Ar-Rahman
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
The Most Gracious (Allâh)! (1) He has taught (you mankind) the Qur'ân
(by His Mercy). (2) He created man. (3) He taught him eloquent speech. (4) The sun and the moon
run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for
each (for reckoning). (5) And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both prostrate
themselves. (to Allah. See V.22:18). (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
(6) And the heaven He has
raised it high, and He has set up the Balance. (7) In order that you may
not transgress (due) balance. (8) And observe the weight with equity and do not
make the balance deficient. (9) And the earth He has put down (laid) for the
creatures. (10) Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks
(enclosing dates). (11) And also corn, with (its) leaves and
stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants. (12) Then which of the
Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny? (13) He created man (Adam)
from sounding clay like the clay of pottery. (14) And the jinn He
created from a smokeless flame of fire. (15) Then which of the Blessings of your
Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny? (16)(He is) the Lord of the two easts
(places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the
two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter). (17) Then which of the
Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny? (18) He has let loose the
two seas (the salt and the frsh water) meeting together. (19) Between them is a
barrier which none of them can transgress. (20) Then which of the
Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny? (21) Out of them both come
out pearl and coral. (22) Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both
(jinn and men) deny? (23) And His are the ships going and coming in the seas, like
mountains. (24) Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and
men) deny? (25) Whatsoever is on it (the earth) will perish. (26) And the Face of your
Lord full of Majesty and Honour will remain forever. (27) Then which of the
Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny? (28) Whosoever is in the
heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He is
(engaged) in some affair (such as giving honour or disgrace to some, life or
death to some, etc.)! (29) Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both
(jinn and men) deny? (30) We shall attend to you, O you two classes (jinn and men)!
(31) Then which of the
Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny? (32) O assembly of jinn
and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the
earth, then pass beyond (them)! But you will never be able to pass them, except
with authority (from Allâh)! (33) Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will
you both (jinn and men) deny? (34) There will be sent against you both,
smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass, and you will not be able to defend
yourselves. (35) Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and
men) deny? (36) Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red
like red-oil, or red hide — (See V.70:8|) (37) Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will
you both (jinn and men) deny? (38) So on that Day no
question will be asked of man or jinni as to his sin, [because they have
already been known from their faces either white (dwellers of