Shadee Elmasry – Juz 15, The Quran An English Translation, Part 15 of 30
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Salam aleikum. This is the Quran, a new translation by M A. S. Abdul
Halim me
this begins, just number 15
Surah number 17, the night journey
in the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy, glory
to Him, who made his servant travel by night, from the sacred
place of worship, to the furthest place of worship, whose
surroundings we have blessed to show him some of our signs. He
alone is the All Hearing the all seeing.
We had also given Moses the Scripture and made it a guide for
the children of Israel.
In trust yourselves to no one but me,
you descendants of those we carried with Noah, he was truly a
thankful servant.
We declare to the children of Israel in the Scripture.
Twice, you will spread corruption in the land and become highly
arrogant.
When the first of these warnings was fulfilled, We sent against you
servants of Ours with great force, and they ravaged your homes, that
warning was fulfilled. But then we allowed you to prevail against
your enemy. We increase your wealth and offspring and made you
more numerous. Whether you do good or evil, it is to your own souls.
And when the second warning was fulfilled, we set them to shame
your faces, and enter the places of worship as they did the first
time and utterly destroy whatever fell into their power.
Your Lord may yet have mercy on you. But if you do the same again,
so shall we. We have made * a prison for those who defy our
warning. This Quran does show the straightest way. It gives the
faithful who do right the good news that they will have a great
reward, and warns that we have prepared an agonizing torment for
those who do not believe in the world to come.
Yet man prays for harm, just as He prays for good man is ever hasty.
We made the night and the day is two signs then darkened the night
and made the day light for seeing. For you to seek your Lord's
bounty, and to know how to count the years and calculate.
We have explained everything in detail.
We have bound each human beings destiny to his neck.
On the Day of Resurrection, we shall bring out a record for each
of them, which they will find spread wide open. Read your
record. Today your own soul is enough to calculate your account.
Whoever accepts guidance does so for his own good.
Whoever strays, does so at his own peril.
No soul will bear another's burden. Nor do we punish until We
have sent a messenger
when we decide to destroy a town, we command those corrupted by
wealth to reform but they persist in their disobedience, our
sentences past and we destroy them utterly.
How many generations We have destroyed since Noah.
Your Lord knows and observes the sins of His servants well enough.
If anyone desires only the fleeting life, we speed up
whatever we will in it, for whoever we wish. In the end, we
have prepared * for him in which to burn, disgraced and
rejected.
But if anyone desires the life to come and strives towards it as he
should, as a true believer, his striving will be thanked to both
the latter and the former. We give some of your Lord's bounty profit,
your Lord's bounty is not restricted. See how we have given
some more than others. But the hereafter holds greater ranks and
greater favors.
Set up no other God beside God or you will end up disgraced and
forsaken.
Your Lord has commanded that you should worship none but Him and
that you be kind to your parents. If either or both of them reach
old age with you. Say no word that shows impatience with them and do
not be harsh with them. But speak to them respect
Hopefully, and lower your wing in humility towards them in kindness
and say, Lord, have mercy on them. Just as they cared for me when I
was little, your Lord knows best what is in your heart. If you are
good, he is most forgiving to those who returned to him. Give
relatives their due, and the needy, and travelers. Do not
squander your wealth wastefully. Those who squander are the
brothers of Satan. And Satan is most ungrateful to his Lord. But
if while seeking some bounty that you expect from your Lord, you
turn them down. Then at least speak some word of comfort to
them.
Do not be tight *, nor so open handed, that you end up
blamed and overwhelmed with regret.
Your Lord gives abundantly to whoever He will and sparingly to
whoever He will. He knows and observes His servants thoroughly.
Do not kill your children for fear of poverty, we shall provide for
them and for you. Killing them is a great sin
and do not go anywhere near adultery. It is an outrage and an
evil path. Do not take life which God has made sacred except by
right. If anyone is killed wrongfully, we have given
authority to the defender of his rights, but he should not be
excessive and taking life, for he is already aided by God. Do not go
near the orphans property, except with the best intentions until he
reaches the age of maturity.
Honor your pledges, you will be questioned about your pledges.
Give full measure when you measure and weigh with accurate scales
that is better and fairer in the end. Do not follow blindly what
you do not know to be true. ears, eyes and heart, you will be
questioned about all these
do not strut arrogantly about the earth. You cannot break it open,
nor match the mountains in height. The Evil of all these actions is
hateful to your Lord.
Prophet. This is some of the wisdom Your Lord has revealed to
you.
