 صورة 30 of the Holy Qur'an translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker this Librovox recording is in the public domain صورة 30 the Romans the Romans revealed at Mecca in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful ألف لاميم the Romans are vanquished in a near land and they after being vanquished shall overcome within a few years Allah is the command before and after and on that day the believers shall rejoice with the help of Allah He helps whom He pleases and He is the mighty the merciful this is Allah's promise Allah will not fail His promise but most people do not know they know the outward of this world's life but of the hereafter they are absolutely heedless do they not reflect within themselves Allah did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them too but with truth and for an appointed term and most surely most of the people are deniers of the meeting of their Lord have they not traveled in the earth and seen how was the end of those before them they were stronger than these in prowess and dug up the earth and built on it in greater abundance than these have built on it and there came to them their messengers with clear arguments so it was not be seeming for Allah that He should deal with them unjustly but they dealt unjustly with their own souls then evil was the end of those who did evil because they rejected the communications of Allah and used to mock them Allah originates the creation then reproduces it then to Him you shall be brought back and at the time when the hour shall come the guilty shall be in despair and they shall not have any intercessors from among their gods they have joined with Allah and they shall be deniers of their associate gods and at the time when the hour shall come at that time they shall become separated one from the other then as to those who believed and did good they shall be made happy in a garden and as to those who disbelieved and rejected our communications and the meeting of the hereafter these shall be brought over to the chastisement therefore glory be to Allah when you enter upon the time of the evening and when you enter upon the time of the morning and to Him belongs praise in the heavens and the earth and at nightfall and when you are at midday He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living and gives life to the earth after its death shall you be brought forth and one of His signs is that He created you from dust then lo you are mortals who scatter and one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find dressed in them and He put between you love and compassion and surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect and one of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your tongues and colors most surely there are signs in this for the learned and one of His signs is your sleeping and your seeking of His grace and by day most surely there are signs in this for a people who would hear and one of His signs is that He shows you the lightning for fear and for hope and sends down water from the clouds then gives life therewith to the earth after its death most surely there are signs in this for a people who understand and one of His signs is that the heaven and the earth subsist by His command then when He calls you with a single call from out of the earth Lo you come forth and His is whoever is in the heavens and the earth and He it is who originates the creation then reproduces it and it is easy to Him and His are the most exalted attributes in the heavens and the earth and He is the mighty the wise He sets forth to you a parable relating to yourselves do you among those whom your right hands possess partners in what we have given you for sustenance so that with respect to it you are alike you fear them as you fear each other thus do we make the communications distinct for a people who understand those who are unjust follow their low desires without any knowledge so who can guide Him whom Allah makes err and they shall have no helpers then set your face upright for religion in the right state the nature made by Allah in which He has made men there is no altering of Allah's creation that is the right religion but most people do not know turning to Him and be careful of your duty to Him and keep up prayer and be not of the polytheists of those who divided their religion and became sects every sect rejoicing in what they had with them and when harm afflicts men they call upon their lord turning to Him then when He makes them taste of mercy from Him some of them begin to associate others with their lord so as to be ungrateful for what we have given them but enjoy yourselves for a while for you shall soon come to know or have we send down upon them an authority so that it speaks of that which they associate with Him and when we make people taste of mercy they rejoice in it and if an evil befall them for what their hands have already wrote though they are in despair do they not see that Allah makes ample provision for whom He pleases or straightens most surely there are signs in this for a people who believe then give to the near of kin His due and to the needy and the way fairer this is best for those who desire Allah's pleasure and these it is who are successful and whatever you lay out as usually so that it may increase in the property of man it shall not increase with Allah and whatever you give in charity desiring Allah's pleasure it is these persons that shall get manifold Allah is He who created you then gave you sustenance then He causes you to die then brings you to life is there any of your associate gods who does out of it glory be to Him and exalted be He above what they associate with Him corruption has appeared in the land and the sea on account of what the hands of men have wrote that He may make them taste a part of that which they have done so that they may return say travel in the land then see how was the end of those before most of them were polytheists then turn thy face straight to the right religion before there come from Allah the day which cannot be averted on that day they shall become separated whoever disbelieves He shall be responsible for His disbelief and whoever does good repair good for their own souls that He may reward those who believe and do good out of His grace surely He does not love the unbelievers and one of His signs is that He sends forth the winds bearing good news and that He may make your taste of His mercy and that the ships may run by His command and that you may seek of His grace and that you may be grateful and certainly we sent before you messengers to their people so they came to them with clear arguments then we gave the punishment to those who were guilty for helping the believers is ever incumbent on us Allah is He who sends forth the winds so they raise a cloud then He spreads it forth in the sky as He pleases and He breaks it up so that you see the rain coming forth from inside it then when He causes so fall upon home He pleases of His servants though they were before this before it was sent down upon them confounded in sure despair look then at the signs of Allah's mercy how He gives life to the earth after its death most surely He will raise life and He has power over all things and if we send a wind and they see it to be yellow they would after that certainly continue to disbelieve for surely you cannot make the death to hear and you cannot make the death to hear the call when they turn back and flee and lead away the blind out of their error you cannot make to hear any but those who believe in our communications so they shall submit Allah is He who created you from a state of weakness then He gave strengths after weakness then ordained weakness after strength He creates what He pleases and He is the knowing the powerful and at that time when the hour shall come the guilty shall swear that they did not carry but an hour thus are they ever turned away and those who are given knowledge and faith will say certainly you tarried according to the ordinance of Allah till the day of resurrection so this is the day of resurrection but you did not know but on the day their execuse shall not profit those who were unjust nor shall they be regarded with good will and certainly we have set forth for men every kind of example in