15. Al-Hijr سُورَةُ الحِجۡرِ
Yusuf AliL. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation,- of a Qur'an that makes things clear
Yusuf AliAgain and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to God's will) in Islam
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)
Yusuf AliNever did We destroy a population that had not a term decreed and assigned beforehand
Yusuf AliNeither can a people anticipate its term, nor delay it
Yusuf AliThey say: "O thou to whom the Message is being revealed! truly thou art mad (or possessed)
Yusuf AliWhy bringest thou not angels to us if it be that thou hast the Truth
Yusuf AliWe send not the angels down except for just cause: if they came (to the ungodly), behold! no respite would they have
Yusuf AliWe have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption)
Yusuf AliWe did send apostles before thee amongst the religious sects of old
Yusuf AliBut never came an apostle to them but they mocked him
Yusuf AliEven so do we let it creep into the hearts of the sinners
Yusuf AliThat they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients have passed away
Yusuf AliEven if We opened out to them a gate from heaven, and they were to continue (all day) ascending therein
Yusuf AliThey would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, we have been bewitched by sorcery
Yusuf AliIt is We Who have set out the zodiacal signs in the heavens, and made them fair-seeming to (all) beholders
Yusuf AliAnd (moreover) We have guarded them from every evil spirit accursed
Yusuf AliBut any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire, bright (to see)
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
Yusuf AliAnd We have provided therein means of subsistence,- for you and for those for whose sustenance ye are not responsible
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
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
Yusuf AliAnd verily, it is We Who give life, and Who give death: it is We Who remain inheritors (after all else passes away)
Yusuf AliTo Us are known those of you who hasten forward, and those who lag behind
Yusuf AliAssuredly it is thy Lord Who will gather them together: for He is perfect in Wisdom and Knowledge
Yusuf AliWe created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape
Yusuf AliAnd the Jinn race, We had created before, from the fire of a scorching wind
Yusuf AliBehold! thy Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape
Yusuf AliWhen I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him
Yusuf AliSo the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together
Yusuf AliNot so Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated themselves
Yusuf Ali(God) said: "O Iblis! what is your reason for not being among those who prostrated themselves
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
Yusuf Ali(God) said: "Then get thee out from here; for thou art rejected, accursed
Yusuf AliAnd the curse shall be on thee till the day of Judgment
Yusuf Ali(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! give me then respite till the Day the (dead) are raised
Yusuf Ali(God) said: "Respite is granted thee
Yusuf AliTill the Day of the Time appointed
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
Yusuf AliExcept Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace)
Yusuf Ali(God) said: "This (way of My sincere servants) is indeed a way that leads straight to Me
Yusuf AliFor over My servants no authority shalt thou have, except such as put themselves in the wrong and follow thee
Yusuf AliAnd verily, Hell is the promised abode for them all
Yusuf AliTo it are seven gates: for each of those gates is a (special) class (of sinners) assigned
Yusuf AliThe righteous (will be) amid gardens and fountains (of clear-flowing water)
Yusuf Ali(Their greeting will be): "Enter ye here in peace and security
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)
Yusuf AliThere no sense of fatigue shall touch them, nor shall they (ever) be asked to leave
Yusuf AliTell My servants that I am indeed the Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful
Yusuf AliAnd that My Penalty will be indeed the most grievous Penalty
Yusuf AliTell them about the guests of Abraham
Yusuf AliWhen they entered his presence and said, "Peace!" He said, "We feel afraid of you
Yusuf AliThey said: "Fear not! We give thee glad tidings of a son endowed with wisdom
Yusuf AliHe said: "Do ye give me glad tidings that old age has seized me? Of what, then, is your good news
Yusuf AliThey said: "We give thee glad tidings in truth: be not then in despair
Yusuf AliHe said: "And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord, but such as go astray
Yusuf AliAbraham said: "What then is the business on which ye (have come), O ye messengers (of God)
Yusuf AliThey said: "We have been sent to a people (deep) in sin
Yusuf AliExcepting the adherents of Lut: them we are certainly (charged) to save (from harm),- All
Yusuf AliExcept his wife, who, We have ascertained, will be among those who will lag behind
Yusuf AliAt length when the messengers arrived among the adherents of Lut
Yusuf AliHe said: "Ye appear to be uncommon folk
Yusuf AliThey said: "Yea, we have come to thee to accomplish that of which they doubt
Yusuf AliWe have brought to thee that which is inevitably due, and assuredly we tell the truth
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
Yusuf AliAnd We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning
Yusuf AliThe inhabitants of the city came in (mad) joy (at news of the young men)
Yusuf AliLut said: "These are my guests: disgrace me not
Yusuf AliBut fear God, and shame me not
Yusuf AliThey said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry
Yusuf AliHe said: "There are my daughters (to marry), if ye must act (so)
Yusuf AliVerily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro
Yusuf AliBut the (mighty) Blast overtook them before morning
Yusuf AliAnd We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay
Yusuf AliBehold! in this are Signs for those who by tokens do understand
Yusuf AliAnd the (cities were) right on the high-road
Yusuf AliBehold! in this is a sign for those who believed
Yusuf AliAnd the Companions of the Wood were also wrong-doers
Yusuf AliSo We exacted retribution from them. They were both on an open highway, plain to see
Yusuf AliThe Companions of the Rocky Tract also rejected the apostles
Yusuf AliWe sent them Our Sings, but they persisted in turning away from them
Yusuf AliOut of the mountains did they hew (their) edifices, (feeling themselves) secure
Yusuf AliBut the (mighty) Blast seized them of a morning
Yusuf AliAnd of no avail to them was all that they did (with such art and care)
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
Yusuf AliFor verily it is thy Lord who is the Master-Creator, knowing all things
Yusuf AliAnd We have bestowed upon thee the Seven Oft-repeated (verses) and the Grand Qur'an
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
Yusuf AliAnd say: "I am indeed he that warneth openly and without ambiguity
Yusuf Ali(Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts)
Yusuf Ali(So also on such) as have made Qur'an into shreds (as they please)
Yusuf AliTherefore, by the Lord, We will, of a surety, call them to account
Yusuf AliTherefore expound openly what thou art commanded, and turn away from those who join false gods with God
Yusuf AliFor sufficient are We unto thee against those who scoff
Yusuf AliThose who adopt, with God, another god: but soon will they come to know
Yusuf AliWe do indeed know how thy heart is distressed at what they say
Yusuf AliBut celebrate the praises of thy Lord, and be of those who prostrate themselves in adoration
Yusuf AliAnd serve thy Lord until there come unto thee the Hour that is Certain