Shadee Elmasry – Juz 17, The Quran An English Translation, Part 17 of 30
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Salam aleikum. This is the Quran. A new translation by m a s Abdul
Halim makes me learn
this begins just number 17
Surah number 21. The prophets
in the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy.
ever closer to people draws their reckoning, while they turn away
heedless. Whenever any fresh revelation comes to them from
their Lord. They listen to it playfully with frivolous hearts,
the evildoers conferred and secret is this man, Mohammed, anything
but a mortal like yourselves.
Are you going to fall under his spell with your eyes wide open? He
said, My Lord knows everything that is said in the heavens and
the earth. He is the All Hearing the All Knowing, some say muddled
dreams, others, he has made it up. Yet others, he is just a poet. Let
him show us a sign as previous messengers did.
But of the communities we destroyed before them, not a
single one believed. Will these now believe. And even before your
time, Prophet, all the messengers we sent were only men, we
inspired. If you disbelievers do not know, ask people who know the
Scripture. We did not give them bodies that ate no food, nor were
they immortal. We fulfilled our promise to them in the end, we
save them in those we wish to save, and we destroyed those who
exceeded all bounds.
And now we have sent down to you people a scripture to remind you,
will you not use your reason? How many communities of evildoers we
have destroyed? How many others we have raised up in their places.
When they felt our mic coming upon them, see how they tried to escape
it. Do not try to escape, go back to the pleasures you reveled in,
go back to your homes, you will be questioned. They said Woe to us.
We were wrong. And that cry of theirs did not cease until we made
them like lifeless stubble. We did not create the heavens and the
earth and everything between them playfully.
If we had wished for a pastime, we could have found it within us if
we had wished for any such thing. Now we hurl the truth against
falsehood and truth obliterates it. See how falsehood vanishes
away? Well, to you people, for the way you describe God, everything
in the heavens and earth belongs to him. And those that are with
him are never too proud to worship him. Nor do they grow weary. They
glorify Him tirelessly, night and day.
Have they chosen any gods from the earth who can give life to the
dead? If there had been in the heavens or earth any gods but him,
both heavens and earth would be in ruins. God, Lord of the Throne is
far above the things they say.
He cannot be called to account for anything he does. Whereas they
will be called to account.
Have they chosen to worship other gods instead of him? Say, Bring
your proof. This is the scripture for those who are with me and the
scripture for those who went before me.
But most of them do not recognize the truth. So they pay no heed. We
never sent any messenger before you Mohammed without revealing to
him. There is no god but me. So serve me and they say the Lord of
Mercy has taken off spring for himself. May he be exalted? No.
They are only his honored servants. They do not speak before
he speaks and they act by His Command.
He knows what is before them and what is behind them. And they
cannot intercede without his approval. Indeed, they some they
themselves stand in awe of him. If any of them were to claim, I am a
God beside him. We would reward them with how this is how we
reward evil doers
are the disbelievers not aware that the heavens and the earth
Used to be joined together, and that we rip them apart, that we
made every living thing from water, will they not believe.
And we put firm mountains on the earth, less stitches sway under
them, and set broad paths in it, so that they might follow the
right direction. And we made the sky, a well secured canopy. Yet,
from its wonders they turn away. It is He Who created night and
day, the sun and the moon each floating in its orbit. We have not
granted everlasting life to any other human being before you
either Muhammad. If you die, will the disbelievers live forever.
Every soul is certain to taste stuff.
We test you all through the bad and the good. And to us you will
all return. When the disbelievers see you they laugh at you. Is this
the one who talks about your gods, they reject any talk of the Lord
of Mercy.
Man was created hasty, I will show you my signs soon. So do not ask
me to hasten them. They say when will this promise be fulfilled? If
what you say is true.
If the disbelievers only knew the time will arrive on they will not
be able to ward off the fire from their faces or their backs. And
they will get no help.
It will come upon them suddenly and Stupefy them they will be
powerless to push it away. They will not be reproved
messengers before you Muhammad were also ridiculed. But those who
mock them were overwhelmed at the end, by the very thing they had
marked. Say,
who could protect you night and day from the Lord have mercy.