this Quran and if you should bring them a communication those who disbelieve would certainly say you are not but false claimants thus does Allah set a seal on the hearts of those who do not know therefore be patient surely the promise of Allah is true and let not those who have no certainty hold you in light estimation end of surah 30 surah 31 of the Holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker this liberal box recording is in the public domain surah 31 Luqman revealed at Makkah in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful these are verses of the book of wisdom a guidance and the mercy for the doers of goodness those who keep a prayer and pay the poor rate and they are certain of the hereafter these are on a guidance from their Lord and these are they who are successful end of men is he who takes instead frivolous discourse to lead astray from Allah's path without knowledge and to take it for a mockery these shall have an abiding and when our communications are recited to him he turns back proudly as if he had not heard them as though in his ears were a heaviness therefore announced to him a painful as for those who believe and do good they shall surely have gardens of bliss abiding in them the promise of Allah a true promise and he is the mighty the wise he created the heavens without pillars as you see them and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you and he spread in it animals of every kind and we send down water from the cloud then cause to grow therein vegetation of every noble kind this is Allah's creation but show me what those besides him have created nay the unjust are in manifest error and certainly we gave wisdom to Luqman saying be grateful to Allah whoever is grateful he is only grateful for his own soul and whoever is ungrateful then surely Allah is self sufficient praised and when Luqman said to his son while he admonished him oh my son do not associate ought with Allah most surely polytheism is a grievous and we have enjoined man in respect of his parents his mother bears him with faintings upon faintings and his weaning takes 2 years saying be grateful to me and to both your parents to me is the eventual coming and if they contend with you that you should associate with me that you have no knowledge of do not obey them and keep company with them in this word kindly and follow the way of him who turns to me then to me is your return then will I inform you of what you did oh my son surely if it is the very weight of the grain of a mustard seed even though it is in the heart of rock or high above in the heaven or deep down in the earth Allah will bring it to light surely Allah is knower of subtleties aware oh my son keep up prayer and enjoin the good and forbid the evil and bear patiently that which befalls you and do not turn your face away from people in content nor go about in the land exalting over much surely Allah does not love any self conceded bolster and pursue the right course in your going about and lower your voice surely the most hateful of voices is praying of the asses do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to you and made complete to you his favors outwardly and inwardly and among men is he who disputes in respect of Allah though having no knowledge nor guidance and when it is said to them follow what Allah has revealed they say nay we follow that on which we found our fathers though the shaitan calls them to the chastisement of the burning fire and whoever submits himself holy to Allah and he is the doer of good to others he indeed has taken hold of the firmest thing upon which one can lay hold and Allah is the end of affairs and whoever disbelieves let not his disbelief grieve you to us is their return then will we inform them of what they did surely Allah is the knower of what is in the breasts we give them to enjoy a little then will we drive them to a severe chastisement and if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth they will certainly say Allah say all praise is due to Allah nay most of them do not know what is in the heavens and the earth is Allah surely Allah is the self sufficient and where every tree that is in the earth made into pens and the sea to supply it with ink with 7 more seas to increase it the words of Allah would not come to an end surely Allah is mighty wise neither your creation nor your raising is anything but as a single soul surely Allah is hearing seeing do you not see that Allah makes the night to enter into the day and He makes the day to enter into the night and He has made the sun and the moon subservient to you each pursues its course till an appointed time and that Allah is aware of what you do this is because Allah is the truth and that which they call upon besides Him is the falsehood and that Allah is the High the Great do you not see that the ships run on in the sea by Allah's favor that He may show you of His signs most surely there are signs in this for every patient endure grateful one when a wave like mountains covers them they call upon Allah being sincere to Him in obedience but when He brings them safe to the land some of them follow the middle course and none denies our signs but every pre-fidious ungrateful one O people guard against the punishment of your Lord your Father shall not make any satisfaction for His Son nor shall the child be the maker of any satisfaction for His Father surely the promise of Allah is true therefore let not this world's life deceive you nor let the arsh deceiver deceive you in respect of Allah surely Allah is He with whom is the knowledge of the hour and He sends down the rain and He knows what is in the wombs and no one knows what He shall earn on the morrow and no one knows in what land He shall die surely Allah is knowing aware end of Surah 31 Surah 32 of the Holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker this Libro Vox recording is in the public domain Surah 32 the worship revealed at Makkah in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful Alif Lam the revelation of the book there is no doubt in it is from the Lord of the Worlds or do they say He has forged it ني it is the truth from your Lord that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you that they may follow the right direction Allah is He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods and He mountain the throne of authority you have not besides Him any guardian or any intercessor will you not then mind He regulates the affair from the heaven to the earth then shall it ascend to Him in a day the measure of which is a thousand years of what you count this is the knower of the unseen and the seen the mighty the merciful who made good everything that He has created and He began the creation of man from dust then He made His progeny of an extract of water held in light estimation then He made Him complete and breathed into Him of His Spirit and made for you the ears and the eyes and the hearts little is it that you give thanks and they say what when we have become lost in the earth shall we then certainly be in a new creation nay they are disbelievers in the meeting of their Lord say the angel of death who is given charge of you shall cause you to die then to your Lord you shall be brought back and could you but see when the guilty shall hang down their heads before their Lord our Lord we have seen and we have heard therefore send us back we will do good surely now we are certain and if we had pleased we would certainly have given to every soul but the word which had gone forth from me was just I will certainly fill hell with the jinn and men together so taste because you neglected the meeting of this day of yours surely we forsake you and taste the abiding chastisement for what you did only they believe in our communications who when they are reminded of them fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord and they are not proud their sides draw away from their beds they call upon their Lord in fear and in hope and they spent benevolently out of what we have given them so no soul knows what is hidden for them of that which will refresh the eyes a reward for what they did is he then who is a believer like him who is a transgressor they are not equal as for those who believe and do good the gardens are their abiding