable for it.","The One Who brought out from the earth what your animals graze on.","The He made it into dry blackish straw after it had been green and fresh.","I will teach you, O Messenger, the Qur’ān, and gather it in your chest so you do not forget it. So do not race with Gabriel in the recitation as you used to do with the desire that you do not forget it.","Except for what Allah wishes you to forget for some reason. He (may He be glorified) knows what is made public and what is hidden. Nothing of that is hidden from Him.","I will make it easy for you to do actions that please Allah and enter you into Paradise.","So give counsel to people with the Qur’ān that I reveal to you and remind them as long as the reminder is heard.","The one who fears Allah will pay heed to your counsel, because he is the one who benefits from counsel.","The disbeliever will keep away and alienate himself from the counsel, because he is the most wretched person in the afterlife as he will enter the Fire.","The one who will enter the great Fire of the afterlife to suffer and bear its heat forever.","Then he will remain forever in the Fire without dying therein and being relieved of the punishment he suffers from, and without living a good and decent life.","The one who purified himself from idolatry and sins has attained the objective.","Who remembered his Lord by the various forms of remembrance that He ordained. Who discharged the prayer in the required manner.","But, you give preference to the worldly life and prefer it over the afterlife despite the huge disparity between them.","The Hereafter is indeed, better and superior to the world and the enjoyments and pleasures it contains, and it is more lasting, because the bliss it contains does not ever end.","These instructions and stories that I mentioned to you are in the scriptures revealed before you.","These are the scriptures revealed to Abraham and Moses (peace be upon them).","Has the news of the day of judgment that will overwhelm people with its horrors come to you, O Messenger?!","People on the day of judgment will either be wretched or fortunate. The faces of the wretched will be humiliated and downcast.","Tired and strained due to the chains that they will be dragged by and the shackles that they will be tied with.","Those faces will enter a hot fire to suffer from its heat.","They will be given to drink from a spring with extremely hot water.","They will not have any food to nourish them besides the worst and most rotten type of food from a plant that is called shibriq, which becomes poisonous when it becomes dry.","It does not nourish the one who eats it nor does it satiate his hunger.","The faces of the fortunate on that day will display luxury, delight and happiness, because of the bliss they received.","Pleased with the righteous actions they did in the world, as they had found the reward of their actions stored up and multiplied.","In a Paradise elevated in position and rank.","In Paradise they will not hear any word of falsehood and futility, let alone hearing any prohibited word.","In this Paradise there are flowing springs that they will make flow and direct however they wish.","In it are high couches.","And cups laid out and ready for drinking.","In it are cushions packed closely to one another.","In it are carpets spread out here and there.","After Allah mentioned the disparity between the states of the wretched and the fortunate in the afterlife, He directed the sight of the disbelievers to what will show them the power of the Creator and the beauty of His creation, so that they can use this as evidence for faith in order to enter Paradise and become of the fortunate, by saying: Do they not look with reflection at the camels, how Allah created them and subjugated them to human beings?!","And at the sky, how He raised it so that it became a protected ceiling above them, that does not fall on them?!","And at the mountains, how He erected them and used them to make the earth stable so that it does not shake with the people?!","And at the earth, how He spread it out, and made it suitable for people to settle on?!","After He directed them to look at those things that show His Power, He directed His messenger, saying: So counsel, O Messenger, these people and warn them of Allah’s punishment. You are but one who reminds. You are only required to remind them. Guiding them to faith is in Allah's hands alone.","You have not been given control over them so that you can compel them to have faith.","But, those of them who turn away from faith and reject Allah and His messenger.","Allah will punish them on the Day of Judgement with the greatest punishment by entering them into Hell to remain there forever.","To Me alone is their return after their death.","Then it is My duty alone to call them to account for their actions. This is not for you or anyone besides you.","Allah may He be glorified takes an oath on the dawn.","And He takes an oath on the first ten nights of Dhul-Ḥijjah.","He also takes an oath on the odd and even of things.","And He takes an oath on the night when it arrives, continues and goes away. The complement of these oaths is: you will definitely be requited for your actions.","In any of the aforementioned, is there any oath that benefits the intelligent one?","O Messenger! Do you not see what your Lord did with the ‘Ād i.e. the people of Hud, when they rejected their Messenger?","The tribe of ‘Ād that traced to its forefather, the tall Iram.","The likes of which Allah never created in the cities.","And do you not