 سورة 20 of the Holy Qur'an translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovox recording is in the public domain سورة 20 طاها Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful طاها We have not revealed the Qur'an to you that you may be unsuccessful ني, it is a reminder to him who fears A revelation from him who created the earth and the high heavens The Beneficent Allah is firm in power His is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth And what is between them too And what is beneath the ground And if you utter the saying aloud Then surely he knows the secret And what is yet more hidden Allah, there is no God but He His are the very best names When he saw fire he said to his family Stop for surely I see a fire Happily I may bring to you there from a life cool Or find a guidance at the fire So when he came to it A voice was uttered Oh Musa Surely I am your Lord Therefore, put off your shoes Surely you are in the Sacred Valley طوة And I have chosen you So listen to what is revealed Surely I am Allah There is no God but I Therefore, serve me and keep a prayer For my remembrance Surely the hour is coming I am about to make it manifest So that every soul may be rewarded As it strives Therefore, let not him who believes Not in it and follows his low desires Turn you away from it So that you should perish And what is this in your right hand Oh Musa He said This is my stuff I recline on it And I beat the leaves with it To make them fall upon my sheep And I have other uses for it He said Cast it down Oh Musa So he cast it down And low It was a serpent running He said Take hold of it and fear not We will restore it to its former state And press your hand to your side It shall come out white without evil Another sign That we may show you of our greater science Go to Faran Surely he has exceeded all limits He said Oh my lord Expand my breast for me And make my affair easy to me And lose the knot from my tongue That they may understand my word And give to me an aider from my family Haroon my brother Strengthen my back by him And associate him with me In my affair So that we should glorify thee much And remember thee oft Surely thou are seeing us He said You are indeed granted your petition Oh Musa And certainly we bestowed on you A favor at another time When we revealed to your mother What was revealed Saying Put him into a chest Then cast it down into the river Then the river shall throw him on the shore There shall take him up one Who is an enemy to me And enemy to him And I cast down upon you love from me And that you might be brought up before my eyes When your sister went and said Shall I direct you To one who will take charge of him So we brought you back to your mother That her eye might be cooled And she should not grieve And you killed a man Then we delivered you from the grief And we tried you with a severe trying Then you stayed for years Among the people of Majan Then you came hither As Orden or Musa And I have chosen you for myself Go you and your brother With my communications And be not remiss in remembering me Go both to Feren Surely he has become in ordinate Then speak to him a gentle word Happily he may mind or fear And both said oh our lord Surely we fear that he may Hasen to do evil to us Or that he may become in ordinate He said fear not Surely I am with you both I do hear and see So go you both to him and say Surely we are two messengers of your lord And first send the children of Israel With us and do not torment them Indeed we have brought to you A communication from your lord And peace is on him Who follows the guidance Surely it has been revealed to us That the chastisement will surely come upon him Who rejects and turns back Feren said And who is your lord oh Musa He said our lord is he Who gave to everything its creation Then guided it to its goal He said then what is the state Of the former generations He said the knowledge thereof Is with my lord in a book My lord urs not Nor does he forget Who made the earth for you And expands and made for you The rin path and send down water From the cloud Then thereby we have brought forth Many pieces of various herbs Eat and pasture your kettle Most surely there are signs in this For those endowed with understanding From it we created you And into it we shall send you back And from it will we raise you A second time And truly we showed him Our signs all of them But he rejected and refused Said he Have you come to us That you should turn us out Of our land by your magic Oh Musa So we too will produce Before you magic like it Therefore make between us And you an appointment Which we should not break Neither we nor you In a central place Musa said Your appointment is the day Of the festival And let the people be gathered together In the early for noon So Pharaoh turned his back And settled his plan Then came Musa said to them Oh to you Do not forge a lie against Allah Lest he destroy you By a punishment And he who forges A lie indeed fails To attain his desire So they disputed With one another about their affair And kept the discourse a secret They said These are most surely Two magicians who wish to turn you Out from your land By their magic And to take away Your best traditions Therefore settle your plan Then come standing in ranks And he will prosper Indeed this day Who overcomes They said Oh Musa Will you cast Or shall we be the first Who cast down He said Nay Cast down Then low Their cords and their rods It was imaged To him On account of their magic As if they were running So Musa conceived In his mind a fear We said Fear not Surely you shall be the uppermost And cast down What is in your right hand It shall devour What they have wrote They have wrote only The plan of a magician And the magician Shall not be successful Wheresoever he may come from And the magicians Were cast down Making obeisance They said You believe in the Lord of Haroon And Musa Farron said You believe in him Before I give you leave Most surely he is the chief of you Who taught you enchantment Therefore I will certainly cut off Your hands and your feet On opposite sides And I will certainly Crucify you on the trunks Of the palm trees And certainly You will come to know Which of us is the more severe And the more abiding In chastising They said We do not prefer you To what has come to us Of clear arguments And to he who made us Therefore decide What you are going to decide You can only decide About this world's life Surely we believe in our Lord That he may forgive us Our sins and the magic To which you compelled us And Allah is better And more abiding Whoever comes to his Lord Being guilty For him is surely hell He shall not die therein Nor shall he live And whoever comes to him A believer He has done good deeds Indeed These it is Who shall have the high ranks The gardens of perpetuity Beneath which rivers flow To abide therein And this is the reward of him Who has purified himself And certainly We reveal to Musa Saying Travel by night with my servants Make for them A dry path in the sea Not fearing to be overtaken Nor being afraid And Pharaoh followed them With his armies So there came upon them Of the sea That which came upon them And Pharaoh Led astray his people And he did not guide them Aright O children of Israel Indeed we deliver you From your enemy And we made a covenant With you On the blessed side Of the mountain And we sent to you The manna and the quails Eat of the good things We have given you For sustenance And be not in ordinate With respect to them Lest my wrath Should be due to you And to whomsoever My wrath is due Be shall perish indeed And most surely I am most forgiving to him Who repents and believes And does good Then continues to follow The right direction And what caused you To hasten from your people O Musa He said They are here on my track And I hasten on to thee My lord That thou must be pleased He said So surely we have tried Your people after you And the samurai Has led them astray So Musa returned To his