place an entertainment for what they did and as for those who transgress their abode is the fire whenever they desire to go forth from it they shall be brought back into it and it will be said to them taste the chastisement of the fire which you called a lie and most certainly we will make them taste of the nearer chastisement before the greater chastisement that happily they may turn and who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the communications of his Lord then he turns away from them surely we will give punishment to the guilty and certainly we gave the book to mosa so be not in doubt concerning the receiving of it and we made it a guide for the children of israel and we made of them imams to guide by our command when they were patient and they were certain of our communications surely your lord will judge between them on the day of resurrection concerning that wherein they differ does it not point out to them the right way how many of the generations in whose abode they go about did we destroy before them most surely there are signs in this will they not then hear do they not see that we drive the water to a land having no herbage then we bring forth thereby seed produce of which their cattle and they themselves eat will they not then see and they say when will this judgment take place if you are truthful say on the day of judgment the faith of those who now disbelieve will not profit them nor will they be respited therefore turn away from them and wait surely they too are waiting end of surah 32 surah 33 of the holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker this Librovox recording is in the public domain surah 33 the cleanse الحزاب revealed at Madin in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful O Prophet be careful of your duty to Allah and do not comply with the wishes of the unbelievers and the hypocrites surely Allah is knowing wise and follow what is revealed to you from your Lord surely Allah is aware of what you do and rely on Allah and Allah is sufficient for a protector Allah has not made for any man two hearts within him nor has he made your wives whose backs you liken to the backs of your mothers as your mothers nor has he made those whom you assert to be your sons your real sons these are the words of your mouth and Allah speaks the truth and he guides to the way assert their relationship to their fathers this is more equitable with Allah but if you do not know their fathers when they are your brethren in faith and your friends and there is no blame on you concerning that in which you made a mistake but concerning that which your hearts do purposely blame may rest on you and Allah is forgiving merciful the Prophet has a greater claim on the faithful than they have on themselves and his wives are as their mothers and the possessors of relationship have the better claim in the ordinance of Allah to inheritance one with respect to another than other believers and then those who have fled their homes except that you do some good to your friends this is written in the book and when we made a covenant with the prophets and with you and with Nuh and Ibrahim and Musa and Isa son of maria and we made with them a strong covenant that he may question the truthful of their truth and he has prepared for the unbelievers a painful punishment or you who believe call to mind the favor of Allah to you when there came down upon you hosts so we sent against them a strong wind and hosts that you saw not and Allah is seeing what you do when they came upon you from above you and from below you and when the eyes turned dull and the hearts rose up to the throat and you began to think diverse thoughts of Allah there the believers were tried and they were shaken with severe shaking and when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts was a disease began to say Allah and his messenger did not promise us victory but only to deceive and when a party of them said O people of Yathrib there is no place to stand for you here therefore go back and a party of them ask permission of the prophet saying surely our houses are exposed and they were not exposed they only desired to fly away and if an entry were made upon them from the outlying parts of it then they were asked to wage war they would certainly have done it and they would not have stayed in it but a little while and certainly they had made a covenant with Allah before that they would not turn their backs and Allah's covenant shall be inquired of say flight shall not do you any good if you fly from death or slaughter and in that case you will not be allowed to enjoy yourselves but a little say who is it that can withhold you from Allah if he intends to do you evil rather he intends to show you mercy and they will not find for themselves besides Allah any guardian or a helper Allah knows indeed those among you who find others and those who say to their brethren come to us and they come not to the fight but a little being niggardly with respect to you but when fear comes you will see them looking to you their eyes rolling like one swooning because of death but when the fear is gone you will see them with sharp tongues being niggardly of the good things these have not believed therefore Allah has made their doing note and this is easy to Allah they think the allies are not gun and if the allies should come again they would feign be in the deserts asking for news about you and if they were among you they would not fight save a little certainly you have in the messenger of Allah an excellent exemplar for him who hopes in Allah and the latter day and remembers Allah much and when the believers saw the allies they said this is what Allah and his messenger promised us and Allah and his messenger spoke the truth and it only increased them in faith and submission of the believers are men who are true to the covenant which they made with Allah so of them is he who accomplished his vow and of them is he who yet waits and they have not changed in the least that Allah may reward the truthful for their truth and punish the hypocrites if he please or turn to them mercifully surely Allah is forgiving merciful and Allah turned back the believers in their rage they did not obtain any advantage and Allah sufficed the believers in fighting and Allah is a strong mighty and he drove down those of the followers of the book who backed them from their fortresses and he cast all into their hearts and due to captive another port and he made you airs to their land and their dwellings and their property and to a land which you have not yet trodden and Allah has power over all things O Prophet say to your wives if you desire this world's life and its adorment and come I will give you a provision and allow you to depart a goodly departing and if you desire Allah and his messenger and the letter about then surely Allah has prepared for the doers of good among you a mighty reward O Wives of the Prophet whoever of you is an open in decency the punishment shall be increased to her doubly and this is easy to Allah and whoever of you is obedient to Allah and his messenger and thus good we will give to her her reward doubly and we have prepared for her an honorable sustenance O Wives of the Prophet you are not like any other of the women if you will be on your guard then be not soft in your speech lest he in whose heart is a disease yearn and speak a good word and stay in your houses and do not display your finery like the saying of the ignorance of your and keep a prayer and pay the poor rate and obey Allah and his messenger Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you O People of the House and to purify you a thorough purifying and keep to mind what is recited in your houses of the communications of Allah and the wisdom surely Allah is knower of subtleties aware surely the men who submit and the women who submit and the believing men and the believing women and the obeying men and the obeying women and the truthful men and the truthful women and the patient men and the patient women and the humble men and the humble women and the alms giving men and the alms giving women and the fasting men and the fasting women and the men who guard their private parts and the women who guard and the men who remember Allah much and the women who remember الله يحضر لهم تساعدة وضعية وضعية ويجب أن يحضر لن يؤمن المنزل ويؤمن المنزل أنهم يجب أن يجب أن يجب أن يكون لديهم محاولة في ذلك عندما الله ومسجره لديهم محاولة ومن who disobees Allah and His Messenger فهي فتحاولاً ترغباً ويشعر لكي تنظره ويكتبه ويشعر لكي تنظره ويكتبه ويكتبه ويكتبه ويكتبه ويكتبه وكتبت في رأسك ما اللهم يجب أن تقوم بلده وكتبت منك و اللهم يجب أن تقوم بلده لكن عند زايد يجب أن يجب أن نقوم بها ونقوم بها لك as a wife لذلك يجب أن يكون لن يكون لديه أسلحة لأصدقائيين في رسطة لأصدقائيين لأصدقائيين when they have accomplished their want of them and Allah's command shall be performed. There is no harm in the Prophet doing that which Allah has ordained for him. Such has been the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before and the command of Allah is a decree that has made absolute those who deliver the messages of Allah and fear Him and do not fear anyone but Allah and Allah is sufficient to take account. Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the messenger of Allah and the last of the prophets and Allah is cognizant of all things. All you who believe, remember Allah, remembering frequently and glorify Him morning and evening. He it is who sends His blessings on you and so do His angels that He may bring you forth out of utter darkness into the light and He is merciful to the believers. Their salutation on the day that they meet Him shall be peace and He has prepared for them an honorable reward. O Prophet, surely we have sent you as a witness and as a bearer of good news and as a warner and as one inviting to Allah by His permission and as a light giving torch and give to the believers the good news that they shall have a great grace from Allah and be not compliant to the unbelievers and the hypocrites and leave unregarded their annoying talk and rely on Allah and Allah is sufficient as a protector. All you who believe, when you marry the believing women then divorce them before you touch them. You have in their case no term which you should reckon so make some provision for them and send them forth a goodly sending forth. O Prophet, surely we have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts who fled with you and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet if the Prophet desired to marry her especially for you not for the rest of believers we know what we have ordained for them concerning your mother we know what we have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess in order that no blame may attach to you and Allah is forgiving, merciful you may put off whom you please of them and you may take to you whom you please and whom you desire of those whom you had separated provisionally no blame attaches to you this is most proper so that their eyes may be cool and they may not grieve and that they should be pleased all of them with what you give them and Allah knows what is in your heart and Allah is knowing forbearing it is not allowed to you to take women afterwards nor that you should change them for other wives though their beauty be pleasing to you except what your right hand possesses and Allah is watchful over all things all you who believe do not enter the houses of the Prophet unless permission is given to you for a meal not waiting for its cooking being finished but when you are invited enter and when you have taken the food then disperse not seeking to listen to talk surely this gives the Prophet trouble but he forbird from you and Allah does not forbid from the truth and when you ask of them any goods ask of them from behind a curtain this is purer for your hearts and for their hearts and it does not behave you that you should give trouble to the messenger of Allah nor that you should marry his wives after him ever surely this is grievous in the sight of Allah if you do a thing openly or do it in secret then surely Allah is cognizant of all things there is no blame on them in respect of their fathers nor their brothers sons nor their sisters sons nor their own women nor of what the right hands possess and be careful of your duty to Allah surely Allah is a witness of all things surely Allah and his angels bless the Prophet O you who believe call for divine blessings on him and salute him with a becoming salutation surely as for those who speak evil things of Allah and his messenger Allah has cursed them in this world and hereafter and he has prepared for them as a steizman bringing this grace and those who speak evil things of the believing men and the believing women without their having earned it they are guilty indeed of a false accusation and a manifest sin O Prophet say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they let down upon them their over garments this will be more proper that they may be known and thus they will not be given trouble and Allah is forgiving, merciful if the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist we shall most certainly set you over them then they shall not be your neighbors in it but for a little while cursed wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered a horrible murdering such has been the course of Allah with respect to those who have gone before and you shall not find any change in the course of Allah men ask you about the hour say the knowledge of it is only with Allah and what will make you comprehend that the hour may be nigh surely Allah has cursed the unbelievers and has prepared for them a burning fire to abide therein for a long time they shall not find a protector or a helper on the day when their faces shall be turned back into the fire they shall say oh would that we had obeyed Allah and obeyed the messenger and they shall say oh our lord surely we obeyed our leaders and our great men so they led us astray from the path with them a double punishment and cursed them with a great curse oh you who believe be not like those who spoke evil things of mosa but Allah cleared him of what they said and he was worthy of regard with Allah oh you who believe be careful of your duty to Allah and speak the right word he will put your deeds into a right state for you and forgive you your faults and whoever obeyed Allah and his messenger he indeed achieves a mighty success surely we offered the trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains to be unfaithful to it and feared from it and man has turned unfaithful to it surely he is unjust ignorant so Allah will chastise the hypocritical men and the hypocritical women and the polytheistic men and the polytheistic women and Allah will turn mercifully to the believing women and Allah is forgiving merciful end of surah 33 surah 34 of the Holy Quran translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker this Librovox recording is in the public domain surah 34 Sab'a revealed at Makkah in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful all praise is due to Allah who is what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and to him is due all praise in the hereafter and he is the wise the aware he knows that which goes down into the earth and that which comes out of it and that which comes down from the heaven and that which goes up to it and he is the merciful the forgiving and those who disbelieve say the hour shall not come upon us say by my lord the knower of the unseen it shall certainly come upon you not the weight of an atom becomes absent from him in the heavens or in the earth and neither less than that nor greater but all is in a clear book that he may reward those who believe and do good these it is for whom is forgiveness and an honorable sustenance and as for those who strive hard in opposing our communications these it is for whom is a painful chastisement of an evil kind and those to whom the knowledge has been given see that which has been revealed to you from your lord that is the truth and it guides into the path of the mighty the praised and those who disbelieve say shall we point out to you a man who informs you that when you are scattered the utmost scattering you shall then be most surely raised into a new creation he has forged a lie against Allah or there is madness in him nay those who do not believe in the hereafter are in torment and in great error do they not then consider what is before them and what is behind them of the heaven and the earth if we please we will make