 سورة 38 من the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This LibriVox Recording is in the public domain سورة 38 The letter Saad Saad Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah the most beneficent, the most merciful Saad I swear by the Quran Full of Admonition Nay Those who disbelieve Are in self-exaltation And opposition How many did we destroy before them Of the generations Then they cried While the time of escaping Had passed away And they wonder That there has come to them A warner From among themselves And the disbelievers Say This is an enchanter A liar What makes he the God's a single Allah A strange thing Is this to be sure And the chief persons Of them break forth Saying Go and steadily Adhere to your God This is most surely A thing Sought after We never heard of this In the former faith This is nothing But a forgery Has the reminder Been revealed to him From among us Nay They are in doubt as to my reminder Nay I have not yet tasted My chastisement Or is it that They have the treasures Of the mercy of your Lord The Mighty The Great-Giver Or is it that There is the kingdom Of the heavens and the earth And what is between them Then let them ascend By any means A host of deserters Of the allies Shall be here Put to flight The people of Nooh And Aad and Faran The Lord of Spikes Rejected messengers Before them And Samud and the people Of Lut and the dwellers Of the Thicket These were the parties There was none of them But called the messengers So just was My retribution Nor do these Await Oat But a single cry There being no delay in it And they say O our Lord Hasen unto us Our portion Before the day of reckoning Bear patiently What they say And remember The Lord The possessor of power Surely he was frequent In returning to Allah Surely We made the mountains To sing the glory of Allah In unison With him At the evening and the sunrise And the birds Gather together All joined in singing With him We strengthened his kingdom And we gave him wisdom And the clear judgment And has there come to you The story of the litigants When they made an entry Into the private chamber By ascending over the walls When they entered In upon the wood And he was frightened at them And they said Fear not To litigants Of whom one has acted wrongfully Towards the other Therefore decide between us With justice And do not act unjustly And guide us to the right way Surely This is my brother He has 99 U's And I have a single U But he said Make it over to me And he has prevailed Against me in discourse He said Surely he has been Unjust to you In demanding your U To add to his own U's And most surely Most of the partners Act wrongfully towards One another Save those who believe And do good And very few are they And the wood was sure That we had tried him So he sought The protection of his lord And he fell down bowing And turned time After time to him Therefore We rectified for him This And most surely he had a nearness To us An excellent resort Oh the wood Surely we have made you A ruler in the land So judge between men With justice And do not follow desire Lest it should lead you A stray from the path Of Allah As for those who go A stray from the path Of Allah They shall surely have a severe punishment Because they forgot The day of reckoning And we did not create The heaven and the earth And what is between them In vain That is the opinion Of those who disbelieve Then woe to those Who disbelieve On account of the fire Shall we treat Those who believe And do good Or shall we make those Who guard against evil Like the wicked It is a book We have revealed to you A bounding in good That they may ponder Over its verses And that those endowed With understanding May be mindful And we give To the wood Sulaiman Most excellent The servant Surely he was frequent In returning to Allah When there were brought To him in the evening Horses Still when standing Swift when running Then he said Surely I preferred The good things To the remembrance of my lord Until the sunset Was over He said Bring them back to me So he began to slash Their legs and necks And certainly We tried Sulaiman And we put on His throne A mere body So he turned to Allah He said My lord Do thou forgive me Which is not fit For being inherited By anyone after me Then We made the wind Subservient to him It made his command To run gently wherever He desired And the shaitans Every builder and diver And others Fettered in chains This is our Free gift Therefore give freely Or withhold Without reckoning And most surely He had an eerness To us and an excellent Resort And remember Our servant Ayyub When he called upon his lord The shaitan has afflicted Me with toil And torment Here With your foot Here is a cool washing place And a drink And we gave him his family And the like of them with them As a mercy from us And as a reminder To those possessed Of understanding And take in your hand A green branch And beat her with it And do not break your oath Surely we found him patient Most excellent the servant Surely he was frequent In returning to Allah And remember Our servants Ibrahim And Ishaq And Jaqob Men of power and insight Surely we purified Them by a pure Quality The keeping in mind Of the final abode And most surely They were with us Of the elect the best And remember Ismail And Al-Yasa And Zil-Kifl And they were all of the best This is a reminder And most surely There is an excellent resort For those who guard against evil The gardens of perpetuity The doors are opened for them Reclining their inn Calling their inn For many fruits and drink And with them Shall be those Restraining their eyes Equals in age This is what you are promised For the day of reckoning Most surely this is our sustenance It shall never come To an end This shall be so And most surely There is an evil resort For the inordinate ones Hell They shall enter it So evil is the resting place This shall be so So let them taste it Boiling and intensely Called drink And other punishment Of the same kind Of various sorts This is an army Plunging and without consideration Along with you No welcome for them Surely they shall enter Fire They shall say You no welcome To you You did proffer it to us So evil is the resting place They shall say Our lord whoever Prepared it first for us Add doubt to him A double chastisement In the fire And they shall say What is the matter with us That we do not see Men whom we use To count among the vicious Was it that We only took them in score Or have our eyes Now turned aside From them That most surely is the truth The contending one With another Of the inmates of the fire Say I am only a warner And there is no god But Allah The one the subduer of all The lord of the heavens And the earth And what is between them The mighty The most forgiving Say it is a message Of importance And you are turning Aside from it I had no knowledge Of the exalted chiefs When they contended Note is revealed to me Save that I am a plain warner When your lord said To the angels Surely I am going to create A mortal from dust So when I have made him Complete And breathed into him Of my spirit Then fall down Making obeisance to him And the angels Did obeisance all of them But not Iblis He was proud And he was one of the unbelievers He said What prevented you That you should do obeisance To him Whom I created with my two hands Are you proud Or are you Of the exalted ones He said I am better than he Thou hast Created me of fire And him thou Didst Create of dust He said Then get out of it For surely you are driven Away And surely my curse Is on you to the day Of judgment He said My lord Then respite me to the day That they are raised Surely you are of the respited ones Till the period of the time Made known He said Then by thy might I will surely make them live An evil life all Accept thy servants From among them The purified ones He said The truth then Is and the truth I speak That I will most certainly