Manzil 7 — Qaaf to An-Naas

Qaf. By the honored Qur'an...

But they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, and the disbelievers say, "This is an amazing thing.

When we have died and have become dust, [we will return to life]? That is a distant return."

We know what the earth diminishes of them, and with Us is a retaining record.

But they denied the truth when it came to them, so they are in a confused condition.

Have they not looked at the heaven above them - how We structured it and adorned it and [how] it has no rifts?

And the earth - We spread it out and cast therein firmly set mountains and made grow therein [something] of every beautiful kind,

Giving insight and a reminder for every servant who turns [to Allah].

And We have sent down blessed rain from the sky and made grow thereby gardens and grain from the harvest

And lofty palm trees having fruit arranged in layers -

As provision for the servants, and We have given life thereby to a dead land. Thus is the resurrection.

The people of Noah denied before them, and the companions of the well and Thamud

And 'Aad and Pharaoh and the brothers of Lot

And the companions of the thicket and the people of Tubba'. All denied the messengers, so My threat was justly fulfilled.

Did We fail in the first creation? But they are in confusion over a new creation.

And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein

When the two receivers receive, seated on the right and on the left.

And the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to avoid.

And the Horn will be blown. That is the Day of [carrying out] the threat.

And every soul will come, with it a driver and a witness.

[It will be said], "You were certainly in unmindfulness of this, and We have removed from you your cover, so your sight, this Day, is sharp."

[Allah will say], "Throw into Hell every obstinate disbeliever,

Preventer of good, aggressor, and doubter,

Who made [as equal] with Allah another deity; then throw him into the severe punishment."

His [devil] companion will say, "Our Lord, I did not make him transgress, but he [himself] was in extreme error."

[Allah] will say, "Do not dispute before Me, while I had already presented to you the warning.

The word will not be changed with Me, and never will I be unjust to the servants."

Enter it in peace. This is the Day of Eternity."

They will have whatever they wish therein, and with Us is more.

And how many a generation before them did We destroy who were greater than them in [striking] power and had explored throughout the lands. Is there any place of escape?

On the Day the earth breaks away from them [and they emerge] rapidly; that is a gathering easy for Us.

We are most knowing of what they say, and you are not over them a tyrant. But remind by the Qur'an whoever fears My threat.

By those [winds] scattering [dust] dispersing

And those [clouds] carrying a load [of water]

And those [ships] sailing with ease

And those [angels] apportioning [each] matter,

Indeed, what you are promised is true.

And indeed, the recompense is to occur.

By the heaven containing pathways,

Indeed, you are in differing speech.

Deluded away from the Qur'an is he who is deluded.

Destroyed are the falsifiers

Who are within a flood [of confusion] and heedless.

They ask, "When is the Day of Recompense?"

[It is] the Day they will be tormented over the Fire

[And will be told], "Taste your torment. This is that for which you were impatient."

Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and springs,

Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that doers of good.

They used to sleep but little of the night,

And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,

And from their properties was [given] the right of the [needy] petitioner and the deprived.

And on the earth are signs for the certain [in faith]

And in yourselves. Then will you not see?

And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised.

They said, "Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing."

[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"

They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals

To send down upon them stones of clay,

Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."

So We brought out whoever was in the cities of the believers.

And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims.

And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.

And in Moses [was a sign], when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority.

But he turned away with his supporters and said," A magician or a madman."

So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy.

And in 'Aad [was a sign], when We sent against them the barren wind.

It left nothing of what it came upon but that it made it like disintegrated ruins.

And in Thamud, when it was said to them, "Enjoy yourselves for a time."

But they were insolent toward the command of their Lord, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on.

And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves.

And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a people defiantly disobedient.

And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.

And the earth We have spread out, and excellent is the preparer.

And of all things We created two mates; perhaps you will remember.

So flee to Allah. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner.

And do not make [as equal] with Allah another deity. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner.

Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."

Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people.

So leave them, [O Muhammad], for you are not to be blamed.

And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers.

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.

I do not want from them any provision, nor do I want them to feed Me.

Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength.

And indeed, for those who have wronged is a portion [of punishment] like the portion of their predecessors, so let them not impatiently urge Me.

And woe to those who have disbelieved from their Day which they are promised.

By the mount

And [by] a Book inscribed

In parchment spread open

And [by] the frequented House

And [by] the heaven raised high

And [by] the sea filled [with fire],

Indeed, the punishment of your Lord will occur.

