25 The Criterion -Al-Furqan
In the Name of Allah, the
Merciful, the Most Merciful
[25.1] Blessed is He who has sent down the Criterion to
His worshiper (Prophet Muhammad), that he is a warner to all mankind;
[25.2] to whom the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth
belongs, who has not taken a son, nor does He have an associate in the Kingdom,
and He created everything, then He ordained it very precisely.
[25.3] Yet they worship, other than Him, gods which
cannot create anything and were themselves created. They own neither harm nor
benefit for themselves, neither do they own death nor life, nor a resurrection.
[25.4] The unbelievers say: 'This is but a falsehood he
has forged – another nation has helped him. ' So they have come with wrong and
falsehood.
[25.5] They say: 'He has written tales of the ancients,
they are recited to him at dawn and at the evening. '
[25.6] Say: 'It was sent down by Him who knows the
secrets of heavens and earth. He is Forgiving, the Most Merciful.
[25.7] They also say: 'How is it that this Messenger
eats food and walks about the markets? Why has no angel been sent down with him
to warn us?
[25.8] Or, why has no treasure been thrown to him, or a
garden for him to eat from? ' And the harmdoers say: 'The man you follow is
surely bewitched. '
[25.9] See how they strike examples for you, surely they
have gone astray and are unable to find a way.
[25.10] Blessed be He who, if He wills, can assign you
better things than these; gardens underneath which rivers flow, and He shall
assign for you palaces.
[25.11] No, they belied the Hour. We have prepared for
him who belied the Hour a Blaze.
[25.12] When it sees them from a far off place, they
shall hear it raging and sighing.
[25.13] And when, chained in (iron) fetters, they are
cast into some narrow space of the Fire, they will call out for destruction.
[25.14] 'Do not call out today for one destruction; call
out for many destructions. '
[25.15] Say: 'Is that better, or the
[25.16] Living there for ever, they shall find in it all
that they desire. That is a promise binding upon your Lord, and to be asked of
Him.
[25.17] On the Day when He gathers them with all that
they worship, other than Allah, He will say: 'Was it you who misled My
worshipers, or did they themselves go astray? '
[25.18] They will answer: 'Exaltations to You. We should
not have taken others for a guardian, but You gave them and their fathers
enjoyment until they forgot Your Remembrance and they were a destroyed nation.
'
[25.19] So they belie what you say, and you can neither
turn it aside, nor find any help. Those of you who have done evil, We let them
taste a great punishment.
[25.20] We did not send Messengers before you but that
they ate food and walked about in the markets, We have appointed some of you to
be a trial for others. Will you endure? Your Lord is the Seer.
[25.21] Those who do not hope to meet Us ask: 'Why have
no angels been sent to us? Why can we not see our Lord? ' How proud they are
within themselves, and have become greatly disdainful.
[25.22] On the Day when they behold the angels, there
will be no glad tidings for the sinners. They will say: 'A refuge which is
forbidden! '
[25.23] Then We shall advance upon the work which they
have done and render it as scattered dust.
[25.24] On that Day, the companions of
[25.25] On that Day, the heaven is split asunder with
clouds and the angels are sent down in majesty,
[25.26] the true Kingdom on that Day shall belong to the
Merciful a harsh day for the unbelievers.
[25.27] Upon that Day the harmdoer shall bite his hands,
and say: 'Would that I had taken a Path with the Messenger!
[25.28] Would that I had never chosen soandso for my
companion!
[25.29] He led me astray from the Remembrance after it
had reached me, satan is ever the foresaker of humans. '
[25.30] The Messenger says: 'O my Lord, my people have
taken this Koran while deserting it. '
[25.31] To every Prophet We have appointed an enemy
among the harmdoers; your Lord is Sufficient for you, a Guide and a Helper.
[25.32] The unbelievers ask: 'Why was the Koran not sent
down to him all at once? ' As such We strengthen your heart thereby, and We
have recited it very distinctly.
[25.33] They do not bring to you any parable but that
which We bring to you is the truth and better in explanation.
[25.34] Those who will be gathered into Gehenna (Hell)
upon their faces shall be in the worst in place, and have gone further astray
from the Path.
[25.35] We gave the Book to Moses and gave him his
brother Aaron as a minister.
[25.36] (Then) We said: 'Go to the nation who have
belied Our signs. ' And We utterly destroyed them.