Yet they turn away when their lord has mentioned, do they have gods
who can defend them against us?
Their gods have no power to help themselves, nor can they be
protected from us. We have allowed the sinners and their forefathers
to enjoy life for a long time.
But do they not see how we are shrinking their borders?
It is they who will prevail. Say I warn you only through the
revelation, the death will not hear the warning call. Yet, if a
mere breath of your Lord's punishment touches them, they will
be sure to cry. Woe to us we were wrong.
We will set up scales of justice for the Day of Resurrection so
that no one can be wronged in the least. And if there should be even
the weight of a mustard seed, we shall bring it out. We take
excellent account.
We gave Moses and Aaron the scripture that distinguishes right
from wrong, a light and a Reminder for those who are mindful of God.
Those who stand in awe of their Lord, though he is unseen. And who
fear the hour. This Quran to is a blessed message We have sent down
are you people going to deny it?
Long ago, We bestowed right judgment on Abraham. And we knew
him well. He said to his father and his people. What are these
images to which you are so devoted?
They replied, We found our fathers worshipping them. He said, You and
your father's have clearly gone astray. They asked, have you
brought us the truth? Or are you just playing about? He said,
Listen.
Your true Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth. He who
created them, and I am a witness to this.
By God, I shall certainly outwit your idols as soon as you have
turned your backs. He broke them all into pieces, but left the
biggest one for them to return to. They said, Who has done this to
our God?
How wicked he must be. Some said. We heard a youth called Abraham
talking about them. They said, Bring Him before the eyes of the
people so that they may witness His trial.
They asked was it you? Abraham who did who did this to our gods? He
said no. It was done by the biggest of them. This one. Ask
them if they can talk. They turn to one another saying it is you
who are in the wrong but then they lapsed again
said, you know very well, these gods cannot speak.
Abraham said, how can you worship? What can neither benefit nor harm
you instead of God? Shame on you, and the things you worship instead
of God, Have you no sense. They said, burn him and Avenger Gods if
you are going to do the right thing. But we said, fire, be cool
and safe for Abraham.
They plan to harm him, but we made them suffer the greatest loss. We
save them, and loot and set them to the land. We bless for all
people. And we gave him Isaac, and Jacob as an additional gift and
made each of them righteous. We made all of them leaders, guiding
others by Our command. And we inspire them to do good works, to
keep up the prayer and to give alms. They were our true
worshipers.
We gave loot, sound judgment and knowledge and saved him from the
community who practiced obscenities.
They were shameless people who broke God's law. We admitted him
to Our Mercy. He was a righteous man.
Long before that. We answered Noah, when he cried out to us.
We saved him and his family from the great disaster. And we helped
him against the people who rejected our signs. They were evil
people, so We drowned them all.
And remember David and Solomon, when they gave judgment regarding
the field into which some people's sheep strayed by night and grazed,
we witnessed their judgment and made Solomon understand the case
better. Though, we gave sound judgment and knowledge to both of
them.
We made the mountains and the birds celebrate our praises with
David David. We did all these things. We taught him how to make
coats of mail for the benefit of you people, to protect you and
your wars. But are you grateful for this?
We harm it or we harness the stormy wind for Solomon, so that
it sped by his command to the land we had blessed. We have knowledge
of all things. And we made some of the jinn subservient to him, to
die for him and do other works. Besides, we were watching over
them.
Remember Job
when he cried to his Lord, suffering has truly afflicted me.
But you are the Most Merciful of the Merciful.
We answered him, removed his suffering and restored his family
to him, along with more like them as an act of grace from us, and a
reminder for all who serve us.
And remember, Ismail, Idris and Voltaire. They were all steadfast.
We admitted them to Our Mercy. They were truly righteous. And
remember the man with the whale, when he went off angrily thinking
we could not restrict that restrict him. But then he cried
out in the deep darkness. There is no god but you, glory be to you. I
was wrong.
