 سورة 16 of the Holy Qur'an translated by Muhammad Habib Shaikar This liberal box recording is in the public domain سورة 16 The Bee النحل Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah the most beneficent, the most merciful Allah's commandment has come Therefore do not desire to hasten it سورة 18 of the Holy Qur'an translated by Muhammad Habib Shaikar He sends down the angels with the inspiration by His commandment on whom He pleases of His servants Saying, give the warning that there is no God but Me Therefore be careful of your duty to Me He created the heavens and the earth with the truth Highly exalted be He above what they associate with Him He created man from a small seed and law He is an open contender And He created the kettle for you You have in them warm clothing And many advantages and of them do you eat And there is beauty in them for you When you drive them back to home And when you send them forth to pasture And they carry your heavy loads to regions Which you could not reach but with the stress of the souls Most surely your Lord is compassionate, merciful And He made horses and mules and asses That you might ride upon them And as an ornament and He creates what you do not know And upon Allah it rests to show the right way And there are some deviating ways And if He please He would certainly guide you all right He it is who sends down water from the cloud for you It gives drink and by it grow the trees upon which you pasture He causes to grow for you thereby herbage And the olives and the palm trees And the grapes and of all the fruits Most surely there is a sign in this for a people who reflect And He has made subservient for you the night and the day And the sun and the moon And the stars are made subservient by His commandment Most surely there are signs in this for a people who ponder And what He has created in the earth of varied use Most surely there is a sign in this for a people who are mindful And He it is who has made the sea subservient That you may eat fresh flesh from it And bring forth from it ornaments which you wear And you see the ships cleaving through it And that you might seek of His bounty And that you may give thanks And He has cast great mountains in the earth Lest it might be convulsed with you And rivers and roads that you may go aright And landmarks and by the stars they find the right way Is He then who creates like Him Who does not create Do you not then mind And if you would count Allah's favours You will not be able to number them Most surely Allah is forgiving, merciful And Allah knows what you conceal and what you do openly And those whom they call on besides Allah Have not created anything While they are themselves created Dead are they not living And they know not when they shall be raised Your God is one Allah So as for those who do not believe in the hereafter Their hearts are ignorant and they are proud Truly Allah knows what they hide and what they manifest Surely He does not love the proud And when it is said to them What is it that your Lord has revealed They say stories of the ancients That they may bear their burdens entirely On the day of resurrection And also of the burdens of those whom they Lead astray without knowledge Now surely evil is what they bear Those before them did indeed devised plans But Allah demolished their building from the foundations So the roof fell down on them from above them And the punishment came to them from whence They did not perceive Then on the resurrection day He will bring them to disgrace and say Where are the associates you gave me For whose sake you became hostile Those who are given the knowledge will say Surely the disgrace and the evil Are this day upon the unbelievers Those whom the angels cause to die While they are unjust to themselves Then would they offer submission We use not to do any evil I surely Allah knows what you did Therefore enter the gates of hell To abide therein So certainly evil is the dwelling place Of the proud And it is said to those who guard against evil What is it that your Lord has revealed They say good For those who do good in this word is good And certainly the abode of the hereafter is better And certainly most excellent is the abode of those Who guard against evil The gardens of perpetuity They shall enter them Rivers flowing beneath them They shall have in them what they please Thus does Allah reward those who guard against evil Those whom the angels cause to die in a good state Saying peace be on you Enter the garden for what you did They do not wait out But that the angels should come to them Or that the commandment of your Lord Should come to pass Thus did those before them And Allah was not unjust to them But they were unjust to themselves So the evil consequences of what they did Shall afflict them And that which they mocked Shall encompass them And they who give associates to Allah Say if Allah had pleased We would not have served anything Besides Allah Neither we nor our fathers Nor would we have prohibited Anything without order from Him Thus did those before them Is then ought incumbent upon the messengers Except a plain delivery of the message And certainly we raised in every nation A messenger saying So there were some of them whom Allah guided And there were others against whom error was due Therefore travel in the land Then see what was the end of the rejecters If you desire for their guidance Yet surely Allah does not guide Him Who leads astray Nor shall they have any helpers And they swear by Allah With the most energetic of their oath Allah will not raise up Him who dies Yet it is a promise binding on Him Quite true But most people do not know So that He might make manifest to them That about which they differ And that those who disbelieve might know That they were liars Our word for a thing when we intend it Is only that we say to it Be and it is And those who fly for Allah's sake After they are oppressed We will most certainly Give them a good abode in the world And the reward of the hereafter Is certainly much greater Did they but no Those who are patient and under Lord Do they rely And we did not send before you any But men to whom we sent revelation So ask the followers of the reminder If you do not know With clear arguments and scriptures And we have revealed to you The reminder that you may make clear to men What has been revealed to them And that happily they may reflect Do they then who plan evil deeds Feel secure of this That Allah will not cause the earth To swallow them Or that punishment may not overtake them From whence they do not perceive Or that He may not seize them In the course of their journeys Then shall they not escape Or that He may not seize them By causing them to suffer gradual loss For your Lord is most surely Compassionate, merciful Do they not consider everything That Allah has created Its very shadows Return from right and left Making obeisance to Allah While they are in utter abasement And whatever creature That is in the heavens And that is in the earth Makes obeisance to Allah only And the angels too And they do not show pride They fear their Lord above them And do what they are commanded And Allah has said Take not to God He is only one Allah So of me alone Should you be afraid And whatever is in the heavens And the earth is His And to Him Should obeisance Be rendered constantly Will you then guard against Other than the punishment of Allah And whatever favor Is bestowed on you It is from Allah Then when evil afflicts you To Him do you cry for aid Yet when He removes the evil from you لا A part of you Associate others with their Lord So that they be ungrateful For what we have given them Then enjoy yourselves For soon will you know And they set apart For what they do not know A portion of what we have given them By Allah You shall most certainly Be questioned About that which you forged And they ascribe Daughters to Allah Glory be to Him And for themselves They would have What they desire And when a daughter is announced To one of them His face