Do not set up another God beside God or you will be thrown into
* blamed and rejected.
What has your Lord favored you people with sons and taken
daughters for himself from the angels? What a monstrous thing for
you to say.
We have explained things in various ways in this Quran. So
that such people might take notice.
But it has only turned them further away. Say
if there were other gods along with him, as they say they are,
then they would have tried to find a way to the Lord of the Throne.
Glory to Him. He is far above what they say.
The Seven Heavens and the Earth and everyone in them glorify Him.
There is not a single thing that does not celebrate His praise.
Though you do not understand their praise. He is Most Forbearing most
forgiving
prophet.
When you recite the Quran, we put an invisible barrier between you
and those who do not believe in the life to come.
We have put covers on their hearts that prevent them from
understanding it and heaviness in their ears.
When you mention your Lord in the Quran, and Him alone, they turn
their backs and run away.
We know best to the way they listen.
When they listen to you and when they confer and secret and these
wrongdoers say you are only following a man who is bewitched.
See what they think you are like but they are lost and cannot find
the right way.
They also say what, when we are turned to bones and dust? Shall we
really be raised up in a new act of creation?
Say
yes, even if you were as hard as stone or iron or any other
substance, substance you think hard to bring to life. Then they
will say who will bring us back say the One who created you the
first time
then they will shake their heads at you and say When will that be
done?
Say, it may well be very soon. It will be the day when he calls you.
And you answer by praising Him and you think you have stayed on Earth
only a little while.
Prophet, tell my servants to say what is best.
Satan says discord among them. Satan is a sworn enemy of man.
Your Lord has the most knowledge about all of you.
If he pleases, He will have mercy on you. And if he pleases, he will
punish you. Profit.
We did not send you to take charge of them.
Your Lord knows best about everyone in the heavens and the
earth.
We gave some prophets more than others. We gave David a book of
Psalms
say, call upon those who claim to be deities beside God. They have
no power to remove or avert any harm from you.
Those angels they pray to are themselves seeking away to their
Lord, even those who are closest to him.
They hope for His mercy and fear is torment. The Torment of your
Lord is much to be feared. There is no community, we shall not
destroy or punished severely before the Day of Resurrection.
This is written in the book.
Nothing prevents us from sending miraculous signs except the fact
that previous peoples deny them.
We gave the people a fair mood. The she camel as a as a clear
sign, yet they maltreated it.
We send signs only to give warning.
Prophet. We have told you that your Lord knows all about human
beings. The vision we showed you was only a test for people. As was
the cursor tree mentioned in the Quran.
We warned them. But this only increases their insolence.
When we said to the angels bow down before Adam, they all bow
down, but not a bliss. he retorted.
Why should I bow down to someone you have created out of clay and
then said,
you see this being you have honored above me.
If you reprieve me until the Day of Resurrection, I will lead all
but a few of his descendants by the nose. God said, Go away. *
will be your reward and the reward of any of them who follow you an
ample reward.
Rouse. Whichever of them you can with your voice. muster your
cavalry and infantry against them. Share their wealth and their
children with them and make promises to them.
Say 10 promises them nothing but delusion. But you will have no
authority over my true servants. Your Lord can take care of them
well enough people. It is your Lord who makes ships go smoothly
for you on the sea so that you can seek His bounty. He is most
Merciful towards you.
When you get into distress at sea, those who pray to besides him
desert you.
But when he brings you back safe to land, you turn away man is ever
ungrateful.
Can you be sure that God will not have you swallowed up into the
earth when you are back on land? Or that he will not send a
standard Sandstorm against you?
Then you will find no one to protect you? Or can you be sure
that he will not send you back out to sea and send a violent storm
against you to drown you for being so ungrateful.
You will find no helper against us there.
We have honored the Children of Adam and carried them by land and
sea.
We have provided good sustenance for them and favored them
specially above many of those we have created. On the Day when We
summon each community along with its leader. Those who are given
their record in their right hand will read it with pleasure.
But no one will be wronged in the least those who are blind in this
life will be blind in the hereafter and even further off the
path.
Profit the disbelievers almost tempted you away from what we had
revealed to you so that
You would have invented some other revelation and attributed it to
us, and then they would have taken you as a friend.
If we had not made you stand firm, you would almost have inclined a
little towards them.
In that case, we would have made you taste a double punishment in
this life, and a double punishment after death. And then you would
have found no one to help you against us.