see what your Lord did with the Thamūd i.e. the tribe of Saleh, who would carve the stones of the mountains, making houses out of them.","And do you not see what your Lord did to Pharaoh, who had pegs with which he punished the people?","All these people transgressed the limit in tyranny and oppression; each of them transgressed it in his land.","They caused an abundance of corruption due to spreading disbelief and sins.","So Allah made them suffer His severe punishment, and annihilated them off the earth.","O Messenger! Indeed, your Lord watches over and observes the actions of the people, so that He can requite whoever does good with Paradise, and whoever does evil with the hellfire.","Because the nations Allah destroyed were blessed with power and strength, Allah explains that blessing them with such is not proof of His being pleased with them. He says: As for the human, it is in his nature that when he is tested by his Lord and He favours him by blessing him with wealth, honour and offspring, he thinks that it is because of his nobility in the eyes of Allah. He says: “My Lord has favoured me because of me being worthy of being favoured.”","And as for when He tests him by restricting his sustenance, he thinks it is because of his insignificance in the eyes of his Lord. So he says: “My Lord has disgraced me.”","Never! It is not as this human thinks, that favouring is proof of Allah being pleased with His servant, and that misfortune is proof of the servant’s insignificance in the eyes of his Lord. Rather, the reality is that you do not show generosity towards the orphan from the sustenance Allah has provided you with.","Neither do any of you encourage the other in feeding the poor person who cannot find anything to consume.","You relentlessly devour the rights of the weak, i.e. the women and orphans, without consideration for its permissibility.","And you intensely love wealth, being miserly in spending it in the path of Allah, due to your greed of it.","These actions are not befitting of you. Remember when the earth will be moved vigorously and shaken.","And your Lord will come, O Messenger, to pass judgement between His servants, and the angels will also come arranged in rows.","And on that day, hell will be brought with it having seventy thousand reins, each rein being pulled by seventy thousand angels. On that day, the human will remember his shortcomings in the rights of Allah, but that remembrance on that day will not benefit him in the slightest, because it will be a Day of Requital, not action!","He will say out of intense regret: “If only I had sent forth good deeds for my life Hereafter, which is the real life.”","On that day no one will penalise like the penalising of Allah, because the penalising of Allah is most severe and lasting.","Neither will anyone bind in chains like His binding of the disbelievers in chains.","After Allah mentioned the requital of the disbelievers, He mentions the requital of the believers. He says: As for the soul of the believer, it will be told at the time of death and on the Day of Judgement: “O the soul contented with faith and good deeds!”","“Return to your Lord, pleased with Him because of the abundant reward you will receive, and with Him may He be glorified being pleased with you because of your good deeds.”","“Now enter along with My pious servants.”","“And enter with them into My Paradise, which I have prepared for them.”","Allah takes an oath on the sacred city i.e. Makkah Al-Mukarramah","O Messenger! It is permissible for you to do whatever you wish on the Day of the Conquest of Makkah, from capital punishment to those whom are deserving of it, to taking captive whomsoever deserves it.","And Allah takes an oath on the father of humanity, also taking an oath on the offspring reproduced from him.","Verily, I have created the human in tiredness and difficulty, because of the severities he experiences in the world.","Does the human think that when he sins, no one is in a position to be able to do anything to him, nor take retribution from him, even if it is his Lord who created him?","He says: “I spent a lot of wealth, heaped up.”","Does this person boastful over the wealth he has spent think that Allah does not see him? And that He will not take him to account over his wealth: how he earned it and where he spent it?","Did I not create eyes for him with which he can see?","And a tongue and lips with which he can speak?","And I made the paths of goodness and evils known to him.","He will be required to cross the valley that separates him from Paradise, which he will cross.","O Messenger! Do you know what the valley is that he has to cross, in order to enter Paradise?","It is to free a male or female slave.","Or to feed on a day of drought, in which food is scarce.","A child who has lost his father, whom he is related to.","Or a poor person who has no possessions.","Then he is required to be from those who have faith in Allah and advise each other to remain steadfast on act of obedience and refraining from sins, and bearing patience over difficulties, together with advising one another to show mercy to the servants of Allah.","Those are the people of the right.","As for those who disbelieve in My verses that were revealed to My Messenger, they are the people of the left.","A closed fire will be set upon them on the Day of Judgement, with which they will be punished.","Allah takes an oath on the sun and its rising after breaking onto the eastern horizon.","He also takes an oath on the moon when it follows the sun after it has