15. Al-Hijr سُورَةُ الحِجۡرِ

Saheeh InternationalAlif, Lam, Ra. These are the verses of the Book and a clear Qur'an

Yusuf AliL. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qur'an that makes things clear

Saheeh InternationalPerhaps those who disbelieve will wish that they had been Muslims

Yusuf AliAgain and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to God's will) in Islam

Saheeh InternationalLet them eat and enjoy themselves and be diverted by [false] hope, for they are going to know

Yusuf AliLeave them alone, to enjoy (the good things of this life) and to please themselves: let (false) hope amuse them: soon will knowledge (undeceive them)

Saheeh InternationalAnd We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree

Yusuf AliNever did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand

Saheeh InternationalNo nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter

Yusuf AliNeither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it

Saheeh InternationalAnd they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad

Yusuf AliThey say: "O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! truly thou art mad (or possessed)

Saheeh InternationalWhy do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful

Yusuf AliWhy bringest thou not angels to us if it be that thou hast the Truth

Saheeh InternationalWe do not send down the angels except with truth; and the disbelievers would not then be reprieved

Yusuf AliWe send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian

Yusuf AliWe have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption)

Saheeh InternationalAnd We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muhammad], among the sects of the former peoples

Yusuf AliWe did send apostles before thee amongst the religious sects of old

Saheeh InternationalAnd no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him

Yusuf AliBut never came an apostle to them but they mocked him

Saheeh InternationalThus do We insert denial into the hearts of the criminals

Yusuf AliEven so do we let it creep into the hearts of the sinners

Saheeh InternationalThey will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples

Yusuf AliThat they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients have passed away

Saheeh InternationalAnd [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend

Yusuf AliEven if We opened out to them a gate from heaven, and they were to continue (all day) ascending therein

Saheeh InternationalThey would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic

Yusuf AliThey would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, we have been bewitched by sorcery

Saheeh InternationalAnd We have placed within the heaven great stars and have beautified it for the observers

Yusuf AliIt is We Who have set out the zodiacal signs in the heavens, and made them fair-seeming to (all) beholders

Saheeh InternationalAnd We have protected it from every devil expelled [from the mercy of Allah]

Yusuf AliAnd (moreover) We have guarded them from every evil spirit accursed

Saheeh InternationalExcept one who steals a hearing and is pursued by a clear burning flame

Yusuf AliBut any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire, bright (to see)

Saheeh InternationalAnd the earth - We have spread it and cast therein firmly set mountains and caused to grow therein [something] of every well-balanced thing

Yusuf AliAnd the earth We have spread out (like a carpet); set thereon mountains firm and immovable; and produced therein all kinds of things in due balance

Saheeh InternationalAnd We have made for you therein means of living and [for] those for whom you are not providers

Yusuf AliAnd We have provided therein means of subsistence,- for you and for those for whose sustenance ye are not responsible

Saheeh InternationalAnd there is not a thing but that with Us are its depositories, and We do not send it down except according to a known measure

Yusuf AliAnd there is not a thing but its (sources and) treasures (inexhaustible) are with Us; but We only send down thereof in due and ascertainable measures

Saheeh InternationalAnd We have sent the fertilizing winds and sent down water from the sky and given you drink from it. And you are not its retainers

Yusuf AliAnd We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the sky, therewith providing you with water (in abundance), though ye are not the guardians of its stores

Saheeh InternationalAnd indeed, it is We who give life and cause death, and We are the Inheritor

Yusuf AliAnd verily, it is We Who give life, and Who give death: it is We Who remain inheritors (after all else passes away)

Saheeh InternationalAnd We have already known the preceding [generations] among you, and We have already known the later [ones to come]

Yusuf AliTo Us are known those of you who hasten forward, and those who lag behind

Saheeh InternationalAnd indeed, your Lord will gather them; indeed, He is Wise and Knowing

Yusuf AliAssuredly it is thy Lord Who will gather them together: for He is perfect in Wisdom and Knowledge

Saheeh InternationalAnd We did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud

Yusuf AliWe created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape

Saheeh InternationalAnd the jinn We created before from scorching fire

Yusuf AliAnd the Jinn race, We had created before, from the fire of a scorching wind

Saheeh InternationalAnd [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "I will create a human being out of clay from an altered black mud

Yusuf AliBehold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape

Saheeh InternationalAnd when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul, then fall down to him in prostration

Yusuf AliWhen I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him

Saheeh InternationalSo the angels prostrated - all of them entirely

Yusuf AliSo the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together

Saheeh InternationalExcept Iblees, he refused to be with those who prostrated

Yusuf AliNot so Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves

Saheeh International[Allah] said, O Iblees, what is [the matter] with you that you are not with those who prostrate

Yusuf Ali(God) said: "O Iblis! what is your reason for not being among those who prostrated themselves

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "Never would I prostrate to a human whom You created out of clay from an altered black mud