Fill hell with you And with those among them Who follow you all Say I do not Ask you for any reward For it Nor am I of those who affect It is Nothing but a reminder To the nations And most certainly You will come to know About it after a time End of Surah 38 Surah 39 Of the Holy Qur'an Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaikar This Librovax recording Is in the public domain Surah 39 The troops as Zomr Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful The revelation of the book Is from Allah The mighty, the wise Surely we have revealed To you the book With the truth Therefore serve Allah Being sincere to him In obedience Now surely Sincere obedience is due To Allah alone And as for those Beside him Saying we do not serve them Save that they may Make us nearer to Allah Surely Allah will Judge between them In that in which They differ Surely Allah does not guide him A right who is Allier ungrateful If Allah desire To take a son to himself He will surely choose Those he pleases From what he has created Glory be to him He is Allah The One The Sub-Jewer of all He has created The heavens and the earth With the truth He makes the night cover the day And makes the day Overtake the night And he has made the sun And the moon subservient Each one runs on To an assigned term Now surely He is the mighty The Great Forgiver He has created you From a single being Then made its mate Of the same kind And he has made for you Eight of the kettle in pearls He creates you In the wombs of your mother A creation after a creation In triple darkness That is Allah Your Lord His is the kingdom There is no God but He Whence are you then Turned away If you are ungrateful Then surely Allah Is self-sufficient Above all need of you And he does not like Ungratefulness In his servants You are grateful He likes it in you And no bearer of burden Shall bear the burden Of another Then to your Lord Is your return Then will he inform you Of what you did Surely he is cognizant Of what is in the breasts And when distress Afflicts a man He calls upon his Lord And frequently Then when he makes him Possess a favor from him He forgets that for which He called upon him before And sets up Priviles to Allah That he may cause man To stray off from his path Say enjoy yourself In your Ungratefulness a little Surely you are Of the inmates of the fire What He who is obedient During hours of the night Prostrating himself And standing Takes care of the hereafter And hopes for the mercy Of his Lord Say are those who know And those who do not know Alike Only the men of understanding Are mindful Say All my servants who believe Be careful Of your duty to your Lord For those who do good In this world is good And Allah's earth Is spacious Only the patient Will be paid back the reward In full without measure Say I am commanded That I should serve Allah Being sincere to him In obedience And I am commanded That I shall be the first Of those who submit Say I fear If I disobey my Lord The justizement Of a grievous day Say Allah It is whom I serve Being sincere to him In my obedience Serve then What you like besides him Say The losers Surely are those who shall Have lost themselves And their families on the day Of resurrection Now surely that is the clear Loss They shall have coverings Of fire above them And coverings beneath them With that Allah makes His servants to fear So be careful To me Oh my servants And as for those Who keep off from the worship Of the idols And turn to Allah They shall have good news Therefore give good news To my servants Those who listen to the word Then follow the best of it Those are they whom Allah has guided And those it is Are the men of understanding What As for him Then against whom The sentence of justizement is due What Can you save him Who is in the fire But as for those Who are careful of their duty To their Lord They shall have high places Above them higher places Built for them Which floor rivers This is the promise of Allah Allah will not fail in His promise Do you not see That Allah sends Down water from the cloud Then makes it go Along in the earth In springs Then brings forth therewith Herbage of various colors Then it withers So that you see it Becoming yellow Then he makes it a thing Crushed and broken Into pieces Most surely there is a reminder In this for the men Of understanding What Is he whose heart Allah has opened for Islam So that he is in a light From his Lord Like the heart hearted Nay Who to those whose hearts Canest the remembrance of Allah Those are in clear error Allah has revealed The best announcement A book conformable In its various parts Repeating Where do shudder The skins of those who fear Their Lord Then their skins And their hearts become Pliant to the remembrance of Allah This is Allah's guidance He guides with it Whom he pleases And as for him Whom Allah makes earl There is no guide for him Is he then Who has to guard himself With his own person Against the evil Shastizman On the resurrection day And it will be said To the unjust Taste what you earned Those before them Rejected profits Therefore they came to them The shastizman from whence They perceived not So Allah Made them taste The disgrace in this world's life And certainly The punishment of the hereafter Is greater Did they but know And certainly We have set forth Men in this Quran Simletitudes Of every sort That they may mind An Arabic Quran Without any crookedness That they may guard against evil Allah sets forth An example There is a slave in whom Are several partners Differing with one another And there is another slave Holy owned by one man Are the two alike In condition All praise is due to Allah Nay most of them Do not know Surely you shall die And day two shall surely die Then surely On the day of resurrection You will contend One with another Before your lord Who is then more unjust Than he who utters a lie And he who Gives the lie to the truth When it comes to him Is there not in hell An abode For the unbelievers And he who brings The truth and he who Accepts it as the truth These are they That guard against evil They shall have With their lord What they please In the word of the doers of good So that Allah Will do away With the worst of what they did And give them their reward For the best of what they do Is not Allah sufficient For his servant And they seek to frighten you With those besides him And whosoever Allah makes her There is no guide for him And whom Allah guides There is none that can Lead him astray Is not Allah mighty The lord of retribution And should you ask them Who created the heavens And the earth They would most certainly Say Allah Say have you then Considered that what you Call upon besides Allah Would they If Allah desire to afflict me With harm Be the removers of his harm Or would they If Allah desire to show me mercy Be the withholders Of his mercy Say Allah is sufficient For me On him do the Reliant Relie Say all my people Work in your place Surely I am a worker So you will come to know Who it is to whom There shall come a punishment Which will disgrace him And to whom will be due A lasting punishment Surely we have Revealed to you The book with the truth For the sake of men So whoever follows The right way It is for his own soul And whoever errs He errs Only to its Detriment And you are not a custodian Over them Allah takes the souls At the time of their death And those that die Not during their sleep Then he withholds Those on whom he has passed The decree of death And sends the others Back till an appointed Term Most surely there are signs In this for a people Who reflect Or have they taken Intercessors besides Allah Say what even though They did not ever have control Over anything Nor do they understand Say Allah is the intercession All together He is the kingdom Of the heavens and the earth Then to him You shall be brought back And when Allah Alone is mentioned The hearts of those who do