They almost drove you out of the land, but they would not have
lasted for more than a little while after you. Such was our way
with the messengers we set before you and you will find no change in
our ways.
So perform the regular prayers in the period from the time the sun
is past its zenith, till the darkness of the night and recite
the Quran at dawn, Dawn recitation is always witnessed.
And during the night, wake up and pray as an extra offering of your
own so that your Lord may raise you to a highly praised status.
Say, My Lord, make me go in truthfully and come out
truthfully, and grant me supporting authority from you and
say, the truth has come and falsehood has passed away.
falsehood is bound to pass away.
We send the Quran as healing and mercy to those who believe. As for
those who disbelieve, it only increases their loss.
When we favor man, he turns arrogantly to one side. But when
harm touches him, he falls into despair. Say, everyone does things
their own way. But your Lord is fully aware of who follows the
best guided path.
Prophet, they ask you about the spirit, say, the spirit is part of
my Lord's domain, you have only been given a little knowledge. If
we pleased, we could take away what We have revealed to you, then
you would find no one to play it for you against us. If it were not
for your Lord's mercy, his favorite to you has been truly
great. Say
even if all mankind and jinn came together to produce something like
this Quran, they could not produce anything like it. However much
they helped each other.
In this Quran, we have set out all kinds of examples for people, yet
most of them persist and disbelieving. They say, We will
not believe for you, Mohammed until you make a spring gush out
of the ground for us. Or until you have a garden of date palms and
vines and make rivers pour through them. Or make the sky fall on us
in pieces as you claimed will happen. Or bring God and the
angels before us face to face, or have a house made of gold or
Ascendant to the sky. Even then, we will not believe in your
ascension until you send a real book down for us to read. Say
Glory be to my Lord.
Am I anything but a mortal a messenger?
The only thing that kept these people from believing when
guidance came to them was that they said
how could God have sent a human being as a messenger? Say,
if there were angels walking about on Earth, feeling at home?
We would have sent them an angel from heaven as a messenger.
Say,
God is witness enough between me and you. He knows and observes His
servants Well, Prophet, anyone God guides is truly guided and you
will find no protector other than Him for anyone he leaves a stray.
On the Day of Resurrection, we shall gather them on their faces
blind, dumb and deaf. * will be their home.
Whenever the fire goes down, we shall make it Blaze more fiercely
for them. This is what they will get for rejecting our signs and
saying what? When we are turned to bones and dust? How can we be
raised in a new act of creation?
Do they not see that God who created the heavens and earth can
create the likes of them and you? He has ordered a time for them.
There is no doubt about that. But the evildoers refuse everything
except a disbelief. Say
if you possess to the
Very stories of my Lords bounty, you would hold them back in your
fear of giving man is ever grudging.
In the past, we gave Moses nine clear signs, ask the children of
Israel.
When Moses came to the Egyptians, Pharaoh said to him,
Moses, I think you are bewitched. He said, You know very well that
only the Lord of the heavens and earth could have sent the signs is
clear proof. I think that you, Pharaoh are doomed.
So he wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth, but We drowned
him, and those with him. After his death, we choked we told the
children Israel, live in the land. And when the promise of the
Hereafter is fulfilled, we shall bring you to the assembly of all
people.
We sat down the Quran with the truth, and with the truth that has
come down Prophet, we sent you only to give good news and
warning.
It is a recitation that we have revealed in parts, so that you can
recite it to people at intervals. We have sent it down little by
little, say, whether you believe it or not. Those who are given
knowledge earlier fall down on their faces when it is recited to
them and say, Glory to our Lord. Our Lord's promise has been
fulfilled.
They fall down on their faces, weeping, and the Quran increases
their humility. Say to them, call on God, or on the Lord, Lord have
mercy. Whatever names you call him, the best names belong to Him.
Prophet, do not be too loud in your prayer, or too quiet, but
seek a middle way and say, Praise belongs to God, who has no child
nor partner in his rule. He is not so weak as to need a protector,
pro Kelly and his limitless greatness.
This is the end of Surah number 17.
Surah number 18. The cave
in the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy.
Praise be to God who sent down the scripture to His servant and made
it unerringly straight, warning of severe punishment from him, and
giving glad news to the believers who do good deeds and excellent
reward that they will always enjoy. It warns those people who
assert God has offspring. They have no knowledge about this, nor
did their forefathers.
It is a monstrous assertion that comes out of their mouths. What
they say is nothing but lies.