them disappear in the land or bring down upon them a portion from the heaven most surely there is a sign in this for every servant turning to Allah and certainly we give to the wood excellence from us all mountains sing praises with him and the birds and we made the iron pliant to him saying make ample coats of mail and assign a time to the making of coats of mail and do good surely I am seeing what you do and we made the wind subservient to Sulayman which made a month journey in the morning and a month journey in the evening and we made a fountain of molten copper to flow out for him and of the jinn there were those who worked before him by the command of his lord and burned aside from our command from among them we made him taste of the punishment of burning they made for him what he pleased of fortresses and images and bowels large as watering troughs and cooking pots that will not move of the wood and very few of my servants are grateful but when we decreed death for him not showed them his death but the creature of the earth that ate away his stuff and when it fell down the jinn came to know plainly that if they had known the unseen they would not have carried any torment certainly there was a sign for saba in their abode two gardens on the right and the left eat of the sustenance of your lord and give thanks to him a good land and a forgiving lord but they turned aside so we sent upon them a torrent of which the rush could not be with stood and in place of their two gardens we gave to them two gardens yielding bitter fruit and growing tamarisk and a few lotus trees this we requited them with because they disbelieved and we do not punish any but the ungrateful and we made between them and the towns which we had blessed other towns to be easily seen and we apportioned the journey therein travel through them nights and days secure and they said oh our lord make spaces to be longer between our journeys and they were unjust to themselves so we made them stories and scattered them with an utter scattering most surely there are signs in this for every patient grateful one and certainly the shaitan found through his conjecture concerning them so they follow him except a party of the believers and he has no authority over them but that we may distinguish him who believes in the hereafter from him who is in doubt concerning it and your lord is the preserver of all things say call upon those whom you assert besides Allah they do not control the weight of an atom in the heavens or in the earth nor have they any partnership in either nor has he among them anyone to back him up and intercession will not avail with him save of him whom he permits until when fear shall be removed from their hearts they shall say what is it that your lord said they shall say the truth and he is the most high the great say who gives you the sustenance from the heavens and the earth say Allah and most surely we or you are on a right way or in manifest error say you will not be questioned as to what we are guilty of nor shall we be questioned as to what you do say our lord will gather us together then will he judge between us with the truth and he is the greatest judge the all knowing say show me those whom you have joined with him as associates by no means can you do it nay he is Allah the mighty the wise and we have not sent you but to all the men as a bearer of good news and as a warner but most men do not know and they say when will this promise be fulfilled if you are truthful say you have the appointment of a day from which you cannot hold back any wire nor can you bring it on and those who disbelieve say by no means will we believe in this Quran nor in that which is before it and could you see when the unjust shall be made to stand before their lord bending words one with another those who were reckoned weak shall say to those who were proud had it not been for you we would certainly have been believers those who were proud shall say to those who were deemed weak away from the guidance after it had come to you nay you yourselves were guilty and those who were deemed weak shall say to those who were proud nay it was planning by night and day when you told us to disbelieve in Allah and to set up likes with him and they shall conceal regret when they shall see the punishment and we will put shackles on the necks of those who disbelieved they shall not be requited but what they did and we never sent a warner to a town but those who led lives in ease in it said we are surely disbelievers in what you are sent with and they say we have more wealth and children and we shall not be punished say surely my lord amplifies the means of subsistence for whom he pleases and straightens for whom he pleases but most men do not know and not your wealth nor your children are the things which bring you near us in station but whoever believes and that's good these it is for whom is a double reward for what they do and they shall be secure in the highest places and as for those who strive in opposing our communications they shall be caused to be brought to the suspension say surely my lord amplifies the means of subsistence for whom he pleases of his servants and straightens them for whom he pleases and whatever thing you spend he exceeds it in reward and he is the best of sustainers and on the day when he will gather them all together then will he say to the angels that these worship you they shall say glory be to thee thou art our guardian not they nay they worshipped the jinn most of them were believers in them so on that day one of you shall not control prophet or harm for another and we will say to those who were unjust taste the chastisement of the fire which you called a lie and when our clear communications are recited to them they say this is not but a man who desires to turn you away from that which your fathers worshiped and they say this is not but a lie that is forged and those who disbelieve say of the truth when it comes to them this is only clear enchantment and we have not given them any books which they read nor did we send to them to a warner and those before them rejected the truth and these have not yet attained a tenth of what we gave them but they gave the lie to my messengers then how was the manifestation of my disapproval say I exhort you only to one thing that rise up for الله's sake in twos and singly then ponder there is no madness in your fellow citizen he is only a warner to you before a severe chastisement say whatever reward I have asked of you that is only for yourselves my reward is only with Allah witness of all things say surely my lord atters the truth the great knower of the unseen say the truth has come and the falsehood shall vanish and shall not come back say if I err I err only against my own soul and if I follow a right direction it is because of what my lord reveals to me surely he is hearing nigh and could you see when they shall become terrified but then there shall be no escape and they shall be seized upon from a near place and they shall say we believe in it and how shall the attaining of faith be possible to them from a distant place and they disbelieved in it before and they utter conjectures with regard to the unseen from a distant place and a barrier shall be placed between them and that which they desire as was done with the likes of them before surely they are in a disquieting doubt end of صورة 34 صورة 35 of the holy Quran translated by محمد حبيب شاكر this libro of ox recording is in the public domain صورة 35 the originator فاطر رذيلد ات مكة صورة 35 in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful all praise is due to Allah the originator of the heavens and the earth the maker of the angels messengers flying on wings 2 and 3 and 4 he increases in creation what he pleases surely Allah has power over all things whatever Allah grants to men of his mercy there is none to withhold it and what he withholds there is none to send it forth after that and he is the mighty the wise O men call to mind the favor of Allah on you is there any creator besides Allah who gives you sustenance from the heaven and the earth there is no God but he once are you then turned away and if they call you a liar truly messengers before you were called liars and to Allah are all affairs returned O men surely the