people wrathful Serving Said he O my people Did not your lord promise You a goodly promise Did then the time seem Long to you Or did you wish This pleasure from your lord Should be due to you So that you broke Your promise to me They said We did not break Our promise to you Of our own accord But we were made To bear the burdens Of the ornaments of the people Then we made A casting of them And thus did the samurai Suggest So he brought forth For them a calf A mere budgie Which had a moving Sound So they said This is your god And the god of Musa But he forgot What could they not see That it did not return To them a reply And that it did not Control any harm Or benefit for them And certainly Haroun Had said to them before All my people You are only tried By it And surely your lord Is the beneficent Allah Therefore follow me And obey my order They said We will by no means Seize to keep To its worship Until Musa Returns to us Musa said Oh Haroun What prevented you When you saw them Going astray So that you did not Follow me Did you then Disobey my order He said Oh son of my mother Seize me not By my beard Nor by my head Surely I was afraid Lest you should say You have caused a division Among the children of Israel And not waited For my word He said What was then your object Oh Samaray He said I saw Gabriel What they did not see So I took a handful Of the dust From the footsteps Of the messenger Then I threw it in the casting Thus did my soul Command to me He said Begun then Surely for you It will be In this life to say Touch me not And surely there is a threat For you Which shall not be made To fail to you And look at your God To whose worship You kept so long We will certainly burn it Then we will Certainly scatter it A wide scattering in the sea Your God is only Allah There is no God but He He comprehends all things In His Knowledge Thus do we relate to you Some of the news Of what has gone before And indeed we have given to you A reminder from ourselves Whoever turns aside From it He shall surely bear A burden on the day Of resurrection Abiding in this state And evil will it be For them to bear On the day of resurrection On the day when the trumpet Shall be blown And we will gather The guilty blue-eyed On that day They shall consult together Secretly You did tarry But ten centuries We know best What they say When the fairest of them In course would say You tarried but a day And they ask you about the mountains Say My Lord will carry them Away from the roots Then leave it a plain Smooth level You shall not see there in any Crookedness or unevenness On that day They shall follow the inviter There is no crookedness in him And the voices Shall be low Before the beneficent Allah So that you shall not hear Out but a soft sound On that day Shall no intercession Avail except of him Whom the beneficent Allah Allows And whose word He is pleased with He knows what is before them And what is behind them While they do not comprehend It in knowledge And the faces shall be Humble before the living The self-subsistent Allah And he who bears inequity Is indeed a failure And whoever does good works And he is a believer He shall have no fear of injustice Nor of the withholding Of his due And thus have we sent it down An Arabic Quran And have distinctly set forth The ring of threats That they may guard against evil Or that it may produce A reminder for them Supremely exalted Is therefore Allah The King The Truth And do not make haste With the Quran Before its revelation Is made complete to you And say Oh my Lord Increase me in knowledge And certainly we gave A commandment to Adam Before But he forgot And we did not find In him any determination And when we said to the angels Make obeisance to Adam They made obeisance But Iblis did it not He refused So we said Oh Adam This is an enemy to you And to your wife Therefore let him not drive you Both forth from the garden So that you should be unhappy Surely it is ordained for you That you shall not be hungry Nor bear of clothing And that you shall not be thirsty Nor shall you feel The heat of the sun Satan made an evil suggestion to him He said Oh Adam Shall I guide you to the tree of immortality And a kingdom which decays not Then they both ate of it So their evil inclinations Became manifest to them And they both began to cover themselves With leaves of the garden And Adam disobeyed his Lord So his life became evil to him Then his Lord chose him So he turned to him and guided him He said Get forth you two there from All of you One of you is enemy to another So there will surely come to you Guidance from me Then whoever follows my guidance Will not go astray Nor be unhappy And whoever turns away From my reminder His shall be a straightened life And we will raise him On the day of resurrection Blind He shall say My Lord Why hast thou raised me blind And I was seeing one indeed He will say Even so Our communications came to you But you neglected them Even thus shall you be forsaken this day And thus do we recompense him Who is extravagant And does not believe In the communications of his Lord And certainly the chastisement Of the hereafter is severer And more lasting Does it not then direct them Right how many of the generations In whose dwelling places they go about We destroyed before them Most surely there are signs in this For those endowed with understanding And have there not been a word That had already gone forth From your Lord and an appointed term It would surely have been made To cleave to them There then patiently what they say And glorify your Lord By the praising of him Before the rising of the sun And before its setting And during hours of the night Do also glorify him And during parts of the day That you may be well pleased And do not stretch your eyes After that with which we have Provided different classes of them Of the splendor of this word's life That we may thereby try them And the sustenance given by your Lord Is better and more abiding And enjoy in prayer on your followers And steadily adhere to it We do not ask you for subsistence We do give you subsistence And the good end Is for guarding against evil And they say Why does he not bring to us A sign from his Lord Has not there come to them A clear evidence of what is In the previous books Had we destroyed them With chastisement before this They would certainly have said Oh our Lord Why dist thou not sent to us A messenger For then we should have followed Thy communications Before that we met this grace And shame Say every one of us is awaiting Therefore do await So you will come to know Who is the follower of the even path And who goes right End of Surah 20 Surah 21 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovox recording Is in the public domain Surah 21 The prophets Al-Anbiye Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Their reckoning has drawn near to men And in heedlessness Are they turning aside There comes not to them A new reminder from their Lord But they hear it while they sport Their hearts trifling And those who are unjust Counsel together in secret He is nothing But immortal like yourselves What will you then yield To enchantment while you see He said My Lord knows What is spoken in the heaven And the earth And he is the hearing, the knowing Nay, say they Medleers of dreams Nay, he has forged it Nay, he is a poet So let him bring to us A sign as the former prophets Were sent with There did not believe Before them any town Which we destroyed Will they then believe And we did not send Before you any but men To whom we sent revelation So ask the followers Of the reminder If you do not know And we did not make them Buddhas not eating the food And they were not to abide forever Then we made our promise Good to them So we delivered them And those whom we pleased And we destroyed the extravagant Certainly we have revealed To you a book In which is your good remembrance What do you not then understand And how many a town Which was iniquitous Did we demolish And we raised