not believe In the hereafter shrink And when those besides him Are mentioned Low They are joyful Say O Allah Originator of the heavens And the earth Noor of the unseen And the seen Thou only judges Between Thy servants As to that wherein they differ And had those Who are unjust All that is in the earth And the like of it With it They would certainly offer it As ransom to be saved From the evil of the punishment On the day of resurrection And what they never thought Of shall be complained To them from Allah And the evil consequences Of what they wrote Shall be complained to them And the very thing They mocked at Shall be set them So when harm afflicts Aman He calls upon us Then when we give him A favor from us He says I have been given it only By means of knowledge Nay, it is a trial But most of them do not know Those before them Did say it indeed But what they earned Availed them not So there befell them the evil Consequences Of what they earned And as for those From among these There shall befall them The evil consequences Of what they earn And they shall not escape Do they not know That Allah makes Ample The means of subsistence To whom he pleases And he straightens Most surely There are signs in this For a people who believe Say All my servants Who have acted extravagantly Against their own souls Do not despair Of the mercy of Allah Surely Allah forgives The faults altogether Surely he is the forgiving The merciful And return to your lord Time after time And submit to him Before there comes to you The punishment Then you shall not be helped And follow the best That has been revealed to you From your lord Before there comes to you The punishment All of a sudden While you do not even perceive Lest a soul should say Oh, woe to me For what I fell short Of my duty to Allah And most surely I was of those who loved To score Or it should say Had Allah guided me I would certainly have been Of those who guard Against evil Or it should say When it sees the punishment Where there only a returning For me I should be Of the doers of good I My communications came to you But you rejected them And you were proud And you were one of the unbelievers And on the day of resurrection You shall see Those who lied against Allah Their faces shall be blackened Is there not in hell An abode for the proud And Allah shall deliver Those who guard against evil With their achievement Evil shall not touch them Nor shall they grieve Allah is the creator Of everything And he has charged over everything His are the treasures Of the heavens and the earth And as for those Who disbelieve in the communications Of Allah These it is That are the losers Say What Do you then bid me serve others Than Allah O ignorant men And certainly It has been revealed to you And to those before you Surely If you associate with Allah Your work Would certainly come to note And you would certainly Be of the losers Nay Serve Allah alone And be of the thankful And they have not honored Allah With the honor that is due to him And the whole earth Shall be in his grip On the day of resurrection And the heavens rolled up In his right hand Glory be to him And may he be Exalted above What they associate with him And the trumpet Shall be blown So all those that are In the heavens and all those That are in the earth Shall soon accept Such as Allah please Then it shall be blown Again Then low they shall stand up Waiting And the earth shall beam With the light of its Lord And the book shall be laid down And the prophets And the witnesses Shall be brought up And judgment Shall be given between them With justice And they shall not be dealt With unjustly And every soul Shall be paid back fully What it has done And he knows best What they do And those who disbelieve Shall be driven to hell They come to it Its doors shall be opened And the keepers of it Shall say to them Did not there come to you Messengers from among you Reciting to you The communications of your Lord And warning you Of the meeting of this day Of yours They shall say But the sentence of Punishment was due As the unbelievers It shall be said Enter the gates of hell To abide therein So evil is the abode Of the proud And those who are careful Of their duty to their Lord Shall be conveyed To the garden in companies Until when they come to it And its doors Shall be opened And the keepers of it Shall say to them Peace be on you You shall be happy Therefore enter it To abide And they shall say All praise is due to Allah Who has made good to us His promise And He has made us inherit The land We may abide in the garden Where we please So goodly is the reward And you shall see the angels Going around About the throne Glorifying the praise of their Lord And judgment shall be Given between them With justice And it shall be said All praise is due to Allah The Lord of the Worlds End of Surah 39 Surah 40 Of the Holy Quran و محمد حبيب شاكر This liberal box recording Is in the public domain Surah 40 The Forgiver God غيفر Revealed at Mak In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Hamim The revelation of the book Is from Allah The mighty, the knowing The forgiver Of the faults And the acceptor Of repentance Severe to punish Lord of bounty There is no God but He To Him is the eventual Coming None dispute concerning The communications Of Allah But those who disbelieve Therefore They are going to and fro In the cities Deceive you The people of Nuh And the parties after them Rejected Prophets before them And every nation Purposed against their messenger To destroy him And they disputed By means of the falsehood That they might thereby Rendernal The truth Therefore I destroyed them How was then My retribution And thus did the word Of your Lord Prove true against Those who disbelieved That they are the inmates Of the fire Those who bear the power And those around him Celebrate the praise Of their Lord And believe in him And ask protection For those who believe Our Lord Thou embraces all things In mercy and knowledge Therefore grant protection To those who turn to Thee And follow Thy way And save them From the punishment Of the Hell Our Lord And make them enter Of Perpetuity Which Thou hast promised to them And those who do good Of their fathers and their wives And their offspring Surely Thou are the mighty The wise And keep them from evil deeds And whom Thou keepest From evil deeds This day Indeed Thou hast On him And that is the mighty Achievement Surely those who disbelieve Shall be cried out too Certainly Allah's hatred of you When you were called Upon to the faith And you rejected Is much greater Than your hatred Of yourselves They shall say Twice this Thou make us subject to death And twice hast Thou given us life So we do confess Our faults Is there then a way To get out That is because When Allah alone was called upon You disbelieved And when Associates were given To him, you believed So judgment belongs To Allah The high, the great He it is Who shows you His signs and sends down For you sustenance From heaven And none minds But he who turns to him Again and again Therefore call upon Allah Being sincere to him Though the unbelievers Are averse Possessor Of the highest rank Lord of power He makes the inspiration To light by his Command upon whom He pleases Of his servants That he may warn men Of the day of meeting Of the day When they shall come forth Nothing concerning them Remains hidden To Allah To whom belongs the kingdom This day To Allah The one the subduer of all This day Every soul shall be rewarded For what it has earned No injustice Shall be done This day Surely Allah is quick in And warn them Of the day that draws near When hearts shall rise up To the throats Grieving inwardly The unjust Shall not have any Compassionate friend Nor any intercessor Who should be obeyed He knows The stealthy looks And that which the breasts Conceal And Allah judges With the truth And those whom they call upon Besides him Cannot judge