promise of Allah is true therefore let not the life of this word deceive you and let not the arsh deceiver deceive you respecting Allah surely the shaitan is your enemy so take him for an enemy he only invites his party that they may be inmates of the burning fire as for those who disbelieve they shall have a severe punishment and as for those who believe and do good they shall have forgiveness and a great reward what is he who's evil deed is made for seeming to him so much so that he considers it good now surely Allah makes her whom he pleases and guides a right whom he pleases so let not your soul waste away in grief for them surely Allah is cognizant of what they do and Allah is he who sends the winds so they raise a cloud then we drive it onto a dead country and therewith we give life to the earth after its death even so is the quickening whoever desires honor then to Allah belongs the honor holy to him do ascend the good words and the good deeds lift them up and as for those who plan evil deeds they shall have a severe chastisement and as for their plan it shall perish and Allah created you of dust then of the life germ then he made you pairs and no female bears nor does she bring forth except with his knowledge and no one whose life is lengthened has his life lengthened nor is old diminished of one's life but it is all in a book surely this is easy to Allah and the two seas are not alike the one sweet that subdues thirst by its excessive sweetness pleasant to drink and the other salt that burns by its saltness yet from each of them you eat fresh flesh and bring forth ornaments which you wear and you see the ships cleave through it that you may seek of his bounty and that you may be grateful he causes the night to enter in upon the day and he causes the day to enter in upon the night and he has made subservant to you the sun and the moon each one follows its course to an appointed time this is Allah your lord his is the kingdom and those whom you call upon besides him do not control a straw if you call on them they shall not hear your call and even if they could hear they shall not answer you and on the resurrection day they will deny you're associating them with Allah and none can inform you like the one who is aware oh man you are day who stand in need of Allah and Allah is he who is the self-sufficient the praised one if he please he will take you off and bring a new generation and this is not hard to Allah and a burdened soul cannot bear the burden of another and if one weighed down by burden should cry for another to carry it's burden not out of it shall be carried even though he be near of kin you warn only those who fear their lord in secret and keep up prayer and whoever purifies himself he purifies himself only for the good of his own soul and to Allah coming and the blind and the seeing are not alike nor the darkness and the light nor the shade and the heat neither are the living and the dead alike surely Allah makes whom he pleases here and you cannot make those here who are in the graves you are not but a warner surely we have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner and there is not the people but a warner has gone among them and if they call you a liar so did those before them indeed call their messengers liars their messengers had come to them with clear arguments and with scriptures and with the illuminating book then did I punish those who disbelieved so how was the manifestation of my disapproval do you not see that Allah sends down water from the cloud then we bring forth their with fruits of various colors and in the mountains white and red of various use and others intensely black and of men and beasts and cattle are various pieces of it likewise those of his servants only who are possessed of knowledge fear Allah surely Allah is mighty forgiving surely they who recite the book of Allah and keep a prayer and spend out of what we have given them secretly and openly hope for again which will not perish that he may pay them back fully their rewards and give them more out of his grace surely he is forgiving multiplier of rewards and that which we have revealed to you of the book that is the truth verifying that which is before it most surely with respect to his servants Allah is aware seeing then we gave the book for an inheritance to those whom we chose from among our servants is he who makes his soul to suffer a loss and of them is he who takes a middle course and of them is he who is foremost in deeds of goodness by Allah's permission this is the great excellence gardens of perpetuity they shall enter the ring they shall be made to wear the ring bracelets of gold and pearls and their dress the ring shall be silk and they shall say all praise is due to Allah who has made grief to depart from us most surely our lord is forgiving multiplier of rewards who has made us a light in a house that is standing forever out of his grace toil shall not touch us the ring nor shall fatigue the ring afflict us and as for those who disbelieve for them is the fire of hell it shall not be finished with them entirely so that they should die nor shall the chastisement thereof be lightened to them even thus do we retribute every ungrateful one and they shall cry the ring for soccer all our lord take us out we will do good deeds other than those which we used to do did we not preserve you alive long enough so that he who would be mindful in it should mind and there came to you the warner therefore taste because for the unjust there is no helper surely Allah is the knower of what is unseen in the heavens and the earth surely he is cognizant of what is in the hearts he it is for you rulers in the land therefore whoever disbelieves his unbelief is against himself and their unbelief does not increase the disbelievers with their lord in anything except hatred and their unbelief does not increase the disbelievers in anything except say have you considered your associates which you call upon besides Allah show me what part of the earth they have created or have they any share in the heavens or have we given them a book so that they follow a clear argument thereof may the unjust one to another but only to deceive surely Allah upholds the heavens and the earth lest they come to note and if they should come to note there is none who can uphold them after him surely he is the forbearing the forgiving and they swore by Allah with the strongest of their oaths that if there came to them a warner they would be better guided than any of the nations but when there came to them a warner it increased them in note but a version in behaving proudly in the land and in planning evil and the evil plans shall not be set any save the authors of it then should they wait for oath except the way of the former people for you shall not find any alteration in the course of Allah and you shall not find any change in the course of Allah have they not traveled in the land and seen how was the end of those before them while they were stronger and Allah is not such that anything in the heavens or in the earth should escape him surely he is knowing powerful and where Allah to punishment for what they are he would not leave on the back of it any creature but he respites them till an appointed term so when their doom shall come then surely Allah is seeing with respect to his servants end of Surah 35 I swear by the Quran full of wisdom most surely you are one of the messengers on a right way a revelation of the mighty the merciful that you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned so they are heedless in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful so they are heedless certainly the word has proved true of most of them so they do not believe surely we have placed chains on their necks and these reach up to their shins so they have their heads raised aloft and we have made before them a barrier and a barrier behind them then we have covered them over so that they do not see and it is a like to them whether you warn them or warn them not they do not believe you can only warn him who follows the reminder and fears the beneficent Allah in secret so announce to him forgiveness and an honorable reward surely we give life to the dead and we write down what they have sent before and their footprints and we have