becomes black And he is full of wrath He hides himself from the people Because of the evil of that Which is announced to Him Shall He keep it With disgrace Or bury it Alive in the dust Now surely evil Is what they judge For those who do not believe In the hereafter Is an evil attribute And Allah's Is the loftiest attribute And He is the mighty The wise And if Allah had destroyed Men for their iniquity He would not leave on the earth A single creature But He respites them Till an appointed time So when their doom will come They shall not be able To delay it And our nor Can they bring it On before its time And they ascribe To Allah What they themselves hate And their tongues relate The lie that they shall have The good There is no avoiding it That for them is the fire And that they shall be sent before By Allah Most certainly We sent messengers To nations before you But the shaitan made their deeds For seeming to them So He is their guardian today And they shall have A painful punishment And we have not revealed To you the book Except that you may make clear to them That about which They differ And as a guidance And a mercy for a people Who believe And Allah has sent down water From the cloud And therewith Given life To the earth after its death Most surely There is a sign in this For a people who would listen And most surely There is a lesson For you in the cattle We give you to drink Of what is in their bellies From betwixt the feces And the blood Pure milk Easy and agreeable to swallow For those who drink And of the fruits of the palms And the grapes You obtain from them In intoxication And goodly provision Most surely There is a sign in this For a people who ponder And your Lord Revealed to the bee Saying Make hives in the mountains And in the trees And in what they build Then eat of all the fruits And walk in the ways Of your Lord Submissively There comes forth from within It a beverage of many colors In which there is healing for men Most surely There is a sign in this For a people who reflect And Allah has created you Then He causes you to die And of you is He who is brought back To the worst part of life So that after having knowledge He does not know anything Surely Allah is knowing powerful And Allah has made some of you أكسل أخر in the means of subsistence So those who are made to excel Do not give away their sustenance To those whom their right hands possess So that they should be equal therein Is it then the favor of Allah Which they deny And Allah has made wives For you from among yourselves And has given you sons And grand children From your wives And has given you of the good things Is it then in the falsehood That they believe while it is In the favor of Allah That they disbelieve And they serve besides Allah That which does not control For them any sustenance At all from the heavens And the earth Nor have they any power Therefore do not give likeness To Allah, surely Allah knows and you do not know Allah sets forth a parable Consider a slave The property of another Who has no power over anything And one whom we have granted From ourselves a goodly sustenance So he spends from it secretly And openly Are the two alike All praise is due to Allah Nay, most of them do not know And Allah sets forth a parable Of two men One of them is dumb Not able to do anything And he is a burden to his master Wherever he sends him He brings no good Can he be held equal With him who enjoins What is just And he himself is on the right path And Allah is the unseen Of the heavens and the earth And the matter of the hour Is but as the twinkling of an eye Or it is higher still Surely Allah has power over all things And Allah has brought you forth From the wombs of your mothers You did not know anything And he gave you hearing And sight and heart That you may give thanks Do they not see the birds Constrained in the middle of the sky? None withholds them But Allah Most surely there are signs in this For a people who believe And Allah has given you a place To abide in your houses And he has given you tents Of the skins of cattle Which you find light to carry On the day of your march And on the day of your halting And of the wool and their fur And their hair He has given you Household stuff And a provision for a time And Allah has made for you Of what he has created Shelters And he has given you In the mountains Places of retreat And he has given you garments To preserve you From the heat and coats Of mail to preserve you In your fighting Even thus does he complete His favor upon you That happily you may submit But if they turn back Then on you devolves Only the clear deliverance Of the message They recognize the favor Of Allah Yet they deny it And most of them are Ungrateful And on the day When we will raise up A witness out of every nation Then shall no permission Be given to those Who disbelieve Nor shall they be made To solicit favor And when those Who are unjust Shall see their chastisement It shall not be lightened For them Nor shall they be respited And when those Who associate others With Allah Shall see their Associate gods They shall say Our Lord These are our Associate gods On whom we called Besides thee But they will give them back The reply Most surely you are liars And they shall tender Submission to Allah On that day And what they use To forge Shall depart from them As for those Who disbelieve And turn away From Allah's way We will add Chastisement to their Chastisement Because they made mischief And on the day When we will raise up In every people A witness against them From among themselves And bring you As a witness against these And we have revealed The book to you Explaining clearly Everything And a guidance And mercy And good news For those Who submit Surely Allah Enjoying The doing of justice And the doing of good to others And the giving of the kindred And he forbids indecency And evil and rebellion He admonishes you That you may be mindful And fulfill the covenant of Allah When you have made a covenant And do not break the oath After making them fast And you have indeed Made Allah A surety for you Surely Allah knows What you do And be not like her Who unravels her yard Disintegrating it into pieces After she has spun it strongly You make your oath To be means Of deceit between you Because one nation Is more numerous Than another nation Allah only tries you By this And he will most certainly Make clear to you On the resurrection day That about which you differed And if Allah please He would certainly Make you a single nation But he causes to err Whom he pleases And guides whom he pleases And most certainly You will be questioned As to what you did And do not make your oath A means of deceit between you Less a foot should slip After its stability And you should taste evil Because you turned away From Allah's way And grievous punishment Be your lot And do not take a small price In exchange for Allah's covenant Surely what is with Allah Is better for you Did you but no What is with you Passes away And what is with Allah Is enduring And we will most certainly Give to those who are patient Their reward For the best of what they did Whoever does good Whether male or female And he is a believer We will most certainly Make him live a happy life And we will most certainly Give them their reward For the best of what they did So when you recite the Quran Seek refuge with Allah From the accursed shaitan Surely he has no authority Over those who believe And rely on their Lord His authority is only Over those who befriend him And those who associate others With him And when we change one communication For another communication And Allah knows best What he reveals They say You are only a forger Nay, most of them do not know Say the Holy Spirit Has revealed it from your Lord With the truth That it may establish Those who believe And as a guidance And good news For those who submit And certainly We know that they say Only a mortal teaches him The tongue of him Whom they reproach Is barbarous And this is clear Arabic tongue As for those