set.","Allah also takes an oath on the day when it reveals whatever is on the face of the earth through its light.","And He also takes an oath on the night when it covers the face of the earth, darkening it.","And He takes an oath on the sky, taking an oath on its perfect creation.","He also takes an oath on the earth: the way it has been spread so that people can live on it.","He also takes an oath on each soul, with Allah having created it equally.","Then He made it understand - without teaching it - what was evil so it could be abstained from, and what was good so it could be implemented.","Verily, the one who has purified his soul by adorning it with virtuous characteristics and freeing it from evil traits, has succeeded.","And verily the one who has secretly thrust his soul into sins and disobedience, has lost.","After Allah mentions the loss of the one who thrust his soul secretly into sins, He mentions the Thamūd as an example of that, saying: The Thamūd rejected their Prophet Saleh due to their transgressing the limits in committing sins and disobedience.","When the most wretched among them stood up after his people has appointed him for the task.","The Messenger of Allah Saleh (peace be upon him) said to them: “Leave the camel of Allah alone; let it drink on its day and do not pursue it intending evil.”","But they rejected their Messenger with regards to the camel, and so the most wretched among them killed it with the consent of his people. Therefore, they were all guilty of the crime and so Allah enveloped them into His punishment and destroyed them by a shriek due to their sins. He made them equal in the punishment that He destroyed them with.","Allah set the punishment that destroyed them, upon them, without Him, may He be glorified, fearing any reproach over His actions.","Allah takes an oath on the night when it covers whatever is between the heavens and the earth with its darkness.","And Allah takes an oath on the day when it becomes clear and visible.","And He takes an oath on His creating the two genders: The male and female.","O people! Your actions are different: some are good, which are the causes of entering Paradise, while others are evil, which are the causes of entering the hellfire.","As for the one who gives whatever is necessary for him to spend, i.e. Zakat, financial support and repatriation, and is mindful of that which Allah has prohibited him from.","And he believes in the substitute Allah has promised him.","I shall soon make performing good deeds and spending in My path easy for him.","And as for the one who is miserly with his wealth and does not spend it in the avenues necessary for him to spend in, thinking himself to be in no need of Allah and not asking Allah for any of His grace.","Whilst rejecting the substitute and reward Allah has promised him if he spends his wealth in His path.","I will soon make performing evil deeds easy for him, and make difficult doing good.","His wealth that he is miserly with will not benefit him at all when he dies and enters the hellfire.","Indeed, it is My responsibility to make the path of truth clear from the path of falsehood.","And indeed, the afterlife and the worldly life belongs to Me; I do whatever I want with it. That is not the case with anyone else.","So O people! If you disobey Me, I warn you of the hellfire which is being kindled.","None will suffer the heat of this fire except the most wretched, i.e. the disbeliever.","The one who rejected whatever the Messenger (peace be upon him) brought, and turned away from fulfilling the command of Allah.","The most Allah-conscious of the people will be distanced from it, i.e. Abu Bakr.","The one who spends his wealth in righteous avenues, to purify himself of sins.","He does not spend whatever wealth he spends, to repay any favour done to him by anyone.","Through his spending, he only intends the pleasure of his Lord who is High above His creation.","And indeed, soon, he will be pleased with the generous reward Allah will grant him.","Allah takes an oath on the beginning of the day.","And He takes an oath on the night when it darkens and people cease to move in it.","O Messenger! Your Lord has not left you, nor has he begun to hate you, as the idolaters claimed when there was a break in the revelation.","Indeed, the abode of the afterlife is better for you than the worldly one, because of the everlasting bounties that it has.","Very soon He will grant you an abundant reward, and your nation also, until you become content with what He has granted you and your nation.","Verily, He found you at a time when you were a child whose father had passed away, and so He made a place of refuge for you by causing your grandfather Abdul Muttalib to become fond of you, and then your uncle Abu Talib.","He found you in a state where you did not know what revelation or faith was, and so He taught you about that which you did not know.","And He found you poor, so He made you self-sufficient.","Therefore, do not treat badly the one who has lost his father in childhood, nor look down upon him.","And do not rebuke the needy beggar.","And be grateful for the favours of Allah upon you, and talk about them.","Verily, Allah has opened up your heart for you and made receiving revelation beloved to you.","And I have removed sin from you.","That which was burdening you to the extent that it almost broke your back.","And I elevated for you your mention, so you are now remembered in the call to prayer, and the call preceding the prayer, and at other times.","Indeed, with difficulty