Of it there is no preventer.

On the Day the heaven will sway with circular motion

And the mountains will pass on, departing -

Then woe, that Day, to the deniers,

Who are in [empty] discourse amusing themselves.

The Day they are thrust toward the fire of Hell with a [violent] thrust, [its angels will say],

"This is the Fire which you used to deny.

Then is this magic, or do you not see?

[Enter to] burn therein; then be patient or impatient - it is all the same for you. You are only being recompensed [for] what you used to do."

Indeed, the righteous will be in gardens and pleasure,

Enjoying what their Lord has given them, and their Lord protected them from the punishment of Hellfire.

[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you used to do."

They will be reclining on thrones lined up, and We will marry them to fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes.

And those who believed and whose descendants followed them in faith - We will join with them their descendants, and We will not deprive them of anything of their deeds. Every person, for what he earned, is retained.

And We will provide them with fruit and meat from whatever they desire.

There will circulate among them [servant] boys [especially] for them, as if they were pearls well-protected.

And they will approach one another, inquiring of each other.

So remind [O Muhammad], for you are not, by the favor of your Lord, a soothsayer or a madman.

Or do they say [of you], "A poet for whom we await a misfortune of time?"

Say, "Wait, for indeed I am, with you, among the waiters."

Or do their minds command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?

Or do they say, "He has made it up"? Rather, they do not believe.

Then let them produce a statement like it, if they should be truthful.

Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.

Or have they the depositories [containing the provision] of your Lord? Or are they the controllers [of them]?

Or have they a stairway [into the heaven] upon which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear authority.

Or has He daughters while you have sons?

Or do you, [O Muhammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

Or do they intend a plan? But those who disbelieve - they are the object of a plan.

Or have they a deity other than Allah? Exalted is Allah above whatever they associate with Him.

And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling, they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up."

So leave them until they meet their Day in which they will be struck insensible -

The Day their plan will not avail them at all, nor will they be helped.

And indeed, for those who have wronged is a punishment before that, but most of them do not know.

And be patient, [O Muhammad], for the decision of your Lord, for indeed, you are in Our eyes. And exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord when you arise.

And in a part of the night exalt Him and after [the setting of] the stars.

By the star when it descends,

Your companion [Muhammad] has not strayed, nor has he erred,

Nor does he speak from [his own] inclination.

It is not but a revelation revealed,

Taught to him by one intense in strength -

One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form

While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon.

Then he approached and descended

And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer.

And he revealed to His Servant what he revealed.

The heart did not lie [about] what it saw.

So will you dispute with him over what he saw?

And he certainly saw him in another descent

And Manat, the third - the other one?

Is the male for you and for Him the female?

That, then, is an unjust division.

They are not but [mere] names you have named them - you and your forefathers - for which Allah has sent down no authority. They follow not except assumption and what [their] souls desire, and there has already come to them from their Lord guidance.

Or is there for man whatever he wishes?

Rather, to Allah belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].

And how many angels there are in the heavens whose intercession will not avail at all except [only] after Allah has permitted [it] to whom He wills and approves.

Indeed, those who do not believe in the Hereafter name the angels female names,

And they have thereof no knowledge. They follow not except assumption, and indeed, assumption avails not against the truth at all.

So turn away from whoever turns his back on Our message and desires not except the worldly life.

That is their sum of knowledge. Indeed, your Lord is most knowing of who strays from His way, and He is most knowing of who is guided.

And to Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth - that He may recompense those who do evil with [the penalty of] what they have done and recompense those who do good with the best [reward] -

Those who avoid the major sins and immoralities, only [committing] slight ones. Indeed, your Lord is vast in forgiveness. He was most knowing of you when He produced you from the earth and when you were fetuses in the wombs of your mothers. So do not claim yourselves to be pure; He is most knowing of who fears Him.

Have you seen the one who turned away

And gave a little and [then] refrained?

Does he have knowledge of the unseen, so he sees?

Or has he not been informed of what was in the scriptures of Moses

And [of] Abraham, who fulfilled [his obligations] -

That no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another

And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strives

And that his effort is going to be seen -

Then he will be recompensed for it with the fullest recompense

And that to your Lord is the finality

And that it is He who makes [one] laugh and weep

And that it is He who causes death and gives life

And that He creates the two mates - the male and female -

From a sperm-drop when it is emitted