Surely Allah is the hearing The seeing Have they not traveled In the earth and seen How was the end Of those who were before them My chair Than these were they In strength In fortifications In the land But Allah destroyed them For their sins And there was not for them Any defender against Allah That was because There came to them Their messengers With clear arguments But they rejected them Therefore Allah destroyed them Surely They were strong Severe in retribution And certainly We sent Mousa With our communications And the clear authority Toferan And Haman And Karoun But they said Allying magician So when he brought to them The truth from us They said And gave with him And keep the women alive And the struggle of the unbelievers Will only come To a state of perdition And Feren said Let me alone That I may slay Mousa And let him call upon his lord Surely I fear That he will change Your religion Or that he will make Mischief To appear in the land And Mousa said Surely I take refuge With my lord And your lord From every proud one Who does not believe In the day of reckoning And a believing man Of Feren's people Who hid his faith Said What will you slay A man because he says My lord is Allah And indeed He has brought to you Clear arguments From your lord And if he be a liar On him will be his lie And if he be truthful There will be For you some of that Which he threatens You with Surely Allah does not guide him Who is extravagant And a liar Oh my people Yours is the kingdom This day Being monsters in the land But who will help us Against the punishment Of Allah If it come to us Feren said I do not show you ought But that which I see myself And I do not make you follow Any but the right way And he who believed Said Oh my people Surely I fear for you The like of what befell The parties The like of what befell The people of Nuh And Ayad And Samud and those after them And Allah does not Desire injustice For his servants And oh my people I fear for you The day of calling out The day on which You will turn back retreating There shall be No savior for you From Allah And whomsoever Allah causes To err There is no guide for him And certainly Yousif came to you Before with clear arguments But you ever Remained in doubt As to what he brought Until when he died You said Allah will never Raise a messenger after him Thus does Allah Cause him to err Who is extravagant A doubter Those who dispute Concerning the communications Of Allah Without any authority That he has given them Greatly hated Is it by Allah And by those who believe Thus does Allah Set a seal Over the heart of every proud Who she won And Farron said Oh Ha-Man Built for me a tower That I may attain The means of access The means of access To the heavens Then reached the God of Musa And I surely Think him to be a liar And thus the evil Of his deed was made First seeming to Farron And he was turned away From the way And the struggle of Farron Was not to end In ought but destruction And he who believed Said oh my people Follow me I will guide you to the right course Oh my people This life of the world Is only a passing enjoyment And surely The hereafter Is the abode to settle Whoever Does an evil He shall not be recompensed With ought But the like of it And whoever does good With a male or female And he is a believer These shall enter the garden In which they shall Be given sustenance Without measure And oh my people How is it that I call you to salvation And you call me to the fire You call on me That I should This believe in Allah And associate With him And of which I have no knowledge And I call you To the mighty The most forgiving No doubt that what you call me To has no title To be called To in this world Nor in the hereafter And that Our turning back Is to Allah And that the extravagant Are the inmates of the fire So you shall remember What I say to you And I entrust my affair To Allah Surely Allah sees the servants So Allah Protected him from the evil Consequences Of what they planned And the most evil punishment Overtook Fairens people The fire they shall Be brought before it Every morning and evening And on the day When the hour shall come to pass Make fairens people Enter the severest Chastisement And when they shall content One with another In the fire Then the week shall say to those Who were proud Surely we were your followers Will you then avert From us a portion Of the fire Those who were proud Shall say Surely we are all in it Surely Allah has judged Between the servants And those who are In the fire shall say To the keepers of hell Call upon your lord That he may lighten To us one day of the punishment They shall say Did not your messengers Come to you with Clear arguments They shall say They shall say Then call and the call Of the unbelievers Is only an error Most surely We help our messengers And those who believe In this words life And on the day When the witnesses shall stand up The day on which Their execus Shall not benefit The unjust And for them is curse And for them is the evil Abode And certainly we gave Musa the guidance And we made the children Of Israel inherit The book A guidance and a reminder To the men of understanding Therefore Be patient Surely the promise of Allah Is true And ask protection for your fault And sing the praise of your lord In the evening And the morning Surely as for those Who dispute about the communications Of Allah Without any authority That has come to them There is no In their breasts A desire to become great Which they shall never attain To Therefore seek refuge In Allah Surely he is the hearing The seeing Certainly the creation Of the heavens and the earth Is greater Than the creation of the men But most people do not know And the blind And the seeing Nor those who believe And do good And the evil doer Little is it that you are mindful Most surely the hour is coming There is no doubt Therein But most people do not believe And your lord Says Call upon me I will answer you Surely those who are too proud For my service And I shall soon enter Hell abused Allah is he who Made for you the night That you may rest therein And the day to see Most surely Allah Is gracious to men But most men do not Give thanks That is Allah Your lord the creator Of everything There is no God but he Are you then turned away The swear turned away Those who denied The communications of Allah Allah is he who Made the earth a resting place For you And the heaven a canopy And he formed you Then made goodly your forms And he provided you With goodly things That is Allah Your lord Blessed then is Allah The lord of the worlds He is the living There is no God but he Therefore call on him Being sincere to him In obedience All praise is due to Allah The lord of the worlds Say I am forbidden To serve those whom you call upon Besides Allah When clear arguments Have come to me From my lord And I am commanded That I should submit To the lord of the worlds He it is Who created you from dust Then from a small life Germ Then from a clot Then he brings you forth As a child Then that you may attain A maturity Then that you may be old And of you There are some who are cause To die before And that you may reach An appointed term And that you may understand He it is Who gives life And brings death So when he decrees an affair He only says to it Be and it is Have you not seen Those who dispute With respect to the communications Of Allah How are they turned away Those who reject The book and that with Which we have sent Our messengers But they shall soon come to know When the fetters And the chains shall be On their necks They shall be dragged Into boiling water Then in the fire Shall they be burned Then shall it be said to them Where is that Which you use to set up Besides Allah They shall say They are gone away from us May we use not To call upon anything before Thus does Allah Confound the unbelievers That is because You exalted In the land unjustly And