who do not believe In Allah's communications Surely Allah will not guide them And they shall have a painful And punishment Only they for the lie Who do not believe In Allah's communications And these are the liars He who disbelieves in Allah After his having believed Not he who is compelled While his heart is A trust on account of faith But he who opens his breast To disbelief On these is the wrath of Allah And they shall have A grievous Shastazman This is because They love this world's life More than the hereafter And because Allah does not guide The unbelieving people These are they on whose hearts And their hearing And their eyes Allah has set a seal And these are the heedless ones No doubt that in the hereafter They will be the losers Yet surely your Lord With respect to those who fly After they are persecuted Then they struggle hard And are patient Most surely your Lord After that is forgiving Merciful Remember the day when every soul Shall come Pleading for itself And every soul Shall be paid in full What it has done And they shall not be dealt with Unjustly And Allah sets forth a parable Consider a town safe And secure to which Its means of subsistence Come in abundance From every quarter But it became ungrateful To Allah's favors Therefore Allah made it to taste The utmost degree of hunger And fear because of what they wrote And certainly there came to them A messenger from among them But they rejected him So the punishment overtook them While they were unjust Therefore eat of what Allah has given you Low fill and good things And give thanks for Allah's favor If him do you serve He has only forbidden you What dies of itself And blood And flesh of swine And that over which Any other name Than that of Allah has been invoked But whoever is driven to necessity Not desiring nor exceeding the limit Then surely Allah is forgiving Merciful And for what your tongues describe Do not utter the lie Saying this is low fill And this is unlow fill In order to forge a lie against Allah Surely those who forge the lie against Allah Shall not prosper A little enjoyment And they shall have a painful punishment And for those who were Jews We prohibited what we have Related to you already And we did them no injustice But they were unjust to themselves Yet surely your Lord With respect to those Who do an evil in ignorance Then turn after that And make amends Most surely your Lord After that is forgiving merciful Surely Ibrahim was an exemplar Obedient to Allah upright And he was not of the polytheists Grateful for his favours He chose him and guided him On the right path And we gave him good in this world And in the next he will most surely Be among the good Then we reveal to you Follow the faith of Ibrahim The upright one And he was not of the polytheists The Sabbath was ordained Only for those who differed About it And most surely your Lord Will judge between them On their resurrection day Concerning that About which they differed Call to the will of your Lord With wisdom and goodly exhortation And have disputations with them In the best manner Surely your Lord best knows Those who go astray From his path And he knows best those Who follow the right way And if you take your turn Then retaliate with the like of that With which you were afflicted But if you are patient It will certainly be best For those who are patient And be patient And your patience is not but by The assistance of Allah And grieve not for them And do not distress yourself At what they plan Surely Allah is with those Who guard against evil And those who do good to others End of Surah 16 Surah 17 Of the Holy Qur'an Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This LibroVox recording Is in the public domain Surah 17 The Night Journey Al-Isra Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The Most Beneficent The Most Merciful Glory be to him Who made his servant to go On a night from the sacred mosque To the remote mosque Of which we have blessed the priests So that we may show to him Some of our signs Surely he is the hearing The seeing And we gave Musa the book And made it a guidance To the children of Israel Saying Do not take a protector Besides me The offspring of those Whom we bore with Noah Surely he was a grateful servant And we had made known To the children of Israel In the book Most certainly you will make mischief In the land twice And most certainly you will behave Insolently with great insolence So when the promise For the first of the two came We sent over you our servants Of mighty prowess So they went to and fro Among the houses And it was a promise To be accomplished Then we gave you back The turn to prevail against them And aided you with wealth And children and made you A numerous band If you do good You will do good For your own souls And if you do evil It shall be for them So when the second promise came We raised another people That they may bring you to grief And that they may enter the mosque As they entered it the first time And that they might destroy Whatever they gained ascendancy Over with utter destruction It may be that your Lord Will have mercy on you And if you again return To disobedience We too will return to punishment And we have made hell a prison For the unbelievers Surely this Quran guides to that Which is most upright And gives good news to the believers Who do good That they shall have a great reward And that as for those Who do not believe in the hereafter We have prepared for them A painful chastisement And man prays for evil As he ought to pray for good And man is ever hasty And we have made the night And the day two signs Then we have made the sign Of the night To pass away And we have made the sign Of the day manifest So that you may seek grace From your Lord And that you might know The numbering of years And the reckoning And we have explained everything With distinctness And we have made every man's actions To cling to his neck And we will bring forth to him On the resurrection day a book Which he will find wide open Read your book Your own self is sufficient As a reconner Against you this day Whoever goes right For his own soul Does he go right And whoever goes astray To its detriment Only does he go astray Nor can the bearer of a burden Bear the burden of another Nor do we chastise Until we raise a messenger And when we wish to destroy a town We send our commandment To the people of it Who lead easy lives But they transgress their in Thus the word proves true against it So we destroy it with utter destruction And how many of the generations Did we destroy after nu'a And your Lord is sufficient As knowing and seeing With regard to his servants' faults Whoever desires this present life We hasten to him therein What we please For whomsoever we desire Then we assign to him the hell He shall enter it Despised, driven away And whoever desires the hereafter And strives for it As he ought to strive And he is a believer As for these Their striving shall surely be accepted All do we aid These as well as those Out of the bounty of your Lord And the bounty of your Lord is not confined See how we have made some of them To excel others And certainly the hereafter Is much superior in respect of excellence Do not associate with Allah Any other God Lest you sit down Despised, neglected And your Lord has commanded That you shall not serve Any but him And goodness to your parents If either or both of them Reach old age with you Say not to them So much as agh Nor chide them And speak to them A generous word And make yourself submissively gentle To them with compassion And say Oh my Lord Have compassion on them As they brought me up When I was little Your Lord knows best What is in your minds If you are good Then he is surely forgiving To those who turn To him frequently And give to the near of kin His due And to the needy And the way fairer And do not squander wastefully Surely the squanderers Are the fellows of the shaitans And the shaitan Is ever ungrateful to his Lord And if you turn away From them to seek mercy From your Lord Which