up after it Another people So when they felt our punishment Low they began to fly Do not fly now And come back to what you were made To lead easy lives In and to your dwellings Happily you will be questioned They said Oh woe to us Surely we were unjust And this seized not to be their cry Till we made them cut off extinct And we did not create The heaven and the earth And what is between them For sport Had we wished to make A diversion We would have made it From before ourselves By no means would we do it Nay, we cast the truth Against the falsehood So that it breaks its head And law It vanishes And woe to you For what you describe And whoever is in the heavens And the earth is his And those who are with him Are not proud to serve him Nor do they grow weary They glorify him by night and day They are never languid Or have they taken gods From the earth who raised the dead If there had been in them Any gods except Allah They would both have certainly Been in a state of disorder Therefore Glory be to Allah The lord of the dominion Above what they attribute to him He cannot be questioned Concerning what he does And they shall be questioned Or have they taken gods besides him Say bring your proof Because the reminder of those with me And the reminder of those before me Nay, most of them do not know the truth So they turn aside And we did not send before you any messenger But we revealed to him That there is no god but me Therefore serve me And they say the beneficent Allah Has taken to himself a son Glory be to him Nay, they are honored servants They do not precede him in speech And only according to his commandment Do they act He knows what is before them And what is behind them And they do not intercede Except for him Whom he approves And those who hear of him They tremble And whoever of them should say Surely I am a god besides him Such a one do we recompense with hell Thus do we recompense the unjust Do not those who disbelieve See that the heavens and the earth Were closed up But we have opened them And made of water everything living Will they not then believe And we have made great mountains in the earth Lest it might be convulsed with them And we have made in it wide ways That they may follow a right direction And we have made the heaven a guarded canopy And yet they turn aside from its science And he it is who created the night And the day and the sun and the moon All orbs travel along swiftly In their celestial spheres And we did not ordain abiding For any mortal before you What? Then if you die will they abide Every soul must taste of death And we try you by evil and good And when you die of probation And to us you shall be brought back And when those who disbelieve See you they do not take you But for one to be scoffed at Is this he who speaks of your gods And they are deniers At the mention of the beneficent Allah Man is created of haste To you my signs Therefore do not ask me To hasten them on And they say When will this threat come to pass If you are truthful Had those who disbelieve But known of the time When they shall not be able To ward off the fire from their faces Nor from their backs Nor shall they be helped And certainly it shall come On them all of a sudden And cause them to become confounded So they shall not have the power To avert it Nor shall they be respited And certainly messengers Before you were scoffed at Then there be fell Those of them who scoffed at At which they had scoffed Who guards you by night And by day From the beneficent Allah Nay, they turn aside At the mention of their lord Or have they gods Who can defend them against us They shall not be able To assist themselves Nor shall they be defended from us Nay, we gave provision To these and their fathers Until life was prolonged to them Do they not then see That we are visiting the land Curtailing it of its sides Shall they then prevail Say, I warn you only by revelation And the deaf do not hear the call Whenever they are warned And if a blast of the chastisement Of your lord were to touch them They will certainly say Oh, who to us Surely we were unjust And we will set up a just balance On the day of resurrection So no soul shall be dealt With unjustly in the least And though there be the weight Of a grain of mustard seed Yet will we bring it And sufficient are we To take account And certainly we gave to Musa and Haroun The forecon and a light And a reminder for those Who would guard against evil For those who fear their lord In secret and they are fearful Of the hour And this is a blessed reminder Which we have revealed Will you then deny it And certainly we gave to Ibrahim His rectitude before And we knew him fully well When he said to his father And his people What are these images To whose worship you cleave They said we found Our fathers worshipping them He said certainly you have Been both you and your fathers In manifest error They said have you brought To us the truth Or are you one of the triflers He said me your lord Is the lord of the heavens And the earth Who brought them into existence And I am of those Who bear witness to this And by Allah I will certainly Do something against Your idols after you go away Turning back So he broke them into pieces Except the chief of them That happily they may return to it They said who has done This to our gods Most surely he is one of the unjust They said we heard A youth called Ibrahim Speak of them Said they then bring him Before the eyes of the people Perhaps they may bear witness They said have you done This to our gods Oh Ibrahim He said surely some doer Has done it The chief of them is this Therefore ask them If they can't speak Then they turn to themselves And said surely you yourselves Are the unjust Then they were made to hang Down their heads Certainly you know That they do not speak He said what do you Then serve besides Allah What brings you not Any benefit at all Nor does it harm you Fie on you and on What you serve besides Allah What do you not Then understand They said burn him And help your gods If you are going to do anything We said oh fire Be a comfort and peace to Ibrahim And they desired a war on him But we made them The greatest losers And we delivered him As well as loot Removing them To the land which we had Blessed for all people And we gave him Ashaq and Yaqub A son's son And we made them all good And we made them Imams who guided people By our command And we revealed to them The doing of good And the keeping up of prayer And the giving of the arms And us alone Did they serve And as for loot And knowledge And we delivered him From the town Which wrote abominations Surely they were an evil people Transgressors And we took him Into our mercy Surely he was Of the good And when he cried A fourth time So we answered him And delivered him To the great calamity And we helped him Against the people who rejected Our communications Surely they were An evil people So we drowned them all And the wood and the soleiman When they gave judgment Concerning the field When the people's sheep Pastured their inn by night And we were bearers Of witness to their judgment So we made soleiman To understand it And to each one We gave wisdom and knowledge And we made the mountains And the birds To celebrate our praise With the wood And we were the doers And we taught him The making of quotes of mail For you That they might protect you In your wars And then be grateful And we made subservient To soleiman The wind blowing violent Pursuing its course By his command To the land which we had blessed And we are knower Of all things And of the rebellious people There were those who Dived for him and did other work Besides That And Iyub When he cried To his lord saying Harm has afflicted me And thou art the most merciful Of the merciful Therefore we responded To him and took off What harm he had And we gave him his family And the like of them With them A mercy from us and a reminder To the worshippers And Ismail And Idris and Zelkif All were of the patient Ones And we