Allah is the One who raised the heavens without pillars you can see, then established Himself over the Throne. He subjected the sun and the moon, each running for an appointed term. He directs every matter and explains the signs so that you may be certain of meeting your Lord.
He is the One who spread out the earth, placed firm mountains and rivers in it, and made in it two of every kind of fruit. He covers the day with the night. There are surely signs in this for people who reflect.
On the earth are neighbouring plots, gardens of grapevines, crops, and palm trees, some growing from the same root and some separately, all watered with the same water. Yet We make some better than others in taste. There are surely signs in this for people who use reason.
If you find anything astonishing, then astonishing is their saying, 'When we have become dust, will we really be created anew?' Those are the ones who reject their Lord. They will have chains around their necks, and they are the people of the Fire, remaining there.
They ask you to hasten evil before good, though examples of punishment have already passed before them. Your Lord is full of forgiveness for people despite their wrongdoing, yet your Lord is also severe in punishment.
For each person are successive guardians before and behind, guarding by Allah's command. Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change what is within themselves. When Allah intends harm for a people, there is no turning it back, and they have no protector besides Him.
The thunder glorifies Him with praise, as do the angels in awe of Him. He sends thunderbolts and strikes with them whoever He wills, yet they still dispute about Allah. He is mighty in power.
To Him alone belongs the true call. Those they call upon besides Him cannot answer them at all. They are like someone stretching out his hands toward water for it to reach his mouth, but it will never reach him. The calls of those who reject faith only go astray.
Say, 'Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?' Say, 'Allah.' Say, 'Have you then taken protectors besides Him who have no power even to benefit or harm themselves?' Say, 'Are the blind and the seeing equal? Or are darkness and light equal?' Or have they assigned partners to Allah who created as He creates, so the two creations seem alike to them? Say, 'Allah is the Creator of everything, and He is the One, the Supreme.'
He sends down water from the sky, and valleys flow according to their capacity, carrying rising foam. Similar foam comes from what people heat in fire to make ornaments or useful objects. In this way Allah illustrates truth and falsehood. The foam is swept away, while what benefits people remains on the earth. This is how Allah gives examples.
For those who respond to their Lord is the best reward. As for those who do not respond to Him, even if they possessed everything on earth and as much again, they would offer it to ransom themselves. For them is a terrible reckoning. Their home is Hell, and what a miserable resting place.
Can someone who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth be like someone who is blind? Only people of understanding take heed.
who remain patient seeking their Lord's pleasure, establish prayer, spend secretly and openly from what We have provided them, and repel evil with good. For them is the finest outcome of the Home:
Gardens of lasting residence, which they will enter along with the righteous among their parents, spouses, and descendants. The angels will enter upon them from every gate,
Ziqra