and constraint, comes ease and options.","Indeed, with difficulty and constraint, comes ease and options; when you know that well, the troubling of your people will not terrify you and will not stop you from calling towards Allah.","So when you finish your work and complete it, strive in the worship of your Lord.","And divert your passion and resolve towards Allah alone.","Allah takes an oath on the fig and the place it grows, and the olive and the place it grows: the land of Palestine where Jesus (peace be upon him) was sent as a Messenger.","And He takes an oath on Mount Sinai, near where Allah conversed intimately with Moses (peace be upon him).","And He takes an oath on Makkah, the sacred city which gives sanctuary to whoever enters it, and in which Muhammad (peace be upon him) was sent as a Messenger.","Verily, I have created the human in the most balanced of ways and the best appearance.","Then I return him to old age and childishness in the world, so he cannot benefit fully from his body, when he ruins his nature and goes towards the hellfire.","Except for those who have faith in Allah and do good deeds, because they, despite growing old, will get an everlasting reward i.e. Paradise, because they kept their nature pure.","So O human! What causes you to reject the Day of Requital, after you have seen the many signs of His power?","Is Allah not the most just and fair of judges by having appointed the Day of Judgement for requital? Is it comprehendible that Allah leaves His servants in vain, without judging between them, by not requiting the doer of good for his good, and the evil-doer for his evil?","O Messenger! Read what Allah reveals to you, starting with the name of your Lord who created the creation.","He created the human from a clot of congealed blood, after it had been a drop of semen.","O Messenger! Read what Allah reveals to you. Your Lord is the most Kind; no kind person can come to His kindness, because He has abundant generosity and goodness.","The one who taught to write, and the revelation, through the pen.","He taught the human that which he did not know.","Truly, indeed, the transgressing human i.e. Abu Jahl, has crossed the limit in overstepping the limits of Allah.","Just because he has seen him showing no need of the prestige and wealth he possesses.","O human! Indeed, to your Lord is the return on the Day of Judgement, where He will requite each person with what he deserves.","Have you seen anything more shocking than the matter of Abu Jahl, who prevented.","He prevented My servant Muhammad (peace be upon him) when he performed prayer near the Ka‘bah.","What do you think will happen, if this person who has been prevented, is following guidance and foresight from his Lord?","Or that he instructs the people to be mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refrain from the things he has not allowed; can such a person be prevented?","What do you think will happen if this preventer rejected whatever the Messenger brought and turned away from it? Does he not fear Allah?","Does the preventer of this servant from prayer not know that Allah sees whatever he does, and that nothing is hidden from Him?","It is not as this ignorant person imagines; if he does not stop causing harm to My servant and rejecting him, I will definitely seize him and drag him violently by the top of his head, towards the hellfire.","The owner of that forehead is a liar in speech and erroneous in action.","So when he is seized by his forehead towards the hellfire, let him call out to his companions and associates asking for their help to save him from the punishment.","I will call upon the gatekeepers of hell: the fierce angels who do not disobey My command when I command them, and do whatever they are commanded to do. It will then be seen which of the two parties are stronger and more capable.","It is not as this oppressor thinks: that he can cause any harm to you. So do not follow him in command or prohibition; rather, prostrate to Allah and draw closer to Him through acts of obedience, because that is how you can draw closer to Him.","Indeed, I revealed the Qur’ān at once to the heaven nearest to the world, just as I started off revealing it to Muhammad (peace be upon him), on the Night of Decree in the month of Ramadan.","O Prophet! Do you know what goodness and blessings lie in this night?","This night is a night of great goodness; it is better than a thousand months for the one who stands in prayer during it, whilst having faith and hoping for reward.","The angels and Gabriel (peace be upon him) descend during it with the permission of their Lord (may He be glorified), bringing every matter Allah has decreed to happen that year, whether it be sustenance, deaths, births or anything else He has decreed.","This whole blessed night contains goodness, right from its beginning until its end, with the breaking of dawn.","Those who disbelieved, from the Jews, the Christians and the idolaters, are not going to break their consensus and agreement on disbelief, until a clear proof and manifest evidence comes to them.","This clear proof and manifest evidence is a Messenger from Allah whom He has sent, and who recites pure scriptures, only the purest of beings may touch them.","In those scriptures is true information and fair rulings, which guide the people towards that in which lies their righteousness and decency.","The Jews who were given the Torah and the Christians who were given the Gospel, did not disagree except after Allah sent His Prophet to them. There were some who