| | Abdul Majid Daryabadi rendition of Surah The Rock, Stoneland, Rock City(al-Hijr)
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| 15:1 | | Alif. Lam. Ra. These are the verses of the Book, and a Qur'an luminous |
| 15:2 | | Oft times would those who disbelieve fain that they had been Muslims |
| 15:3 | | Leave them thou to eat and to enjoy, and let vain hope divert them; presently they will know |
| 15:4 | | And We have not destroyed a town but there was therefor a decree known |
| 15:5 | | No community precedeth the term thereof nor doth it fall behind |
| 15:6 | | And they say: O thou unto whom the Admonition hath been sent down! verily thou art possessed |
| 15:7 | | Why bringest thou not angels unto us if thou art of the truthtellers |
| 15:8 | | We send not the angels down save with judgment, and then they would not be respited |
| 15:9 | | Verily We! it is We who have revealed the Admonition, and verily We are the guardians thereof |
| 15:10 | | And assuredly We have sent apostles before thee among the sects of the ancients |
| 15:11 | | And not an apostle came unto them but at him they were wont to mock |
| 15:12 | | Even so we make a way for it in the hearts of the culprits |
| 15:13 | | They believe not therein, and already the example of the ancients hath gone forth |
| 15:14 | | And if We opened upon them a door of the heaven, and they passed the day mounting thereto |
| 15:15 | | They would surely say: intoxicated have been our sights; aye! we are a people enchanted |
| 15:16 | | And assuredly We have set constellations in the heaven and made it fairseeming unto the beholder |
| 15:17 | | And We have guarded it from every Satan damned |
| 15:18 | | Save him who stealeth the hearing, and him there followeth a flame gleaming |
| 15:19 | | And the earth! We have stretched it out and have cast thereon mountains firm, and We have caused to spring up thereon everything weighed |
| 15:20 | | And We have appointed thereon for you livelihoods and also for those of whom ye are not the providers |
| 15:21 | | And there is not of aught but with Us are the treasures thereof, and We send it not down save in a measure know |
| 15:22 | | And We send the winds fertilizing, then We send down water from the heaven and We give it to you to drink, and thereof ye could not be the treasurers |
| 15:23 | | And verily We! it is We who give life and death, and We shall be the survivors |
| 15:24 | | And assuredly We know those of you who have gone before and those who will come hereafter |
| 15:25 | | And veriiy thy Lord! He will gather them, and verily He is Wise. Knowing |
| 15:26 | | And assuredly We have created human being from ringing clay of loam moulded |
| 15:27 | | And the Jinn, We had created them afore of the fire of the scroching wind |
| 15:28 | | And recall what time thy Lord said unto the angels: verily I am about to createa man from ringing clay of loam moulded |
| 15:29 | | Then when I have formed him and breathed into him of My Spirit fall down unto him prostrate |
| 15:30 | | So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together |
| 15:31 | | But Iblis did not; he refused to be with the prostrates |
| 15:32 | | Allah said: O Iblis! what aileth thou that thou art not with the prostrates |
| 15:33 | | He said it was not for me that should prostrate myself unto a human being whom Thou hast created from ringing clay of loam moulded |
| 15:34 | | Allah said: then get thee forth therefrom; verily thou art one damned |
| 15:35 | | And verily on thee shall be the curse till the Day of Requital |
| 15:36 | | He said: my Lord! respite me then till the Day whereon they will be raised up |
| 15:37 | | Allah said: verily then thou art of the respited |
| 15:38 | | Till the Day of the Time known |
| 15:39 | | He said: my Lord! because Thou hast led me to err I will surely make things fairseeming unto them on the earth and will surely seduce them all |
| 15:40 | | But not such of them as are Thy bondmen single-hearted |
| 15:41 | | Allah said: this is the path leeding unto Me straight |
| 15:42 | | Verily as for My bondmen, no authority shalt thou have over them, except the erring one who follow thee |
| 15:43 | | And verily Hell is the place promised unto them all |
| 15:44 | | Unto it are seven portals; unto each portal is a Portion of them assigned |
| 15:45 | | Verily the God-fearing shall be amidst gardens and springs |