Yusuf Ali(Iblis) said: "I am not one to prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "Then get out of it, for indeed, you are expelled

Yusuf Ali(God) said: "Then get thee out from here; for thou art rejected, accursed

Saheeh InternationalAnd indeed, upon you is the curse until the Day of Recompense

Yusuf AliAnd the curse shall be on thee till the day of Judgment

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "My Lord, then reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected

Yusuf Ali(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! give me then respite till the Day the (dead) are raised

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "So indeed, you are of those reprieved

Yusuf Ali(God) said: "Respite is granted thee

Saheeh InternationalUntil the Day of the time well-known

Yusuf AliTill the Day of the Time appointed

Saheeh International[Iblees] said, "My Lord, because You have put me in error, I will surely make [disobedience] attractive to them on earth, and I will mislead them all

Yusuf Ali(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair-seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong

Saheeh InternationalExcept, among them, Your chosen servants

Yusuf AliExcept Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace)

Saheeh International[Allah] said, "This is a path [of return] to Me [that is] straight

Yusuf Ali(God) said: "This (way of My sincere servants) is indeed a way that leads straight to Me

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, My servants - no authority will you have over them, except those who follow you of the deviators

Yusuf AliFor over My servants no authority shalt thou have, except such as put themselves in the wrong and follow thee

Saheeh InternationalAnd indeed, Hell is the promised place for them all

Yusuf AliAnd verily, Hell is the promised abode for them all

Saheeh InternationalIt has seven gates; for every gate is of them a portion designated

Yusuf AliTo it are seven gates: for each of those gates is a (special) class (of sinners) assigned

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, the righteous will be within gardens and springs

Yusuf AliThe righteous (will be) amid gardens and fountains (of clear-flowing water)

Saheeh International[Having been told], "Enter it in peace, safe [and secure]

Yusuf Ali(Their greeting will be): "Enter ye here in peace and security

Saheeh InternationalAnd We will remove whatever is in their breasts of resentment, [so they will be] brothers, on thrones facing each other

Yusuf AliAnd We shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense of injury: (they will be) brothers (joyfully) facing each other on thrones (of dignity)

Saheeh InternationalNo fatigue will touch them therein, nor from it will they [ever] be removed

Yusuf AliThere no sense of fatigue shall touch them, nor shall they (ever) be asked to leave

Saheeh International[O Muhammad], inform My servants that it is I who am the Forgiving, the Merciful

Yusuf AliTell My servants that I am indeed the Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful

Saheeh InternationalAnd that it is My punishment which is the painful punishment

Yusuf AliAnd that My Penalty will be indeed the most grievous Penalty

Saheeh InternationalAnd inform them about the guests of Abraham

Yusuf AliTell them about the guests of Abraham

Saheeh InternationalWhen they entered upon him and said, "Peace." [Abraham] said, "Indeed, we are fearful of you

Yusuf AliWhen they entered his presence and said, "Peace!" He said, "We feel afraid of you

Saheeh International[The angels] said, "Fear not. Indeed, we give you good tidings of a learned boy

Yusuf AliThey said: "Fear not! We give thee glad tidings of a son endowed with wisdom

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "Have you given me good tidings although old age has come upon me? Then of what [wonder] do you inform

Yusuf AliHe said: "Do ye give me glad tidings that old age has seized me? Of what, then, is your good news

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "We have given you good tidings in truth, so do not be of the despairing

Yusuf AliThey said: "We give thee glad tidings in truth: be not then in despair

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord except for those astray

Yusuf AliHe said: "And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, but such as go astray

Saheeh International[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers

Yusuf AliAbraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of God)

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals

Yusuf AliThey said: "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin

Saheeh InternationalExcept the family of Lot; indeed, we will save them all

Yusuf AliExcepting the adherents of Lut: them we are certainly (charged) to save (from harm),- All

Saheeh InternationalExcept his wife." Allah decreed that she is of those who remain behind

Yusuf AliExcept his wife, who, We have ascertained, will be among those who will lag behind

Saheeh InternationalAnd when the messengers came to the family of Lot

Yusuf AliAt length when the messengers arrived among the adherents of Lut

Saheeh InternationalHe said, "Indeed, you are people unknown

Yusuf AliHe said: "Ye appear to be uncommon folk

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "But we have come to you with that about which they were disputing

Yusuf AliThey said: "Yea, we have come to thee to accomplish that of which they doubt

Saheeh InternationalAnd we have come to you with truth, and indeed, we are truthful

Yusuf AliWe have brought to thee that which is inevitably due, and assuredly we tell the truth

Saheeh InternationalSo set out with your family during a portion of the night and follow behind them and let not anyone among you look back and continue on to where you are commanded

Yusuf AliThen travel by night with thy household, when a portion of the night (yet remains), and do thou bring up the rear: let no one amongst you look back, but pass on whither ye are ordered