became Muslims, and others who persisted in their disbelief despite knowing of the truth of their Prophet.","The criminality and stubbornness of the Jews and the Christians is evident, in that they have not been commanded in this Qur’ān, except to do those very things they have been commanded to do in both their books, i.e. worshipping Allah alone, refraining from ascribing partners to Him, establishing prayer and giving in Zakat. So whatever they have been commanded to do, is actually the straight religion in which there is no deviance.","Indeed, those who disbelieved - from the Jews, the Christians and the idolaters - will enter into hell on the Day of Judgement, wherein they shall remain forever. They are the worst of the creation because of their disbelief in Allah and rejection of His Messenger.","Indeed, those who have faith in Allah and do good deeds, they are the ones who are the best of creation.","Their reward with their Lord (may He be glorified) is gardens under the trees and palaces of which rivers flow, and wherein they shall remain forever. Allah is pleased with them because of them bringing faith in Him and obeying Him, and they are also pleased with Him because of Him giving them His mercy. This mercy can be acquired by the one who fears his Lord, and so fulfils His command and refrains from the thing He has not allowed.","When the earth will be shaken vigorously, which will happen to it on the Day of Judgement.","And the earth will remove everything from within itself, i.e. the dead and other things.","And the human will say, confused: “What is the matter with the earth, that it is moving and shaking?”","On that great day, the earth will inform regarding the good and evil deeds that were committed upon it.","Because Allah will have taught it and commanded it to do so.","On that great day on which the earth will quake, the humans will come to of the place of reckoning in groups, to see the deeds they committed in the world.","So whoever did a good or righteous deed equal to the weight of a small ant, will see it in front of him.","And whoever did an evil deed equal to that, will see that in front of him also.","Allah takes an oath on the horses that run so hard that their breath can be heard.","And He also takes an oath on the horses who, when their shoes strike the stones with force, sparks fly.","And He also takes an oath on the horses that raid the enemy at dawn.","And unsettle the dust by their running.","They then take their riders collectively into the midst of the enemy.","Indeed, the human is hesitant of the goodness his Lord intends from him.","And indeed, he is witness to the goodness he is hesitant in giving; he cannot deny it because of its clarity.","And indeed, he is miserly with his wealth due to his extreme love for it.","Does this human, deceived by the worldly life, not know that when Allah will resurrect the dead from their graves and take them out of the earth to take them to account and requite them, that the matter will not be as he imagines?","And the intentions, beliefs etc. within the hearts will be made clear and apparent.","Indeed, their Lord will be aware of every matter of theirs on that day; none of the affairs of His servants will be hidden from Him, and He will requite them for that.","The hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors.","What is this hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors?","O Messenger! And what do you know of this hour that strikes the hearts of people because of the severity of its horrors? It is the Day of Judgement.","On the day when the hearts of people will be struck, they will be like locusts, dispersed here and there.","And the mountains will be like carded wool, in the way they will move from their places with force.","As for the one whose good deeds will outweigh his evil deeds.","He will live a contented life which he will achieve in Paradise.","And as for the one whose evil deeds outweigh his good deeds.","His abode and permanent resting place will be hell on the Day of Judgement.","O Messenger! What do you know what that is?","It is the intensely hot hellfire.","O people! Boasting with one another over wealth and offspring has preoccupied you from the obedience of Allah.","Until you die and enter your graves.","It is not befitting that boasting with one another over that preoccupies you from the obedience of Allah; you will soon know the consequence of that preoccupation.","You will surely realise its outcome.","Truly, if you were to know with certainty that you are to be resurrected to Allah, and that He will requite you for your actions, you would not become preoccupied with boasting with one another over wealth and offspring.","By Allah! You will definitely witness the hellfire on the Day of Judgement.","Then, you will definitely see it in a way you will become undoubtedly convinced.","Then Allah will surely ask you on that day regarding the health, wealth etc. that He favoured you with.","Allah may He be glorified takes an oath on time.","Indeed, the human is in great loss and destruction.","Except for those who have faith in Allah and His Messenger, perform good deeds, and encourage each other to follow the truth and remain steadfast upon it. Those who have these qualities are the ones who are successful in the world and the afterlife.","Evil consequences and a severe punishment awaits the one who frequently backbites the people and taunts them.","The one whose only concern is to amass wealth and count it; he has no other concern.","He thinks that the wealth