recorded everything in a clear writing and set out to them an example of the people of the town when the messengers came to it when we sent to them too they rejected both of them then we strengthened them with a third so they said surely we are messengers to you they said you are not but mortars like ourselves nor has the beneficent Allah revealed anything you only lie they said our Lord knows that we are most truly messengers to you and nothing devolves from us but a clear deliverance of the message they said surely we ogre evil from you if you do not desist we will certainly stone you and there shall be certainly afflict you a painful chastisement from us they said your evil fortune is with you what if you are reminded nay you are a extravagant people and from the remote part of the city there came a man running he said oh my people follow the messengers follow him who does not ask you for reward and they are the followers of the right course and what reason have I that I should not serve him who brought me into existence and to him you shall be brought back what shall I take besides him God's whose intercession if the beneficent Allah should desire to afflict me with a harm shall not avail me ought nor shall they be able to deliver me in that case I shall most surely be in clear error surely I believe in your Lord therefore hear me it was said enter the garden he said oh would that my people had known of that on account of which my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honoured ones and we did not send down upon his people after him any hosts from heaven nor do we ever send down it was not but a single cry and lo they were still alas for the servants there comes not to them a messenger but they mock at him do they not consider how many of the generations have we destroyed before them because they do not turn to them and all of them shall surely be brought before us and a sign to them is the dead earth we give life to it and bring forth from it grain so they eat of it and we make there in gardens of palms and grape vines and we make springs to flow forth in it that they may eat of the fruit thereof and their hands did not make it will they not then be grateful glory be to him and a sign to them is the night we draw forth from it the day then lo they are in the dark and the sun runs on to a term appointed for it that is the ordinance of the mighty the knowing and as for the moon we have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm branch neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon nor can the night outstrip the day and all float on in a sphere and a sign to them is that we bear their offspring in the laden ship and we have created for them the like of it what they will ride on and if we please we can drown them then there shall be no succourer for them nor shall they be rescued but by mercy from us and for enjoyment till a time and when it is said to them guard against what is before you and what is behind you that mercy may be had on you and there comes not to them a communication of the communications of their lord but they turn aside from it and when it is said to them spend out of what Allah has given you those who disbelieve say to those who believe shall we feed him whom if Allah please he could feed you are in note but clear error and they say when will this threat come to pass if you are truthful they wait not for old but a single cry which will overtake them while they yet content with one another so they shall not be able to make a bequest nor shall they return to their families and the trumpet shall be blown when low from their graves they shall hasten on to their lord they shall say oh who to us who has raised us up from our sleeping place this is what the beneficent Allah promised and the messengers told the truth there would be note but a single cry when low they shall all be brought before us so this day no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least and you shall not be rewarded out but that which you did the dwellers of the garden shall on that day be in an occupation quite happy they and their wives shall be in shades reclining on raised couches they shall have fruits therein and they shall have whatever they desire peace a word from a merciful lord and get aside today oh guilty ones did I not charge you oh children of Adam that you should not serve the shaitan surely he is your open enemy and that you should serve me this is the right way and certainly he led astray numerous people from among you what could you not then understand this is the hell with which you were threatened enter into it this day because you disbelieved on that day we will set a seal upon their mouth and their hands shall speak to us and their feet shall bear witness of what they earned and if we please we would certainly put out their eyes then they would run about groping out of their way but how should they see and if we please we would surely transform them in their place then they would not be able to go on nor will they return and whosoever we cause to live long we reduce him to an abject state in constitution do they not then understand that it may warn him who would have life and that the word may prove true against the unbelievers do they not see that we have created cattle for them out of what our hands have wrote so they are their masters and they are their masters and we have subjected them to them so some of them they have to ride upon and some of them they eat and therein they have advantages and drinks will they not then be grateful and they have taken gods besides Allah that they may be helped but they shall not be able and they shall be a host brought up before them therefore let not their speech grieve you surely we know what they do in secret and what they do openly does not man see that we have created him from the small seed then lo he is an open disputant and he strikes out likeness for us and forgets his own creation says he who will give life to the bones when they are rotten say he will give life to them who brought them into existence at first and he is cognizant of all creation he who has made for you the fire to burn from the green tree so that with it you kindle fire is not he who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them yea and he is the creator of all the knower his command when he intends anything is only to say to it be so it is therefore glory be to him his hand is the kingdom of all things and to him you shall be brought back end of surah 36 surah 37 of the holy quran translated by محمد حبيب شاكر this liberal box recording is in the public domain surah 37 who set the ranks a saffat revealed at makkah in the name of Allah the most beneficent the most merciful I swear by those who draw themselves out in ranks then those who drive away with reproof then those who recite being mindful most surely your Allah is one the Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them and Lord of the East surely we have adorned the nearest heaven with an adornment the stars and there is a safeguard against every rebellious shaitan they cannot listen to the exalted assembly from everyone being driven off and for them is a perpetual chastisement except him who snatches off but once then there follows him a brightly shining flame then ask them whether they are stronger in creation or those others whom we have created surely we created them of firm clay nay you wonder why they mock and when they are reminded they mind not and when they see a sign they incite one another to scoff and they say this is nothing but clear magic what when we are dead when we have become dust and bones shall we then certainly be raised or our fathers of yore say I and you shall be object so it shall only be a single cry when low they shall see and they shall say oh to us this is the day of the judgment which you called a lie gather together those who were unjust and their associates and what they used to worship besides Allah then lead them to the way to hell and stop them for they shall be questioned what is the matter with you that you do not help each other when dead they shall be submissive and some of them shall advance towards others questioning each other they shall say surely you used to come to us from the right side they shall say nay you