because you behaved Insolently Enter the gates of hell To abide therein Evil then is the abode Of the proud So be patient Surely the promise Of Allah is true So should we make You see part of what We threaten them with Or should we cause you to die To us shall they be returned And certainly We sent messengers before You There are some of them that we have mentioned To you And there are others whom we have Not mentioned to you And it was not Need for a messenger That he should bring a sign Except with Allah's permission But when the command Of Allah came Judgment was given with truth And those who treated it As a lie were lost Allah is He who made The kettle for you That you may ride On some of them And some of them you eat And there are advantages For you in them And that you may attain Their own awon Which is in your breasts And upon them And upon the ships you are born And He shows you His signs Which then of Allah's Signs will you deny Have they not Then journeyed in the land And seen how was The end of those before them They were more in numbers Than these And greater in strengths And in fortifications In the land But what they earned Did not avail them Then when their messengers Came to them With clear arguments They exalted In what they had with them Of knowledge And there beset them That which they used to mock But when they saw Our punishment They said We believe in Allah alone And we deny what we used To associate with Him But their belief Was not going to Profit them When they had seen our Punishment This is Allah's law Which has indeed obtained In the matter of His servants And there And the unbelievers are lost End of Surah 40 Surah 41 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaikar This Librovox recording Is in the public domain Surah 41 Explained in detail Fussilat Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Ha Mim A revelation From the beneficent The merciful Allah A book of which the verses Are made plain An Arabic Quran For a people who know A herald of good news And a warner But most of them turn aside So they hear not And they say Our hearts are under coverings From that To which you call us And there is a heaviness In our ears And the veil hangs between Us and you So work, we too are working Say I am only immortal Like you It is revealed to me That your Allah is one Allah Therefore follow The right way to Him And ask His forgiveness And do to the polytheists To those Who do not give poor rate And they are unbelievers In the hereafter As for those Who believe and do good They shall surely Have a reward Never to be cut off Say what Do you indeed disbelieve in Him Who created the earth In two periods And do you set up equals With Him That is the Lord of the Worlds And He made In it mountains Above its surface And He blessed the ring And made the ring its foods In four periods Alike for the seekers Then He directed Himself To the heaven And it is a vapor So He said to it And to the earth Come both willingly Or unwillingly They both said We come willingly So He ordained Them seven heavens In two periods And revealed in every heaven Its affair And we adorned the lower heaven With brilliant stars And made it to God That is the decree Of the mighty The knowing But if they turn aside Then say I have warned you Of a scourge Like the scourge Of Aad and Samoud When their messengers Came to them from before them And from behind them Saying Serve nothing but Allah They said If our Lord had pleased He would certainly Have sent down angels So we are Surely unbelievers In that with which You are sent Then asked to Aad They were unjustly Proud in the land And they said Who is my cheer In strength than we Did they not see That Allah who created them Was my cheer Than they in strength And they denied our Communication So we sent on them A furious wind In unlucky days That we may make them taste The chastisement Of abasement In this world's life And certainly The chastisement Of the hereafter Is much more abasing And they shall not be helped And as to Samoud We showed them the right way But they chose Error Above guidance So there overtook them The scourge And abasing chastisement For what they earned And we delivered Those who believed And guarded against evil And on the day That the enemies of Allah Shall be brought together To the fire Then they shall be formed Into groups Until when they come to it Their ears and their eyes And their skins Shall bear witness Against them As to what they did And they shall say To their skins Why have you born Witness against us They shall say Allah who makes everything speak Has made us speak And he created You at first And to him you shall be brought Back And you did not veil yourselves Lest your ears And your eyes And your skins Should bear witness against you But you thought That Allah did not know Most of what you did And that was your evil Thought Which you entertained About your Lord That has tumbled you Down into perdition So are you become of the lost ones Then if they will endure Still the fire is there Abode And if they ask for good will Then Are they not of those Who shall be granted Good will And we have appointed For them comrades So they have made Fair seeming to them What is before them And what is behind them And the word proved True against them Among the nations of the jinn And the men That have passed away Before them That they shall surely be losers And those Who disbelieve say Do not listen to this Quran And make noise therein Perhaps You may overcome Therefore We will most certainly Make those who disbelieve Taste a severe Punishment And we will most certainly Reward them For the evil deeds They used to do That is the reward Of the enemies of Allah The fire For them therein And those who disbelieve Will say Our lord Show us those Who led us astray From among the jinn And the men That we may trample them Under our feet So that they may be Of the lowest As for those Who say Our lord is الله Then continue in the right way The angels descend upon them Saying fear not Nor be grieved And receive good news Of the garden Which you were promised We are your guardians In the world's life And in the hereafter And you shall have The rinn What your souls desire And you shall have What you ask for A provision From the forgiving The merciful And who speaks better Than he who calls To Allah While he himself does good And says I am surely of those who submit And not alike are the good And the evil With what is best When law He between whom And you was enmity Would be as if He were a warm friend And none are made To receive it But those who are patient And none are made To receive it But those who have a mighty Good fortune And if an interference Of the shaitan Should cause you mischief Seek refuge In Allah Surely he is the hearing The knowing And among his signs Are the night and the day And the sun and the moon Do not prostrate to the sun Nor to the moon And prostrate to Allah Who created them If him it is That you serve But if they are proud Yet those with your lord Glorify him During the night and the day And they are not tired And among his signs Is this That you see the earth still But when we send down On it the water It stirs and swells Most surely His eight life Is the giver of life To the dead Surely he has power Over all things Surely they who deviate From the right way Concerning our communications Are not hidden from us What Is he then who is cast Into the fire better Or he who comes safe On the day of resurrection Do what you like Surely he sees What you do Surely those who disbelieve In the reminder When it comes to them And most surely it is a mighty Book Falsehood shall not come to it From before it Nor from behind it A revelation from the wise The praised one Note is said to you But what was said indeed To the messengers before you Surely your lord Is the lord of forgiveness And the lord of Painful retribution And if we had made it A