you hope for Speak to them A gentle word And do not make your hand To be shackled to your neck Nor stretch it forth To the utmost limit Of its stretching forth Lest you should afterwards Sit down blamed Stripped off Surely your Lord makes plentiful The means of subsistence For whom he pleases And he straightens them Surely he is ever aware of Seeing his servants And do not kill your children For fear of poverty We give them sustenance And yourselves too Surely to kill them Is a great rung And go not nigh To fornication Surely it is an indecency And an evil way And do not kill anyone Whom Allah has forbidden Except for a just cause And whoever is slain unjustly We have indeed given To his heir authority So let him not exceed The just limits In slaying Surely he is aided And draw not near To the property of the orphan Except in a goodly way Till he attains his maturity And fulfill the promise Surely every promise Shall be questioned about And give full measure When you measure out And weigh with the true balance This is fair and better in the end And follow not that Of which you have not the knowledge Surely the hearing and the sight And the heart All of these Shall be questioned about that And do not go about In the land exultingly For you cannot cut through the earth Nor reach the mountains in height All this The evil of it Is hateful in the sight Of your Lord This is of what your Lord Has revealed to you Of wisdom And do not associate Any other God with Allah Lest you should be thrown Into hell Blamed cost away What Has then your Lord Preferred to give you sons And for himself taken daughters From among the angels Most surely you utter A grievous saying And certainly we have repeated Warnings in this Quran That they may be mindful But it does not add Save to their aversion Say, if there were with him Gods as they say Then certainly they would have been Able to seek away to the Lord of power Glory be to him And exalted be he in high Exaltation Above what they say The seven heavens declare his glory And the earth too And those who are in them And there is not a single thing But glorifies him With his praise But you do not understand Their glorification Surely he is forbearing Forgiving And when you recite the Quran We place between you and those Who do not believe In the hereafter A hidden barrier And we have placed coverings On their hearts And a heavenness in their ears Unless they understand it And when you mention your Lord alone In the Quran They turn their backs in aversion We know best what they listen to When they listen to you And when they take counsel secretly When the unjust say You follow only a man deprived of reason See what they liken you to So they have gone astray And cannot find the way And they say What? When we shall have become bones And decayed particles Shall we then certainly be raised up Being a new creation Say Become stones or iron Or some other creature of those Which are too hard to receive life In your minds But they will say Who will return us? Say who created you at first Still they will shake their heads At you and say When will it be? Say maybe it has drawn nigh On the day when he will call you forth Then shall you obey him Giving him praise And you will think that you tired But a little while And say to my servants That they speak that which is best Surely the shaitan saws Descensions among them Surely the shaitan is an open enemy To man Your Lord knows you best He will have mercy on you if he pleases Or he will chastise you if he pleases And we have not sent you as being in charge of them And your Lord best knows those who are in the heavens And the earth And certainly we have made some of the prophets To excel others And to the wood we gave as scripture Say Call on those whom you assert besides him So they shall not control the removal of distress From you nor its transference Those whom they call upon Themselves seek the means of access to their Lord Whoever of them is nearest And they hope for his mercy And fear his chastisement Surely the chastisement of your Lord Is a thing to be cautious of And there is not a town But we will destroy it before the day of resurrection Or chastise it with a severe chastisement This is written in the divine ordinance And nothing could have hindered us That we should send signs Except that the ancients rejected them And we gave to Samud the shey camel A manifest sign But on her account they did injustice And we do not send signs But to make men fear And when we said to you Surely your Lord encompasses men And we did not make the vision Which we showed you But a trial for men And the cursed tree in the Quran as well And we caused them to fear But it only adds to their great inordinacy And when we said to the angels Make obeisance to Adam They made obeisance But Iblis did it not He said Shall I make obeisance to him Whom thou hast created of dust He said Tell me Is this he whom Thou hast honored above me If thou shouldst respite me To the day of resurrection I will most certainly cause his progeny To perish except of you He said Be gone For whoever of them will follow you Then surely hell is your recompense A full recompense And be guile whomsoever of them You can with your voice And collect against them your forces Riding and on foot And share with them in wealth and children And hold out promises to them And the shaitan makes not promises to them But to deceive Surely as for my servants You have no authority over them And your lord is sufficient as a protector Your lord is he who speeds the ships For you in the sea That you may seek of his grace Surely he is ever merciful to you And when distress afflicts you in the sea Away go those whom you call on except he But when he brings you safe to the land You turn aside And man is ever ungrateful What do you then feel secure That he will not cause a tract Of land to engulf you Or send on you a tornado Then you shall not find a protector For yourselves Or do you feel secure That he will not take you back Into it another time Then send on you a fierce guile And thus drown you on account Of your ungratefulness Then you shall not find any aider Against us in the matter And surely we have honoured the children of Adam And we carry them in the land and the sea And we have given them of the good things And we have made them to excel by an Appropriate excellence Over most of those whom we have created Remember the day when we will call Every people with their Imam Then whoever is given his book In his right hand These shall read their book And they shall not be dealt With a wit unjustly And whoever is blind in this He shall also be blind in the hereafter And more erring from the way And surely they had purposed To turn you away From that which we have revealed To you That you should forge against us Other than that And then they would certainly Have taken you for a friend And had it not been That we had already established you You would certainly have been near To incline to them a little In that case We would certainly have made you To taste a double punishment In this life And a double punishment after death Then you would not have found Any helper against us And surely they purposed To unsettle you from the land That they might expel you from it And in that case They will not tarry Behind you but a little This is our course With regard to those of our messengers Whom we sent before you And you shall not find a change In our course Keep a prayer from the declining of the sun Till the darkness of the night And the morning recitation Surely the morning recitation Is witnessed And during a part of the night Pray to God beyond What is incumbent on you Maybe your Lord will raise you To a position of great glory And say my Lord Make me to enter a goodly entering And cause me to go forth A goodly going forth And grant me from near The power to assist me And say The truth has come And the falsehood has vanished Surely falsehood is a vanishing thing And we reveal of the Quran That which is a healing And a mercy to the believers And