{ "number": 25, "slug": "furqan", "name": "Al-Furqan", "arabicName": "الفرقان", "meaning": "The Criterion", "juz": 18, "juzEnd": 19, "period": "Makkan", "tagline": "A CRITERION FOR TRUTH, A PORTRAIT OF MERCY", "overview": "Al-Furqan answers objections to revelation and to a messenger who shares ordinary human life. Earlier peoples and familiar signs—shade, rain, sea and sky—invite reflection. Its final portrait gathers humility, prayer, balanced spending, repentance and dignified conduct into the life of the servants of the Merciful.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_25.json" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=25&verse=42" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=25&verse=55" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=25&verse=40" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=25&verse=68" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic 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Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/25:53/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Estuaries and the mixing of waters · NOAA", "url": "https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/estuary.html" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "The Hijrah in 622 · 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "The Criterion and a universal warning", "Creation, measure and undivided sovereignty", "Can the created command life?", "A charge of fabrication", "A dismissive explanation", "Knowledge, forgiveness and revelation", "A messenger in the marketplace", "Demands for treasure and privilege", "Descriptions that lose their way", "Beyond the demanded palaces", "The denied Hour", "The sound of a severe warning", "Confinement and desperate regret", "No escape through a final cry", "A better destination", "The promise of lasting fulfillment", "Questioning the imagined protectors", "Comfort and forgotten remembrance", "When the claims are contradicted", "Human messengers and mutual tests", "A demand made in pride", "The requested sight at judgment", "Works become scattered motes", "A dwelling of rest", "The opening of the sky", "Sovereignty belongs to the Merciful", "The path that could have been chosen", "Regret about a friendship", "Influence that abandons its follower", "The Quran treated as abandoned", "Guidance amid opposition", "Revelation that strengthens through time", "Truth and a clearer explanation", "The final reversal of confidence", "Moses supported by Aaron", "A shared mission and a rejected warning", "Noah's people become a sign", "Earlier generations recalled", "Warning before consequence", "A passing view without reflection", "Ridicule instead of an answer", "Persistence examined by its outcome", "When desire becomes a god", "Hearing without willing attention", "The sign of spreading shade", "A gradual withdrawal", "Night, rest and renewed activity", "Winds before the rain", "Water restores shared life", "A repeated sign, an ungrateful response", "The choice of a warner", "Striving with the revelation", "Fresh and salt waters", "Human origin and bonds of kinship", "Devotion to powerless substitutes", "Good news and warning", "No personal price for guidance", "Trust in the Living One", "Creation and the Merciful", "Mercy met with aversion", "The sky's lamps and stations", "Time for remembrance and gratitude", "Gentleness on the earth", "Devotion beyond public view", "A prayer against lasting harm", "Recognizing a terrible destination", "A balanced way of spending", "Devotion, life and integrity", "A warning read with repentance", "Mercy and transformed conduct", "Turning back through good action", "Passing falsehood with dignity", "An attentive response to reminders", "Joy in family and a worthy example", "Patience answered with peace", "A lasting home of welcome", "Prayer, response and final consequence" ], "notes": [ "The Criterion is revealed to a servant who warns beyond one narrow circle. The opening joins divine blessing with responsibility for communication. Revelation is presented as a means of distinguishing right from wrong, not as a possession that confers personal grandeur.", "Sovereignty, creation and measure belong to Allah without offspring or partner. The verse gives the Surah's arguments a foundation in unique divine authority. Human beings encounter an ordered world whose existence they receive rather than originate or control completely.", "The objects taken as gods are themselves created and cannot command life, death or resurrection. The verse tests devotion against actual capacity. It asks whether a trusted power can provide what its worshippers attribute to it, rather than merely receiving inherited allegiance.", "The accusation of fabrication attempts to explain away the revelation through unnamed human collaborators. The verse rejects that account as wrongdoing and falsehood. Its focus is the truth of this message, not a permission to dismiss every sincere question about religious claims.", "The further charge calls the revelation old stories copied and dictated repeatedly. The opponents offer a dismissive account without engaging its guidance. The verse makes visible how a label can substitute for careful attention to what a message actually says.", "The reply identifies the revelation's source as the One who knows hidden realities throughout creation. Forgiveness and mercy accompany that declaration. The answer therefore does more than defend authority; it keeps open the possibility of a changed response from its hearers.", "Ordinary eating and movement through markets become objections to the messenger. The verse exposes an expectation that guidance must arrive outside human need. Shared daily life can instead make a messenger's example intelligible within the conditions experienced by the people addressed.", "Treasure and a productive garden are demanded as signs of authority, while an insulting label targets the messenger himself. The verse questions a standard that equates truth with material privilege. Wealth and spectacle are poor substitutes for considering a message's substance.", "The opponents' changing descriptions leave them without a coherent path. Contradictory labels can reveal determination to reject rather than a stable explanation. The verse invites the reader to notice when argument becomes an effort to protect a conclusion already chosen.", "Allah could grant gardens and palaces better than the demanded comforts. Their absence therefore does not establish a defect in the message. The verse redirects attention from a messenger's possessions toward the One whose ability exceeds the audience's preferred display.", "Denial of the Hour is identified beneath the preceding objections. The warning shifts attention from arguments about status toward ultimate responsibility. What a person believes about final accountability can shape the criteria by which they assess a demanding message now.", "The approaching fire is described through sound and force. This is an image of the Hereafter, not an earthly site available to photograph. Its purpose is to make consequence serious while the listener still has an opportunity to consider guidance.", "Confinement and the wish for destruction intensify the warning. The scene portrays desperation rather than a response available for repair. The present reader is invited to take responsibility before that finality, not to take pleasure in imagining another person's suffering.", "The repeated cry for destruction cannot release those in the scene. The verse makes the limits of belated escape