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

¹ The command of God is coming, so seek not to hasten it. Glory¹ be to Him! And exalted is He above that to which they ascribe a partnership!²

² He sends down the angels with the Spirit of His command upon whom He wills of His servants: “Warn that there is no god save I; so be in prudent fear¹ of Me.”

³ He created the heavens and the earth in truth;¹ exalted is He above that to which they ascribe a partnership!²

⁴ He created man from a sperm-drop — and then is he an open disputant.

⁵ And the cattle, He created them (for you therein are warmth and benefits; and of them you eat,

⁶ And for you therein is comeliness when you bring them home to rest, and when you take them out to pasture;

⁷ And they bear your loads to a land you could not have reached save with great trouble to yourselves; your Lord is kind and merciful.)

⁸ And horses, and mules, and donkeys for you to ride, and as adornment; and He creates what you know not.

⁹ And upon¹ God is the course of the path; and some of them² deviate.³ And had He willed, He would have guided you all together.

¹⁰ He it is that sends down from the sky water for you; from it is drink; and from it are plants¹ in which you put out to pasture;

¹¹ He causes to grow for you thereby the crops, and the olives, and the date-palms, and the grapevines, and every¹ fruit. In that is a proof² for people who reflect.

¹² And He made subject for you the night, and the day, and the sun, and the moon; and the stars are made subject by His command — in that are proofs¹ for people who reason —

¹³ As is¹ what He created² for you in the earth of different hues; in that is a proof³ for people who take heed.

¹⁴ And He it is that made subject the sea, that you might eat therefrom fresh flesh, and bring forth therefrom ornaments which you wear — and thou seest the ships¹ ploughing therein — and that you might seek of His bounty, and that you might be grateful.

¹⁵ And He cast into the earth firm mountains lest it sway with you; and rivers and ways, that you might be guided;

¹⁶ And landmarks; and by the star¹ are they guided.

¹⁷ Is then He who¹ creates like one who creates not? Will you then not² take heed!

¹⁸ And if you should count the favour of God, you will not calculate it; God is forgiving and merciful.

¹⁹ And God knows what you keep secret and what you make known.

²⁰ And those to whom they call, besides¹ God, create not anything, but they are created:

²¹ Dead, not living; and they perceive not when they will be raised.

²² Your God is One God. And those who believe not in¹ the Hereafter, their hearts deny,² and they have waxed proud.

²³ Without doubt, God knows what they keep secret and what they make known; He loves not those that wax proud.

²⁴ And when it is said to them: “What is it your Lord sent down?” they say: “Legends of the former peoples,”

²⁵ That they might bear their burdens in full on the Day of Resurrection, and some of the burdens of those whom they lead astray without knowledge. In truth,¹ evil is what they will bear.

²⁶ Those before them schemed; then God came at their building from the foundations so the roof fell down on them from above them; and the punishment came upon them whence¹ they perceived not.

²⁷ Then on the Day of Resurrection will He disgrace them, and say: “Where are My partners¹ for whom² you were hostile?”³ Those given knowledge will say: “Disgrace this day, and evil, are upon the false claimers of guidance:⁴

²⁸ “Those whom the angels take while wronging their souls.” Then they will offer submission: “We were not doing any evil.”¹ — “Verily,² God knows what you did,

²⁹ “So enter the gates of Gehenna, abiding eternally therein.” Evil is the dwelling of those that wax proud.

³⁰ And it will be said to those who were in prudent fear:¹ “What did your Lord send down?” They will say: “Good.” For those who do good in the World there is good; and the home of the Hereafter is better: — and how excellent is the home of those of prudent fear!² —

³¹ Gardens of perpetual abode which they will enter, beneath which rivers flow, wherein they have whatever they will. Thus does God reward those of prudent fear:¹

³² Those whom the angels take while virtuous.¹ They will say: “Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden because of what you did.”

³³ Look they save for the angels to come to them, or for the command of thy Lord to come? Thus did those before them; and God wronged them not, but they wronged their souls,

³⁴ And there befell them the evil deeds¹ that they did, and there surrounded them that whereat they mocked.

³⁵ And those who ascribe a partnership¹ say: “Had God willed, we would not have served, besides² Him, anything — neither we nor our fathers — nor would we have forbidden anything contrary to³ Him”;⁴ thus did those before them. Then is there upon⁵ the messengers save the clear notification?

³⁶ And We raised up in every community a messenger: “Serve God and avoid idols.”¹ And among them was he whom God guided; and among them was he upon whom misguidance was binding.² So travel in the earth and see how was the final outcome of the deniers.

³⁷ Though¹ thou desire their guidance, God will not guide him whom He leaves to stray; and they have no helpers.

³⁸ And they swear by God their strongest oaths: “God will not raise up him who dies.” Verily,¹ it is a promise binding upon² Him, — but most men know not —

³⁹ That He might make plain¹ to them that wherein they differ, and that those who ignore warning² might know that they were liars.

⁴⁰ Our word to a thing when We intend it is that We but say to it: “Be thou,” and it is.

⁴¹ And those who have emigrated in the cause of God after they were wronged, We will settle them handsomely in the World: — and the reward of the Hereafter is greater, if they but knew —

⁴² Those who are patient, and in their Lord place their trust.

⁴³ And We sent before thee only men to whom We revealed¹ — so ask the people of the remembrance,² if you know not —

⁴⁴ With the clear signs and the writings.¹ And We sent down to thee the remembrance,² that thou make plain³ to mankind what has been sent down to them, and that they might reflect.

⁴⁵ Do they who plot evil deeds¹ feel secure that God will not cause the earth to swallow them, or that the punishment will not come upon them whence² they perceive not,

⁴⁶ Or that He will not seize them in their going to and fro, and they be unable to escape,

⁴⁷ Or that He will not seize them through slow decay?¹ And your Lord is kind and merciful.

⁴⁸ Have they not seen¹ what things God has created turning their shadows to the right and the left in submission² to God, in all humility?