caused them to enter into our Mercy Surely they were of the good ones And Yunus When he went away in wrath So he thought that we would Not straighten him So he called out among Afflections There is no God but thou So he be to thee Surely I am of those Who make themselves To suffer loss So we responded to him And delivered him from the grief And thus do we deliver The believers And Zakaria when he Cried to his lord Oh my lord leave me not alone And thou art the best Of inheritors So we responded to him And gave him Yahya And made his wife fit for him Surely they Used to hasten one With another In deeds of goodness And to call upon us Hoping and fearing And they were humble before us And she who guarded Her chastity So we breathed into her Of our inspiration And made her And her son Assigned for the nations Surely this Islam Is your religion One religion only And I am your lord Therefore serve me And they broke their Religion into sects Between them To us shall all come Back Therefore whoever shall Do of good And believe There shall be no denying Of his exertion And surely we will Write it down for him And it is binding On a town which we destroy That they shall not return Even when Gog and Magog are Let loose and they shall Break forth from Every elevated place And the true promise Shall draw nigh Then law the eyes Of those who disbelieved Shall be fixedly open O woe to us Surely we were In a state of heedlessness As to this Nay, we were unjust Surely you And what you worship Besides Allah Are the firewood of hell To it you shall come Had these been gods They would not have come to it And all shall abide The ring For them the ring shall be Growning and the ring They shall not hear Surely as for those For whom the good Has already gone forth From us They shall be kept far off From it They will not hear its Sound And they shall abide In that which their souls Long for The great fearful Event shall not grieve them And the angels shall meet them This is your day Which you were promised On the day When we will roll up heaven Like the rolling up of the scroll For writings As we originated Our creation So we shall reproduce it A promise binding On us Surely we will bring it about And certainly We wrote in the book after the reminder That as for the land My righteous servants Shall inherit it Most surely in this Is a message to a people Who serve And we have not sent you As a mercy to the world Say It is only revealed to me That your Allah is one Allah will you then Submit But if they turn back Say I have given you warning In fairness And I do not know Whether what you are threatened With is near or far Surely he knows What is spoken openly And he knows What you hide And I do not know If this may be a trial for you And a provision till a time He said Oh my lord Judge thou with truth And our lord is the beneficent Allah Whose help is sought Against what you ascribe To him End of Surah 21 Surah 22 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Mohamed حبيب شاكر This liberal box Recording is in the public domain Surah 22 The pilgrimage الحج Revealed at Medina In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Oh people You guard against the punishment From your lord Surely the violence Of the hour is a grievous Thing On the day when you shall See it every woman Giving suck shall quit In confusion What she suckled And every pregnant Woman shall lay down Her burden And you shall see men Toxicated And they shall not be intoxicated But The chastisement of Allah Will be severe And among men There is he who disputes About Allah Without knowledge And follows every Rebellious shaitan Against him it is written down That whoever takes him For a friend Will lead him astray And conduct him To the chastisement Of the burning fire Oh people If you are in doubt about the reason Then surely we created you From dust Then from a small seed Then from a cloth Then from a lamp of flesh Complete in make And incomplete That we may make clear To you And we cause what we please To stay in the wombs Till an appointed time Then we bring you forth As babies Then that you may Attain your maturity And of you is he Who is caused to die And of you is he Who is brought back To the worst part of life So that after Having knowledge He does not know anything And you see the earth A sterile land But when we send down On it the water It stirs and swells And brings forth Of every kind a beautiful Herbage This is because Allah Is the truth and because He gives life to the dead And because he has power For all things And because the hour Is coming there is no doubt About it And because Allah shall Raise up those who are In the graves And among men there is he Who disputes about Allah Without knowledge And without guidance And without an illuminating Book Turning away totally And leading others astray From the way of Allah For him is Disgrace in this world And on the day Of resurrection We will make him taste The punishment of burning This is due To what your two hands Have sent before And because Allah is not In the least unjust to the servants And among men Is he who serves Allah Standing on the verge So that if good Befalls him He is satisfied there With But if a trial afflicts him He turns back headlong He loses This world as well As the hereafter That is a manifest loss He calls Besides Allah That which does not harm Him And that which does not profit Him That is the great straying He calls upon him Whose harm is nearer Than his profit Evil certainly is the guardian And evil certainly Is the associate Surely Allah will cause Those who believe And do good deeds Under which rivers flow Surely Allah Does what he pleases Whoever thinks That Allah will not assist Him in this life And hereafter Let him stretch a rope To the ceiling Than let him cut it off Than let him see If his struggle Will take away that at Which he is enraged Thus have we revealed it Being clear arguments And because Allah guides Whom he intends Surely those who believe And those who are Jews And the Sabines And the Christians And the Magines And those who Associate others With Allah Surely Allah will decide Between them on the day And the direction Surely Allah is a witness Over all things Do you not see That Allah is He Whom obeys Whoever is in the heavens And whoever is in the earth And the sun And the moon And the stars And the mountains And the trees And the animals And the sun And the settlement Has become necessary And Whomsoever Allah Abases There is none who can make Him honorable Surely Allah does what he pleases These are two adversaries Who dispute About their lord Than as to those Who disbelieve For them يؤمنون وفعلون جيدة في صباحة في جميع البداءة التي يتطلقون. يجب أن يكونون فيها يضعون حرامه بطبطة موضوعية ومع حرامهم ومع حرامهم. ويجب أن يكونون فيه حرامه يجب أن يكونون فيه موضوع. ويساعدون للتصميم والموضوع ويساعدون إلى وعندما أساعدنا إلى أبراهيم ، المنزل من المنزل أن لا يتساعد معي أوت ، ويأخذ من my house for those who make the circuit and stand to pray and bow and prostrate themselves and proclaim among men the pilgrimage they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel يأتي من كل رحل جيد ، لذلك يجب أن ينظر مدونا لهم ويبقى the name of Allah لذلك مرسلين لكسرين ما تحاولين وضعهم من الهاتف الكتل حتى يتأخذهم ويشعروا شخص جيدا ، فهذا يتخذونهم وقالهم يجب أن يتوضعون ، ويخلقهم ويحسنهم ودعهم يفلقونهم ودعهم يذهبون إلى المساعدة الانسانية يجب أن تكون صحيحاً ومن who ever respects the sacred ordinance of Allah it is better for him with his Lord and the cattle are made lawful for you except that which is recited to you therefore avoid the uncleanness of the idols and avoid false words being upright for Allah not associating ought with him and whoever associates others with Allah it is as though he had fallen from on high then the birds snatch him away or the wind carries him off to a far distant place that shall be so and whoever respects the signs of Allah this surely is the outcome of the piety of hearts you have advantages in them till a fixed time then