25:1 |
Blessed is He who sent down the criterion to
His servant, that it may be an admonition to all
creatures;- |
25:2 |
He to whom belongs the dominion of the
heavens and the earth: no son has He begotten,
nor has He a partner in His dominion: it is He
who created all things, and ordered them in due
proportions. |
25:3 |
Yet have they taken, besides him, gods that
can create nothing but are themselves created;
that have no control of hurt or good to
themselves; nor can they control death nor life
nor resurrection. |
25:4 |
But the misbelievers say: "Naught is this
but a lie which he has forged, and others have
helped him at it." In truth it is they who have
put forward an iniquity and a falsehood. |
25:5 |
And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which
he has caused to be written: and they are
dictated before him morning and evening." |
25:6 |
Say: "The (Qur'an) was sent down by Him who
knows the mystery (that is) in the heavens and
the earth: verily He is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful."
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25:7 |
And they say: "What sort of an apostle is
this, who eats food, and walks through the
streets? Why has not an angel been sent down to
him to give admonition with him? |
25:8 |
"Or (Why) has not a treasure been bestowed
on him, or why has he (not) a garden for
enjoyment?" The wicked say: "Ye follow none
other than a man bewitched." |
25:9 |
See what kinds of comparisons they make for
thee! But they have gone astray, and never a way
will they be able to find! |
25:10 |
Blessed is He who, if that were His will,
could give thee better (things) than those,-
Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and He could
give thee palaces (secure to dwell in). |
25:11 |
Nay they deny the hour (of the judgment to
come): but We have prepared a blazing fire for
such as deny the hour: |
25:12 |
When it sees them from a place far off, they
will hear its fury and its ranging sigh. |
25:13 |
And when they are cast, bound together into
a constricted place therein, they will plead for
destruction there and then! |
25:14 |
"This day plead not for a single
destruction: plead for destruction oft-
repeated!" |
25:15 |
Say: "Is that best, or the eternal garden,
promised to the righteous? for them, that is a
reward as well as a goal (of attainment). |
25:16 |
"For them there will be therein all that
they wish for: they will dwell (there) for aye:
A promise to be prayed for from thy Lord." |
25:17 |
The day He will gather them together as well
as those whom they worship besides God, He will
ask: "Was it ye who let these My servants
astray, or did they stray from the Path
themselves?" |
25:18 |
They will say: "Glory to Thee! not meet was
it for us that we should take for protectors
others besides Thee: But Thou didst bestow, on
them and their fathers, good things (in life),
until they forgot the Message: for they were a
people (worthl ess and) lost." |
25:19 |
(God will say): "Now have they proved you
liars in what ye say: so ye cannot avert (your
penalty) nor (get) help." And whoever among you
does wrong, him shall We cause to taste of a
grievous Penalty. |
25:20 |
And the apostles whom We sent before thee
were all (men) who ate food and walked through
the streets: We have made some of you as a trial
for others: will ye have patience? for God is
One Who sees (all things). |
25:21 |
Such as fear not the meeting with Us (for
Judgment) say: "Why are not the angels sent down
to us, or (why) do we not see our Lord?" Indeed
they have an arrogant conceit of themselves, and
mighty is the insolence of their impiety!
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25:22 |
The Day they see the angels,- no joy will
there be to the sinners that Day: The (angels)
will say: "There is a barrier forbidden (to you)
altogether!"
|
25:23 |
And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did
(in this life), and We shall make such deeds as
floating dust scattered about. |
25:24 |
The Companions of the Garden will be well,
that Day, in their abode, and have the fairest
of places for repose. |
25:25 |
The Day the heaven shall be rent asunder
with clouds, and angels shall be sent down,
descending (in ranks),- |
25:26 |
That Day, the dominion as of right and
truth, shall be (wholly) for (God) Most
Merciful: it will be a Day of dire difficulty
for the Misbelievers.
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25:27 |
The Day that the wrong-doer will bite at his
hands, he will say, "Oh! would that I had taken
a (straight) path with the Apostle! |
25:28 |
"Ah! woe is me! Would that I had never taken
such a one for a friend!
|
25:29 |
"He did lead me astray from the Message (of
God) after it had come to me! Ah! the Evil One
is but a traitor to man!" Then the Apostle will
say: |
25:30 |
"O my Lord! Truly my people took this Qur'an
for just foolish nonsense."
|
25:31 |
Thus have We made for every prophet an enemy
among the sinners: but enough is thy Lord to
guide and to help. |
25:32 |
Those who reject Faith say: "Why is not the
Qur'an revealed to him all at once? Thus (is it
revealed), that We may strengthen thy heart
thereby, and We have rehearsed it to thee in
slow, well-arranged stages, gradually. |
25:33 |
And no question do they bring to thee but We
reveal to thee the truth and the best
explanation (thereof). |
25:34 |
Those who will be gathered to Hell (prone)
on their faces,- they will be in an evil plight,
and, as to Path, most astray. |
25:35 |
(Before this,) We sent Moses The Book, and
appointed his brother Aaron with him as
minister; |
25:36 |
And We command: "Go ye both, to the people
who have rejected our Signs:" And those (people)
We destroyed with utter destruction. |
25:37 |
And the people of Noah,- when they rejected
the apostles, We drowned them, and We made them
as a Sign for mankind; and We have prepared for
(all) wrong-doers a grievous Penalty;- |
25:38 |
As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions
of the Rass, and many a generation between them.