Quran in a foreign tongue They would certainly Have said Why have not its communications Been made clear What A foreign tongue And an Arabian Say it is to those Who believe a guidance And a healing And as for those who do not believe There is a heaviness In their ears And it is obscure To them These shall be called To from afar Of place And certainly we gave The book to Musa And differed about And had not a word Already gone forth From your lord Judgement would certainly Have been given Between them And most surely They are in a disquieting Doubt about it Whoever does good It is for his own soul And whoever does evil It is against it Because your lord Is not in the least unjust To the servants To him is referred The knowledge of the hour And there come not forth Any of the fruits From their coverings Nor does a female bear Nor does she give birth But with his knowledge And on the day When he shall call out to them Where are those whom My associates They shall say We declare to thee None of us is a witness And away from them shall Go what they called Upon before And they shall know for certain That there is no escape For them Man is never tired Of praying for good And if evil touch him Then he is despairing And hopeless And if we make him taste Mercy from us After the stress That has touched him He would most certainly say This is of me And I do not think The hour will come to pass And if I am sent back To my lord I shall have with him Sure good But we will most certainly Those who disbelieved Of what they did And we will most certainly Make them taste Of hard chastisement And when we show Favor to man He turns aside And withdraws himself And when evil touches him He makes lengthy Supplications Say Tell me if it is from Allah You disbelieve in it Who is in greater error Than he who is in A prolonged opposition We will soon show them Our signs in the universe And in their own souls Until it will become Quite clear to them That it is The truth Is it not sufficient As regards your lord That he is a witness Over all things Now surely They are in doubt As to the meeting of their lord Now surely He encompasses all things And of Surah 41 Surah 42 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Libro Vox recording Is in the public domain Surah 42 Council Revealed at Mecca In the name of Allah The Most Beneficent The Most Merciful Ha Neem Ain Seen Koff Thus does Allah The Mighty the Wise Revealed to you Thus He revealed to those Before you His is what is in the heavens And what is in the earth And He is the High The Great The heavens may almost Rend ascender From above them And the angels Sing the praise Of their lord And ask forgiveness For those on earth And surely Allah is the forgiving The Merciful And as for those Who take guardians besides Him Allah watches over them And you have not charge Over them And thus Have we revealed to you An Arabic Quran That you may war the mother city And those around it You may give warning Of the day of gathering Together Wherein is no doubt A party shall be in the garden And another party In the burning fire And if Allah Had pleased He would surely have made them A single community But He makes whom He pleases Enter into His mercy And the unjust it is That shall have no guardian Or helper Or have they taken Guardians besides Him But Allah is the guardian And He gives life to the dead And He has power Over all things And in whatever Thing you disagree The judgment thereof Is in Allah's Hand That is Allah My lord On Him do I rely And to Him do I turn Time after time The originator Of the heavens and the earth He made mates For you from among yourselves And mates Of the cattle too Multiplying you thereby Nothing like The likeness of Him And He is the hearing The seeing His are the treasures Of the heavens and the earth He makes ample And straightens the means Of subsistence For whom He pleases Surely He is cognizant Of all things He has made Plane to you Of the religion And that which We have revealed To you And that which We enjoined upon Abraham And Musa and Aisa That keep to obedience And be not divided Therein Hard to the unbelievers Is that which You call them too Allah chooses Whom He pleases And guides to Himself Him who turns To Him Frequently And they did not become divided Until after Knowledge had come to them Out of envy Among themselves And had not a word Gone forth From your Lord till an Appointed term And certainly judgment Would have been given Between them And those who were made To inherit the book After them are most Surely in disquieting Doubt concerning it To this Then go on inviting And go on steadfastly On the right way As you are commanded And do not follow Your desires And say I believe in what Allah has Revealed of the book And I am commanded To do justice between you Allah is our Lord And your Lord We shall have our deeds And you shall have Your deeds No plea Need there be now Between us and you Together us together And to Him is the return And as for those Who dispute about Allah After that Obedience has been Rendered to Him Their plea is null With their Lord And upon them is wrath And for them is Severe punishment Allah It is who revealed the book With truth And the balance And what shall make you know That happily the hour Be nigh Those who do not believe In it would hasten It on And those who believe are in fear From it And they know that it is the truth Now most surely Those who dispute Upstantly Concerning the hour Are in a great error Allah is benign To His servants He gives sustenance To whom He pleases And He is the strong The mighty Whoever desires the gain Of the hereafter We will give him more Of that gain And whoever desires The gain of this world We give him of it And in the hereafter He has no portion Or have they Associates Who have prescribed for them Any religion That Allah does not sanction And where It not for the word Of judgment Decision would have certainly Been given between them And surely The unjust Shall have a painful punishment You will see The unjust fearing On account of what they have Earned And it must befall them And those who believe And do good Shall be in the meadows of the gardens They shall have What they please With their lord That is the great grace That is of which Allah Gives the good news To His servants To those who believe And do good deeds Say I do not ask of you any reward For it but love For my near relatives And whoever earns Good We give him more of good therein Surely Allah is forgiving Grateful Or do they say He has forged a lie Against Allah But if Allah pleased He would seal your heart And Allah will Blot out the falsehood And confirm the truth With His words Surely He is cognizant Of what is in the breasts And He It is Who accepts The sentence from His servants And pardons the evil deeds And He knows What you do And He answers Those who believe And do good deeds And gives them More out of His grace And as for the unbelievers They shall have A severe punishment And if Allah Should amplify The provision For His servants They would certainly revolt In the earth But He sends it down According to a measure As He pleases Surely He is aware of seeing His servants And He it is Who sends down the rain After they have disappeared And He unfolds And He is the guardian The praised one And one Of His signs Is the creation of the heavens And the earth And what He has spread forth In both of them Of living beings And when He pleases He is all-powerful To gather them Together And whatever For you It is on account Of what your hands have Wrote And yet He pardons most of your faults And you cannot Escape in the earth And you shall not Have a guardian Or a helper besides Allah And among His signs Are the ships in the sea Like mountains And He pleases He causes the wind to become Still So that they lie motionless On its back Most surely There are signs in this For every patient Grateful one Or He may make them Founder