their place of sacrifice is the ancient house and to every nation we appointed acts of devotion that they may mention the name of Allah on what he has given them of the cattle quadrupeds so your Allah is one Allah therefore to him should you submit and give good news to the humble to those whose hearts tremble when Allah is mentioned and those who are patient under that which afflicts them and those who keep up prayer and spend benevolently out of what we have given them and as for the camels we have made them of the signs of the religion of Allah for you for you therein is much good therefore mention the name of Allah on them as they stand in a row then when they fall down eat of them and feed the poor man who is contented and the beggar thus have we made them subservient to you that you may be grateful there does not reach Allah their flesh nor their blood but to him is acceptable the guarding against evil on your part thus has he made them subservient to you that you may magnify Allah because he has guided you right and give good news to those who do good to others surely Allah will defend those who believe surely Allah does not love anyone who is unfaithful ungrateful permission to fight is given to those upon whom more is made because they are oppressed and most surely Allah is well able to assist them those who have been expelled from their homes without a just cause except that they say Our Lord is Allah and had there not been Allah's repelling some people by others certainly there would have been pulled down close to and churches and synagogues and mosques in which Allah's name is much remembered and surely Allah will help him who helps his cause most surely Allah is a strong mighty those who should we establish them in the land will keep a prayer and pay the poor rate and enjoy good and forbid evil and Allah's is the end of affairs and if they reject you then already before you did the people of Nuh and Ayd and Samud reject prophets and the people of Ibrahim and the people of Lot as well as those of Madian and Musa too was rejected but I gave respect to the unbelievers then did I overtake them so how severe was my disapproval so how many a town did we destroy while it was unjust so it was falling down upon its roofs and how many a deserted well and palace raised high have they not traveled in the land they should have hearts with which to understand or ears with which to hear for surely it is not the eyes that are blind but blind are the hearts which are in the breasts and they ask you to hasten on the punishment and Allah will by no means fill in his promise and surely a day with your Lord is as a thousand years of what you number and how many a town to which I gave respect while it was unjust then I overtook it and to me is the return say oh people I am only a plain warner to you then as for those who believe and do good they shall have forgiveness and an honorable sustenance and as for those who strive to oppose our communications they shall be the inmates of the flaming fire and we did not send before you any messenger or prophet but when he desired the shaitan made a suggestion respecting his desire but Allah annulled that which the shaitan costs then does Allah establish his communications and Allah is knowing wise so that he may make what the shaitan costs a trial for those in whose hearts is disease and those whose hearts are hard and most surely the unjust are in a great opposition and that those who have been given the knowledge may know that it is the truth from your Lord so they may believe in it and their hearts may be lowly before it and most surely Allah is the guide of those who believe into a right path and those who disbelieve shall not cease to be in doubt concerning it until the hour overtakes them suddenly or there comes on them the chastisement of a destructive day the kingdom on that day shall be Allah's he will judge between them so those who believe and do good will be in gardens of bliss and as for those who disbelieve in and reject our communications these it is who shall have a disgraceful chastisement and as for those who fly in Allah's way and are then slain or die Allah will most certainly grant them a goodly sustenance and most surely Allah is the best giver of sustenance he will certainly cause them to enter a place of entrance which they shall be well pleased with and most surely Allah is knowing for bearing that shall be so and he who retaliates with the like of that with which he has been afflicted and he has been oppressed Allah will most certainly aid him most surely Allah is pardoning forgiving that is because Allah causes the night to enter into the day and causes the day to enter into the night and because Allah is hearing, seeing that is because Allah is the truth and that what they call upon besides him that is the falsehood and because Allah is the High, the Great do you not see that Allah sends down water from the clouds so the earth becomes green surely Allah is benign and aware his is whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth and most surely Allah is the self-sufficient the praise do you not see that Allah has made subservient to you whatsoever is in the earth and the ships running in the sea by his command and he withholds the heaven from falling on the earth except with his permission most surely Allah is compassionate merciful to men and he it is who has brought you to life then he will cause you to die then bring you to life again most surely man is ungrateful to every nation we appointed acts of devotion which they observe therefore they should not dispute with you about the matter and call to your Lord most surely you are on a right way and if they contend with you say Allah best knows what you do Allah will judge between you on the day of resurrection respecting that in which you differ do you not know that Allah knows what is in the heaven and the earth surely this is in a book surely this is easy to Allah and they serve besides Allah that for which he has not sent any authority and that of which they have no knowledge and for the unjust there shall be no helper and when our clear communications are recited to them you will find denial on the faces of those who disbelieve they almost spring upon those who recite to them our communications say shall I inform you of what is worse than this the fire Allah has promised it to those who disbelieve and how evil the resort all people a parable is set forth therefore listen to it surely those whom you call upon besides Allah cannot create fly though they should all gather for it and should the fly snatch away anything from them they could not take it back from it weak are the invoker and the invoked they have not estimated Allah with the estimation that is due to him most surely Allah is a strong mighty Allah chooses messengers from among the angels and from among the men surely Allah is hearing seeing He knows what is before them and what is behind them and to Allah are all affairs turned back all you who believe bow down and prostrate yourselves and serve your Lord and do good that you may succeed and strive hard in the way of Allah such a striving is due to him He has chosen you and has not laid upon you and hardship in religion the faith of your father Ibrahim He named you Muslims before and in this that the messenger may be a bearer of witness to you and you may be bearers of witness to the people therefore keep up prayer and pay the poor rate and hold fast by Allah He is your guardian how excellent the guardian and how excellent the helper End of Surah 22 Surah 23 of the Holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker this Libro Vox recording is in the public domain Surah 23 the believers and believers revealed at Makkah in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful successful indeed are the believers who are humble in their prayers and who keep aloof from what is vain and who are givers of poor rate and who guard their private parts except