starkly visible. Its severity belongs within the Surah's wider invitation, which will later give repentance and transformed conduct an explicit place.", "The promised garden is set beside the warned outcome as a better destination. Reverence receives a lasting horizon beyond immediate comfort. The comparison asks readers to consider where a chosen course leads, rather than judging its value only through present appearance.", "Abiding fulfillment is presented as a promise from the Lord. The verse gives hope a firm place after severe warning. Its description belongs to the unseen Hereafter, so any accompanying garden remains an imaginative evocation rather than a literal geographic reconstruction.", "The gathering questions the relationship between worshippers and those worshipped besides Allah. Responsibility cannot remain hidden inside a familiar religious arrangement. The scene asks who authorized the allegiance and whether it rested on truth or on claims made by its followers.", "The supposed protectors reject the attributed relationship and recall how comfort led people to forget the reminder. Prosperity appears as a possible test of attention. A life made easier can still become spiritually careless if gratitude and reflection gradually disappear.", "Claims of protection are contradicted when help is most needed. The warning relates consequence to wrongdoing rather than to prestige or inherited affiliation. It asks whether one's source of confidence can withstand honest examination before a final reckoning arrives.", "Earlier messengers also ate and walked through markets. Human relationships themselves become tests requiring patience. The verse brings guidance into ordinary life, where need, disagreement and dependence reveal character more clearly than an imagined existence free from every inconvenience.", "The demand to see angels or the Lord is described as arrogant within this confrontation. Its problem is the stance from which the demand is made. The verse distinguishes receptive inquiry from an attempt to dictate the terms on which guidance may be accepted.", "The requested sight of angels arrives as part of judgment rather than the reassurance the challengers expected. The verse overturns their assumed control over signs. This unseen scene is not assigned a date or portrayed through invented portraits of heavenly beings.", "Works become scattered motes when their hoped-for standing fails. The image challenges confidence in an outward record detached from its ultimate evaluation. It invites examination of purpose and response now, rather than certainty that every impressive achievement guarantees a favorable outcome.", "The garden's inhabitants receive a better dwelling and place of rest. The verse answers the preceding dispersal with stability and welcome. Its hope concerns the Hereafter, where an image of shelter can aid reflection without claiming to reproduce the promised reality.", "The sky opens and angels descend in a scene beyond ordinary experience. The imagery announces a decisive change in the order familiar to human beings. An illustration should remain symbolic, without pretending to document the event or invent the appearance of its unseen participants.", "True sovereignty is openly manifest as belonging to the Merciful. The day's difficulty for rejecters is set beneath that authority. The verse asks the reader to distinguish temporary human influence from the final command that no status or alliance can displace.", "A wrongdoer wishes he had followed the messenger's path. Regret reveals that a different response had once been possible. The verse directs attention toward present choices, when listening and changed conduct can still replace the course later mourned.", "An influential friendship becomes the subject of regret. The verse does not condemn companionship itself; it examines the direction companionship can encourage. A trusted relationship deserves attention when loyalty begins to pull someone away from what they recognize as right.", "The friend diverted him after the reminder had arrived, and Satan deserts at the moment of need. The verse tests influence by its eventual reliability. Encouragement toward a harmful course does not guarantee support when its consequences must be faced.", "The messenger laments that his people have treated the Quran as something abandoned. The verse asks readers to consider more than physical possession of a book. Attention, understanding and responsive conduct are ways a received message can remain meaningfully present.", "Opposition has accompanied earlier prophets as well, while Allah suffices as guide and helper. The verse gives the messenger perspective without promising an effortless task. It supports perseverance through difficulty rather than measuring truth by the absence of resistance.", "The gradual revelation is explained as strengthening the messenger's heart. Its ordered delivery meets the unfolding needs of the mission. The verse presents learning through time as purposeful, inviting patience with understanding that deepens through repeated encounters rather than one immediate accumulation.", "Challenges receive truth and a better explanation. The verse values an answer that clarifies rather than merely overwhelms an opponent. Within its claim about revelation, it invites attention to the quality and substance of explanation offered in response to a disputed assertion.", "The scene of gathering reverses the opponents' confidence about who has lost the way. Its judgment belongs to Allah, not to the reader's treatment of other people. The warning should lead to humility about one's own direction and accountability.", "Moses receives scripture and Aaron is placed beside him as a supporting brother. The verse honors a mission strengthened through companionship. Pickthall's older word for an assistant should be understood in that context, without importing its modern association with criminal service.", "The two brothers are sent to a people who rejected the signs, and their outcome is recalled briefly. The compressed account emphasizes response rather than supplying a complete chronology. No named modern population inherits the adversarial role described in this narrative.", "Noah's people reject the messengers and meet the flood, becoming a sign for later readers. The verse supplies neither a dated flood calendar nor an authenticated wreck. Its purpose is reflection on warning, refusal and consequence within the Quranic account.", "Ad, Thamud and the people of Ar-Rass appear among many earlier generations. The brief list does not explain every community's identity or precise location. This edition therefore leaves uncertain sites and biographies open rather than filling the silence with confident legend.", "Examples and warnings preceded the outcomes of those communities. The verse makes communication part of accountability rather than presenting consequence as arbitrary. Its compressed historical lesson invites present attention, not speculation about which modern disaster might repeat a particular ancient judgment.", "A ruined township lay along the audience's route, yet seeing it did not secure belief in resurrection. Observation can remain spiritually unexamined. The verse gives no coordinate here, so a landscape illustration should not be labeled as a conclusively identified site.", "The messenger is mocked through a question about his suitability. Familiarity becomes a reason to dismiss rather than to assess character and teaching. The verse exposes how ridicule can avoid the work of answering a message