Surah 46 The Wind-Curved Sandhills - Al-Ahqaf, 35 verses (Makka)
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- Ha-Mim.
- The Revelation of the Book is from God the Exalted
in Power, Full of Wisdom.
- We created not the heavens and the earth and all
between them but for just ends, and for a Term
Appointed: But those who reject Faith turn away from
that whereof they are warned.
- Say: "Do ye see what it is ye invoke besides God?
Show me what it is they have created on earth, or have
they a share in the heavens bring me a book (revealed)
before this, or any remnant of knowledge (ye may have),
if ye are telling the truth!
- And who is more astray than one who invokes besides
God, such as will not answer him to the Day of
Judgment, and who (in fact) are unconscious of their
call (to them)?
- And when mankind are gathered together (at the
Resurrection), they will be hostile to them and reject
their worship (altogether)!
- When Our Clear Signs are rehearsed to them, the
Unbelievers say, of the Truth when it comes to them:
"This is evident sorcery!"
- Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Say: "Had I
forged it, then can ye obtain no single (blessing) for
me from God. He knows best of that whereof ye talk (so
glibly)! Enough is He for a witness between me and you!
And he is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
- Say: "I am no bringer of new-fangled doctrine among
the apostles, nor do I know what will be done with me
or with you. I follow but that which is revealed to me
by inspiration; I am but a Warner open and clear."
- Say: "See ye? If (this teaching) be from God, and
ye reject it, and a witness from among the Children of
Israel testifies to its similarity (with earlier
scripture), and has believed while ye are arrogant,
(how unjust ye are!) truly, God guides not a people
unjust."
- The Unbelievers say of those who believe: "If (this
Message) were a good thing, (such men) would not have
gone to it first, before us!" And seeing that they
guide not themselves thereby, they will say, "this is
an (old,) falsehood!"
- And before this, was the Book of Moses as a guide
and a mercy: And this Book confirms (it) in the Arabic
tongue; to admonish the unjust, and as Glad Tidings to
those who do right.
- Verily those who say, "Our Lord is God," and remain
firm (on that Path),- on them shall be no fear, nor
shall they grieve.
- Such shall be Companions of the Gardens, dwelling
therein (for aye): a recompense for their (good) deeds.
- We have enjoined on man kindness to his parents: In
pain did his mother bear him, and in pain did she give
him birth. The carrying of the (child) to his weaning
is (a period of) thirty months. At length, when he
reaches the age of full strength and attains forty
years, he says, "O my Lord! Grant me that I may be
grateful for Thy favour which Thou has bestowed upon
me, and upon both my parents, and that I may work
righteousness such as Thou mayest approve; and be
gracious to me in my issue. Truly have I turned to Thee
and truly do I bow (to Thee) in Islam."
- Such are they from whom We shall accept the best of
their deeds and pass by their ill deeds: (They shall
be) among the Companions of the Garden: a promise! of
truth, which was made to them (in this life).
- But (there is one) who says to his parents, "Fie on
you! Do ye hold out the promise to me that I shall be
raised up, even though generations have passed before
me (without rising again)?" And they two seek God's
aid, (and rebuke the son): "Woe to thee! Have faith!
for the promise of God is true." But he says, "This is
nothing but tales of the ancients!"
- Such are they against whom is proved the sentence
among the previous generations of Jinns and men, that
have passed away; for they will be (utterly) lost.
- And to all are (assigned) degrees according to the
deeds which they (have done), and in order that (God)
may recompense their deeds, and no injustice be done to
them.
- And on the Day that the Unbelievers will be placed
before the Fire, (It will be said to them): "Ye
received your good things in the life of the world, and
ye took your pleasure out of them: but today shall ye
be recompensed with a Penalty of humiliation: for that
ye were arrogant on earth without just cause, and that
ye (ever) transgressed."
- Mention (Hud) one of 'Ad's (own) brethren: Behold,
he warned his people about the winding Sand-tracts: but
there have been warners before him and after him:
"Worship ye none other than God: Truly I fear for you
the Penalty of a Mighty Day."
- They said: "Hast thou come in order to turn us
aside from our gods? Then bring upon us the (calamity)
with which thou dost threaten us, if thou art telling
the truth?"
- He said: "The Knowledge (of when it will come) is
only with God: I proclaim to you the mission on which I
have been sent: But I see that ye are a people in
ignorance!"..
- Then, when they saw the (Penalty in the shape of) a
cloud traversing the sky, coming to meet their valleys,
they said, "This cloud will give us rain!" "Nay, it is
the (Calamity) ye were asking to be hastened!- A wind
wherein is a Grievous Penalty!
- "Everything will it destroy by the command of its
Lord!" Then by the morning they - nothing was to be
seen but (the ruins of) their houses! thus do We
recompense those given to sin!
- And We had firmly established them in a (prosperity
and) power which We have not given to you (ye Quraish!)
and We had endowed them with (faculties of) hearing,
seeing, heart and intellect: but of no profit to them
were their (faculties of) hearing, sight, and heart and
intellect, when they went on rejecting the Signs of
God; and they were (completely) encircled by that which
they used to mock at!
- We destroyed aforetime populations round about you;
and We have shown the Signs in various ways, that they
may turn (to Us).
- Why then was no help forthcoming to them from those
whom they worshipped as gods, besides God, as a means
of access (to God)? Nay, they left them in the lurch:
but that was their falsehood and their invention.
- Behold, We turned towards thee a company of Jinns
(quietly) listening to the Qur'an: when they stood in
the presence thereof, they said, "Listen in silence!"
When the (reading) was finished, they returned to their
people, to warn (them of their sins).
- They said, "O our people! We have heard a Book
revealed after Moses, confirming what came before it:
it guides (men) to the Truth and to a Straight Path.
- "O our people, hearken to the one who invites (you)
to God, and believe in him: He will forgive you your
faults, and deliver you from a Penalty Grievous.
- "If any does not hearken to the one who invites
(us) to God, he cannot frustrate (God's Plan) on earth,
and no protectors can he have besides God: such men
(wander) in manifest error."
- See they not that God, Who created the heavens and
the earth, and never wearied with their creation, is
able to give life to the dead? Yea, verily He has power
over all things.
- And on the Day that the Unbelievers will be placed
before the Fire, (they will be asked,) "Is this not the
Truth?" they will say, "Yea, by our Lord!" (One will
say:) "Then taste ye the Penalty, for that ye were wont
to deny (Truth)!"
- Therefore patiently persevere, as did (all)
apostles of inflexible purpose; and be in no haste
about the (Unbelievers). On the Day that they see the
(Punishment) promised them, (it will be) as if they had
not tarried more than an hour in a single day. (Thine
but) to proclaim the Message: but shall any be
destroyed except those who transgress?
Quran
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