55 The Merciful -Ar-Rahman
In the Name of Allah, the
Merciful, the Most Merciful
[55.1] The Merciful
[55.2] has taught the Koran.
[55.3] He created the human
[55.4] and taught him its pronunciation.
[55.5] The sun and the moon to a reckoning.
[55.6] The stars and the trees prostrate themselves.
[55.7] He raised the heaven on high and set the scale.
[55.8] Do not transgress the scales.
[55.9] Give just weight and do not skimp the scales.
[55.10] He set down the earth for the creation.
[55.11] Therein are fruits and palm trees with sheaths,
[55.12] the grain in the blade; and aromatic herbs.
[55.13] Which favors of your Lord will you both (humans
and jinn) belie?
[55.14] He created the human from clay, like earthenware
[55.15] and He created the jinn from smokeless fire.
[55.16] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.17] The Lord of the Two Easts, the Lord of the Two
Wests.
[55.18] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.19] He has let forth the two seas, they meet
together,
[55.20] and between them is a barrier which they do not
overpass.
[55.21] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.22] Pearls and corals come from both.
[55.23] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.24] Also, His are the ships that run, raised up like
mountains upon the sea.
[55.25] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.26] All that live on it will perish.
[55.27] Yet the Face of your Lord will abide forever,
Majestic and Splendid.
[55.28] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.29] Whosoever is in the heaven and earth ask Him.
Every day He is upon an affair (He reveals according to His Eternal
determination).
[55.30] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.31] We shall surely aim, O both burdened.
[55.32] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.33] Tribe of jinn and of human, if you are able to
penetrate the provinces of heaven and earth, pass through them! But you shall
not pass through except with a power!
[55.34] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.35] Flames of fire and molten copper shall be loosed
against you, and you shall not be helped.
[55.36] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.37] When the heaven splits asunder and turns
crimson, like red leather.
[55.38] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.39] On that Day, neither human nor jinn shall be
asked about his sin.
[55.40] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.41] The sinners shall be known by their mark, they
shall be seized by their forelocks and their feet.
[55.42] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.43] This is Gehenna (Hell) which the sinners belied,
[55.44] they shall go round between it, and between a
hot, boiling water.
[55.45] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.46] And for he who fears the standing (before) his
Lord there are two Gardens.
[55.47] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.48] (Gardens) with many branches.
[55.49] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.50] Therein are two running fountains.
[55.51] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.52] Therein are two kinds of every fruit.
[55.53] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.54] (They shall) recline on couches lined with
brocade, and the fruits of the Gardens will be near at hand.
[55.55] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.56] Therein are maidens who restrain their glances,
whom neither human nor jinn have touched before.
[55.57] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.58] As (lovely as) rubies and as (beautiful as)
coral.
[55.59] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.60] Shall the recompense of goodness be anything
other than goodness?
[55.61] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.62] And beside these there shall be two Gardens.
[55.63] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.64] The greenest of green pastures.
[55.65] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.66] Therein are two gushing fountains of water.
[55.67] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.68] In them are fruits, palm trees and pomegranates.
[55.69] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.70] In them shall be good and pleasing.
[55.71] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.72] Maidens (of Paradise, Houris) in cloistered cool
pavilions.
[55.73] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.74] Neither human nor jinn will have touched them
before.
[55.75] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.76] Reclining on green cushions and fine carpets.
[55.77] Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?
[55.78] Blessed be the Name of your Lord, Majestic,
Splendid.