In the name of God, the Almighty,¹ the Merciful.

¹ alif lām mīm¹

² That¹ is the Writ about which there is no doubt,² a guidance to those of prudent fear:³

³ Those who believe in¹ the Unseen, and uphold the duty,² and of what We have provided them they spend;

⁴ And those who believe in¹ what was sent down to thee, and what was sent down before thee,² and of the Hereafter they are certain:³

⁵ Those are upon guidance from their Lord; and it is they who are the successful.¹

⁶ Those who ignore warning,¹ it is the same to them whether thou hast warned them or thou hast not warned them; they do not believe:²

⁷ God has sealed their hearts, and over their hearing and over their sight is a covering; and they have a great punishment.

⁸ And of men are some who say: “We believe in¹ God and the Last Day,” but they are not believers.²

⁹ They would deceive God and those who heed warning,¹ but they deceive only themselves; and they perceive not.

¹⁰ In their hearts is disease, so God has increased their disease; and for them is a painful punishment because they have lied.

¹¹ And when it is said to them: “Work not corruption in the land,” they say: “We are but those who do right.”

¹² In truth,¹ it is they who are the workers of corruption; but they perceive not.

¹³ And when it is said to them: “Believe as mankind has believed,” they say: “Shall we believe as the foolish have believed?” In truth,¹ it is they who are the foolish; but they know not.

¹⁴ And when they meet those who heed warning,¹ they say: “We believe.” But when they are alone with their satans,² they say: “We are with you; we were only mocking!”

¹⁵ God mocks them, and increases them in wandering blindly in their inordinacy.

¹⁶ Those are they who bought error at the price of guidance, so their transaction profited not; and they were not guided.

¹⁷ Their likeness is as the likeness of one who kindled a fire: — when it had illuminated what was round about him, God took away their light and left them in darkness; they do not see.

¹⁸ Deaf, dumb, blind; so they will not return.

¹⁹ Or¹ like a thundercloud from the sky wherein is darkness,² and thunder, and lightning: they put their fingers in their ears against the thunderbolts in fear of death; but God encompasses the false claimers of guidance.³

²⁰ The lightning nigh snatches away their sight; whenever it gives them light, they walk therein; and when it darkens over them, they stand still.¹ And had God willed, He would have taken away their hearing and their sight; God is over all things powerful.

²¹ O mankind: serve your Lord who created you, and those before you, that you might be in prudent fear;¹

²² Who made the earth for you a couch,¹ and the sky a structure,² and sent down from the sky water, then brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you; so make not equals to God when you know.³

²³ And if you are in doubt about what We have sent down upon Our servant, then bring a sūrah¹ the like thereof; and call your witnesses other than² God, if you be truthful.³

²⁴ But if you do not — and you will not — then be in prudent fear¹ of the Fire, whose fuel is men and stones,² prepared for the false claimers of guidance.³

²⁵ And bear thou glad tidings to those who heed warning¹ and do righteous deeds, that they have gardens beneath which rivers flow; whenever they are provided with the fruit thereof they say: “This is what we were provided with before”; and they are given thereby a likeness;² and they have therein purified spouses; and they abide therein eternally.

²⁶ God is not ashamed to strike a similitude, be it of a gnat or of what is above it. Then as for those who heed warning:¹ they know that it is the truth² from their Lord; and as for those who ignore warning:³ they say: “What means God by this similitude?” He leads astray many thereby, and He guides many thereby; and He leads astray thereby only the perfidious:⁴

²⁷ Those who break the covenant with God¹ after its agreement,² and sever what God commanded to be joined, and work corruption in the land; it is they who are the losers.

²⁸ How can you deny God? When you were dead, He gave you life; then will He give you death; then will He give you life; then to Him will you be returned.

²⁹ He it is that created for you all that is in the earth; then He directed Himself to the sky and fashioned¹ them seven² heavens; and He knows all things.

³⁰ And when thy Lord said to the angels: “I am placing in the earth a successor,” they said: “Wilt Thou place therein one who will do harm therein, and shed blood, while we give glory¹ with Thy praise and hallow Thee?” He said: “I know what you know not.”

³¹ And He taught Adam the names, all of them; then He presented them to the angels and said: “Inform Me of the names of these, if you be truthful.”¹

³² They said: “Glory¹ be to Thee! We have no knowledge save what Thou hast taught us; Thou art the Knowing, the Wise.”

³³ He said: “O Adam: inform thou them of their names.” And when he had informed them of their names, He said: “Said I not to you that I know the unseen of the heavens and the earth? And I know what you reveal, and what you have concealed.”

³⁴ And when We said to the angels: “Submit¹ to Adam,” then they submitted.² Not so³ Iblīs;⁴ he refused, and had waxed proud, and was of the false claimers of guidance.⁵

³⁵ And We said: “O Adam: dwell thou and thy wife in the garden, and eat¹ thereof freely wheresoever you² will; but approach³ not this tree lest you⁴ be of the wrongdoers.”⁵

³⁶ But the satan¹ caused them² to fall therefrom, and turned them³ out of what they⁴ were in; and We said: “Get you all⁵ down, an enemy to one another; and for you in the earth are a dwelling-place and provision for a time.”

³⁷ Then received Adam words from his Lord, and He¹ turned towards him; He is the Accepting of Repentance, the Merciful.

³⁸ We said: “Get you down from it all together. And if¹ there comes to you guidance from Me, whoso follows My guidance: no fear will be upon them, nor will they grieve.

³⁹ “But those who ignore warning¹ and deny Our proofs:² those are the companions of the Fire; therein they abide eternally.”

⁴⁰ O children of Israel:¹ remember My favour wherewith I favoured you; and fulfil the covenant with Me,² and³ I will fulfil the covenant with you;⁴ and Me — be you in fear of Me.

⁴¹ And believe in¹ what I have sent down confirming what is with you, and be not the first to deny it; and sell not My proofs² at a cheap price; and Me — be you in prudent fear³ of Me.

⁴² And clothe not truth¹ with vanity, nor conceal the truth² when you know.³

⁴³ And uphold the duty,¹ and render the purity,² and be lowly³ with the lowly.⁴

⁴⁴ Enjoin you virtue upon mankind, and forget yourselves¹ when you recite the Writ?² Will you then not³ use reason!

⁴⁵ And seek help in patience and duty;¹ and it is hard save for the humble:²

⁴⁶ Those who consider that they will meet their Lord, and that to Him they are returning.

⁴⁷ O children of Israel: remember My favour wherewith I favoured you, and that I preferred you above all mankind.¹

⁴⁸ And be in prudent fear¹ of a day no soul will avail a soul anything, nor will intercession be accepted from it, nor will compensation be taken from it; nor will they be helped.²

⁴⁹ And when¹ We delivered you from the house of Pharaoh:² they were afflicting you with an evil punishment, slaughtering your sons and sparing your women; and in that was a great trial from your Lord.