on its actual terms.", "The opponents congratulate themselves for resisting a change in worship. Their certainty will be tested by the outcome they deny. The verse asks whether persistence deserves praise simply because it is strong, or only when the commitment itself is worthy.", "Desire can take the place of an object of worship when it determines every decision. The messenger cannot guarantee guidance for someone governed in that way. The verse invites self-examination about the authority granted to preference, appetite and personal convenience.", "Hearing and understanding are questioned through a severe comparison with livestock. The criticism concerns willful disregard in this confrontation, not human worth or disability. It must not become a label used to dehumanize people or excuse mistreatment of another community.", "The movement of shade becomes a familiar sign worthy of attention. The sun marks its changing form, while the verse imagines how differently it could have been arranged. Ordinary observation can reopen gratitude for a world whose rhythms are easily overlooked.", "The shade's gradual withdrawal continues the reflection on change through time. The sign is quiet and familiar rather than spectacular. The verse invites sustained attention to a process that can reveal order and dependence precisely because it usually passes without notice.", "Night provides covering, sleep brings rest, and day opens renewed activity. The pattern joins vulnerability with restoration in daily experience. The verse asks the reader to receive both rest and work as gifts, rather than treating human energy as wholly self-generated.", "Winds announce coming mercy and water descends from the sky. The verse links expectation with provision before the land's revival is described. Rain is received as a gift that sustains life, while its purifying quality also connects it with human daily needs.", "Rain revives dry land and supplies animals and people with drink. Shared dependence reaches across species and communities. The verse encourages gratitude for provision that no individual owns by origin, and reflection on the responsibility attached to receiving it.", "The sign or reminder is repeatedly brought among people, yet ingratitude persists. Repetition alone cannot guarantee a receptive response. The verse asks what turns familiar experience into remembrance, and what habits allow an essential gift to become invisible through routine.", "A warner could have been raised in every settlement. The verse places the actual mission within divine choice rather than human prescriptions for how guidance must arrive. It prepares a call for sustained effort with the revelation already entrusted.", "The messenger is instructed to strive greatly with the revelation rather than surrender to rejection. The surrounding passage frames this effort through communication of the Quran. The verse should not be detached from that setting and recast as permission for private violence.", "Fresh and salt waters are presented as distinct gifts within an ordered world. Traditional commentary relates the fresh water to rivers and springs. The verse does not name a modern estuary or require the false claim that different waters never mix.", "Human creation from water leads into relationships of blood and marriage. The verse moves from natural provision to the bonds organizing social life. Those bonds become signs of power and dependence, inviting care rather than a claim that lineage determines personal worth.", "Worship is directed toward powers unable to benefit or harm their devotees. The verse returns to the question of misplaced allegiance after the signs of provision. It asks whether gratitude follows the actual Giver or remains attached to an inherited but unsupported claim.", "The messenger's role is described through good news and warning. He brings an invitation with consequences rather than control over another person's inward response. The verse keeps both hope and seriousness present in the purpose of conveying the message.", "No payment is sought for the message; the desired response is a path toward the Lord. The verse distinguishes guidance from personal enrichment. It asks whether an invitation serves the hearer's good or makes their dependence profitable for the speaker.", "Trust is placed in the Living One who does not die, joined with praise and acknowledgment of complete knowledge. The verse contrasts enduring reliance with fragile substitutes. It gives steadiness without making the messenger responsible for controlling every hidden motive or deed.", "Creation and divine sovereignty lead to the name of the Merciful and a call to informed understanding. The language is received reverently without a portrait of Allah or a speculative cosmic diagram. The verse's theological purpose is not a modern scientific chronology.", "An invitation to worship the Merciful meets scorn and increased aversion. Even a name expressing mercy is resisted when the hearer's stance is fixed against the messenger. The verse asks whether opposition has become habitual enough to prevent consideration of what is offered.", "The heavens contain stellar stations, a radiant lamp and a shining moon. The verse widens the reader's attention beyond immediate disputes. Its praise invites wonder and gratitude without turning the brief description into an exhaustive astronomical model or technical classification.", "Night and day succeed one another for remembrance and gratitude. Time becomes an opportunity to renew attention rather than merely a sequence to endure. A missed moment can be followed by another occasion to respond more thoughtfully to received life.", "The servants of the Merciful are introduced through modest movement and peaceful response to foolish provocation. Character becomes visible in ordinary encounters. The verse commends dignity and restraint without requiring approval of injustice or participation in an abusive exchange.", "Private night worship accompanies the public gentleness just described. Standing and prostration give devotion a bodily expression beyond social approval. The verse links inward orientation with outward character, preventing the final portrait from becoming only a code of pleasant manners.", "They ask protection from a lasting and grievous consequence. Reverence remains present even within their good qualities. The prayer discourages moral complacency, showing people who seek mercy rather than treating their own record as sufficient grounds for complete self-assurance.", "The harmful destination is recognized as a terrible dwelling and resting place. That recognition gives direction to the preceding prayer. The verse's warning belongs to the Hereafter and should deepen personal responsibility, rather than encourage enjoyment of another person's imagined punishment.", "Spending avoids both waste and constriction, finding a responsible middle course. The verse makes material conduct part of devotion. Generosity requires judgment about real needs and obligations, while restraint should not become an excuse for withholding care that one can provide.", "Undivided worship, respect for life and sexual integrity form part of the portrait. The reference to lawful justice does not authorize personal violence. These serious boundaries belong within accountable communal and legal responsibility, rather than individual claims to punish perceived wrongdoing.", "The warning emphasizes the seriousness of violating the boundaries just named. It is immediately followed by an opening for repentance, which must