Translations Suras
ENGLISH, M.H. SHAKIR

36 - Ya Seen

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

 
1Ya Seen.
 
2I swear by the Quran full of wisdom
 
3Most surely you are one of the apostles
 
4On a right way.
 
5A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful.
 
6That you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
 
7Certainly the word has proved true of most of them, so they do not believe.
 
8Surely We have placed chains on their necks, and these reach up to their chins, so they have their heads raised aloft.
 
9And We have made before them a barrier and a barrier behind them, then We have covered them over so that they do not see.
 
10And it is alike to them whether you warn them or warn them not: they do not believe.
 
11You can only warn him who follows the reminder and fears the Beneficent God in secret; so announce to him forgiveness and an honorable reward.
 
12Surely We give life to the dead, and We write down what they have sent before and their footprints, and We have recorded everything in a clear writing.
 
13And set out to them an example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it.
 
14When We sent to them two, they rejected both of them, then We strengthened (them) with a third, so they said: Surely we are messengers to you.
 
15They said: You are naught but mortals like ourselves, nor has the Beneficent God revealed anything; you only lie.
 
16They said: Our Lord knows that we are most surely messengers to you.
 
17And nothing devolves on us but a clear deliverance (of the message).
 
18They said: Surely we augur evil from you; if you do not desist, we will certainly stone you, and there shall certainly afflict vou a painful chastisement from us.
 
19They said: Your evil fortune is with you; what! if you are reminded! Nay, you are an extravagant people.
 
20And from the remote part of the city there came a man running, he said: O my people! follow the messengers;
 
21Follow him who does not ask you for reward, and they are the followers of the right course;
 
22And what reason have I that I should not serve Him Who brought me into existence? And to Him you shall be brought back;
 
23What! shall I take besides Him gods whose intercession, If the Beneficent God should desire to afflict me with a harm, shall not avail me aught, nor shall they be able to deliver me?
 
24In that case I shall most surely be in clear error:
 
25Surely I believe in your Lord, therefore hear me.
 
26It was said: Enter the garden. He said: O would that my people had known
 
27Of that on account of which my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honored ones!
 
28And We did not send down upon his people after him any hosts from heaven, nor do We ever send down.
 
29It was naught but a single cry, and lo! they were still.
 
30Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an apostle but they mock at him.
 
31Do they not consider how many of the generations have We destroyed before them, because they do not turn to them?
 
32And all of them shall surely be brought before Us.
 
33And a sign to them is the dead earth: We give life to it and bring forth from it grain SQ they eat of it.
 
34And We make therein gardens of palms and grapevines and We make springs to flow forth in it,
 
35That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands did not make it; will they not then be grateful?
 
36Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind and of what they do not know.
 
37And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, then lo! they are in the dark;
 
38And the sun runs on to a term appointed for it; that is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knowing.
 
39And (as for) the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm branch.
 
40Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere.
 
41And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship.
 
42And We have created for them the like of it, what they will ride on.
 
43And if We please, We can drown them, then there shall be no succorer for them, nor shall they be rescued
 
44But (by) mercy from Us and for enjoyment till a time.
 
45And when it is said to them: Guard against what is before you and what is behind you, that mercy may be had on you.
 
46And there comes not to them a communication of the communications of their Lord but they turn aside from it.
 
47And when it is said to them: Spend out of what Allah has given you, those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Shall we feed him whom, if Allah please, He could feed? You are in naught but clear error.
 
48And they say: When will this threat come to pass, if you are truthful?
 
49They wait not for aught but a single cry which will overtake them while they yet contend with one another.
 
50So they shall not be able to make a bequest, nor shall they return to their families.
 
51And the trumpet shall be blown, when lo ! from their graves they shall hasten on to their Lord.
 
52They shall say: O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? This is what the Beneficent God promised and the apostles told the truth.
 
53There would be naught but a single cry, when lo ! they shall all be brought before Us;
 
54So this day no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least; and you shall not be rewarded aught but that which you did.
 
55Surely the dwellers of the garden shall on that day be in an occupation quite happy.
 
56They and their wives shall be in shades, reclining on raised couches.
 
57They shall have fruits therein, and they shall have whatever they desire
 
58Peace: a word from a Merciful Lord.
 
59And get aside today, O guilty ones!
 
60Did I not charge you, O children of Adam ! that you should not serve the Shaitan? Surely he is your open enemy,
 
61And that you should serve Me; this is the right way.
 
62And certainly he led astray numerous people from among you. What! could you not then understand?
 
63This is the hell with which you were threatened.
 
64Enter into it this day because you disbelieved.
 
65On that day We will set a seal upon their mouths, and their hands shall speak to Us, and their feet shall bear witness of what they earned.
 
66And if We please We would certainly put out their eyes, then they would run about groping for the way, but how should they see?
 
67And if We please We would surely transform them in their place, then they would not be able to go on, nor will they return.
 
68And whomsoever We cause to live long, We reduce (him) to an abject state in constitution; do they not then understand?
 
69And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him; it is nothing but a reminder and a plain Quran,
 
70That it may warn him who would have life, and (that) the word may prove true against the unbelievers.
 
71Do they not see that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought, so they are their masters?
 
72And We have subjected them to them, so some of them they have to ride upon, and some of them they eat.
 
73And therein they have advantages and drinks; will they not then be grateful?
 
74And they have taken gods besides Allah that they may be helped.
 
75(But) they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them.
 
76Therefore let not their speech grieve you; surely We know what they do in secret and what they do openly.
 
77Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant.
 
78And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give life to the bones when they are rotten?
 
79Say: He will give life to them Who brought them into existence at first, and He is cognizant of all creation
 
80He Who has made for you the fire (to burn) from the green tree, so that with it you kindle (fire).
 
81Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yea! and He is the Creator (of all), the Knower.
 
82His command, when He intends anything, is only to say to it: Be, so it is.
 
83Therefore glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things, and to Him you shall be brought back.
 
 
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