We answered him and saved him from distress. This is how we save the
faithful. Remember Zachariah, when he cried to his Lord, My Lord, do
not leave me childless. Though you are the best of heirs. We answered
him. We gave him John, curing his wife for him. They were always
keen to do good deeds. They called upon us out of longing and awe and
hum and humbled themselves before us.
Remember the one who guarded her chastity. We breathed into her
from our spirit and made her and her son assigned for all people.
Prophets.
This is your community, one community, and I am your Lord so
serve me.
They have torn their unity apart, but they will all return to us. If
anyone does good deeds and as a believer, his efforts will not be
ignored.
We record them for him. No community destroyed by us can
escape its return. And when the peoples of God and Magog are let
loose and swarm swiftly from every high land, when the true promise
draws need
Hear the disbelievers eyes will stare and terror and they will
say, Woe to us. We were not aware of this at all. We were wrong.
You disbelievers. And what you worship instead of God will be
fuel for *.
That is where you will go. If these idols had been real gods,
they would not have gone there. You will all stay there. There the
disbelievers will be groaning, Picchu Asli. But the idols will
hear nothing.
But those for whom we have decreed Paradise will be kept far from how
they will not hear a murmur from it. And endlessly, they will enjoy
everything their souls desire,
they will have no fear of the great terror.
The angels will receive them with the words, this is the day you
were promised.
On that day, we shall roll up the skies, as a writer, rolls up his
scrolls, we shall reproduce creation, just as we produced it
the first time. This is our binding promise, we shall
certainly do all these things. We wrote in the Psalms, as we did in
earlier scripture, my righteous servants will inherit the earth.
There truly is a message in this for the servants of God.
It was only as a mercy that we sent you, Prophet to all people
say, what is revealed to me is that your God is one God,
will you submit to Him?
But if they turn away, say, I have proclaimed the message fairly to
you all, I do not know whether the judgment you are promised is near
or far, but he knows what you reveal and conceal. I do not know
this time may well be a test for you, and enjoyment for a while. He
said, My Lord, pass the true judgment. And our merciful Lord is
the One whose help we seek against what you disbelievers say.
This is the end of Surah number 21.
Surah number 22. The pilgrimage
in the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy.
People be mindful of your Lord, for the earthquake of the last
hour will be a mighty thing. On the day you see it. Every nursing
mother will think no more of her baby.
Every pregnant female will miscarry. You will think people
are drunk when they are not so severe will be God's torment.
Yet still, there are some people who with no knowledge, argue about
God, who follow every devilish rebel, fated to lead astray those
who take his side and guide them to the suffering of the blazing
flame.
People. Remember, if you doubt the resurrection, that we created you
from dust, then a drop of fluid, then a clinging form, then a lump
of flesh, both shaped and unshaped. We mean to make our
power clear to you.
Whatever we choose, we cause to remain in the room for an
appointed time. Then we bring you forth as infants, and then you
grow and reach maturity. Some die young, and some are left to live
on to such an age that they forget all they once knew.
You sometimes see the Earth lifeless. Yet when we send down
water it stirs and swells and produces every kind of joyous
growth. This is because God is the truth. He brings the dead back to
life. He has power over everything.
There is no doubt that the last hour is bound to come, nor that
God will raise the dead from their graves. Yet still there are some
who with no knowledge or guidance or any book of enlightenment,
argue about God, turning scornfully aside to lead others
away from God's path. disgrace in this world awaits such a person
and on the Day of Resurrection, we shall make him taste the suffering
of the fire. He will be said this is for what you have stood up with
your own hands. God is never unjust to his creatures. If
something good comes their way they are satisfied. But if they
are tested
They revert to their old ways, leaving both this world and the
next. That is the clearest loss instead of God, they call upon
what can neither harm nor help them that is straying far away,
or invoke one whose harm is closer than his help an evil master and
an evil companion.
But God will admit those who believe and do good deeds to
gardens graced with flowing streams. God does whatever he
wishes.