before their mates or those whom their right hands possess for they surely are not believable but whoever seeks to go beyond that these are they that exceed the limits and those who are keepers of their trusts and their covenant and those who keep a guard on their prayers these are they who are the heirs who shall inherit the paradise they shall abide therein and certainly we created man of an extract of clay then we made him a small seed in a firm resting place then we made the seed a clot then we made the clot a lump of flesh then we made in the lump of flesh then we closed the bones with flesh then we caused it to grow into another creation so blessed be Allah the best of the creators then after that you will most surely die then surely on the day of resurrection you shall be raised and certainly we made above you seven heavens and never are we heedless of creation and we send down water from the cloud according to a measure then we cause it to settle in the earth and most surely we are able to carry it away then we cause to grow their by gardens of palm trees and grapes for you you have in them many fruits and from them do you eat and a tree that grows out of mountain which produces oil and a condiment for those who eat and most surely there is a lesson for you in the cattle we make you to drink of what is in their bellies and you have in them many advantages and on them and on the ships you are born and certainly we sent Nuh to his people and he said oh my people serve Allah you have no God other than him will you not then guard against evil and the sheaves of those who disbelieved from among his people said بطمورتل like yourselves who desires that he may have superiority over you and if Allah had pleased he could certainly have sent down angels we have not heard of this among our fathers of yore he is only a madman so bear with him for a time he said oh my lord against their calling me a liar so we reveal to him saying make the ark before our eyes and according to our revelation and when our command is given and the valley overflows take into it of every kind a pair to and your followers except those among them against whom God has gun forth and do not speak to me in respect of those who are unjust surely they shall be drowned and when you are firmly seated you and those with you in the ark say all praise is due to Allah who delivered us from the unjust people and say oh my lord cause me to disembark a blessed alighting and thou art the best to cause to alight most surely there are signs in this and most surely we are ever trying men then we raised up after them another generation so we sent among them a messenger among them saying serve Allah you have no god other than him will you not then guard against evil and the sheeps of his people who disbelieved and called the meeting of the hereafter alight and whom we had given plenty to enjoy in this world's life said this is nothing but a mortal like yourselves eating of what you eat from and drinking of what you drink and if you obey a mortal like yourselves then most surely you will be losers what does he threaten you that when you are dead and become dust and bones that you shall then be brought forth far far is that which you are threatened with there is not but our life in this world we die and we live and we shall not be raised again he is not but a man who has forged a lie against Allah and we are not going to believe in him he said oh my lord help me against calling me a liar he said in a little while they will most certainly be repenting so the punishment overtook them in justice and we made them as rubbish so away with the unjust people then we raised after them other generations no people can hasten on their doom nor can they postpone it then we sent our messengers one after another whenever they came to a people their messenger they called him a liar so we made some of them follow others and we made them stories so away with a people who do not believe then we sent mosa and his brother Haroon with our communications and a clear authority to Farron and his chiefs but they behaved totally and they were an insolent people and they said what shall we believe in two mortals like ourselves while their people serve us so they rejected them and became of those who were destroyed and certainly we gave mosa the book that they may follow a right direction and we made the son of Mariam and his mother a sign and we gave them a shelter on a lofty ground having matters and springs all messengers eat of the good things and do good surely I know what you do and surely this your religion is one religion and I am your lord therefore be careful of your duty to me but they cut off their religion among themselves into sects each part rejoicing in that which is with them therefore leave them in their overwhelming ignorance till they think that by what we aid them with of wealth and children we are hastening to them of good things nay they do not perceive surely they who from fear of their lord are cautious and those who believe in the communications of their lord and those who do not associate ought with their lord and those who give what they give in arms while their hearts are full of fear that to their lord they must return these hasten to good things and they are foremost in attaining them and we do not lay on any soul a burden except to the extent of its ability and with us is a book which speaks the truth and they shall not be dealt with unjustly nay their hearts are in overwhelming ignorance with respect to it and they have besides this other deeds which they do until when we overtake those who lead easy lives among them with punishment لا they cry for sucker cry not for sucker this day surely you shall not be given help from us my communications were indeed recited to you but you use to turn back on your heels in arrogance talking nonsense about the Quran and left him like one telling fables by night is it then that they do not ponder over what is said or is it that there has come to them that which did not come to their fathers of old or is it that they have not recognized their messenger so that they deny him or do they say there is madness in him nay he has brought them the truth and most of them are a verse from the truth and should the truth follow their low desires surely the heavens and the earth and all those who are therein would have perished nay we have brought to them their reminder but from the reminder they turn aside or is it that you ask them a recompense but the recompense of your lord is best and he is the best of those who provide sustenance and most surely you invite them to a right way and most surely those who do not believe in the hereafter are deviating from the way and if we show mercy to them and remove the distress they have they would persist in their in ordency blindly wandering on and already we overtook them with chastisement but they were not submissive to their lord nor do they humble themselves until when we open upon them a door of severe chastisement though they are in despair at it and he it is who made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts little is it that you give thanks and he it is who multiplied you in the earth and to him you shall be gathered and he it is who gives life and causes death and in his control is the alternation of the night and the day do you not then understand nay they say the like of what the ancients said they say what when we are dead and become dust and bones shall we then be raised certainly we are promised this and so were our fathers a fourth time this is but stories of those of old say whose is the earth and who ever is there in if you know they will say Allah's say will you not then mind say who is the lord of the seven heavens and the lord of the mighty dominion they will say this is Allah's they will you not then guard against evil say who is it in whose hand is the kingdom of all things and who gives but against him is not given if you do but they will say