it adds Only to the perdition of the unjust And when we bestow favor on man He turns aside and behaves proudly And when evil afflicts him He is despairing Say everyone acts according to his manner But your Lord best knows Who is best guided in the path And they ask you about the soul Say the soul is one of the commands of my Lord And you are not given oath of knowledge But a little And if we please We should certainly take away That which we have revealed to you Then you would not find for it Any protector against us But on account of mercy from your Lord Surely his grace to you is abundant Say if man and jinn Should combine together To bring the like of this Quran They could not bring the like of it Though some of them were aiders of others And certainly we have explained for man In this Quran every kind of similitude But most men do not consent to oath But denying And they say We will by no means believe in you Until you cause a fountain to gush Forth from the earth for us Or you should have a garden of palms and grapes In the midst of which you should cause Rivers to flow forth gushing out Or you should cause the heaven to come down Upon us in pieces as you think Or bring Allah and the angels Face to face with us Or you should have a house of gold Or you should ascend into heaven And we will not believe in your ascending Until you bring down to us a book Which we may read Say Glory be to my Lord Am I ought but a mortal messenger And nothing prevented people From believing when the guidance Came to them Except that they said What has Allah raised up a mortal To be a messenger Say Had there been in the earth angels Walking about as settlers We would certainly have sent down to them From the heaven an angel as a messenger Say Allah suffices as a witness Between me and you Surely he is aware of his servants Seeing And whosoever Allah guides He is the follower of the right way And whosoever he causes to err You shall not find for him Guardians besides him And we will gather them together On the day of resurrection On their faces Blind and dumb and deaf Their abode is hell Whenever it becomes alaid We will add to their burning This is their retribution Because they disbelieved In our communications And said What? When we shall have become bones And decayed particles Shall we then indeed be raised up Into a new creation? Do they not consider that Allah Who created the heavens and the earth Is able to create their like And he has appointed for them A doom about which there is no doubt But the unjust do not consent To oath but denying Say If you control the treasures Of the mercy of my lord Then you would withhold them From fear of spending And man is niggerdly And certainly we gave Musa Nine clear signs So ask the children of Israel When he came to them Pharaoh said to him Most surely I deem you O Musa To be a man deprived of reason He said Truly you know that none but the lord Of the heavens and the earth Has sent down these As clear proof And most surely I believe you O Pharaoh To be given over to perdition So he desired to destroy them Out of the earth But we drowned him And those with him all together And we said to the Israelites After him Dwell in the land And when the promise of the next life Shall come to pass We will bring you both Together in judgment And with truth Have we revealed it And with truth Did it come And we have not sent you But as the giver of good news And as a warner And it is a Quran Which we have revealed in portions So that you may read it To the people by slow degrees And we have revealed it Revealing in portions Say Believe in it or believe not Surely those who are given the knowledge before it Fall down on their faces Making obeisance when it is recited to them And they say Glory be to our lord Most surely the promise of our lord Was to be fulfilled And they fall down on their faces Weeping And it adds to their humility Say Call upon Allah Or call upon the beneficent Allah Whichever you call upon He has the best names And do not utter your prayer With a very raised voice Nor be silent with regard to it And seek away between these And say All praise is due to Allah Who has not taken a son And who has not a partner in the kingdom And who has not a helper To save him from this grace And proclaim his greatness Magnifying him End of Surah 17 Surah 18 Of the Holy Quran Translated by Mohammed Habib Shaker This Librovox Recording Is in the public domain Surah 18 The Cave El Taf Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The Most Beneficent The Most Merciful All praise is due to Allah Who revealed the book to his servant And did not make in it any crookedness Rightly directing that he might give Warning of severe punishment from him And give good news to the believers Who do good that they shall have a good reward Staying in it forever And warn those who say Allah has taken a son They have no knowledge of it Nor had their fathers A grievous word it is That comes out of their mouths They speak nothing but a lie Then maybe you will kill yourself with grief Surowing after them If they do not believe in this announcement Surely we have made whatever is on the earth An embellishment for it So that we may try them As to which of them is best in works And most surely we will make What is on it bare ground Without hair-bage Or do you think that the fellows of the cave And the inscription were of our wonderful science When the youth sought refuge in the cave They said our Lord Grant us mercy from thee And provide for us a right course In our affair So we prevented them from hearing in the cave For a number of years Then we raised them up That we might know Which of the two parties was best able To compute the time for which they remained We relate to you their story with the truth Surely they were youth Who believed in their Lord And we increased them in guidance And we strengthened their hearts with patience When they stood up and said Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth We will by no means call upon any God besides Him For then indeed we should have said An extravagant thing These our people have taken God's besides Him Why do they not produce any clear authority In their support Who is then more unjust than He who forges A lie against Allah And when you forsake them And what they worship save Allah Betake yourselves for refuge to the cave Your Lord will extend to you largely of His mercy And provide for you a profitable course in your affair And you might see the sun when it rose Decline from their cave towards the right hand And when it set leave them behind on the left While they were in a wide space thereof This is of the signs of Allah Whomsoever Allah guides He is the rightly guided one And whomsoever He causes to err You shall not find for Him any friend To lead Him aright And you might think them awake While they were asleep And we turn them about to the right and to the left While their dog lay out stretching its paws at the entrance If you looked at them You would certainly turn back from them in flight And you would certainly be filled with awe Because of them And thus did we rouse them That they might question each other A speaker among them said How long have you tarred They said We have tarred for a day or a part of a day Others said Your Lord knows best how long you have tarred Now send one of you with this silver coin of yours To the city Then let him see which of them has purest food So let him bring you provision from it And let him behave with gentleness And by no means make your case known to anyone For surely if they prevail against you They would stone you to death Or force you back to their religion And then you will never succeed And thus did we make men to get knowledge of them That they might know that Allah's promise is true And that as for the hour There is no doubt about it When they disputed among themselves About their affair and said Arract an edifice over them Their Lord best knows them Those who prevailed in their affair said We will certainly raise a masjid