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

¹ The revelation¹ of the Writ² is from God, the Exalted in Might, the Wise.³

² We sent down to thee the Writ¹ with the truth;² so serve thou God, sincere to Him in doctrine.³

³ Does not the sincere doctrine¹ belong to God? And those who take allies besides² Him: — “We only serve them that they might bring us near to God in proximity!”³ — God will judge between them concerning that wherein they differ; God guides not him who is a liar and an ingrate.

⁴ Had God willed to take a son, He would have chosen from what He created what He willed. Glory¹ be to Him! He is God, the One, the Vanquishing!

⁵ He created the heavens and the earth in truth.¹ He wraps the night over the day, and He wraps the day over the night; and He made subject the sun and the moon, each running for a stated term. Is He not the Exalted in Might, the Forgiver?

⁶ He created you from one soul; then He made from it its mate. And He sent down for you of the cattle eight pairs.¹ He creates you in the wombs of your mothers — creation after creation — in three darknesses.² That is God, your Lord; to Him belongs the dominion; there is no god save He.³ How then are you diverted?

⁷ If you deny — God is free from need of you. And He is not pleased, for His servants, with denial. And if you are grateful, He is pleased therewith for you. And no bearer bears the burden of another; then to your Lord is your return, and He will inform you of what you did; He knows what is in the breasts.

⁸ And when affliction touches man, he calls to his Lord, turning to Him; then when He confers upon him favour from Him, he forgets that for which he called to Him before, and makes equals to God, to lead astray from His path. Say thou: “Enjoy thou thy denial a little — thou art of the companions of the Fire.”

⁹ If¹ he who is humbly obedient in the watches of the night, submitting² and standing,³ fearing the Hereafter, and hoping for the mercy of his Lord[...].⁴ Say thou: “Are they equal — those who know and those who know not?” There take heed but those of insight.

¹⁰ Say thou: “O My servants who heed warning:¹ be in prudent fear² of your Lord.” For those who do good in the World is good, and God’s earth is spacious.³ The patient⁴ will but be paid their reward without reckoning.⁵

¹¹ Say thou: “I have been commanded to serve God, sincere to Him in doctrine.¹

¹² “And I have been commanded to be the first of those submitting.”¹

¹³ Say thou: “I fear, if I should disobey my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous day.”

¹⁴ Say thou: “God do I serve, sincere to Him in my doctrine,¹

¹⁵ “So serve what you will besides¹ Him.” Say thou: “The losers will be those who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection.” Is that² not the clear loss?

¹⁶ They will have above them canopies of the Fire, and beneath them canopies. By that does God put His servants in dread:¹ “O My servants: be in prudent fear² of Me!”

¹⁷ And those who avoid idols¹ lest they serve them and turn to God, for them are glad tidings. So give thou glad tidings to My servants:

¹⁸ Those who hear the word and follow the best thereof,¹ those are they whom God has guided; and it is they who are those possessed of insight.

¹⁹ Is then he upon whom¹ the word of punishment has become binding[...]?² Art thou then to rescue him who is in the Fire?³

²⁰ But those who are in prudent fear¹ of their Lord: they have high chambers above which are high chambers built, beneath which rivers flow; the promise of God — God will not break the appointment.²

²¹ Dost thou not see¹ that God sent down from the sky water, and inserted it as springs in the earth? Then He brings forth a crop differing in its hues; then it withers, and thou seest it turned to yellow; then He makes it debris. In that is a reminder for men of understanding.

²³ God has sent down the best narration:¹ a Writ² of paired comparison³ whereat shiver the skins of those who fear their Lord; then their skins and their hearts soften to the remembrance⁴ of God — that is the guidance of God wherewith He guides whom He wills; and whom God sends astray, for him there is no guide.

²⁴ Is then he who¹ has no prudent fear² but his face² against the evil of the punishment on the Day of Resurrection[...]?⁴ And it will be said to the wrongdoers:⁵ “Taste what you earned!”

²⁵ Those before them denied, and the punishment came upon them whence¹ they perceived not.

²⁶ And God let them taste disgrace in the life of this world; but the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, had they but known.

²⁷ And We have struck for mankind in this Qur’an¹ every² similitude,³ that they might take heed;

²⁸ An Arabic recitation,¹ free of deviation,² that they might be in prudent fear.³

²⁹ God has struck a similitude: — a man concerning whom are partners¹ quarrelling, and a man in submission to one² man. Are they³ equal in likeness? Praise belongs to God! The truth is,⁴ most of them know not.

³⁰ Thou wilt die, and they will die,

³¹ Then on the Day of Resurrection, before your Lord, will you dispute.

³² And who is more unjust than he who lies against God and denies the truth when it comes to him? Is then there not¹ in Gehenna a home for the false claimers of guidance?²

³³ And whoso comes with the truth and confirms¹ it, it is they who are those of prudent fear:²

³⁴ (For them is what they will with their Lord; that is the reward of the doers of good)

³⁵ That God might remove from them the worst of what they did, and reward them with their reward for the best of what they did.

³⁶ Is then God not¹ sufficient for His servant? And they would put thee in dread of those other than² Him; and whom God sends astray, for him there is no guide.

³⁷ And whom God guides, for him there is none to lead astray; is then God not¹ exalted in might and able to requite?

³⁸ And if thou askest them who created the heavens and the earth, they will say: “God.” Say thou: “Have you considered to what you call other than¹ God? If God wills affliction for me, are they removers of His affliction? Or if He wills mercy for me, are they withholders of His mercy?” Say thou: “God is sufficient for me.” In Him place their trust those who would place their trust aright.²

³⁹ Say thou: “O my people: work according to your power¹ — I am working; and you will come to know

⁴⁰ “To whom there comes a punishment that disgraces him, and upon whom there descends a lasting punishment.”

⁴¹ We sent down upon thee the Writ¹ for mankind with the truth.² And whoso is guided, it is for his soul; and whoso strays, he but strays against it. And thou art not a guardian over them.

⁴² God takes the souls at the time of their death, and that which has not died, in its sleep. Then He keeps that for which He has ordained death, and sends down the other to a stated term. In that are proofs¹ for people who reflect.

⁴³ If¹ they have taken intercessors besides² God,³ say thou: “Even though they have not power over anything?” But they do not reason.

⁴⁴ Say thou: “Unto God belongs intercession altogether — His is the dominion of the heavens and the earth; then to Him will you be returned.”

⁴⁵ And when God alone is remembered, the hearts of those who believe not in¹ the Hereafter shrink with aversion; but when those besides² Him are remembered, then they rejoice.³

⁴⁶ Say thou: “O God, the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, the Knower of the Unseen and the Seen: Thou wilt judge between Thy servants concerning that wherein they differed.”

⁴⁷ And were those who do wrong to possess all that is in the earth and the like of it with it, they would seek to ransom themselves¹ thereby from the evil² of the punishment on the Day of Resurrection; and there will appear to them from God that on which they had not reckoned,

⁴⁸ And there will appear to them the evil deeds¹ they earned, and there will surround them that whereat they mocked.

⁴⁹ And when affliction touches man, he calls to Us; then when We confer upon him favour from Us, he says: “I have only been given it according to knowledge.” The truth is,¹ it² is a means of denial,³ but most of them know not.