this is Allah's say from whence are you then deceived may we have brought to them the truth and most surely they are liars never did Allah take to himself a son and never was there with him any other god in that case would each god have certainly taken away what he created and some of them would certainly have overpowered others glory be to Allah above what they describe the knower of the unseen and the seen so may he be exalted above what they associate with him say oh my lord if thou shouldest make me see what they are threatened with my lord then place me not with the unjust and most surely we are well able to make you see what we threatened them with repel evil by what is best we know best what they describe and say oh my lord I seek refuge in thee from the evil suggestions of the shaitans and I seek refuge in thee oh my lord in their presence until when death overtakes one of them he says send me back my lord send me back happily I may do good in that which I have left by no means it is a mere word that he speaks and before them is a barrier until the day they are raised so when the trumpet is blown there shall be no ties of relationship between them on that day nor shall they ask of each other then as for him whose good deeds are preponderant these are the successful and as for him whose good deeds are light these are they who shall break their souls abiding in hell the fire shall scorch their faces and they therein shall be in severe affliction were not my communications recited to you but you used to reject them they shall say oh our lord our adversity overcame us and airing people oh our lord take us out of it then if we return to evil surely we shall be unjust he shall say go away into it and speak not to me surely there was a party of my servants who said oh our lord we believe and forgive us and have mercy on us and thou art the best of the merciful ones but you took them for a mockery until they made you forget my remembrance and you used to laugh at them surely I have rewarded them this day because they were patient that they are the achievers and they will say how many years did you tarry in the earth they will say we tarred a day or part of a day but ask those who keep account he will say you did tarry but a little had you but known it what did you then think you shall not be returned to us so exalted be Allah the true king no god is there but he the lord of the honorable dominion and whoever invokes with another god he has no proof of this his reckoning is only with his lord surely the unbelievers shall not be successful and say oh my lord forgive and have mercy and thou art the best of the merciful ones end of surah 23 surah 24 of the holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaikar this le provokes recording is in the public domain surah 24 the light revealed at madina in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful this is a chapter which we have revealed and made obligatory and in which we have revealed clear communications that you may be mindful as for the fornicatress and the fornicator if you believe in Allah and the last day and let a party of believers witness their chastisement the fornicator shall not marry any but a fornicatress or idolatress and as for the fornicatress none shall marry her but a fornicator or idolatress or idolatress and it is forbidden to the believers and those who accuse free women then do not bring for witnesses flood them giving 80 stripes and do not admit any evidence from them ever and these it is that are the transgressors except those who repent after this and act right for surely Allah is forgiving merciful and as for those who accuse their wives and have no witnesses except themselves the evidence of one of these should be taken four times bearing Allah to witness that he is most surely of the truthful ones and the fifth time that the curse of Allah be on him if he is one of the liars and it shall avert the chastisement from her if she testify four times bearing Allah to witness that he is most surely one of the liars and the fifth time that the wrath of Allah be on her if he is one of the truthful and where it not for Allah's grace upon you and his mercy and that Allah not returning to mercy wise surely they who concocted the lie are a party from among you do not regard it an evil to you nay it is good for you every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin and as for him who took upon himself the main part thereof he shall have a grievous chastisement why did not the believing men and the believing women when you heard it think well of their own people and say this is an evident falsehood why did they not bring four witnesses of it but as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah and where it not for Allah's grace upon you this world and the hereafter a grievous chastisement would certainly have touched you on account of the discourse which you entered into when you received it with your tongues and spoke with your mouth what you had no knowledge of and you deemed it an easy matter while with Allah it was grievous and why did you not say it does not be seem us that we should talk of it glory be to thee this is a great calamity Allah admonishes you that you should not return to the like of it ever again if you are believers and Allah makes clear to you the communications and Allah is knowing wise surely as for those who love should circulate respecting those who believe they shall have a grievous chastisement in this world and the hereafter and Allah knows while you do not know and where it not for Allah's grace on you and his mercy and that Allah is compassionate merciful or you who believe do not follow the footsteps and whoever follows the footsteps of the shaitan then surely he bids the doing of indecency and evil and where it not for Allah's grace upon you and his mercy not one of you would have ever been pure but Allah purifies whom he pleases and Allah is hearing knowing and let not those of you swear against giving to the near of kin and the poor and those who have fled in Allah's way and they should pardon and turn away do you not love that Allah should forgive you and Allah is forgiving merciful surely those who accuse chased believing women unaware of the evil are cursed in this world and the hereafter and they shall have a grievous chastisement on the day when their tongues and their hands and their feet shall bear witness against them as to what they did on that day Allah will pay back to them in full their just reward and they shall know that Allah is the evident truth unclean things are for unclean ones and unclean ones are for unclean things and the good things are for good ones and the good ones are for good things these are free from what they say they shall have forgiveness and an honorable sustenance o you who believe do not enter houses other than your own houses until you have asked permission and saluted their inmates this is better for you that you may be mindful but if you do not find anyone therein then do not enter them until permission is given to you and if it is said to you go back then go back this is purer for you and Allah is cognizant of what you do it is no sin in you that you enter uninhabited houses wherein you have your necessaries and Allah knows what you do openly and what you hide say to the believing men that they cost down their looks and guard their private parts that is purer for them surely Allah is aware of what they do and say to the believing women that they cost down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof and let them wear their head coverings over their bosoms and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers or the fathers of their husbands or their sons or the sons of their husbands or their brothers or their brothers sons or their women or those whom their right hands possess or the male servants not having need of women or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known and turn to Allah all