Blessed is the One who brought down the Criterion upon His servant so that it would be a warner to all the people.
He is the One to whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. He has not taken a son, and He does not have a partner in the sovereignty. He created everything and proportioned it with utmost precision.
They have taken up gods besides Him who do not create anything but are themselves created. They do not possess the power to harm or benefit themselves, nor do they possess the power over death, life, or resurrection.
Those who disbelieved said, "This is a falsehood which he fabricated, and some other people helped him with it." They have come up with injustice and lies.
And they said, "Tales of the previous ones which he wrote down, for they are being dictated to him morning and evening."
Say, "It was brought down by the One who knows the secrets in the heavens and the earth. Indeed, He is Forgiver, Merciful."
And they said, "How come this messenger eats food and walks in the markets? If only an angel was brought down to him so as to be a warner alongside him?
Or for a treasure to be dropped down to him, or that he would have a garden from which he eats!" The transgressors said, "You are following none other than a bewitched man."
Look what descriptions they ascribe to you! They were led astray and so they cannot find the way.
Blessed is the One who, if He wills, can grant you better than that: Gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He can grant you palaces.
In fact, they have denied the Hour, and We have prepared for those who deny the Hour a Blaze.
When it sees them from a distant place, they will hear it raging and fuming.
And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein, all shackled, they will plead there for destruction.
Do not plead today for one destruction. Plead for many destructions.
Say, "Is that better, or the eternal Paradise that was promised to the reverent?" It is, for them, a reward and destination.
Therein, they shall have what they wish for, eternally. It is a promise that is binding upon your Lord.
On the Day He gathers them, together with what they worshipped besides God, He will say, "Have you misled these, My servants, or was it they who strayed off the path?"
They said, "Glory to You, it was not for us to take any allies besides You, but You lavished enjoyments on them and their fathers until they forgot the Reminder and became a wasted people."
They have denied you in what you say, and so you can neither avert nor help. For the one who transgresses among you, We will let him taste a great punishment.
We have not sent any messengers before you who did not eat food and walk in the markets. We have made some of you a means for testing others. Will you be steadfast? Your Lord is Seer.
Those who do not seek the meeting with Us said, "If only the angels were brought down upon us, or we could see our Lord!" They have turned arrogant in themselves and defied, a great defiance indeed.
The Day they see the angels, there will be no good news for the criminals that Day. They will say, "This is an inviolable confinement."
We turned to the work they have done and reduced it to scattered dust.
The companions of Paradise on that Day are in a better place of settlement and better haven.
And on the Day the sky will split open with clouds, and the angels are sent down in succession.
True sovereignty on that Day belongs to the Almighty, and it will be a difficult Day for the disbelievers.
The Day when the transgressor will bite his hands, he will say, "I wish I had followed the path with the messenger.
Woe unto me, I wish I had not taken so-and-so for a friend.
He has made me stray from the Reminder after it had come to me. The devil was always a betrayer of the human being."
And the messenger said, "My Lord, my people have deserted this Quran."
We have thus assigned for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. Your Lord suffices as a Guide and a Supporter.
Those who disbelieved said, "If only the Quran was brought down upon him in one go!" It was as such so that We would make firm your heart with it, and We recited at a measured pace.
Never will they come to you with an argument without Us providing you with the truth and a better explanation.
Those who are gathered on their faces to Hell, they are in the worst place and are the most strayed from the path.
And We gave Moses the Book and appointed his brother Aaron alongside him as an assistant.
Then We said, "Go, the two of you, to the people who denied Our signs." Then We completely destroyed them.
And the people of Noah, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and We set them as an example for the people. And We have prepared for the transgressors a painful punishment.
Also Aad, Thamoud, the Companions of Al-Russ, and many generations in between;
to each, We cited the examples, and each, We completely annihilated.
They have certainly come across the village that was showered with the harmful shower; did they not then see it? Rather, they were not expecting a resurrection.
And when they see you, they only make a mockery of you: "Is this the one whom God sent as a messenger?
He almost diverted us from our gods had we not persevered with them." They will certainly know when they see the punishment who is farthest astray from the path.
Have you seen the one who has taken his personal desire as his god? Would you be his trustee?
Or do you think that most of them can hear or reason? They are just like cattle! In fact, they are further astray.
Have you not seen how your Lord extends the shadow? Had He willed, He could have made it still. Then We made the sun its guide.
Then We retract it gently back towards Us.
He is the One who rendered the night a covering for you, and sleep for rest, and He rendered the day a time for rising.
He is the One who sent the winds bearing good news ahead of His mercy. And We brought down pure water from the sky
so that We would bring to life a dead land with it and provide drink for multitudes of livestock and humans We created.
We have distributed it among them so that they may take heed, but most people refuse all but disbelief!
Had We willed, We could have sent a warner to every village.
So do not obey the disbelievers and strive with it against them a mighty striving.
He is the One who merged the two seas: this one is sweet and fresh, and that one is salty and bitter. He placed a barrier between them and an inviolable confinement.
He is the One who created from water a human being, then made him acquire blood relations and in-laws. Your Lord is indeed Capable.
They worship besides God what does not benefit them nor harm them. The disbeliever is a partisan against his Lord.
We have not sent you except as a bearer of good news and a warner.
Say, "I do not ask you for a reward for it, only that whoever wills may pursue a path to his Lord."
Put your trust in the Living One who does not die, and glorify Him with praise. He suffices as the All-Aware of the sins of His servants.
He is the One who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, then He settled on the Throne; the Almighty. So ask about Him anyone who is well-informed.
And when they are told, "Prostrate to the Almighty," they say, "What is the Almighty? Are we to prostrate to whatever you command us?" It only increased their aversion.
Blessed is the One who placed constellations in the sky and placed in it a lamp and an illuminating moon.
He is the One who rendered the night and the day in succession for those who wish to take heed or wish to give thanks.
The servants of the Almighty are those who walk on the earth humbly, and when the ignorant speak to them, they say, "Peace."
And those who prostrate and stand before their Lord during the night.
And those who say, "Our Lord, avert from us the punishment of Hell. Indeed, its punishment is unrelenting.
It is the worst place of settlement and position."
And those who, when giving, are neither excessive nor stingy but adopt a stand in between.
And those who do not call upon another god besides God, and they do not kill any person, something which is prohibited by God except in the course of justice, and they do not commit adultery. He who does that will meet a penalty.
The punishment is doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection, and he shall remain permanently therein, humiliated,
except for those who repent and believe and do good work. For those, God replaces their bad deeds with good deeds. Indeed, God is Forgiver, Merciful.
And he who repents and does good deeds, he turns to God in sincere repentance indeed.
And those who do not bear false witness, and if they encounter idle talk, they pass by dignified.
And those who, when reminded of their Lord's revelations, they do not fall upon them deaf and blind.
And those who say, "Our Lord, grant us in our spouses and offspring a source of joy, and make us a leading example for the reverent."
Those will be rewarded with the mansions in return for their patience, and therein, they will be received with greetings and with peace.
Therein, they shall permanently remain. It is indeed a splendid place of settlement and position.
Say, "What for would My Lord care for you, if not your supplication? But you have denied, and so the consequence is inevitable.