SURAH
AR-RA'D
Allah in the name of The Most Affectionate, the Merciful.
1. Alif-Lam Mim Ra. These are the verses of the Book, and
that which has been sent from your Lord is the truth, but most
men believe not.
2. Allah is He who raised up the heavens without the pillars
that you can see, and then He settled Himself on the throne
as is befitting to His Dignity and made the sun and the moon
subservient. Each one runs to a term stated. Allah plans the
work and details the signs so that you may believe the meeting
with your Lord.
3. And it is He who stretched the earth and made therein
anchors and rivers, and He made two kinds of every fruit in
the earth. He covers the night with the day. No doubt in that
are signs for a people who reflect.
4. And there are different regions adjoining each other,
and there are gardens of grapes and are corn fields and palm
trees growing from one base and separately, all are watered
with one water and in fruits, We make one to excel the other.
No doubt, in that are signs for wise people.
5. And if you wonder, then wondrous indeed is their saying
that shall we be made a-new after being dust? Those are they
who denied their Lord, and those are they who will have shackles
round their necks. And those are the people of Hell wherein
they shall abide.
6. And they ask you for hastening the torment before mercy
and the punishment of those before them have already occurred.
And verily your Lord awards forgiveness even on the injustices
of the people. And no doubt, the torment of your Lord is severe.
7. And the infidels say, 'why has not a sign been sent down
upon him from his Lord. You are only a warner and a guide to
every people.
8. Allah knows whatever is in the womb of any female and
whatever the wombs diminish and whatever they increase. And
everything with Him is with proper estimate.
9. Knower of every hidden and open, The Greatest, The Exalted.
10. All are alike, one who among you conceals his talks
and one who utters openly, and one who hides himself in the
night and one who walks by day.
11. For man there are angels in succession before and behind
him that they watch him by Allah's command, verily Allah alters
not His blessing from any people until they themselves alter
their condition. And when Allah desires evil to a people, then
it cannot be turned back, and besides Him they have no supporter.
12. It is He Who shows you the lightning for fear and hope
and raises the heavy clouds.
13. And the thunder praising Him proclaims His Holiness
and the messengers with His awe, and sends thunder-bolts then
smites therewith whom. He wills while they are disputing about
Allah. And His grip is severe.
14. Calling to Him alone is true, and those whom they call
upon beside Him, hear them not at all, but like him ' who is
sitting stretching his hands before the water that it may reach
his mouth, and it will never reach it. And every prayer of the
infidels loses its way.
15. And to Allah alone prostrates as many there are in the.
Heavens and earth willingly or unwillingly and their shadows
too every morning and evening. [^] (SAJDA) 2.
16. Say you, 'who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth.
Say yourself, ''Allah'. Say you, 'Have you then made supporters
beside Allah, who can neither do good or evil even to themselves?
Say you; will the blind and the seeing be equaled? Or will the
darkness and the light be equaled? "Or have they setup
such associates with Allah who have made something as Allah
has made, then the making of Him and of theirs looked similar
to them'' Say you, 'Allah alone is the Creator of everything
and He is the One' Dominant over all.'
17. He sent down water from the sky. then the channels flow
according to its capacity, then the flux of water carried with
it the swelling foam, and from that over which they kindle a
fire for making ornaments or other goods arises foams similar
to it. Thus Allah illustrates truth and false hood. Then the
foam is blown up and that which benefits mankind remains in
the earth. Thus Allah illustrates the examples.
18. For those who obeyed the commands of their Lord, there
is good. And as for those who obeyed not His commands. If they
had all that is in the earth, and the more like of it would
have been in their possession, then they would have offered
it for their ransom. These are they who will have an evil reckoning,
and their abode is Hell. And what an evil place of rest.
19. Shall he then who knows that what has been sent to you
from your Lord is truth be like him who is blind? Only those
who have wisdom accept admonition.
20. Those who fulfil the convenant of Allah, and turn not
after entering into a convenant.