But profit. Are you going to worry yourself to death over them if
they do not believe in this message?
We have adorn the earth with attractive things, so that we may
test people to find out which of them do best. But we shall reduce
all this to Baron dust.
Prophet. Do you find the companions in the cave and other
Hakim so wondrous among all our other signs?
When the young men sought refuge in the cave and said, our Lord,
grant us your mercy and find us a good way out of our ordeal. We
sealed their ears with sleep in the cave for years.
Then we woke them so that we could make clear which of the two
parties was better able to work out how long they had been their
profit. We shall tell you their story as it really was. They were
young men who believed in their Lord, and we gave them more
guidance. We gave strength to their hearts when they stood up
and said, Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and earth.
We shall never call upon any god other than Him. For that would be
an outrageous thing to do.
These people of ours have taken gods other than him. Why do they
not produce clear evidence about them?
Who could be more unjust than someone who makes up lies about
God?
Now that you have left such people, and what they worshipped
instead of God, take refuge in the cave.
Your Lord will shower His mercy on you and make you an easy way out
of your ordeal.
You could have seen the light of the sun as it rose, moving away to
the right of their cave and when it's set
Moving away to the left of them while they lay in the whitespace
inside the cave.
This is one of God's signs. Those people God guides are rightly
guided. But you will find no protector to lead to the right
path those who leads to leads to stray.
You would have thought they were awake, though they lay asleep, we
turn them over to the right, and the left with their dog stretching
out, it's four legs at the entrance.
If you had seen them, you would have turned and run away, filled
with fear of them.
In time we woke them. And they began to question one another.
One of them asked, How long have you been here, and some answered a
day or part of a day. But then other said, Your Lord knows best
how long you have been here. One of you go to the city with your
silver coins, find out where the best food is there and bring some
back.
But be careful not to let anyone know about you.
If they found you out, they would stone you or force you to return
to their religion, where you would never come to any good. In this
way, we brought them to people's attention so that they might know
that God's promise of resurrection is true. And that there is no
doubt about the last hour, though people argue amongst themselves.
Some said, construct a building over them. Their Lord knows best
about them.
Those who prefer prevailed said We shall build a place of worship
over them. Some say the sleepers were three and their dog made
four.
Other say they were five and the dog made six guessing in the dark.
And some say they were seven and their dog made eight say profit.
My lord knows best how many they were only if you have real
knowledge about them. So do not argue. But stick to what is clear
and do not ask any of these people about them. Do not say if
anything. I will do that tomorrow without adding God willing. And
whatever you forget, remember your Lord and say, May my lord guide me
closer to what is right. Some say the sleepers stayed in their cave
for 300 years. Some added nine more. Say prophet. God knows best
how long they stayed.
His is the knowledge of all that is hidden in the Heavens and
Earth. How well he sees how well he hears and they have no one to
protect them other than Him. He does not allow anyone to share his
rule.
Profit. Follow what has been revealed to you of your Lord
scripture. There is no change in his words, nor can you find any
refuge except with him. content yourself with those who pray to
their Lord, morning and evening seeking His approval. And do not
let your eyes turn away from them out of desire for the attraction
of this worldly life.
Do not yield to those whose hearts we have made heedless of our
Quran. Those who follow their own low desires, those whose ways are
unbridled. Say, now the truth has come from your Lord. Let those who
wish to believe in it do so and let those who wish to reject it do
so. We have prepared a fire for the wrongdoers that will envelop
them from all sides. If they call for relief, they will be relieved
with water like molten metal scalding their faces. What a
terrible drink. What a painful resting place. As for those who
believe and do good deeds, we do not let the reward of anyone who
does a good deed go to waste.
They will have gardens of lasting bliss graced with flowing streams.
There they will be adorned with great with bracelets of gold.
There they will rare wear green garments of fine silk and Brocade.
There they will be comfortably seated on soft chairs. What a
blessing reward. What a pleasant resting place.
Tell them the parable of two men.
For one of them we made two gardens of grape vines surrounding
them with date palms and put corn fields in between. Both gardens
yielded fruit and did not fail in any way. We made a stream flow
through them and so he had abundant fruit. One day while
talking to his friend he said
If
I have more wealth and a larger following venue, he went into his
garden and wronged himself by saying, I do not think this will
ever perish, or that the last hour will ever come. Even if I were to
be taken back to my Lord, I would certainly find something even
better there.
His companion retorted, have you no faith in Him Who created you
from dust from a small drop of fluid than shaped you into a man.