of you all believers so that you may be successful and marry those among you and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves if they are needy Allah will make them free from want out of His grace and Allah is ample giving knowing and let those who do not find the means to marry keep chased until Allah makes them free from want out of His grace and as for those who ask for a writing among those whom your right hands possess give them the writing if you know any good in them and give them of the wealth of Allah which He has given you and do not compel your slave girls to prostitution when they desire to keep chased in order to seek the free good of this world's life and whoever compels them then surely after their compulsion Allah is forgiving merciful and certainly we have sent to you clear communications and a description of those who have passed away before you and an admonition to those who guard against evil Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth a likeness of His light is as a niche in which is a lamp the lamp is in a gloss and Allah is as it were a brightly shining star lit from a blessed olive tree neither eastern nor western the oil were of almost gives light though fire touch it not light upon light Allah guides to His light whom He pleases and Allah sets force parables for men and Allah is cognizant of all things in houses which Allah has permitted to be exalted and that His name may be remembered in them there glorify Him therein in the mornings and the evenings men whom neither merchandise nor selling diverts from the remembrance of Allah and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of poor rate they fear a day in which the hearts and eyes shall turn about that Allah may give them the best reward of what they have done and give them more out of His grace and Allah gives sustenance to whom He pleases without measure and as for those who disbelieve their deeds are like the mirage in a desert which the thirsty man deems to be water until when he comes to it he finds it to be note and there he finds Allah so he pays back to Him His reckoning in full and Allah is quick in reckoning or like utter darkness in the deep sea there covers it a wave above which is another wave above which is a cloud layers of utter darkness one above another when he holds out his hand he is almost unable to see it and to whomsoever Allah does not give light he has no light do you not see that Allah is He whom do glorify all those who are in the heavens and the earth and the very birds with expanded wings he knows the prayer each one and its glorification and Allah is cognizant of what they do and Allah is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and to Allah is the eventual coming do you not see that Allah drives along the clouds then gathers them together then piles them up so that you see the rain coming forth from their midst and he sends down of the clouds that are like mountains wherein is hail afflicting therewith whom he pleases and turning it away from whom he pleases the flash of his lighting almost takes away the sight Allah turns over the night and the day more surely there is a lesson in this for those who have sight and Allah has created from water every living creature so of them is that which walks upon its belly and of them is that which walks upon 2 feet and of them is that which walks upon 4 Allah creates what he pleases surely Allah has power over all things certainly we have revealed clear communications and Allah guides whom he pleases to the right way and they say we believe in Allah and in the messenger and we obey then a party of them turn back after this and these are not believers and when they are called to Allah and his messenger that he may judge between them low a party of them turn aside and if the truth be on their side they come to him quickly obedient is there in their hearts a disease or are they in doubt or do they fear that Allah and his messenger will act wrongfully towards them nay, they themselves are the unjust the response of the believers when they are invited to Allah and his messenger that he may judge between them is only to say we hear and we obey and these it is that are the successful and he who obeys Allah and his messenger and fears Allah and is careful of his duty to him these it is that are the achievers and they swear by Allah was the most energetic of their oath that if you command them they would certainly go forth or not reasonable obedience is desired surely Allah is aware of what you do say obey Allah and obey the messenger but if you turn back then on him rests that which is imposed on him and on you rests that which is imposed on you and if you obey him you are on the right way resting rests on the messenger but clear delivering of the message Allah has promised to those of you who believe and do good that he will most certainly make them rulers in the earth as he made rulers those before them and that he will most certainly establish for them their religion which he has chosen for them and that he will most certainly after their fear give them security in exchange they shall serve me not associating oath with me and whoever is ungrateful after this these it is who are the transgressors and keep up prayer and pay the poor rate and obey the messenger so that mercy may be shown to you think not that those who disbelieve shall escape in the earth and their abode is the fire and certainly evil is the resort all you who believe that those whom your right hands possess and those of you who have not attained to puberty ask permission of you three times before the morning prayer and when you put off your clothes at midday in summer and after the prayer of the night fall these are three times of privacy for you neither is it a sin for you nor for them besides these some of you must go around about waiting upon others thus does Allah make clear to you the communications and Allah is knowing wise and when the children among you have attained to puberty let them seek permission as those before them sought permission thus does Allah make clear to you his communications and Allah is knowing wise and as for women advance in years who do not hope for a marriage it is no sin for them if they put off their clothes without displaying their ornaments and if they restrain themselves it is better for them and Allah is hearing knowing there is no blame on the blind man nor is there blame on the lame nor is there blame on the sick nor on yourselves that you eat from your houses or your father's houses or your mother's houses or your brother's houses or your sister's houses or your paternal uncle's houses or your paternal uncle's houses or your maternal uncle's houses Aun personnel's houses or what you possess the keys of or your friends houses. It is no sin in you that you eat together or separately. So, when you enter houses, greet your people with a salutation from allah plus and gudli. Thus does allah make clear to you the communications that you may understand. only those are believers who believe in Allah and His Messenger and when they are with Him on a momentous affair they go not away until they have asked His permission surely they who ask your permission are they who believe in Allah and His Messenger so when they ask your permission for some affair of theirs give permission to whom you please of them and ask forgiveness for them from Allah surely Allah is forgiving, merciful do not hold the messengers calling you among you to be like your calling one to the other Allah indeed knows those who steal away from among you concealing themselves therefore let those beware who go against His order less a trial afflict them or there before them a painful chastisement now surely Allah is whatever is in the heavens and the earth He knows indeed that to which you are conforming yourselves and on the day on which they are returned to Him He will inform them of what they did and Allah is cognizant of all things End of Surah 24