remain part of the reading. Severity should not be isolated into a claim that a person can never change.", "Repentance, faith and righteous action receive a remarkable promise of transformed wrongs and forgiveness. The verse refuses despair while taking change seriously. Mercy is not presented as indifference to conduct; it opens a new direction expressed through what the person does.", "Turning back is confirmed through doing good. Repentance is therefore more than a regretful statement made while preserving the same harmful course. The verse gives the movement a destination in Allah, joining inward acknowledgment with an outwardly changed way of living.", "They avoid falsehood and pass empty conduct with dignity. The verse describes integrity in both participation and withdrawal. Refusing to join something harmful can be done without making the refusal into another opportunity for contempt, performance or needless conflict.", "Reminders do not meet a deliberately unresponsive hearing or sight. The praise concerns thoughtful reception, not unexamined habit. The verse asks believers to engage what they hear, allowing guidance to question and shape conduct instead of merely marking a familiar religious moment.", "They pray for family life that brings joy and for an example worthy of the reverent. The aspiration joins intimate care with public responsibility. Being an example means embodying goodness, rather than seeking superiority or control over other people's lives.", "Patience receives a high dwelling and a welcome of peace. The portrait's many qualities are gathered under steadfastness rather than momentary enthusiasm. The promise connects ordinary restraint and devotion with a lasting outcome beyond the recognition available in present life.", "The promised dwelling is lasting and good as both home and resting place. It answers the earlier image of a terrible destination with welcome. The description remains a hope concerning the Hereafter, not an architectural plan or a mapped earthly location.", "The ending returns to prayer, rejection and consequence. Human worth before Allah is not secured by wealth or the demands made of a messenger. The Surah closes by asking whether the hearer will respond to the guidance whose truth has been presented." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 20, "title": "Revelation in the midst of ordinary life", "summary": "The Criterion answers charges of fabrication and objections to a messenger who eats and walks in markets. The warning of return tests the supposed protection of worldly status and invented partners.", "reflection": "What assumptions shape the kind of truth you are willing to hear?" }, { "start": 21, "end": 34, "title": "Response, companionship and a strengthened heart", "summary": "Demands for signs give way to scenes of regret. Misleading friendship and an abandoned Quran are contrasted with revelation that arrives through time to strengthen the messenger.", "reflection": "Which influences help you respond honestly to a reminder?" }, { "start": 35, "end": 44, "title": "Earlier peoples and repeated refusal", "summary": "Moses, Aaron, Noah and other communities supply precedents for warning and rejection. Ridicule and desire can prevent people from learning even when signs remain before them.", "reflection": "How can a familiar conviction remain open to honest examination?" }, { "start": 45, "end": 62, "title": "Shade, rain, waters and the changing sky", "summary": "Ordinary natural rhythms invite gratitude and reliance on the Living One. The messenger's task is renewed through revelation, with no material reward sought from those who hear it.", "reflection": "Which ordinary gift deserves your attention today?" }, { "start": 63, "end": 77, "title": "The servants of the Merciful", "summary": "Humility, night prayer, balanced spending, respect for life and sincere repentance form a practical portrait. Dignity in speech, attentive hearing and care for family end in a promise of peace.", "reflection": "Which quality can you practice in one concrete encounter?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · the Makkan period", "year": 622, "body": "The large majority classify Al-Furqan as Makkan. The year marks the Hijrah boundary rather than an exact revelation date, keeping the chronology appropriately broad.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-furqan/info" }, { "title": "Revelation through time", "year": null, "body": "Verse 32 explains the Quran's gradual delivery as a means of strengthening the messenger's heart. The verse supplies a purpose for that unfolding process, not a dated schedule for this Surah.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" }, { "title": "Earlier peoples · no exact ancient calendar", "year": null, "body": "Verses 35–40 recall messengers and communities as moral precedents. Their appearance here does not establish exact lifespans, dynasties or dates for archaeological identification.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the setting of the first audience", "body": "The Makkan classification places the objections and responses within the early mission. The city marker gives broad orientation; it does not identify a precise location where these verses were delivered.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/al-furqan/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "market", "name": "The market · ordinary human life", "body": "Verses 7 and 20 place messengers among people who eat and use markets. An imagined marketplace illustrates that shared humanity without depicting a prophet or claiming a surviving stall as a sacred site.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm", "image": 0 }, { "id": "rass", "name": "Ar-Rass and the earlier settlements", "body": "Verse 38 names the people of Ar-Rass alongside other communities without describing an exact site. This edition does not attach a speculative well, ruin or grave to that brief reference.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm", "image": 2 }, { "id": "waters", "name": "Fresh and salt waters · a general landscape", "body": "The fresh and salt waters of verse 53 are illustrated through an imagined coastal scene. NOAA explains that estuaries contain a mixture of fresh and salt water; the image makes no claim that waters never mix.", "source": "https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/estuary.html", "image": 3 } ], "people": [ { "id": "messenger", "title": "Muhammad · a messenger sharing ordinary needs", "body": "The objections focus on eating, markets and the lack of demanded treasure. The reply places him within the human pattern of earlier messengers, without treating material privilege as the proof of guidance.", "verse": 20 }, { "id": "brothers", "title": "Moses and Aaron · a supported mission", "body": "Scripture and shared service appear together in verse 35. Aaron is a helper to his brother; the text gives no absolute chronology, authenticated portrait or tomb identification.", "verse": 35 }, { "id": "noah", "title": "Noah and the earlier communities", "body": "The flood account stands among brief reminders of refusal and consequence. The Surah does not give a flood date or identify the remains of a particular vessel.", "verse": 37 }, { "id": "servants", "title": "The servants of the Merciful · a portrait of character", "body": "The closing passage describes qualities rather than one named biography. Its prayerful, generous and restrained people provide a model to practice, not a claim of superiority over contemporary communities.", "verse": 63 } ], "history": [ { "title": "The title and the task of discernment", "body": "The opening names the Quran as the Criterion and addresses its warning widely. Quran.com's introduction identifies revelation, resurrection and divine oneness as connected concerns within the Makkan setting.", "source": "https://quran.com/al-furqan/info" }, { "title": "Humanity is part of the messenger's setting", "body": "Food and markets recur because opponents expected a different kind of authority. Verse 20 answers with the shared human lives of earlier messengers, making ordinary circumstances relevant to guidance.