For what they have earned And even then Pardon most Of the communications May know There is no place of refuge For them So whatever thing You are given That is only a provision Of this world's life And what is with Allah Is better and more lasting For those who believe And rely on their lord And those Who shun the great sins And in desenses And whenever they are angry They forgive And those who respond To their lord And keep up prayer And their rule is to Take counsel among themselves And who spend Out of what we have Given them And those who When great wrong afflicts them Defend themselves And recompense Of evil punishment Like it But whoever forgives And amends He shall have his reward From Allah Surely he does not love the unjust And whoever Defends himself After his being oppressed These it is against whom There is no way To blame Is only against Those who oppress Men And revolt In the earth unjustly These shall have a Painful punishment And whoever Is patient and forgiving These most surely Are actions due To carriage And whosoever Allah makes her He has no guardian after Him And you shall see the unjust When they see the punishment Saying Is there any way to return And you shall see Them Brought before it humbling Themselves Because of the abasements Looking with a faint glance And those who believe Shall see Surely the losers Have lost themselves And their followers On the resurrection day Now surely the iniquitous Shall remain In lasting chastisement And they shall have No friends to help them Besides Allah And whosoever Allah makes her He shall have no way Harken to your Lord Before there comes Allah For which there shall be No averting You shall have no refuge On that day Nor shall it be yours To make a denial But if they turn aside We have not sent you As a watcher over them On you is only To deliver the message And surely when we make Man taste mercy from us And rejoices there at And if an evil afflicts Them on account of What their hands have already Done then surely Man is ungrateful Allah is The kingdom of the heavens And the earth He creates what he pleases He grants to whom He pleases daughters And grants to whom He pleases sons For He makes them Of both swords Male and female And He makes whom He pleases barren Surely He is the knowing The powerful And it is not for any mortal That Allah should Speak to them They could not bear to hear And they did not see And thus did we Reveal to you Our book By our command You did not know What the book was Nor what the face was But we made it A light guiding thereby Whom we please Of our servants And most surely You showed a way To the right path The path of Allah Whose is whatsoever Is in the earth Now surely to Allah Do all affairs Eventually come End of Surah 42 Surah 43 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This Librovax recording Is in the public domain Surah 43 Ornaments of gold Az-Zochrof In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful Hamim I swear by the book That makes things clear Surely we have made it An Arabic Quran That you may understand And surely it is In the original of the book With us Truly elevated Full of wisdom What Shall we then turn away The reminder From you all together Because you are an extravagant People And how many a prophet Have we sent among the ancients And there came Not to them a prophet But they mocked at him Then we destroyed Those who were stronger Than these In prowess And the case of the ancients Has gone before And if you should ask them Who created the heavens And the earth They would most certainly say The mighty The knowing one Has created them He who made the earth Arresting place for you And made in it ways For you that you may go Arright And he who sends Down water From the cloud According to a measure Then we raise to life Thereby a dead country Even thus Shall you be brought forth And he who created Purse of all things And made for you Of the ships And made for you That you may firmly Sit on their backs Then remember The favor of your lord When you are firmly seated Thereon And say Glory be to him Who made this Subservent to us And we were not able To do it And surely to our lord We must return And they assigned To him a part Of his servants Man to be sure Is clearly ungrateful What Has he taken Daughters to himself Of what he himself creates And chosen You to have sons And when One of them is given News of that Of which he sets up As a likeness for the Beneficent Allah His face becomes black And he is full of rage What That which is made In ornaments And which in contention Is unable to make plain Speech And they make the angels Them who are the servants Of the beneficent Allah Female divinities What Did they witness their creation Their evidence Shall be written down And they shall be questioned And they say If the beneficent Allah Had pleased We should never have worshipped them They have no knowledge Of this Or have we given them A book before it So that they hold Fast to it They say We found our fathers On a course And surely We are guided by their Footsteps And thus We did not send Before you any warner In a town Who led easy Lives in it said Surely we found our fathers On a course And surely we are Followers of their footsteps The warner said What Even if I bring To you a better guide Than that on which You found your fathers They said surely We are unbelievers In that with which You are sent So we inflected Retribution on them Than see how Was the end of the Rejectors And when Abraham said To his father And his people Surely I am clear Of what you worship Save him who created Me He will guide me And he made it a word To continue in his Posterity That they may return Nay I gave them and their fathers To enjoy until There came to them the truth And a messenger Making manifest The truth And when there came to them The truth they said This is magic And surely we are These believers in it And they say Why was not this Quran Revealed to a man of Importance in the two towns Will they Distribute the mercy Of your Lord We distribute among them Their livelihood In the life of this world And we have exalted Some of them above others In degrees That some of them may take Others in subjection And the mercy of your Lord Is better than What they amass And where It not that all people Had been a single nation We would certainly Have assigned to those Who disbelieve In the beneficent Allah To make of silver The roofs of their houses And the stairs By which they ascend And the doors Of their houses And the couches On which they recline And other Embellishments of gold And all this Is not but provision Of this world's life And hereafter Is with your Lord Only for those Who guard against evil And whoever Turns himself away From the remembrance Of the beneficent Allah We appoint For him a shaitan So he becomes his Associate And most surely They turn them away from the path And they think That they are guided Right Until when he comes to us He says Oh would that between me and you There were the distance Of the east and the west So evil is the Associate And since You were unjust It will not profit you This day that you are Shareers in the And what Can you then make The deaf to hear Or guide the blind And him who is in clear error But if We should take you away Still we shall inflict Retribution on them Rather we will Certainly show you That which we have Promised them For surely we are the Readers of full power Over them Therefore hold fast To that which has been Revealed to you Surely you are on the Right path And most surely It is a reminder for you And your people And you shall soon be Questioned And ask those of Our messengers Did we ever Appoint gods to Be worshipped beside The beneficent Allah And certainly We sent Mousa With our communications To Faron and his Chiefs So he said Surely I am the messenger Of the Lord of the Worlds But when he came To them with our signs They laughed at