yourselves were not believers and we had no authority over you but you were an internet people so the sentence of our lord has come to pass against us now we shall surely taste so we let you astray for we ourselves were airing so they shall on that day be sharers in the chastisement one with another surely thus do we deal with the guilty most surely they used to behave proudly when it was said to them there is no god but Allah and to say what shall we indeed give up our gods for the sake of a mad poet nay he has come with the truth and verified the messengers most surely you will taste the painful punishment and you shall not be rewarded except for what you did save the servants of Allah the purified ones for them is a known sustenance fruits and they shall be highly honored in gardens of pleasure on thrones facing each other a bowl shall be made to go round them from water running out of springs white delicious to those who drink there shall be no trouble in it nor shall they be exhausted therewith and with them shall be those who restrain the eyes having beautiful eyes as if they were execrfully protected then shall some of them advance to others questioning each other a speaker from among them shall say surely I had a comrade of mine who said what are you indeed of those who accept the truth what when we are dead and have become dust and bones shall we then be certainly brought to judgement he shall say will you look on he looked down and saw him in the midst of hell he shall say by Allah you had almost caused me to perish and had it not been for the favor of my Lord I would certainly have been among those brought up is it then that we are not going to die except our previous death and we shall not be chastised most surely this is the mighty achievement for the like of this then let the workers work is this better as an entertainment or the tree of zakum surely we have made it to be a trial to the unjust surely it is a tree that grows in the bottom of the hell its produce is as it were the heads of the serpents then most surely they shall eat of it and fill their bellies with it then most surely they shall have after it to drink of a mixture prepared in boiling water then most surely their return shall be to hell surely they found their fathers going astray so in their footsteps they are being hastened on and certainly most of the ancients went astray before them and certainly we sent among them warners then see how was the end of those warned except the servants of الله their purified ones and noh did certainly call upon us and most excellent answer of prayer are we and we delivered him and his followers from the mighty distress and we made his offspring the survivors and we perpetuated to him praise among other generations peace and salutation to noh among the nations thus do we surely reward the doers of good surely he was of our believing servants then we drowned the others and most surely Ibrahim followed his way when he came to his lord with a free heart when he said to his father and his people what is it that you worship Allah God's besides Allah do you desire what is then your idea about the lord of the worlds then he looked at the stars looking up once then he said surely I am sick of your worshiping these so they went away from him turning back then he turned aside to their gods secretly and said what do you not eat what is the matter with you that you do not speak then he turned against them secretly smiting them with the right hand so the people advanced towards him hastening said he what do you worship what you you out and Allah has created you and what you make they said build for him a furnace then cost him into the burning fire and they desired a war against him but we brought them law and he said surely I fly to my lord he will guide me my lord grant me of the doers of good deeds so we gave him the good news of a boy possessing forbearance and when he attained to working with him he said oh my son surely I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice you than what you see he said oh my father do what you are commanded if Allah please you will find me of the patient ones so when they both submitted and he threw him down upon his forehead and we called out to him saying oh Ibrahim you have indeed shown the truth of the vision surely thus do we reward the doers of good most surely this is a manifest trial and we ransomed him with a feat sacrifice and we perpetuated praise to him among the later generations peace be on Ibrahim thus do we reward the doers of good surely he was one of our believing servants and we gave him the good news of Ishaq a prophet among the good ones and we showered our blessings on him and on Ishaq and of there of spring are the doers of good and also those who are clearly unjust to their own and certainly we confirmed a favor on Mosa and Haroon and we delivered them both and their people from the mighty distress and we helped them so they were the vanquishes and we gave them both the book that made things clear and we guided them both on the right way and we perpetuated praise to them among the later generations peace be on Mosa and Haroon even thus do we reward the doers of good surely they were both of our believing servants and Elias was most surely of the messengers when he said to his people do you not guard against evil what do you call upon Baal and forsake the best of the creators Allah your lord and the lord of your fathers of your but they called him a liar therefore they shall most surely be brought up but not the servants of Allah the purified ones and we perpetuated to him praise among the later generations peace be on Elias even thus do we reward the doers of good surely he was one of our believing servants and lot was most surely of the messengers when we delivered him and his followers all except an old woman who was among those who terrified then we destroyed the others and most surely you passed by them in the morning and at night do you not then understand and Eunice was most surely of the messengers when he ran away to a ship completely laden so he shared with them but was of those who are cast off so the fish swallowed him while he did that for which he blamed himself but had it not been that he was of those who glorify us he would certainly have in its belly to the day when they are raised then we cast him onto the vacant surface of the earth while he was sick and we caused to grow up for him a gore the plant and we sent him to 100,000 rather they exceeded and they believed so we gave them provision till a time then ask them whether your lord has daughters and they have sons or did we create the angels females while they are witnesses now surely it is not of their own lie that they say Allah has begotten and most surely there are liars has he chosen daughters in preference to sons what is the matter with you how is it that you judge will you not then mind or have you a clear authority and bring your book if you are truthful and they assert a relationship between him and the jinn and certainly the jinn do know that they shall surely be brought up glory be to Allah for freedom from what they describe but not so the servants of Allah the purified ones so surely you and you worship not against him can you cause any to fall into trial save him who will go to hell and there is none of us but has an assigned place and most surely we are they who draw themselves out in ranks and we are most surely they who declare the glory of Allah and surely they use to say had we a reminder from those of your we would certainly have been the servants of Allah the purified ones but now they disbelieve in it so they will come to know and certainly our word has already gone forth in respect of our servants the messengers surely they shall be the assisted ones and most surely our host alone shall be the victorious ones therefore turn away from them till a time and then see them so they too shall see what would they then hasten on our chastisement but when it shall descend in their court evil shall then be of the warned ones and turn away from them till a time and then see for they too shall see glory be to your lord the lord of honor above what they describe and peace be on the messengers and all praise is due to Allah the lord of the worlds end of surah 37