| 15:46 | | Enter therein in peace, secure |
| 15:47 | | And We shall have removed whatsoever of grudge may be in their breasts: brethren they. sitting upon couches facing each other |
| 15:48 | | There shall touch them no toil therein, nor therefrom they shall ever be driven out |
| 15:49 | | Declare thou unto My bondmen: verily I! I am the Forgiver, the Merciful |
| 15:50 | | And verily My torment! that is the torment afflictiv |
| 15:51 | | And declare thou unto them of Ibrahim's guests |
| 15:52 | | When they entered unto him, and said; peace! He said: verily we are afraid of you |
| 15:53 | | They said: be not afraid; verily we bear thou the glad tidings of a boy knowing |
| 15:54 | | He said: bear ye me glad tidings when old age hath touched me? of what then ye bear me glad tidings |
| 15:55 | | They said: we bear tidings of a truth; be then thou not of the desponding |
| 15:56 | | He said: and who despondeth of the mercy of his Lord except the astra |
| 15:57 | | He said: what is your errand, sent ones |
| 15:58 | | They said: verily we have been sent unto a people guilty |
| 15:59 | | All except the household of Lut; surely we are going to deliver all of them |
| 15:60 | | But not his wife; we have decreed that she will be of those staying behind |
| 15:61 | | Then when the sent ones entered unto the household of Lut |
| 15:62 | | He said: verily ye are a people stranger |
| 15:63 | | They said: nay! we have come to thee with that whereof they have been dubitating |
| 15:64 | | And we have brought unto thee the truth, and verily we say sooth |
| 15:65 | | So set out thou with thy house hold in a portion of the night, and follow thou their backs, and let not one of you look back, and pass whither ye are commanded |
| 15:66 | | And We decreed unto him this commandment because the last of those was to be cut off in the early morning |
| 15:67 | | And there came the people of the city rejoicin |
| 15:68 | | He said: verily these are my guests, so disgace me not |
| 15:69 | | And fear Allah, and humiliate me not |
| 15:70 | | They said: forbade we not thee against the worlds |
| 15:71 | | He said: these are my daughters, if act ye must |
| 15:72 | | By thy life, in their intoxication they were wandering bewildered |
| 15:73 | | Then the shout took hold of them at the sunrise |
| 15:74 | | And We made the upside there of downwards, and We rained on them stones of baked clay |
| 15:75 | | Verily therein are signs for men of sagacity |
| 15:76 | | And verily they are on a pathway lasting |
| 15:77 | | Verily in that is a sign for the believers |
| 15:78 | | And the dwellers of the wood surely were wrong-doers |
| 15:79 | | So We took vengeance on them. And verily both are on a high-road open |
| 15:80 | | And assuredly the dwellers of Hijr belied the sent ones |
| 15:81 | | And We brought Our signs unto them, yet they were averting themselves therefrom |
| 15:82 | | And they were hewing out houses from mountains feeling secure |
| 15:83 | | Then the shout took hold of them in the early morn |
| 15:84 | | Then availed them not that which they had been earning |
| 15:85 | | And We have not created the heaven and the earth and that which is in between them save with a purpose. And verily the Hour is surely coming; so overlook thou with a seemly overlooking |
| 15:86 | | Verify thy Lord! He is the Great Creator, the Knower |
| 15:87 | | And assuredly We have vouchsafed unto thee seven of the repetitions and the mighty Qur'an |
| 15:88 | | Cast not thine eyes toward that which We have let classes of them to enjoy; and grieve not over them, and lower thy wing unto the believers |
| 15:89 | | And say thou: verily I! I am a plain warner |
| 15:90 | | Even as We sent down on the dividers |
| 15:91 | | Those who have made the scripture bits |
| 15:92 | | By thy Lord, We will question them all |
| 15:93 | | For that which they have been working |
| 15:94 | | Promulgate thou that which thou art commanded, and turn away from the associaters |
| 15:95 | | Verily We will suffice unto thee against the mockers |
| 15:96 | | Who set up along with Allah anot her god; presently they shall know |
| 15:97 | | And assuredly We know that thou straitenest thy breast by that which they say |
| 15:98 | | So hallow thou the praise of thy Lord, and be thou of the prostrate |
| 15:99 | | And worship thy Lord until there cometh unto thee the certainty |