[25.37] The nation of Noah, We drowned them when they
belied their Messenger, and made of them a sign to the nation. For the
harmdoers We have prepared a painful punishment
[25.38] also to Aad and Thamood and the nation of ErRass
and many generations in between;
[25.39] to each of them We gave examples, and each of
them We utterly ruined.
[25.40] They have surely passed by the village which was
rained upon by evil rain (of stones); what, have they never seen it? No, they
look for no resurrection.
[25.41] Whenever they see you, they mock you (saying):
'Is this whom Allah has sent as a Messenger?
[25.42] He would have mislead us from our gods, if we
had not been steadfast to them. ' But they shall know who is further astray
from the Path when they see the punishment.
[25.43] Have you seen him who has made gods of his own desires?
Would you be a guardian over him?
[25.
44] Do you think that most of them can hear or
understand? They are like cattle, no, they are further astray from the Path.
[25.45] Do you not see how your Lord stretches the
shadow? Had it been His will, He could have made it constant. Then He appointed
the sun to be a guide to it;
[25.46] thereafter We seize it to Us withdrawing it
gently.
[25.47] It is He who has appointed the night a mantle
for you and sleep for a rest. The day He has appointed for rising.
[25.48] It is He who loosens the winds, bearing glad
tidings before the Hands of His Mercy, and We have sent down pure water from
the heaven,
[25.49] so, that with it We revive dead lands and
provide drink for the cattle and the human We created.
[25.50] We have indeed turned it about them, so that
they remember; yet most people refuse all except disbelief.
[25.51] Had it been Our will, We could have raised a
warner in every village.
[25.52] So do not obey the unbelievers, but struggle
mightily with it (the Koran).
[25.53] It was He who let forth the two seas, this one
is palatably sweet and this salt, a bitter taste, and He set a barrier between
them, and a refuge which is forbidden.
[25.54] And it is He who created the human from water
and gave him kindred of blood and of marriage. Your Lord is the Powerful.
[25.55] Yet they (the unbelievers) worship, other than
Allah, that which can neither benefit nor harm them. Surely, the unbeliever is
ever a partisan against his Lord.
[25.56] We did not send you but as a bearer of glad
tidings and as a warner.
[25.57] Say: 'I demand of you no wage for this except
for he who wishes to take the Path to his Lord. '
[25.58] Put your trust in the All Living who never dies,
and exalt with His praise, He is sufficiently aware of His worshipers' sins.
[25.59] (It is) He who, in six days created the heavens
and the earth and all that lies between them, and then He willed to the Throne.
The Merciful; ask about Him from he who knows Him.
[25.60] When it is said to them: 'Prostrate yourselves
before the Merciful', they ask: 'And what is the Merciful? Shall we prostrate
ourselves to whatever you bid us? ' And it increases their aversion.
[25.61] Blessed be He who has set the constellations in
the heaven, and set amongst them a sun, and an illuminating moon.
[25.62] It is He who has made the night and day follow
each other for those whom He desires to remember or He desires to be thankful.
[25.63] The worshipers of the Merciful are those who
walk humbly on the earth, and when the ignorant address them say: 'Peace, '
[25.64] who pass the night prostrating and standing to
their Lord.
[25.65] Who say: 'Our Lord, turn from us the punishment
of Gehenna, for its punishment is the most terrible;
[25.66] it is an evil settling, and an evil residence, '
[25.67] who when they spend are neither wasteful nor
miserly, between that is a just stand,
[25.68] who do not call upon another god with Allah, nor
slay the soul which Allah has forbidden except by right; who do not fornicate,
for he who does this shall face punishment
[25.69] doubled for him on the Day of Resurrection is
his punishment, and therein he shall live, humbled,
[25.70] except he who repents and believes and does good
works those, Allah will change their evil deeds into good deeds; Allah is ever
Forgiving and Merciful.
[25.71] He who repents and does good works truly turns
to Allah in repentance,
[25.72] and those who do not bear false witness, and
when they pass by idle talk, pass by with honor
[25.73] and who when they are reminded of the verses of
their Lord, they do not fall down deaf and blind.
[25.74] Those who say: 'Lord give us of our wives and children
what pleases our eyes and make us leaders to the fearful. '
[25.75] Those shall be recompensed with the highest rank
for their patience. There they shall receive a greeting, and peace!
[25.76] There they shall live for ever; a fine dwelling
place, and residence.
[25.77] Say: 'My Lord cares little for you if it was not
for your supplication, indeed you have belied (the Messenger and the Koran) so
it (the punishment) will be fastened. '