them And we did not Show them a sign But it was greater Than it's like And we overtook them With chastisement That they may turn And they said Oh magician Call on your Lord For our sake As he has made the covenant With you To be the followers Of the right way But when we removed From them the chastisement Low They broke the pledge And Faron Proclaimed amongst His people All my people Is not the kingdom of Egypt Mayan And these rivers of low beneath me Do you not then see I am better than this fellow Who is contemptible And who can hardly speak Distinctly But why have not Racelets of gold Been put upon him Or why have they Not come with him angels As companions So he incited His people to liberty And they obeyed him Surely they were A transgressing People Then when they displeased Us We inflected a retribution On them So we drowned them all together And we made them A precedent And example to the later Generations And when a description Of the son of Maryam Is given low For people raise a clamor Threat And they say Are our gods better Or is he They do not set it forth To you Save by way of Disputation Nay, they are a contentious People He was not But a servant on whom We bestowed favor And we made him An example for the children Of Israel And if we please We could make among you Angels to be successors In the land And most surely it is A knowledge of the hour Therefore have no doubt About it And follow me This is the right path And let not the shaitan Prevent you Surely he is your open enemy And when Isa came With clear arguments He said I have come to you indeed With wisdom And that I may make clear To you part of what you differ in So be careful Of your duty to Allah And obey me Surely Allah Is my lord and your lord Therefore serve him This is the right path But parties From among them differed So who too Those who were unjust Because of the chastisement Of a painful day Do they wait For out but the hour That it should come Upon them all of a sudden While they do not perceive The friends shall On that day be enemies One to another Except those Who guard against evil O my servants There is no fear for you This day Nor shall you grieve Those who believed In our communications And were submissive Enter the garden You and your wives You shall be made happy There shall be sent Round to them golden bowls And drinking cups And therein shall be What their souls yearn After and wherein The eyes shall delight And you shall abide Therein And this is the garden Which you are given As an inheritance On account of what you did For you therein Are many fruits Of which you shall eat Surely the guilty shall abide In the chastisement Of hell It shall not be abated From them And they shall therein Be despairing And we are not unjust to them But they themselves Were unjust And they shall call out O Malik And make an end of us He shall say Surely you shall tarry Certainly We have brought you the truth But most of you Are averse to the truth Or have they settled An affair Than surely we are the settlers Or do they think That we do not hear What they conceal And what they discuss I and our messengers With them write down Say If the beneficent Allah Has a son I am the foremost of those Who serve Glory to the Lord of the heavens And the earth The Lord of power From what they describe So leave them Plunging into false discourses And sporting until They meet their day Which they are threatened With And he it is Who is Allah in the heavens And Allah in the earth And he is the wise The knowing And blessed is he Who is the kingdom Of the heavens and the earth And what is between them And with him The knowledge of the hour And to him shall you be brought back And those whom they call Upon besides him Have no authority For intercession But he who bears witness Of the truth And they know him And if you should ask them Who created them They would certainly say Allah Are they then turned back Consider his cry Oh my lord Surely they are A people who do not believe So turn away From them and say Peace for they Shall soon come to know End of Sura 43 Sura 44 Of the Holy Quran Translated by حبيب شاكر This Librovox recording Is in the public domain Sura 44 Smok الدخان Revealed at Mak In the name of Allah The most beneficent The most merciful I swear by the book That makes manifest the truth Surely We revealed it On a blessed night Surely we are ever warning Therein Every wise affair Is made distinct A command from us Surely we are the senders Of messengers A mercy From your lord Surely he is the hearing The knowing The lord of the heavens And the earth And what is between them If you would be sure There is no god but he He gives life And causes death Your lord And the lord of your fathers Of yore Nay, they are in doubt They sport Therefore Keep waiting for the day And the heaven Shall bring an evident smoke That shall overtake men This is a painful punishment Our lord Remove from us the punishment Surely we are believers How shall they be reminded And there came to them A messenger Making clear the truth Yet they turned Their backs on him And said One thought by others A mad man Surely we will remove The punishment a little But you will surely Return to evil On the day When we will seize them With the most violent Seizing Surely we will inflict Retribution Surely we tried before them The people of Faran And there came to them A noble messenger Saying Deliver to me The servants of Allah Surely I am a faithful messenger To you And that do not Exalt yourselves against Allah Surely I will bring To you a clear Authority And surely I take refuge with my lord And your lord That you should stone me To death And if you do not believe in me Then leave me alone Then he called upon his lord These are a guilty people So go forth With my servants by night Surely you will be Persuad And leave the sea intervening Surely they are a host That shall be drowned How many of the gardens And fountains Have they left And corn fields And noble places And goodly things Were in they rejoiced Thus it was And we gave them as a heritage To another people So the heaven and the earth Did not weep for them Nor where they Respited And certainly We delivered the children Of Israel From the abasing chastisement From Faron Surely he was Hoti And one of the extravagant And certainly we chose them Having knowledge Above the nations And we gave them Of the communications Wherein was clear blessing Most surely These do say There is not But our first death And we shall not be raised Again So bring our fathers back If you are truthful Are they better Or the people of Toba And those before them We destroyed them For surely they were guilty And we did not create The heavens and the earth And what is between them In sport We did not create them both But with the truth But most of them Do not know Surely the day Of separation Is there a pointed term Of all of them The day On which a friend Shall not avail his friend Out Nor shall they be helped Save those on whom Allah shall have mercy Surely he is the mighty The merciful Surely the tree Of the zakom Is the food of the sinful Like drags of oil A shell boil in their bellies Like the boiling Of hot water Seize him Then drag him down Into the middle of the hell Then pour above his head Of the torment Of the boiling water Taste, you for truth Are the mighty The honorable Surely this is what You disputed about Surely Those who guard against evil Are in a secure place In gardens And springs They shall wear Of fine and thick silk Sitting face to face Thus shall it be And we will wet them With whores pure Beautiful ones They shall cool their in For every fruit In security They shall not taste Their in Death except the first death And he will save them From the punishment Of the hell A grace from your lord This is the great achievement So have We made it easy In your tongue That they may be mindful Therefore wait Surely they are waiting End of Surah 44