Saheeh InternationalAnd We conveyed to him [the decree] of that matter: that those [sinners] would be eliminated by early morning

Yusuf AliAnd We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning

Saheeh InternationalAnd the people of the city came rejoicing

Yusuf AliThe inhabitants of the city came in (mad) joy (at news of the young men)

Saheeh International[Lot] said, "Indeed, these are my guests, so do not shame me

Yusuf AliLut said: "These are my guests: disgrace me not

Saheeh InternationalAnd fear Allah and do not disgrace me

Yusuf AliBut fear God, and shame me not

Saheeh InternationalThey said, "Have we not forbidden you from [protecting] people

Yusuf AliThey said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry

Saheeh International[Lot] said, "These are my daughters - if you would be doers [of lawful marriage]

Yusuf AliHe said: "There are my daughters (to marry), if ye must act (so)

Saheeh InternationalBy your life, [O Muhammad], indeed they were, in their intoxication, wandering blindly

Yusuf AliVerily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro

Saheeh InternationalSo the shriek seized them at sunrise

Yusuf AliBut the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning

Saheeh InternationalAnd We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay

Yusuf AliAnd We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay

Saheeh InternationalIndeed in that are signs for those who discern

Yusuf AliBehold! in this are Signs for those who by tokens do understand

Saheeh InternationalAnd indeed, those cities are [situated] on an established road

Yusuf AliAnd the (cities were) right on the high-road

Saheeh InternationalIndeed in that is a sign for the believers

Yusuf AliBehold! in this is a sign for those who believed

Saheeh InternationalAnd the companions of the thicket were [also] wrongdoers

Yusuf AliAnd the Companions of the Wood were also wrong-doers

Saheeh InternationalSo We took retribution from them, and indeed, both [cities] are on a clear highway

Yusuf AliSo We exacted retribution from them. They were both on an open highway, plain to see

Saheeh InternationalAnd certainly did the companions of Thamud deny the messengers

Yusuf AliThe Companions of the Rocky Tract also rejected the apostles

Saheeh InternationalAnd We gave them Our signs, but from them they were turning away

Yusuf AliWe sent them Our Sings, but they persisted in turning away from them

Saheeh InternationalAnd they used to carve from the mountains, houses, feeling secure

Yusuf AliOut of the mountains did they hew (their) edifices, (feeling themselves) secure

Saheeh InternationalBut the shriek seized them at early morning

Yusuf AliBut the (mighty) Blast seized them of a morning

Saheeh InternationalSo nothing availed them [from] what they used to earn

Yusuf AliAnd of no avail to them was all that they did (with such art and care)

Saheeh InternationalAnd We have not created the heavens and earth and that between them except in truth. And indeed, the Hour is coming; so forgive with gracious forgiveness

Yusuf AliWe created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when this will be manifest). So overlook (any human faults) with gracious forgiveness

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, your Lord - He is the Knowing Creator

Yusuf AliFor verily it is thy Lord who is the Master-Creator, knowing all things

Saheeh InternationalAnd We have certainly given you, [O Muhammad], seven of the often repeated [verses] and the great Qur'an

Yusuf AliAnd We have bestowed upon thee the Seven Oft-repeated (verses) and the Grand Qur'an

Saheeh InternationalDo not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [certain] categories of the disbelievers, and do not grieve over them. And lower your wing to the believers

Yusuf AliStrain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them: but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers

Saheeh InternationalAnd say, "Indeed, I am the clear warner

Yusuf AliAnd say: "I am indeed he that warneth openly and without ambiguity

Saheeh InternationalJust as We had revealed [scriptures] to the separators

Yusuf Ali(Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts)

Saheeh InternationalWho have made the Qur'an into portions

Yusuf Ali(So also on such) as have made Qur'an into shreds (as they please)

Saheeh InternationalSo by your Lord, We will surely question them all

Yusuf AliTherefore, by the Lord, We will, of a surety, call them to account

Saheeh InternationalAbout what they used to do

Yusuf AliFor all their deeds

Saheeh InternationalThen declare what you are commanded and turn away from the polytheists

Yusuf AliTherefore expound openly what thou art commanded, and turn away from those who join false gods with God

Saheeh InternationalIndeed, We are sufficient for you against the mockers

Yusuf AliFor sufficient are We unto thee against those who scoff

Saheeh InternationalWho make [equal] with Allah another deity. But they are going to know

Yusuf AliThose who adopt, with God, another god: but soon will they come to know

Saheeh InternationalAnd We already know that your breast is constrained by what they say

Yusuf AliWe do indeed know how thy heart is distressed at what they say

Saheeh InternationalSo exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord and be of those who prostrate [to Him]

Yusuf AliBut celebrate the praises of thy Lord, and be of those who prostrate themselves in adoration

Saheeh InternationalAnd worship your Lord until there comes to you the certainty (death)

Yusuf AliAnd serve thy Lord until there come unto thee the Hour that is Certain