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" }, { "title": "Waters as a sign, not an invented location", "body": "Ibn Kathir relates the fresh water to sources such as rivers and springs. The verse names no modern estuary; identifying one photograph as its uniquely intended scientific proof goes beyond the text.", "source": "https://quran.com/25:53/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "The ending keeps repentance beside warning", "body": "Verses 68–71 name serious wrongs and then explicitly offer repentance, faith and righteous work. Reading them together preserves the passage's combination of accountability, hope and practical change.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/025.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan according to the large majority. The calendar uses 622 CE only as a period boundary. Earlier narratives and Ar-Rass remain undated and unlocated where this passage supplies no secure detail.", "translationNote": "English translation: Sahih International, via AlQuran Cloud. Original source wording is preserved.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِى نَزَّلَ ٱلْفُرْقَانَ عَلَىٰ عَبْدِهِۦ لِيَكُونَ لِلْعَٰلَمِينَ نَذِيرًا", "translation": "Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His Servant that he may be to the worlds a warner -" }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى لَهُۥ مُلْكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَمْ يَتَّخِذْ وَلَدًۭا وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُۥ شَرِيكٌۭ فِى ٱلْمُلْكِ وَخَلَقَ كُلَّ شَىْءٍۢ فَقَدَّرَهُۥ تَقْدِيرًۭا", "translation": "He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and who has not taken a son and has not had a partner in dominion and has created each thing and determined it with [precise] determination." }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِهِۦٓ ءَالِهَةًۭ لَّا يَخْلُقُونَ شَيْـًۭٔا وَهُمْ يُخْلَقُونَ وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ لِأَنفُسِهِمْ ضَرًّۭا وَلَا نَفْعًۭا وَلَا يَمْلِكُونَ مَوْتًۭا وَلَا حَيَوٰةًۭ وَلَا نُشُورًۭا", "translation": "But they have taken besides Him gods which create nothing, while they are created, and possess not for themselves any harm or benefit and possess not [power to cause] death or life or resurrection." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ إِفْكٌ ٱفْتَرَىٰهُ وَأَعَانَهُۥ عَلَيْهِ قَوْمٌ ءَاخَرُونَ ۖ فَقَدْ جَآءُو ظُلْمًۭا وَزُورًۭا", "translation": "And those who disbelieve say, \"This [Qur'an] is not except a falsehood he invented, and another people assisted him in it.\" But they have committed an injustice and a lie." }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ٱكْتَتَبَهَا فَهِىَ تُمْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ بُكْرَةًۭ وَأَصِيلًۭا", "translation": "And they say, \"Legends of the former peoples which he has written down, and they are dictated to him morning and afternoon.\"" }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "قُلْ أَنزَلَهُ ٱلَّذِى يَعْلَمُ ٱلسِّرَّ فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ غَفُورًۭا رَّحِيمًۭا", "translation": "Say, [O Muhammad], \"It has been revealed by He who knows [every] secret within the heavens and the earth. Indeed, He is ever Forgiving and Merciful.\"" }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "وَقَالُوا۟ مَالِ هَٰذَا ٱلرَّسُولِ يَأْكُلُ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشِى فِى ٱلْأَسْوَاقِ ۙ لَوْلَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْهِ مَلَكٌۭ فَيَكُونَ مَعَهُۥ نَذِيرًا", "translation": "And they say, \"What is this messenger that eats food and walks in the markets? Why was there not sent down to him an angel so he would be with him a warner?" }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "أَوْ يُلْقَىٰٓ إِلَيْهِ كَنزٌ أَوْ تَكُونُ لَهُۥ جَنَّةٌۭ يَأْكُلُ مِنْهَا ۚ وَقَالَ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًۭا مَّسْحُورًا", "translation": "Or [why is not] a treasure presented to him [from heaven], or does he [not] have a garden from which he eats?\" And the wrongdoers say, \"You follow not but a man affected by magic.\"" }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "ٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ ضَرَبُوا۟ لَكَ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ فَضَلُّوا۟ فَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "Look how they strike for you comparisons; but they have strayed, so they cannot [find] a way." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِىٓ إِن شَآءَ جَعَلَ لَكَ خَيْرًۭا مِّن ذَٰلِكَ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ وَيَجْعَل لَّكَ قُصُورًۢا", "translation": "Blessed is He who, if He willed, could have made for you [something] better than that - gardens beneath which rivers flow - and could make for you palaces." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "بَلْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِٱلسَّاعَةِ ۖ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِمَن كَذَّبَ بِٱلسَّاعَةِ سَعِيرًا", "translation": "But they have denied the Hour, and We have prepared for those who deny the Hour a Blaze." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "إِذَا رَأَتْهُم مِّن مَّكَانٍۭ بَعِيدٍۢ سَمِعُوا۟ لَهَا تَغَيُّظًۭا وَزَفِيرًۭا", "translation": "When the Hellfire sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and roaring." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَإِذَآ أُلْقُوا۟ مِنْهَا مَكَانًۭا ضَيِّقًۭا مُّقَرَّنِينَ دَعَوْا۟ هُنَالِكَ ثُبُورًۭا", "translation": "And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein bound in chains, they will cry out thereupon for destruction." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "لَّا تَدْعُوا۟ ٱلْيَوْمَ ثُبُورًۭا وَٰحِدًۭا وَٱدْعُوا۟ ثُبُورًۭا كَثِيرًۭا", "translation": "[They will be told], \"Do not cry this Day for one destruction but cry for much destruction.\"" }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "قُلْ أَذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ أَمْ جَنَّةُ ٱلْخُلْدِ ٱلَّتِى وُعِدَ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ ۚ كَانَتْ لَهُمْ جَزَآءًۭ وَمَصِيرًۭا", "translation": "Say, \"Is that better or the Garden of Eternity which is promised to the righteous? It will be for them a reward and destination." }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "لَّهُمْ فِيهَا مَا يَشَآءُونَ خَٰلِدِينَ ۚ كَانَ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ وَعْدًۭا مَّسْـُٔولًۭا", "translation": "For them therein is whatever they wish, [while] abiding eternally. It is ever upon your Lord a promise [worthy to be] requested." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ فَيَقُولُ ءَأَنتُمْ أَضْلَلْتُمْ عِبَادِى هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ أَمْ هُمْ ضَلُّوا۟ ٱلسَّبِيلَ", "translation": "And [mention] the Day He will gather them and that which they worship besides Allah and will say, \"Did you mislead these, My servants, or did they [themselves] stray from the way?