But for me, He is God, my lord, and I will never set up any
partner with him.
If only when you entered your garden, you had said, as God
wills, there is no power not given by God.
Although you see, I have less wealth and offspring than you, my
Lord may well give me something better than your garden,
and send Thunderbolts on your garden from the sky, so that it
becomes a heap of barren dust, or its water may sink so deep into
the ground, that you will never be able to reach it again. And so it
was, his fruit was completely destroyed. And there he was,
wringing his hands over what he had invested in it, as it drooped
on its trellises and saying, I wish I had not set up any partner
to my Lord. He had no forces to help him other than God, he could
not even help himself.
In that situation, the only protection is that of God, the
true God.
He gives the best rewards and the best outcome.
Tell them to what the life of this world is like. We send water down
from the skies, and the Earth's vegetation absorbs it. But soon,
the plans turn to dry stubble scattered about by the wind. God
has power over everything.
Wealth, and children are the attractions of this worldly life,
but lasting good works, have a better reward with your Lord, and
give better grounds for hope. On the day we make the mountains move
away, and you see the Earth as an open plane. We shall gather all
people together leaving no one out.
They will be lined up before your Lord. Now you have come to us as
we first created you, although you claimed we had not made any such
appointment for you.
The record of their deeds will be laid open and you will see the
guilty dismayed at what they contain saying, Woe to us. What a
record this is. It does not leave any deed, small or large
unaccounted for.
They will find everything they ever did laid in front of them.
Your Lord will not be unjust to anyone. We said to the angels bow
down before Adam and they all bow down, but not a bliss. He was one
of the jinn and he disobeyed his Lord's command.
Are you people going to take him and his offspring as your masters
instead of me? Even though they are your enemies? What a bad
bargain for the evil doers. I did not make them witnesses to the
creation of the heavens and the earth, nor to their own creation.
I do not take as my supporters those who lead others astray. On
the day, God will say
call on those you claimed were my partners.
They will call them but they will not answer. We shall set a deadly
gulf between them.
The evildoers will see the fire and they will realize that they
are about to fall into it, they will find no escape from it.
In this Quran, we have presented every kind of illustration for
people, but man is more contentious than any other
creature. Now that guidance has come to them. What stops these
people believing and asking forgiveness from their Lord before
the fate of earlier peoples annihilates them or their torment
confronts them.
We only send messengers to bring good news and to deliver warning.
Yet the disbelievers seek to refute the truth with false
arguments and make fun of my messages and warnings.
Who could be more wrong than the person who is reminded of his
Lord's messages and turns his back on them? ignoring what his hands
are storing up for him in the hereafter.
We have put covers over their hearts so they cannot understand
the Quran. And we put a heaviness in their ears. Although you call
them to guidance Prophet, they will never accept it.
Your Lord is the Most forgiving and full of mercy. If he took them
to task for the wrongs they have done, he would hasten their
punishment on
They have an appointed time from which they will have no escape.
Just like the former communities we destroyed for doing wrong, we
set an appointed time for their destruction.
Moses said to his servant, I will not rest until I reached the place
where the two seas meet, even if it takes me years. But when they
reached the place where the two seas meet, they had forgotten all
about their fish, which made its way into the sea and swam away.
They journeyed on, and then Moses said to his servant,
give us our morning meal. This journey of ours is very tiring.
And the servant said,
Remember, when we were resting by the rock? I forgot the fish, Satan
made me forget to pay attention to it. And it must have made its way
into the sea. How strange. Moses said,
then that was the place we were looking for. So the to turn back
retrace their steps, and found one of our servants, a man to whom we
had granted our mercy and whom we had given knowledge of our own.
Moses said to him,
May I follow you so that you can teach me some of the right
guidance you have been taught?
The man said, You will not be able to bear with me patiently.
How could you be patient in matters beyond your knowledge?
Moses said
God willing, you will find me patient I will not disobey you in
any way. The man said
if you follow me then do not carry anything I do before I mentioned
it to you myself.
They traveled on later when they got into a boat and the man made a
hole in it. Moses said how could you make a hole in it? Do you want
to drown its passengers What a strange thing to do. He replied
Did I not tell you that you would never be able to bear with me
patiently? Moses said forgive me for forgetting do not make it too
hard for me to follow you. And so they traveled on
then when they met a young boy and the man killed him Moses said how
could you kill an innocent person? He has not killed anyone what a
terrible thing to do.
This is the end of juice number 15.
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