If anyone thinks that God will not support him in this world, and the
next, he should stretch a rope up to the sky, climb all the way up
to it, and see whether this strategy removes the cause of his
anger. In this way, we send the Quran down as clear messages, and
God guides whoever He will.
As for the believers, those who follow the Jewish faith, the
Sabians, the Christians, the major ones, and the idolaters. God will
judge between them on the Day of Resurrection. God witnesses all
things.
Do you not realize profit, that everything in the heavens and
earth submits to God? The sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains,
the trees and the animals, so do many human beings, though for many
others, torment is do.
Anyone disgraced by God will have no one to honor Him. God does
whatever he will.
These two kinds of people disagree about their Lord. garments of fire
will be tailored for those who disbelieve.
scalding water will be poured over their heads, melting their insides
as well as their skins. There will be iron Brooks to restrain them.
Whenever in their anguish they try to escape, they will be pushed
back in and told taste the suffering of the fire.
But God will admit those who believe and do good deeds to
gardens graced with flowing streams.
There they will be adorned with golden bracelets and pearls. There
they will have silken garments, they are guided to good speech
into the path of the one worthy of all praise.
As for those who disbelieve and bar others from God's path and
from the sacred mosque, which we made for all people, people,
residents and outsiders alike, and who tried to violate it with
wrongdoing, we shall make them taste a painful punishment.
We showed Abraham the side of the house saying do not assign
partners to me.
purify my house, for those who circle around it. Those who stand
to pray and those who bow and prostrate themselves
proclaim the pilgrimage to all people.
They will come to you on foot and on every kind of lean camel,
emerging from every deep mountain pass to attain benefits and
mentioned God's name on specified days over the livestock he has
provided for them.
Feed yourselves and the desperately poor from them. Then
let the Pilgrims perform their acts of cleansing, fulfill their
vows and circle around the ancient house.
All this is ordained by God. Anyone who honors the sacred
ordinances of God will have good rewards from his Lord.
Livestock have been made lawful to you except for what has been
explicitly forbidden, shun the filth of idolatrous beliefs and
practices and shun false utterances.
Devote yourselves to God and assign him no partners. For the
person who does so is like someone who has been hurled down from the
skies and snatched up by the birds or flung to a distant place by the
wind.
All this is ordained by God. Those who honor God's rights show the
piety of their hearts.
Livestock are useful to you until the set time, then their place of
sacrifices near the ancient house.
We appointed acts of devotion for every community, for them to
celebrate God's name over the livestock he provided for them.
Your God is one so Devote yourselves to him.
Prophet, give good news to the humble, whose hearts filled with
all whenever God has mentioned, who endure whatever happens to
them with patients who keep up the prayer who give to others out of
our prayer.
Vision to them.
We have made camels part of God's sacred rites for you. There is
much good in them for you. So mentioned God's name over them as
they are lined up for sacrifice. Then when they have fallen down
dead, feed yourselves, and those who do not ask, as well as those
who do. We have subjected them to you in this way, so that you may
be thankful. It is neither their me nor their blood that reaches
God, but your piety.
He has subjected them to you in this way, so that you may glorify
God for having guided you, Prophet, give good news to those
who do good. God will defend the believers. God does not love the
unfaithful or the ungrateful. Those who have been attacked, are
permitted to take up arms, because they have been wronged.
God has the power to help them. Those who have been driven
unjustly from their homes, only for saying, Our Lord is God. If
God did not repel some people by means of others, many monasteries,
churches, synagogues and mosques, where God's name is much invoked,
would have been destroyed.
God is sure to help those who help his cause. God is strong and
mighty. Those who, when we establish them in the land, keep
up the prayer, pay the prescribed arms, command what is right and
forbid what is wrong. God controls the outcome of all events.
If they reject you profit, so did the people of Noah before them and
those of odd some mood Abraham lat Midian. Moses to was called a
liar. I gave the disbelievers time, but in the end, I punished
them, how I condemn them. How many towns steeped in wrongdoing we
have destroyed and left in total ruin? How many deserted wells? How
many lofty palaces
have these people have Naka not traveled through the land with
hearts to understand and ears to hear. It is not people's eyes that
are blind, but their hearts within their *.