\"" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "قَالُوا۟ سُبْحَٰنَكَ مَا كَانَ يَنۢبَغِى لَنَآ أَن نَّتَّخِذَ مِن دُونِكَ مِنْ أَوْلِيَآءَ وَلَٰكِن مَّتَّعْتَهُمْ وَءَابَآءَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ نَسُوا۟ ٱلذِّكْرَ وَكَانُوا۟ قَوْمًۢا بُورًۭا", "translation": "They will say, \"Exalted are You! It was not for us to take besides You any allies. But You provided comforts for them and their fathers until they forgot the message and became a people ruined.\"" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "فَقَدْ كَذَّبُوكُم بِمَا تَقُولُونَ فَمَا تَسْتَطِيعُونَ صَرْفًۭا وَلَا نَصْرًۭا ۚ وَمَن يَظْلِم مِّنكُمْ نُذِقْهُ عَذَابًۭا كَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "So they will deny you, [disbelievers], in what you say, and you cannot avert [punishment] or [find] help. And whoever commits injustice among you - We will make him taste a great punishment." }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ مِنَ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّآ إِنَّهُمْ لَيَأْكُلُونَ ٱلطَّعَامَ وَيَمْشُونَ فِى ٱلْأَسْوَاقِ ۗ وَجَعَلْنَا بَعْضَكُمْ لِبَعْضٍۢ فِتْنَةً أَتَصْبِرُونَ ۗ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ بَصِيرًۭا", "translation": "And We did not send before you, [O Muhammad], any of the messengers except that they ate food and walked in the markets. And We have made some of you [people] as trial for others - will you have patience? And ever is your Lord, Seeing." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "۞ وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَرْجُونَ لِقَآءَنَا لَوْلَآ أُنزِلَ عَلَيْنَا ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ أَوْ نَرَىٰ رَبَّنَا ۗ لَقَدِ ٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟ فِىٓ أَنفُسِهِمْ وَعَتَوْ عُتُوًّۭا كَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "And those who do not expect the meeting with Us say, \"Why were not angels sent down to us, or [why] do we [not] see our Lord?\" They have certainly become arrogant within themselves and [become] insolent with great insolence." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ لَا بُشْرَىٰ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ لِّلْمُجْرِمِينَ وَيَقُولُونَ حِجْرًۭا مَّحْجُورًۭا", "translation": "The day they see the angels - no good tidings will there be that day for the criminals, and [the angels] will say, \"Prevented and inaccessible.\"" }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "وَقَدِمْنَآ إِلَىٰ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ مِنْ عَمَلٍۢ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ هَبَآءًۭ مَّنثُورًا", "translation": "And We will regard what they have done of deeds and make them as dust dispersed." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَيْرٌۭ مُّسْتَقَرًّۭا وَأَحْسَنُ مَقِيلًۭا", "translation": "The companions of Paradise, that Day, are [in] a better settlement and better resting place." }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ تَشَقَّقُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِٱلْغَمَٰمِ وَنُزِّلَ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ تَنزِيلًا", "translation": "And [mention] the Day when the heaven will split open with [emerging] clouds, and the angels will be sent down in successive descent." }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "ٱلْمُلْكُ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْحَقُّ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۚ وَكَانَ يَوْمًا عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ عَسِيرًۭا", "translation": "True sovereignty, that Day, is for the Most Merciful. And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى ٱتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, \"Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way." }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِى لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًۭا", "translation": "Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "لَّقَدْ أَضَلَّنِى عَنِ ٱلذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَآءَنِى ۗ وَكَانَ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ خَذُولًۭا", "translation": "He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter.\"" }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلرَّسُولُ يَٰرَبِّ إِنَّ قَوْمِى ٱتَّخَذُوا۟ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ مَهْجُورًۭا", "translation": "And the Messenger has said, \"O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur'an as [a thing] abandoned.\"" }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِىٍّ عَدُوًّۭا مِّنَ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ ۗ وَكَفَىٰ بِرَبِّكَ هَادِيًۭا وَنَصِيرًۭا", "translation": "And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. But sufficient is your Lord as a guide and a helper." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ ٱلْقُرْءَانُ جُمْلَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ لِنُثَبِّتَ بِهِۦ فُؤَادَكَ ۖ وَرَتَّلْنَٰهُ تَرْتِيلًۭا", "translation": "And those who disbelieve say, \"Why was the Qur'an not revealed to him all at once?\" Thus [it is] that We may strengthen thereby your heart. And We have spaced it distinctly." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَلَا يَأْتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئْنَٰكَ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَأَحْسَنَ تَفْسِيرًا", "translation": "And they do not come to you with an argument except that We bring you the truth and the best explanation." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِينَ يُحْشَرُونَ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ شَرٌّۭ مَّكَانًۭا وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "The ones who are gathered on their faces to Hell - those are the worst in position and farthest astray in [their] way." }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ ءَاتَيْنَا مُوسَى ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَجَعَلْنَا مَعَهُۥٓ أَخَاهُ هَٰرُونَ وَزِيرًۭا", "translation": "And We had certainly given Moses the Scripture and appointed with him his brother Aaron as an assistant." }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "فَقُلْنَا ٱذْهَبَآ إِلَى ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا فَدَمَّرْنَٰهُمْ تَدْمِيرًۭا", "translation": "And We said, \"Go both of you to the people who have denied Our signs.\" Then We destroyed them with [complete] destruction." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍۢ لَّمَّا كَذَّبُوا۟ ٱلرُّسُلَ أَغْرَقْنَٰهُمْ وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ لِلنَّاسِ ءَايَةًۭ ۖ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًۭا", "translation": "And the people of Noah - when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them for mankind a sign. And We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَعَادًۭا وَثَمُودَا۟ وَأَصْحَٰبَ ٱلرَّسِّ وَقُرُونًۢا بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ كَثِيرًۭا", "translation": "And [We destroyed] 'Aad and Thamud and the companions of the well and many generations between them." }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "وَكُلًّۭا ضَرَبْنَا لَهُ ٱلْأَمْثَٰلَ ۖ وَكُلًّۭا تَبَّرْنَا تَتْبِيرًۭا", "translation": "And for each We presented examples [as warnings], and each We destroyed with [total] destruction." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَتَوْا۟ عَلَى ٱلْقَرْيَةِ ٱلَّتِىٓ أُمْطِرَتْ مَطَرَ ٱلسَّوْءِ ۚ أَفَلَمْ يَكُونُوا۟ يَرَوْنَهَا ۚ بَلْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ نُشُورًۭا", "translation": "And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection." }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "وَإِذَا رَأَوْكَ إِن يَتَّخِذُونَكَ إِلَّا هُزُوًا أَهَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى بَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ رَسُولًا", "translation": "And when they see you, [O Muhammad], they take you not except in ridicule, [saying], \"Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a messenger?" }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "إِن كَادَ لَيُضِلُّنَا عَنْ ءَالِهَتِنَا لَوْلَآ أَن صَبَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا ۚ وَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ حِينَ يَرَوْنَ ٱلْعَذَابَ مَنْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا", "translation": "He almost would have misled us from our gods had we not been steadfast in [worship of] them.\" But they are going to know, when they see the punishment, who is farthest astray in [his] way." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "أَرَءَيْتَ مَنِ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَٰهَهُۥ هَوَىٰهُ أَفَأَنتَ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِ وَكِيلًا", "translation": "Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? Then would you be responsible for him?" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ يَعْقِلُونَ ۚ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ ۖ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا", "translation": "Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are not except like livestock. Rather, they are [even] more astray in [their] way." }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيْفَ مَدَّ ٱلظِّلَّ وَلَوْ شَآءَ لَجَعَلَهُۥ سَاكِنًۭا ثُمَّ جَعَلْنَا ٱلشَّمْسَ عَلَيْهِ دَلِيلًۭا", "translation": "Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication." }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "ثُمَّ قَبَضْنَٰهُ إِلَيْنَا قَبْضًۭا يَسِيرًۭا", "translation": "Then We hold it in hand for a brief grasp." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًۭا وَٱلنَّوْمَ سُبَاتًۭا وَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّهَارَ نُشُورًۭا", "translation": "And it is He who has made the night for you as clothing and sleep [a means for] rest and has made the day a resurrection." }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَرْسَلَ ٱلرِّيَٰحَ بُشْرًۢا بَيْنَ يَدَىْ رَحْمَتِهِۦ ۚ وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءًۭ طَهُورًۭا", "translation": "And it is He who sends the winds as good tidings before His mercy, and We send down from the sky pure water" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "لِّنُحْۦِىَ بِهِۦ بَلْدَةًۭ مَّيْتًۭا وَنُسْقِيَهُۥ مِمَّا خَلَقْنَآ أَنْعَٰمًۭا وَأَنَاسِىَّ كَثِيرًۭا", "translation": "That We may bring to life thereby a dead land and give it as drink to those We created of numerous livestock and men." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَٰهُ بَيْنَهُمْ لِيَذَّكَّرُوا۟ فَأَبَىٰٓ أَكْثَرُ ٱلنَّاسِ إِلَّا كُفُورًۭا", "translation": "And We have certainly distributed it among them that they might be reminded, but most of the people refuse except disbelief." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "وَلَوْ شِئْنَا لَبَعَثْنَا فِى كُلِّ قَرْيَةٍۢ نَّذِيرًۭا", "translation": "And if We had willed, We could have sent into every city a warner." }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ وَجَٰهِدْهُم بِهِۦ جِهَادًۭا كَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "So do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with the Qur'an a great striving." }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "۞ وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ هَٰذَا عَذْبٌۭ فُرَاتٌۭ وَهَٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌۭ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخًۭا وَحِجْرًۭا مَّحْجُورًۭا", "translation": "And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas, one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ مِنَ ٱلْمَآءِ بَشَرًۭا فَجَعَلَهُۥ نَسَبًۭا وَصِهْرًۭا ۗ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ قَدِيرًۭا", "translation": "And it is He who has created from water a human being and made him [a relative by] lineage and marriage. And ever is your Lord competent [concerning creation]." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُهُمْ وَلَا يَضُرُّهُمْ ۗ وَكَانَ ٱلْكَافِرُ عَلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ ظَهِيرًۭا", "translation": "But they worship rather than Allah that which does not benefit them or harm them, and the disbeliever is ever, against his Lord, an assistant [to Satan]." }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَٰكَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرًۭا وَنَذِيرًۭا", "translation": "And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a bringer of good tidings and a warner." }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "قُلْ مَآ أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ أَجْرٍ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ أَن يَتَّخِذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ سَبِيلًۭا", "translation": "Say, \"I do not ask of you for it any payment - only that whoever wills might take to his Lord a way.\"" }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "وَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى ٱلْحَىِّ ٱلَّذِى لَا يَمُوتُ وَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِهِۦ ۚ وَكَفَىٰ بِهِۦ بِذُنُوبِ عِبَادِهِۦ خَبِيرًا", "translation": "And rely upon the Ever-Living who does not die, and exalt [Allah] with His praise. And sufficient is He to be, with the sins of His servants, Acquainted -" }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا فِى سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍۢ ثُمَّ ٱسْتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلْعَرْشِ ۚ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ فَسْـَٔلْ بِهِۦ خَبِيرًۭا", "translation": "He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days and then established Himself above the Throne - the Most Merciful, so ask about Him one well informed." }, { "n": 60, "arabic": "وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱسْجُدُوا۟ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ قَالُوا۟ وَمَا ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ أَنَسْجُدُ لِمَا تَأْمُرُنَا وَزَادَهُمْ نُفُورًۭا ۩", "translation": "And when it is said to them, \"Prostrate to the Most Merciful,\" they say, \"And what is the Most Merciful? Should we prostrate to that which you order us?\" And it increases them in aversion." }, { "n": 61, "arabic": "تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ بُرُوجًۭا وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَٰجًۭا وَقَمَرًۭا مُّنِيرًۭا", "translation": "Blessed is He who has placed in the sky great stars and placed therein a [burning] lamp and luminous moon." }, { "n": 62, "arabic": "وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلْفَةًۭ لِّمَنْ أَرَادَ أَن يَذَّكَّرَ أَوْ أَرَادَ شُكُورًۭا", "translation": "And it is He who has made the night and the day in succession for whoever desires to remember or desires gratitude." }, { "n": 63, "arabic": "وَعِبَادُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ هَوْنًۭا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ ٱلْجَٰهِلُونَ قَالُوا۟ سَلَٰمًۭا", "translation": "And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace," }, { "n": 64, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمْ سُجَّدًۭا وَقِيَٰمًۭا", "translation": "And those who spend [part of] the night to their Lord prostrating and standing [in prayer]" }, { "n": 65, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا ٱصْرِفْ عَنَّا عَذَابَ جَهَنَّمَ ۖ إِنَّ عَذَابَهَا كَانَ غَرَامًا", "translation": "And those who say, \"Our Lord, avert from us the punishment of Hell. Indeed, its punishment is ever adhering;" }, { "n": 66, "arabic": "إِنَّهَا سَآءَتْ مُسْتَقَرًّۭا وَمُقَامًۭا", "translation": "Indeed, it is evil as a settlement and residence.