of his he amasses will save him from death, and that he will remain forever in this worldly life.","It is not as this ignorant one thinks; he will surely be thrown into the fire of hell that crushes and breaks everything that is thrown into it, due to its immense strength.","O Messenger! What do you know of this fire that smashes everything that is thrown into it?","Indeed, it is the blazing fire of Allah.","The fire that penetrates the bodies of the people until it reaches their hearts.","Indeed, it will close up around those that will be punished with it.","For a prolonged, lengthy period of time, so long that they will never leave it.","O Messenger! Do you not know how your Lord dealt with Abraha and his people: the people of the elephant, when they intended to demolish the Ka‘bah?","Allah made their evil plot to destroy it in vain; they did not achieve what they desired in trying to turn the people away from the Ka‘bah. They did not succeed in the slightest.","Allah sent birds upon them, who came to them in flocks upon flocks.","They pelted them with stones of clay.","So Allah made them like the leaves of crops that have been eaten and trampled upon by livestock.","Because of the habit of the Quraysh and their acquaintance.","With travelling in the winter towards Yemen, and in the summer towards the Levant, in security.","They should worship Allah alone, who is the Lord of this sacred house. He is the one who has made these journeys easy for them. They should not ascribe any partners to Him.","The one who has fed them from hunger, and given them security from fear by placing reverence of the Ḥaram and its inhabitants in their hearts.","Do you recognise the one who rejects the requital on the Day of Judgement?","It is the one who harshly turns away the orphan when in need.","He does not encourage himself nor others in feeding the poor.","So destruction and punishment be upon those who perform prayer.","Those who are heedless of their prayer; they do not care about it such that its time expires.","Those who show off by their prayer and good deeds, not being sincere in doing deeds for Allah.","And they refrain from helping others with things in which there is no difficulty helping in.","O Messenger! Indeed, I have granted you abundant goodness, from which is the river of Kawthar in Paradise.","So be grateful to Allah for this blessing, by performing prayer for Him alone and offering sacrifice for Him, as opposed to the offerings of sacrifice the idolaters do for their idols.","Indeed, your hater is cut off from every goodness, and will be forgotten. If remembered, he will be remembered negatively.","Say, O Messenger: O those who disbelieve in Allah!","I do not and will not worship the idols you worship.","Nor are you going to worship what I worship, i.e. Allah alone.","Nor am I going to worship the idols you worship.","Nor are you going to worship what I worship, i.e. Allah alone.","You have your religion you thought up for yourselves, and I have my religion that Allah revealed to me.","O Messenger! When the help of Allah arrives for your religion, He honours it, and Makkah is liberated.","And you see the people entering into Islam in delegations upon delegations.","Then know that is a sign of the nearing of the end of your duty you were sent to fulfil. So glorify your Lord together with praising Him, to show gratitude to Him for the favours of help and victory, and seek His forgiveness, because indeed, He is the Forgiving, who accepts the repentance of His servants and forgives them.","Both hands of the uncle of the Prophet (peace be upon him): Abū Lahab son of ‘Abdul Muṭṭalib have lost because of the loss of his actions; he used to harm the Prophet (peace be upon him). His efforts are in vain.","How much can his wealth and his children benefit him? They cannot defend him against the punishment, nor bring any mercy to him.","On the Day of Judgement, he will soon enter the flaring hellfire and suffer its heat.","And his wife Umm Jamīl who would also harm the Prophet (peace be upon him) by throwing thorns into his path, will also enter it.","Around her neck will be tightly bound a rope with which she will be dragged into the hellfire.","Say, O Messenger: He is Allah who is alone in being a deity. There is no deity except Him.","He is the master to whom belongs all sovereignty and perfect, beautiful qualities. The one to whom all creation turn to.","The one who did not give birth to anyone, nor did anyone give birth to Him. So He has no offspring - may He be glorified - nor any parent.","Nor does He have any equal from His creation.","Say, O Messenger: “I seek refuge in the Lord of the morning and I seek His protection.”","“From the evils of the harms of all creation.”","“And I seek refuge in Allah from the evils that appear in the night, i.e. harmful creatures and bandits.”","“And I seek His refuge from the evils of the sorceresses who blow onto knots.”","“And I seek His refuge from the evil of the jealous one when he acts out his jealousy.”","Say, O Messenger: “I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind and seek His protection.”","“The King of the people, who does whatever He wishes with them. They do not have any real king other than Him.”","“He is their rightful deity; they do not have any rightful deity except Him.”","“From the evils of Satan who whispers to the human when he is neglectful of the remembrance of Allah, or delays in it when he remembers.”","“He whispers to the hearts of people.”","“And he could be from the humankind or from the Jinn.”"]