21. And those who join what Allah has commanded to join,
and fear their Lord and dread the evil reckoning.
22. And those who kept patience for seeking the pleasure
of their Lord, and kept up the prayer, and spent out of what
We have provided them in Our path secretly and openly, and drive
away evil by means of goodness. For them is the profit of the
last abode.
23. Gardens for habitation in which they will enter, and
those who are righteous from among their fathers, and wives
and offspring and angels shall enter unto them from every door,
saying;
24. 'Peace be upon you for your patience,' what an excellent
last abode then you got.'
25. And those who break the covenant of Allah after confirming
it, and cut asunder what Allah has commanded to join, and spread
mischief in the earth, their share is only curse and theirs
the evil abode.
26. Allah increases the provision for whom He will and also
He straitens, and the infidels were strut with the life of the
world. And the life of the world is nothing in comparison to
the life of the Hereafter but to pull on for some days.
27. And the infidels say, 'why is not a sign from His Lord
sent down to him.' Say you, 'Allah leads astray whomsoever He
will, and guides towards Him one who turns to Him.
28. They are those who have believed and their hearts find
satisfaction with the remembrance of Allah. Behold, in the remembrance
of Allah alone there is the satisfaction of hearts.
29. Those who believed and performed- good deeds for them
is the bliss and good end.
30. Thus We have sent you to a people before whom other
peoples have passed in order that you may recite to them what
We have revealed to you, and they are rejecting the Most Affectionate,
Say you, He is my Lord, none is to be worshiped beside Him.
I relied upon Him alone and to Him do I return.'
31. If there would have come a Quran by which mountains
could be moved or the earth could be cut asunder or the dead
could have spoken to, even then too these infidels would not
have believed but the entire affair is under the authority of
Allah. Did then the Muslims not become disappointed with it
that if Allah had willed, He would have guided men all together?
And the thump will ever continue to smite the infidels for what
they wrought or it will alight near their houses, until Allah's
promise comes. Verily Allah does not do against His promise.
32. And surely, the messengers before you were mocked at,
then I let loose the infidels for some days' then I seized them.
Then how was My torment.
33. Is then He Who watches every soul with his actions?,
and yet they ascribe to Allah associates. Say you, 'name them.'
Or do you inform Him of what is not in His knowledge in the
entire earth. or by the - way an empty saying? Rather their
fraud has been made to look good in the eyes of the infidels,
and they have been hindered from the way. And he whom Allah
leads astray, has no guide.
34. They shall be punished in the life of the world, and
verily the torment of the Hereafter is hardest. And they have
none to defend from Allah.
35. The likeness of the Heaven, which has been, promised
to the God-fearing, beneath it streams flow. Its fruits are
everlasting and its shade. This is the end of those who fear
Allah, and the end of the infidels is the Fire.
36. And those to whom We have given the Book rejoice at
what has been sent to you, and of those groups there are some
who deny a part thereof. Say you, 'I am only commanded to worship
Allah and not to ascribe associate to Him. To Him I call, and
to Him is my return.
37. And thus We have sent it down as a decision in Arabic.
And O' listener! if you will follow their desires after what
has come to you of knowledge, then you shall have no supporter
nor defender against Allah.
38. And no doubt, We have sent messengers before you, and
assigned to them wives and children. And it is not for a messenger
to bring any sign, but by Allah's leave. For each promise there
is writing.
39. Allah wipes out what He pleases and establishes (what
He pleases) and the real writing is with Him.
40. And if We show you any promise that is made to them,
or We call you to Us before, in any case upon you is only to
deliver the message, and on Us is the reckoning.
41. Do they not see that We are coming diminishing their
population from all sides. And Allah commands, there is none
to put back His command, and He is swift in reckoning
42. And those before them have already plotted, but the
entire secret plans belong to Allah. He knows what every soul
earns. And the infidels are soon to know, who gets the last
abode.
43. And the infidels say, you are not a messenger.' Say
you, 'Allah is sufficient as witness between you and me, and
he who has knowledge of the Book.'
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