They will challenge you prophet to hasten the punishment. God will
not fail and his promise a day with your Lord is like 1000 years
by your reckoning. To many a town steeped in wrongdoing, I gave more
time and then struck them down. Everyone returns to me.
Say profit people. I am sent only to give you clear warning. Those
who believe and do good deeds will be forgiven and have a generous
reward. But those who strive to oppose our messages and try to try
in vain to defeat us are destined for the blaze. We have never sent
any messenger or prophet before you Muhammad into whose wishes
Satan did not insinuate something.
But God removes what Satan insinuates. And then God affirms
his message. God is all knowing and wise. He makes Satan's
insinuations as a temptation only for the sick at heart, and those
whose hearts are hardened, the evildoers are profoundly opposed
to the truth. And he causes those given knowledge to realize that
this revelation is your Lord's truth, so that they may believe in
it and humble their hearts to Him.
God guides the faithful to the straight path.
The disbelievers will remain in doubt about it until the hour
suddenly empowers them, or until a torment descends on them on a day
devoid of all hope. On that day control will belong to God. He
will judge between them. Those who believe and do good deeds will be
admitted to gardens of delight. While those who disbelieve and
reject our revelations will receive a humiliating torment.
He will give a generous provision to those who migrated in God's way
and were killed or died. He is the best provider he will admit them
to a place that will please them. God is all knowing and Most
Forbearing so it will be God will help those who retaliate against
any aggressive act merely with its like and are then wronged again.
God is pardoned, pardoning and most forgiving.
So it will be because God makes night pass in today.
A day in tonight, and he is all hearing and all seeing. So it will
be because it is God alone, who is the truth. And whatever else they
invoke is sheer falsehood. It is God who is the most high, the Most
Great.
Have you profit, not considered how God sends water down from the
sky, and the next morning, the earth becomes green. God is truly
most subtle, all aware, everything in the heavens and earth belongs
to Him. God alone is self sufficient, Worthy of all praise.
Have you not considered how God has made everything on the earth
of service to you, and the ships that sail the sea at his command,
that he keeps the heavens from falling down on the earth without
his permission.
God is most compassionate and most merciful to mankind. It is He Who
gave you people life will cause you to die, then we'll give you
life again. But man is ungrateful.
We have appointed acts of devotion for every community to observe. So
do not let them argue with you Prophet, about this matter. Call
them to your Lord, you are on the right path. And if they argue with
you say, God is well aware of what you are doing. On the Day of
Resurrection, God will judge between you regarding your
differences. Are you Prophet not aware that God knows all that is
in the heavens and earth? All this is written in a record that is
easy for God. Yet, beside God they serve that for what she has sent
no authority, and of which they have no knowledge, the evildoers
will have no one to help them. Prophet, you can see the hostility
on the faces of the disbelievers when our messages are recited
clearly to them.
It is almost as if they're going to attack those who recite our
messages to them.
Say, shall I tell you what is far worse than what you feel now? The
fire that God has promised the disbelievers what a dismal end,
you people, here is an illustration. So listen carefully.
Those you call on beside God could not even if they combined, all
their forces create a fly.
And if a fly took something away from them, they would not be able
to retrieve it. How feeble are the petitioners? And how feeble are
those they petition? They have no grasp of God's true measure. God
is truly most strong and mighty.
God chooses messengers from among the angels, and from among humans.
God is all hearing all seeing. He knows what lies before and behind
them. All matters returned to him.
Believers, bow down, Prostrate yourselves, worship your Lord and
do good so that you may succeed. Strive hard for God as is his do.
He has chosen you and place no hardship in your religion, the
faith of your forefather Abraham. God has called you Muslims, both
in the past and in this message, so that the messenger can bear
witness about about you and so that you can bear witness about
other people. So keep up the prayer. Give the prescribed arms
and seek refuge in God. He is your protector, an excellent protector
and an excellent helper.
This is the end of Jaws number 17 and the end of Surah number 22.
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