over them Some say they are three The fourth of them being their dog And others say five The sixth of them being their dog Making conjectures At what is unknown And others yet say seven And the eighth of them is their dog Say my Lord best knows their number None knows them but a few Therefore content not in the matter of them But with an outward contention And do not question concerning them Any of them And do not say of anything Surely I will do it tomorrow Unless Allah pleases And remember your Lord When you forget and say Maybe my Lord will guide me to a nearer course To the right than this And they remained in their cave 300 years And some add another nine Say Allah knows best how long they remained To Him are known the unseen things Of the heavens and the earth How clear His sight and how clear His hearing There is none to be a guardian for them besides Him And He does not make anyone His associate In His judgment And recite what has been revealed to you Of the book of your Lord There is none who can alter His words And you shall not find any refuge besides Him And withhold yourself with those Who call on their Lord morning and evening Desiring His good will And let not your eyes pass from them Desiring the beauties of this world's life And do not follow Him Whose heart we have made unmindful To our remembrance And He follows His low desires And His case is one in which You bowens are exceeded And say the truth is from your Lord So let Him who please believe And let Him who please disbelieve Surely we have prepared for the inequitous a fire The curtains of which shall encompass them about And if they cry for water They shall be given water like molten brass Which will scald their faces Evil the drink and ill the resting place Surely as for those who believe and do good We do not waste the reward of Him Who does a good work These it is for whom are gardens of perpetuity Beneath which rivers flow Ornaments shall be given to them The rind of bracelets of gold And they shall wear green robes Of fine silk and thick silk brocade Interwoven with gold Reclining the rind on raised couches Excellent the recompense And goodly the resting place And set forth to them a parable of two men For one of them we made two gardens of grape vines And we surrounded them both with palms And in the midst of them we made corn fields Both these gardens yielded their fruits And filled not out thereof And we caused a river to gush forth in their midst And he possessed much wealth So he said to his companion While he disputed with him I have greater wealth than you And am miter in followers And he entered his garden While he was unjust to himself He said I do not think that this will ever perish And I do not think the hour will come And even if I am returned to my lord I will most certainly find a returning place Better than this His companion said to him While disputing with him Do you disbelieve in him Who created you from dust Then from a small seed Then he made you a perfect man But as for me He Allah is my lord And I do not associate anyone with my lord And wherefore did you not say When you entered your garden It is as Allah has pleased There is no power saved in Allah If you consider me to be inferior to you In wealth and children Then maybe my lord will give me What is better than your garden And send on it a thunderbolt from heaven So that it shall become even ground Without plant Or its waters should sink down into the ground So that you are unable to find it And his wealth was destroyed So he began to wring his hands For what he had spent on it While it lay having fallen down upon its roofs And he said Ah me With that I had not associated anyone with my lord And he had no host to help him Besides Allah Nor could he defend himself Here is protection only Allah's The true one He is best in the giving of reward And best in requiting And set forth to them Parable of the life of this world Like water which we send down from the cloud So the herbage of the earth Becomes tangled on account of it Then it becomes dry broken into pieces Which the winds scatter And Allah is the holder of power Over all things Wealth and children are an Adornment of the life of this world And ever abiding the good works Are better with your lord in reward And better in expectation And the day on which we will cause The mountains to pass away And you will see the earth A leveled plane And we will gather them And leave not any one of them behind And they shall be brought Before your lord The standing in ranks Now certainly you have come to us As we created you at first Nay, you thought that we had Not appointed to you a time Of the fulfillment of the promise And the book shall be placed Then you will see the guilty fearing From what is in it And they will say Ah, who to us What a book is this It does not omit a small one Nor a great one But numbers them all And what they have done They shall find present there And your lord Does not deal unjustly With anyone And when we said to the angels Make obeisance to Adam They made obeisance But Eblis did it not He was of the Jinn So he transgressed The commandment of his lord What would you then take him And his offspring for friends Rather than me And they are your enemies Evil is this Change for the unjust I did not make them witnesses Of the creation of the heavens and the earth Nor of the creation of their own souls Nor could I take those who lead others As stray for aiders And on the day when he shall say Call on those whom you considered To be my associates So they shall call on them But they shall not answer them And we will cause a separation between them And the guilty shall see the fire Then they shall know That they are going to fall into it And they shall not find a place To which to turn away from it And certainly we have explained In this Quran Every kind of example And man is most of all given to contention And nothing prevents men from believing When the guidance comes to them And from asking forgiveness of their Lord Except that what happened to the ancients Should overtake them Or that the chastisement Should come face to face with them And we do not send messengers But as givers of good news and warning And those who disbelieve Make a false contention That they may render null Thereby the truth And they take my communications And that with which They are warned for a mockery And who is more unjust Than he who is reminded Of the communications of his Lord Then he turns away from them And forgets what his two hands Have sent before Surely we have placed veils over their hearts Lest they should understand it And a heaviness in their ears And if you call them to the guidance They will not ever follow the right course In that case And your Lord is forgiving The Lord of mercy Where he to punish them For what they earn He would certainly have hastened The chastisement for them But for them There is an appointed time From which they shall not find a refuge And as for these towns We destroyed them When they acted unjustly And we have appointed a time For their destruction And when Moses said to his servant I will not seize until I reach the junction Of the two rivers Or I will go on for years So when they had reached the junction Of the two rivers They forgot their fish And it took its way into the sea Going away But when they had gone farther He said to his servant Bring to us our morning meal Certainly we have met with fatigue From this our journey He said Did you see when we took refuge on the rock Then I forgot the fish And nothing made me forget to speak of it But the shaitan And it took its way into the river What a wonder He said this is what we sought for So they returned Retracing their footsteps Then they found one from among our servants Whom we had granted mercy from us And whom we had taught knowledge from ourselves Moses said to him Shall I follow you on condition That you should teach me right knowledge Of what you have been taught He said Surely you cannot have patience with me And how can you have patience