\"" }, { "n": 67, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ إِذَآ أَنفَقُوا۟ لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا۟ وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا۟ وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ قَوَامًۭا", "translation": "And [they are] those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that, [justly] moderate" }, { "n": 68, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَدْعُونَ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ وَلَا يَقْتُلُونَ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلَّتِى حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَا يَزْنُونَ ۚ وَمَن يَفْعَلْ ذَٰلِكَ يَلْقَ أَثَامًۭا", "translation": "And those who do not invoke with Allah another deity or kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed], except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty." }, { "n": 69, "arabic": "يُضَٰعَفْ لَهُ ٱلْعَذَابُ يَوْمَ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَيَخْلُدْ فِيهِۦ مُهَانًا", "translation": "Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated -" }, { "n": 70, "arabic": "إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلًۭا صَٰلِحًۭا فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ ٱللَّهُ سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمْ حَسَنَٰتٍۢ ۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ غَفُورًۭا رَّحِيمًۭا", "translation": "Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful." }, { "n": 71, "arabic": "وَمَن تَابَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحًۭا فَإِنَّهُۥ يَتُوبُ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَتَابًۭا", "translation": "And he who repents and does righteousness does indeed turn to Allah with [accepted] repentance." }, { "n": 72, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ ٱلزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا۟ بِٱللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا۟ كِرَامًۭا", "translation": "And [they are] those who do not testify to falsehood, and when they pass near ill speech, they pass by with dignity." }, { "n": 73, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِّرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ لَمْ يَخِرُّوا۟ عَلَيْهَا صُمًّۭا وَعُمْيَانًۭا", "translation": "And those who, when reminded of the verses of their Lord, do not fall upon them deaf and blind." }, { "n": 74, "arabic": "وَٱلَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَٰجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّٰتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍۢ وَٱجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا", "translation": "And those who say, \"Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes and make us an example for the righteous.\"" }, { "n": 75, "arabic": "أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ ٱلْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا۟ وَيُلَقَّوْنَ فِيهَا تَحِيَّةًۭ وَسَلَٰمًا", "translation": "Those will be awarded the Chamber for what they patiently endured, and they will be received therein with greetings and [words of] peace." }, { "n": 76, "arabic": "خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا ۚ حَسُنَتْ مُسْتَقَرًّۭا وَمُقَامًۭا", "translation": "Abiding eternally therein. Good is the settlement and residence." }, { "n": 77, "arabic": "قُلْ مَا يَعْبَؤُا۟ بِكُمْ رَبِّى لَوْلَا دُعَآؤُكُمْ ۖ فَقَدْ كَذَّبْتُمْ فَسَوْفَ يَكُونُ لِزَامًۢا", "translation": "Say, \"What would my Lord care for you if not for your supplication?\" For you [disbelievers] have denied, so your denial is going to be adherent." } ], "glosses": [ [ "Blessed is He", "Who", "sent down", "the Criterion", "upon", "His slave", "that he may be", "to the worlds", "a warner" ], [ "The One Who", "to Him (belongs)", "(the) dominion", "(of) the heavens", "and the earth,", "and not", "He has taken", "a son,", "and not", "He has", "for Him", "a partner", "in", "the dominion", "and He (has) created", "every", "thing,", "and determined it", "(with) determination." ], [ "Yet they have taken", "[from]", "besides Him", "gods", "not", "they create", "anything,", "while they", "are created,", "and not", "they possess", "for themselves", "any harm", "and not", "any benefit,", "and not", "they control", "death", "and not", "life", "and not", "resurrection." ], [ "And say", "those who", "disbelieve,", "\"Not", "this", "(is) but", "a lie,", "he invented it", "and helped him", "at it", "people", "other.\"", "But verily,", "they (have) produced", "an injustice", "and a lie." ], [ "And they say,", "\"Tales", "(of) the former people", "which he has had written", "and they", "are dictated", "to him", "morning", "and evening.\"" ], [ "Say,", "\"Has sent it down", "the One Who", "knows", "the secret", "in", "the heavens", "and the earth.", "Indeed, He", "is", "Oft-Forgiving,", "Most Merciful.\"" ], [ "And they say,", "\"Why does", "this", "Messenger", "eat", "[the] food", "and walk", "in", "the markets?", "Why not", "is sent down", "to him", "an Angel", "then he be", "with him", "a warner?" ], [ "Or", "is delivered", "to him", "a treasure", "or", "is", "for him", "a garden,", "he may eat", "from it?", "And say", "the wrongdoers,", "\"Not", "you follow", "but", "a man", "bewitched.\"" ], [ 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], [ "For them", "therein", "(is) whatever", "they wish,", "they will abide forever.", "It is", "on", "your Lord", "a promise", "requested.\"" ], [ "And (the) Day", "He will gather them", "and what", "they worship", "[from]", "besides", "Allah", "and He will say,", "\"Did you", "[you] mislead", "My slaves", "these", "or", "they", "went astray", "(from) the way?\"" ], [ "They say,", "\"Glory be to You!", "Not", "was", "proper", "for us", "that", "we take", "[from]", "besides You", "any", "protectors.", "But", "You gave them comforts", "and their forefathers", "until", "they forgot", "the Message", "and became", "a people", "ruined.\"" ], [ "\"So verily,", "they deny you", "in what", "you say,", "so not", "you are able", "(to) avert", "and not", "(to) help.\"", "And whoever", "does wrong", "among you,", "We will make him taste", "a punishment", "great." ], [ "And not", "We sent", "before you", "any", "Messengers", "but", "indeed, they", "[surely] ate", "food", "and walked", "in", "the 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greetings", "and peace." ], [ "Will abide forever", "in it.", "Good", "(is) the settlement", "and a resting place." ], [ "Say,", "\"Not", "will care", "for you", "my Lord,", "if not", "your prayer (is to Him).", "But verily,", "you have denied,", "so soon", "will be", "the inevitable (punishment).\"" ] ], "glossNote": "English word hints follow the Quranic Arabic Corpus. Where the Corpus repeats a phrase across adjacent Arabic words, it is divided into individual word meanings for hover and audio; these editorial splits are recorded in the source audit. Brackets identify connective or grammatical senses that English does not translate separately. Retrieved Image labels and trailing layout dashes are removed; every cleanup is recorded alongside the phrase adaptations." }