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

¹ Glory¹ be to Him who conveyed His servant by night from the inviolable place of worship² to the furthest³ place of worship,⁴ which We blessed round about him, that We might show him some of Our proofs!⁵ He is the Hearing, the Seeing.

² And We gave Moses the Writ,¹ and made it a guide for the children of Israel: “Take not instead of² Me as disposer of affairs

³ “Progeny¹ of those We bore² with Noah; he was a grateful servant.”

⁴ And We decreed for the children of Israel in¹ the Writ:² “You will work corruption in the land twice,³ and wax high to a great height.”

⁵ Then when the promise came of the first of the two, We raised up against you servants¹ of Ours of severe might who conducted a search within the homes; and it was a promise fulfilled.

⁶ Then We returned to you a turn over them,¹ and supplied you with wealth and sons, and made you greater in influence.

⁷ If you do good, you do good to your souls; and if you do evil, it is to them.¹ Then when the promise of the latter came[...],² that they should disgrace your faces,³ and enter the place of worship⁴ as they entered it the first time, and destroy all that they overcame with destruction.

⁸ It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you; but if you return, We will return;¹ and We have made Gehenna a prison-bed² for the false claimers of guidance.³

⁹ This Qur’an¹ guides to what is most upright, and brings glad tidings to the believers² who do righteous deeds, that they have a great reward,

¹⁰ And that those who believe not in¹ the Hereafter: — We have prepared for them a painful punishment.

¹¹ And man supplicates for evil by his supplication for good;¹ and man is ever hasty.²

¹² And We appointed the night and the day as two proofs;¹ and We erase the proof² of the night and make the proof³ of day sight-giving, that you might seek favour of your Lord, and that you might know the number⁴ of years and the reckoning;⁵ and everything have We set out and detailed⁶ with full explanation.

¹³ And every man: We have attached his fate¹ to his neck; and We will bring forth for him on the Day of Resurrection a writ² which he will find unrolled:

¹⁴ “Read thou thy writ!¹ Thy soul this day suffices as reckoner against thee.”

¹⁵ Whoso is guided, he is but guided for his soul; and whoso strays, he but strays against it; and no bearer bears the burden of another. And We do not punish until We have raised up a messenger.

¹⁶ And when We intend to destroy a city, We command¹ its opulent ones, but they are perfidious² therein; so the word becomes binding³ upon it, and We annihilate it utterly.⁴

¹⁷ And how many generations have We destroyed after Noah? And thy Lord suffices as one aware, seeing the transgressions¹ of His servants.

¹⁸ Whoso desires this fleeting life, We hasten for him therein¹ what We will to whom We wish; then have We appointed for him Gehenna wherein he will burn, condemned and banished.²

¹⁹ And whoso desires the Hereafter and strives for it as he should,¹ and is a believer² — those, their striving is appreciated.

²⁰ To each¹ do We extend — to these and to those — from the gift of thy Lord; and the gift of thy Lord is not restricted.²

²¹ See thou how We have preferred some of them over others; but the Hereafter is greater in degrees¹ and greater in preferment.²

²² Make thou not with God another god lest thou sit down condemned and forsaken.¹

²³ And thy Lord has decreed that you serve not save Him; and towards parents good conduct. Whether one or both of them reaches old age with thee, say thou not: “Fie,” to them, nor repel thou them; but speak thou to them a noble word,¹

²⁴ And lower thou to them the wing of gentleness out of mercy, and say thou: “My Lord: have mercy on them, as they brought me up when I was small.”¹

²⁵ Your Lord best knows what is in your souls; if you are righteous, He is to those oft-returning¹ and forgiving.

²⁶ And give thou the relative his due,¹ and the needy, and the wayfarer;² but squander thou not wastefully,³

²⁷ The squanderers are brothers of the satans,¹ and the satan² is to his Lord ungrateful.

²⁸ But if thou turnest away from them, seeking the mercy from thy Lord that thou expectest,¹ then speak thou to them a gentle word.²

²⁹ And make thou not thy hand chained to thy neck; nor extend thou it to its full extent, then sit down blameworthy and denuded.

³⁰ Thy Lord expands provision for whom He wills, and He straitens; He is of His servants aware and seeing.

³¹ And kill not your children for fear of poverty — We will provide for them and for you; the killing of them is a great offence¹ —

³² And approach not unlawful sexual intercourse¹ — it is sexual immorality,² and evil as a path —

³³ And kill not the soul which God has made unlawful save with justice;¹ and whoso is killed wrongfully, We have given authority to his ally; but let him not commit excess in killing; he is supported.²

³⁴ And approach not the property of the fatherless¹ save with what is better before² he reaches maturity. And fulfil the covenant;³ the covenant is to be questioned.⁴

³⁵ And fulfil the measure when you measure, and weigh with the straight balance; that is better, and best in respect of result.¹

³⁶ And follow thou not¹ that whereof thou hast no knowledge; the hearing and the sight and the heart, each of those will be questioned.

³⁷ And walk thou not in the earth exultantly; thou wilt not cleave open the earth, nor wilt thou reach the mountains in height.

³⁸ All that — its evil is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.

³⁹ That is from what thy Lord has revealed¹ to thee of wisdom.² And make thou not with God another god lest thou be cast into Gehenna, blameworthy and banished.

⁴⁰ Has then your Lord chosen for you sons and taken from among the angels females?¹ You speak a monstrous² word.³

⁴¹ And We have expounded¹ in this Qur’an,² that they take heed; but it increases them only in aversion.

⁴² Say thou: “If there had been gods with Him, as they say, then would they have sought a path against the Lord of the Throne.”

⁴³ Glory¹ be to Him, and greatly exalted is He above what they say!²

⁴⁴ The seven heavens and the earth and whoso is in them glorify¹ Him; nothing is save that gives glory² with His praise, but you understand not their glorification;³ He is clement and forgiving.

⁴⁵ And when thou recitest the Qur’an,¹ We place between thee and those who believe not in² the Hereafter a hidden partition,

⁴⁶ And We have placed upon their hearts coverings lest they should understand it, and in their ears deafness.¹ And when thou rememberest thy Lord alone in the Qur’an,² they turn their backs in aversion.³

⁴⁷ We best know for what¹ they are listening when they listen to thee, and when they are in private conversation, when the wrongdoers² say: “You follow only a man taken by sorcery.”³

⁴⁸ See thou how they strike similitudes for thee; then have they strayed and are not able to find a path.¹

⁴⁹ And they say: “When we are bones and dust,¹ will we be raised up as a new creation?”