|
25:39 |
To each one We set forth Parables and
examples; and each one We broke to utter
annihilation (for their sins). |
25:40 |
And the (Unbelievers) must indeed have
passed by the town on which was rained a shower
of evil: did they not then see it (with their
own eyes)? But they fear not the Resurrection.
|
25:41 |
When they see thee, they treat thee no
otherwise than in mockery: "Is this the one whom
God has sent as an apostle?" |
25:42 |
"He indeed would well-nigh have misled us
from our gods, had it not been that we were
constant to them!" - Soon will they know, when
they see the Penalty, who it is that is most
misled in Path! |
25:43 |
Seest thou such a one as taketh for his god
his own passion (or impulse)? Couldst thou be a
disposer of affairs for him? |
25:44 |
Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or
understand? They are only like cattle;- nay,
they are worse astray in Path. |
25:45 |
Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy
Lord?- How He doth prolong the shadow! If He
willed, He could make it stationary! then do We
make the sun its guide; |
25:46 |
Then We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a
contraction by easy stages.
|
25:47 |
And He it is Who makes the Night as a Robe
for you, and Sleep as Repose, and makes the Day
(as it were) a Resurrection. |
25:48 |
And He it is Who sends the winds as heralds
of glad tidings, going before His mercy, and We
send down pure water from the sky,- |
25:49 |
That with it We may give life to a dead
land, and slake the thirst of things We have
created,- cattle and men in great numbers. |
25:50 |
And We have distributed the (water) amongst
them, in order that they may celebrate (our)
praises, but most men are averse (to aught) but
(rank) ingratitude. |
25:51 |
Had it been Our Will, We could have sent a
warner to every centre of population. |
25:52 |
Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but
strive against them with the utmost
strenuousness, with the (Qur'an). |
25:53 |
It is He Who has let free the two bodies of
flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the
other salt and bitter; yet has He made a barrier
between them, a partition that is forbidden to
be passed. |
25:54 |
It is He Who has created man from water:
then has He established relationships of lineage
and marriage: for thy Lord has power (over all
things).
|
25:55 |
Yet do they worship, besides God, things
that can neither profit them nor harm them: and
the Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against
his own Lord!
|
25:56 |
But thee We only sent to give glad tidings
and admonition. |
25:57 |
Say: "No reward do I ask of you for it but
this: that each one who will may take a
(straight) Path to his Lord." |
25:58 |
And put thy trust in Him Who lives and dies
not; and celebrate his praise; and enough is He
to be acquainted with the faults of His
servants;- |
25:59 |
He Who created the heavens and the earth and
all that is between, in six days, and is firmly
established on the Throne (of Authority): God
Most Gracious: ask thou, then, about Him of any
acquainted (with such things). |
25:60 |
When it is said to them, "Adore ye (God)
Most Gracious!", they say, "And what is (God)
Most Gracious? Shall we adore that which thou
commandest us?" And it increases their flight
(from the Truth). |
25:61 |
Blessed is He Who made constellations in the
skies, and placed therein a Lamp and a Moon
giving light; |
25:62 |
And it is He Who made the Night and the Day
to follow each other: for such as have the will
to celebrate His praises or to show their
gratitude. |
25:63 |
And the servants of (God) Most Gracious are
those who walk on the earth in humility, and
when the ignorant address them, they say,
"Peace!"; |
25:64 |
Those who spend the night in adoration of
their Lord prostrate and standing;
|
25:65 |
Those who say, "Our Lord! avert from us the
Wrath of Hell, for its Wrath is indeed an
affliction grievous,- |
25:66 |
"Evil indeed is it as an abode, and as a
place to rest in"; |
25:67 |
Those who, when they spend, are not
extravagant and not niggardly, but hold a just
(balance) between those (extremes); |
25:68 |
Those who invoke not, with God, any other
god, nor slay such life as God has made sacred
except for just cause, nor commit fornication; -
and any that does this (not only) meets
punishment. |
25:69 |
(But) the Penalty on the Day of Judgment
will be doubled to him, and he will dwell
therein in ignominy,- |
25:70 |
Unless he repents, believes, and works
righteous deeds, for God will change the evil of
such persons into good, and God is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful,
|
25:71 |
And whoever repents and does good has truly
turned to God with an (acceptable) conversion;-
|
25:72 |
Those who witness no falsehood, and, if they
pass by futility, they pass by it with
honourable (avoidance); |
25:73 |
Those who, when they are admonished with the
Signs of their Lord, droop not down at them as
if they were deaf or blind; |
25:74 |
And those who pray, "Our Lord! Grant unto us
wives and offspring who will be the comfort of
our eyes, and give us (the grace) to lead the
righteous."
|
25:75 |
Those are the ones who will be rewarded with
the highest place in heaven, because of their
patient constancy: therein shall they be met
with salutations and peace, |
25:76 |
Dwelling therein;- how beautiful an abode
and place of rest! |
25:77 |
Say (to the Rejecters): "My Lord is not
uneasy because of you if ye call not on Him: But
ye have indeed rejected (Him), and soon will
come the inevitable (punishment)!" |