In that of which You have not got a comprehensive knowledge He said If Allah pleases You will find me patient And I shall not disobey you In any matter He said If you would follow me Then do not question me about anything Until I myself speak to you about it So they went their way Until when they embarked in the boat He made a hole in it Moses said Have you made a hole in it To draw in its inmates Certainly you have done a grievous thing He said Did I not say that you will not be able To have patience with me He said Blame me not for what I forgot And do not constrain me to a difficult thing In my affair So they went on until When they met a boy He slew him Moses said Have you slain an innocent person Otherwise then for manslaughter Certainly you have done an evil thing He said Did I not say that you will not be able To have patience with me He said If I ask you about anything after this Keep me not in your company Indeed you shall have then Found an execuse in my case So they went on until When they came to the people of town They asked them for food But they refused to entertain them as guests Then they found in it a wall Which was on the point of falling So he put it into a right state Moses said If you had pleased You might certainly have taken a recompense for it He said This shall be separation between me and you Now I will inform you of the significance of that With which you could not have patience As for the boat It belonged to some poor men Who worked on the river And I wished that I should damage it And there was behind them a king Who seized every boat by force And as for the boy His parents were believers And we feared lest he should make disobedience And in gratitude to come upon them So we desired that the Lord might give them In his place one better than him in purity And nearer to having compassion And as for the wall It belonged to two orphan boys in the city And there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them And their father was a righteous man So your Lord desired that they should attain their maturity And take out their treasure A mercy from your Lord And I did not do it of my own accord This is the significance of that With which you could not have patience And they ask you about Vilkarnain Say, I will recite to you an account of him Surely we established him in the land And granted him means of access to everything So he followed a course Until when he reached the place where the sun set He found it going down into a black sea And found by it a people We said, oh, Vilkarnain Either give them a chastisement or do them a benefit He said, as to him who is unjust We will chastise him Then shall he be returned to his Lord And he will chastise him With an exemplary chastisement And as for him who believes And does good He shall have good reward And we will speak to him An easy word of our command Then he followed another course Until when he reached the land of the rising of the sun He found it rising on a people To whom we had given no shelter from it Even so, and we had a full knowledge of what he had Then he followed another course Until when he reached a place between the two mountains He found on that side of them A people who could hardly understand a word They said, oh Vilkarnain Surely Yagouk and Magouk make mischief in the land Shall we then pay you a tribute on condition That you should raise a barrier between us and them He said that in which my Lord has established me is better Therefore you only help me with workers I will make a fortified barrier between you and them Bring me blocks of iron Until when he had filled up the space Between the two mountains sides He said, blow until when he had made it as fire He said, bring me molten brass Which I may pour over it So they were not able to scale it Nor could they make a hole in it He said, this is a mercy from my Lord But when the promise of my Lord comes to pass He will make it level with the ground And the promise of my Lord is ever true And on that day we will leave a part of them In conflict with another part And the trumpet will be blown So we will gather them all together And we will bring forth hell exposed to view On that day before the unbelievers They whose eyes were under a cover from my reminder And they could not even hear What do then those who disbelieve think That they can take my servants to be guardians Besides me Surely we have prepared hell for the entertainment Of the unbelievers Say, shall we inform you of the greatest losers In their deeds These are they whose labor is lost In this world's life And they think that they are well versed In skill of the work of hands These are they who disbelieve In the communications of their Lord And his meeting So their deeds become null And therefore we will not set up a balance For them on the day of resurrection Thus it is that their recompense is hell Because they disbelieved and held my communications And my messengers in mockery Surely as for those who believe and do good deeds Their place of entertainment Shall be the gardens of paradise Abiding therein They shall not desire removal from them Say, if the sea were ink for the words of my Lord The sea would surely be consumed Before the words of my Lord are exhausted Though we were to bring the like of that sea To add there too Say, I am only immortal like you It is revealed to me that your God is one Allah Therefore whoever hopes to meet his Lord He should do good deeds And not join anyone in the service of his Lord End of Surah 18 Surah 19 of the Holy Quran Translated by Muhammad Habib Shaker This liberal box recording is in the public domain Surah 19 Mary Maryam Revealed at Makkah In the name of Allah The Most Beneficent The Most Merciful كيف ها يا عين صاد A mention of the mercy of your Lord To his servant Zakaria When he called upon his Lord in a low voice He said, my Lord Surely my bones are weakened And my head flares with horiness And my Lord I have never been unsuccessful In my prayer to thee And surely I fear my cousins after me And my wife is barren Therefore grant me from thyself an heir Who should inherit me And inherit from the children of Yaqub And make him my Lord One in whom thou art well pleased Oh Zakaria Surely we give you good news of a boy Whose name shall be Yahya We have not made before anyone his equal He said, oh my Lord When shall I have a son And my wife is barren And I myself have reached Indeed the extreme degree of old age He said, so shall it be Your Lord says it is easy to me And indeed I created you before When you were nothing He said, my Lord Give me a sign He said, your sign is that you will not be able to speak to the people Three nights while in sound health So he went forth to his people From his place of worship Then he made known to them That they should glorify Allah Morning and evening Oh Yahya, take hold of the book with strength And we granted him wisdom While yet a child And tenderness from us and purity And he was one who guarded against evil And beautiful to his parents And he was not insolent, disobedient And peace on him on the day he was born And on the day he dies And on the day he is raised to life And mentioned Maryam in the book When she drew aside from her family To an eastern place So she took a veil to screen herself From them Then we sent to her our spirit And there appeared to her a well-made man She said, surely I fly for refuge From you to the beneficent Allah If you are one guarding against evil He said, I am only a messenger of your Lord That I will give you a pure boy She said, when shall I have a boy And no mortal has yet touched me Nor have I been unchaste He said, even so Your Lord says, it is easy to me And that we may make him a sign to men And a mercy from us And it is a matter which has been decreed So she conceived him Then withdrew herself with him to a remote place And the throes of childbirth Compelled her to be taken herself To the trunk of a palm tree She said, oh Would that I had died before this And had been a thing quite forgotten Then the child called out to her From beneath her And she said, surely your Lord has made a stream To flow beneath you And she took towards you The trunk of the palm tree It will drop on you fresh ripe dates So eat and drink and refresh the eye Then if you see any mortal Say, surely I have vowed A fast to the beneficent Allah So I shall not speak to any man today And she came to her people with him Carrying him with her They said, oh Maryam Surely you have done a strange thing Oh, sister of Haroon Your father was not a bad man Nor was your mother an unchaste woman But she pointed to him They said, how should we speak to one Who was a child in the cradle He said, surely I am a servant of Allah He has given me the book And made me a prophet And he has made me blessed Wherever I may be And he has enjoined on me Prayer and poor rate So long as I live And beautiful to my mother And he has not made me insolent Unblessed And peace on me On the day I was born And on the day I die And on the day I am raised to life Such is Isa, son of Maryam This is the saying of truth About which they dispute It seems not Allah That he should take to himself a son Glory be to him When he has decreed a matter He only says to it be And it is And surely Allah is my Lord and your Lord Therefore serve him This is the right path But parties from among them Disagreed with each other So woe to those who disbelieve Because of presence on a great day How clearly shall they hear And how clearly shall they see On the day when they come to us But the unjust this day Are in manifest error And warn them of the day of intense regret When the matter shall have been decided And they are now in negligence And they do not believe Surely we inherit the earth And all those who are on it And to us they shall be returned And mention Abraham in the book Surely he was a truthful man, a prophet When he said to his father Oh my father Why do you worship What neither hears nor sees Nor does it avail you in the least Oh my father Truly the knowledge has come to me Which has not come to you Therefore follow me I will guide you on a right path Oh my father Serve not the shaitan Surely the shaitan Is disobedient to the beneficent Allah Oh my father Surely I fear that a punishment From the beneficent Allah Should afflict you So that you should be a friend of the shaitan He said Do you dislike my gods Oh Abraham If you do not desist I will certainly revile you And leave me for a time He said Peace be on you I will pray to my lord to forgive you Surely he is ever affectionate to me And I will withdraw from you And what you call on besides Allah And I will call upon my lord Maybe I shall not remain unblessed In calling upon my lord So when he withdrew from them And what they worshipped besides Allah We gave to him Ishaq and Yaqub And each one of them We made a profit And we granted to them of our mercy And we left behind them A truthful mention of Eminence for them And mentioned Musa in the book Surely he was one purified And he was a messenger, a prophet And we called to him from the blessed side of the mountain And we made him draw nai Holding communication with us And we gave to him out of our mercy His brother Haroon, a prophet And mentioned Ismail in the book Surely he was truthful in his promise And he was a messenger, a prophet And he enjoined on his family prayer And arms giving And was one in whom his lord was well pleased And mentioned Idris in the book Surely he was a truthful man, a prophet And we raised him high in heaven These are the on whom Allah bestowed favors From among the prophets of the seed of Adam And of those whom we carried with نوح And of the seed of Ibrahim and Israel And of those whom we guided and chose When the communications of the beneficent Allah Were recited to them They fell down making obeisance and weeping But there came after them an evil generation Who neglected prayers and followed sensual desires So they will meet perdition Except such as repent and believe and do good These shall enter the garden And they shall not be dealt with unjustly in any way The gardens of perpetuity Which the beneficent Allah has promised To his servants while unseen Surely his promise shall come to pass They shall not hear the ring Any vain discourse but only peace And they shall have their sustenance The ring morning and evening This is the garden which we cause Those of our servants to inherit Who guard against evil And we do not descend But by the command of your Lord To him belongs whatever is before us And whatever is behind us And whatever is between these And your Lord is not forgetful The Lord of the heavens and the earth And what is between them So serve him and be patient in his service Do you know anyone equal to him And says man What when I am dead Shall I truly be brought forth alive Does not man remember that we created him Before when he was nothing So by your Lord We will most certainly gather them Together and the shaitans Then shall we certainly cause them To be present round hell on their knees Then we will most certainly draw forth From every sect of them Him who is most exorbitantly Rebellious against the beneficent Allah مجدداً نحن نفعل أبداً لا أفضل Those who deserve Must be burned therein And there is not one of you But shall come to it This is an unavoidable decree Of your Lord And we will deliver those Who guarded against evil And we will leave the unjust therein On their knees And when our clear communications Are recited to them Those who disbelieve Say to those who believe Which of the two parties Is best in abiding And best in assembly And how many of the generations Have we destroyed before them Who were better in respect of goods And outward appearance Say As for him who remains in error The beneficent Allah Will surely prolong his length of days Until they see what they were threatened with Either the punishment or the hour Then they shall know who is in more evil plight And weaker in forces And Allah increases in guidance Those who go right And ever abiding Good works are with your Lord Best in recompense And best in yielding fruit Have you then seen him Who disbelieves in our communications And says I shall certainly be given Wealth and children Has he gained knowledge of the unseen Or made a covenant with the beneficent Allah By no means we write down what he says And we will lengthen to him The length of the chastisement And we will inherit of him what he says And he shall come to us alone And they have taken gods besides Allah That they should be to them A source of strength By no means they shall soon deny Their worshiping them And they shall be adversaries to them Do you not see that we have sent The shaitans against the unbelievers Insighting them by incitement Therefore be not in haste against them We only number out to them A number of days The day on which we will gather Those who guard against evil To the beneficent Allah To receive honors And we will drive the guilty to hell thirsty They shall not control intercession Save he who has made a covenant With the beneficent Allah And they say The beneficent Allah Has taken to himself a son Certainly you have made an abonimable assertion The heavens may almost be rent there at And the earth cleave a thunder And the mountains fall down in pieces That they ascribe a son to the beneficent Allah And it is not worthy of the beneficent Allah That he should take to himself a son There is no one in the heavens and the earth But will come to the beneficent Allah As a servant Certainly he has a comprehensive knowledge Of them and he has numbered them A comprehensive numbering And every one of them will come to him On the day of resurrection alone Surely as for those who believe And do good deeds for them Will Allah bring about love So we have only made it easy in your tongue That you may give good news thereby To those who guard against evil And warn thereby A vehemently contentious people And how many a generation Have we destroyed before them Do you see any one of them Or hear a sound of them End of surah 19