Ahmed Ali
حمۤ
Ahmed Raza Khan
Ha-Meem. (Alphabets of the Arabic language – Allah, and to whomever He reveals, know their precise meanings.)
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Ha Mim
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حمۤ
Ha-Meem. (Alphabets of the Arabic language – Allah, and to whomever He reveals, know their precise meanings.)
Ha Mim
یہ کتاب الله کی طرف سے اتاری گئی ہے جو غالب حکمت والا ہے
The sending down of this Book is from Allah the Most Honourable, the Wise.
The sending down of the Book is from God, the All-mighty, the All-wise.
ہم نے آسمانوں اور زمین کو اور جو ان کے درمیان ہے کسی مصلحت ہی سے اور ایک خاص وقت تک کے لیے پیدا کیا ہے اورکافروں کو جس چیز سے ڈرایا جاتا ہے اس سے منہ پھیر لیتے ہیں
We did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them except with the truth, and for a fixed term; and the disbelievers have turned away from what they are warned!
We have not created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, save with the truth and a stated term; but the unbelievers are turning away from that they were warned of.
کہہ دو بھلا بتاؤ تو سہی جنہیں تم الله کے سوا پکارتے ہو مجھے دکھاؤ کہ انہوں نے زمین میں کون سی چیز پیدا کی ہے یا آسمانوں میں ان کا کوئی حصہ ہے میرے پاس اس سے پہلے کی کوئی کتاب لاؤ یا کوئی علم چلا آتا ہو وہ لاؤ اگر تم سچے ہو
Proclaim, (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him), “What is your opinion – regarding those whom you worship other than Allah – show me which part of the earth they have created, or do they own any portion of the heavens? Bring to me a Book preceding this (Qur’an), or some remnants of knowledge, if you are truthful.”
Say: 'Have you considered that you call upon apart from God? Show me what they have created of the earth; or have they a partnership in the heavens? Bring me a Book before this, or some remnant of a knowledge, if you speak truly.'
اور اس سے بڑھ کر کون گمراہ ہے جو الله کےسوا اسےپکارتا ہے جو قیامت تک اس کے پکارنے کا جواب نہ دے سکے اور انہیں ان کے پکارنے کی خبر بھی نہ ہو
And who is more astray than one who worships those, instead of Allah, who cannot listen to their prayer until* the Day of Resurrection, and who do not even know of their worship! (Will never listen.)
And who is further astray than he who calls, apart from God, upon such a one as shall not answer him till the Day of Resurrection? Such as are heedless of their calling,
او ر جب لوگ جمع کئےجائیں گے تو وہ ان کے دشمن ہو جائیں گے اور ان کی عبادت کے منکر ہوں گے
And on the day when people are gathered, they will become their enemies, and will reject their worshippers. (The idols will give testimony against the polytheists.)
and when mankind are mustered, shall be enemies to them, and shall deny their service.
اور جب ان پر ہماری واضح آیتیں پڑھی جاتی ہیں تو کافر حق کو کہتے ہیں جب وہ ان کے پاس آچکا کہ یہ تو کھلم کھلاجادوہے
And when Our clear verses are recited to them, the disbelievers say regarding the Truth that has come to them, “This is an obvious magic!”
And when Our signs are recited to them, clear signs, the unbelievers say to the truth when it has come to them, 'This is manifest sorcery.'
کیا وہ کہتے ہیں آپ نے اسے خود بنا لیا ہے کہہ دو اگر میں نے اسے خود بنا لیا ہے تو تم مجھے الله سے بچانے کی کچھ بھی طاقت نہیں رکھتے وہی بہتر جانتا ہے جو باتیں تم اس میں بناتے ہو میرے اور تمہارے درمیان وہی گواہ کافی ہے اور وہ بخشنے والا نہایت رحم والا ہے
What! They dare say, “He has fabricated it”? Say (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him), “If I have fabricated it, then (I know that) you have no power to support me against Allah; He well knows the matters you are involved in; He is Sufficient as a Witness between me and you; and He only is the Oft Forgiving, the Most Merciful.”
Or do they say, 'He has forged it'? Say: 'If I have forged it, you have no power to help me against God. He knows very well what you are pressing upon; He suffices as a witness between me and you; He is the All-forgiving, the All-compassionate.'
کہہ دو میں کوئی انوکھا رسول نہیں ہوں اور میں نہیں جانتا کہ میرے ساتھ کیا کیا جائے گا اور نہ تمہارے ساتھ میں نہیں پیروی کرتا مگر اس کی جو میری طرف وحی کیا جاتا ہے سوائے اس کے نہیں کہ میں کھلم کھلا ڈرانے والا ہوں
Say, “I am not something new* among the Noble Messengers, nor do I know (on my own) what will happen to me** or with you; I only follow that which is divinely revealed to me, and I am purely a Herald of clear warning. (* I am like the earlier ones. ** My knowledge comes due to divine revelations.)
Say: 'I am not an innovation among the Messengers, and I know not what shall be done with me or with you. I only follow what is revealed to me; I am only a clear warner.'
کہہ دو بتاؤ تو سہی اگر یہ کتاب الله کی طرف سے ہو اور تم اس کے منکر ہو اور بنی اسرائیل کا ایک گواہ ایک ایسی کتاب پر گواہی دے کر ایمان بھی لے آیا اور تم اکڑے ہی رہے بے شک الله ظالموں کو ہدایت نہیں کرتا
Say, “What is your opinion – if the Qur’an is from Allah and you have rejected faith in it, and a witness among the Descendants of Israel has already testified upon this and accepted faith, while you became arrogant? Indeed Allah does not guide the unjust.”
Say: 'Have you considered? If it be from God, and you disbelieve in it, and a witness from among the Children of Israel hears witness to its like, and believes, and you wax proud, God guides not the people of the evildoers.
اور کافروں نے ایمانداروں سے کہا اگر یہ دین بہتر ہوتا تو یہ اس پر ہم سے پہلے نہ دوڑ کر جاتے اورجب انہوں نے اس کے ذریعے سے ہدایت نہیں پائی تو کہیں گے یہ تو پرانا جھوٹ ہے
And the disbelievers said regarding the Muslims, “If there were any good in it, the Muslims would not have surpassed us in achieving it!”; and since they did not receive guidance with it, they will now say, “This is an old slander.”
The unbelievers say, as regards the believers, 'If it had been aught good, they had not outstripped us to it.' And since they are not guided by it, certainly they will say, 'This is an old calumny!'
اور اس سے پہلے موسیٰ کی کتاب ہے جو رہنما اور رحمت تھی او ریہ کتاب ہے جو اسے سچا کرتی ہے عربی زبان میں ظالموں کو ڈرانے کے لیے اور نیکوں کو خوشخبری دینے کے لیے
And whereas before this exists the Book of Moosa, a guide and a mercy; and this is a Book giving testimony, in the Arabic language, to warn the unjust; and to give glad tidings to the virtuous.
Yet before it was the Book of Moses for a model and a mercy; and this is a Book confirming, in Arabic tongue, to warn the evildoers, and good tidings to the good-doers.
بے شک جنہوں نے کہا کہ ہمارا رب الله ہے پھر اسی پر جمے رہے پس ان پر کوئی خوف نہیں اور نہ وہ غمگین ہوں گے
Indeed those who said, “Allah is our Lord”, and then remained steadfast – upon them is neither any fear nor shall they grieve.
Surely those who say, 'Our Lord is God' and then go straight, no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow.
یہی بہشتی ہیں اس میں ہمیشہ رہیں گے بدلےان کاموں کے جو وہ کیا کرتے تھے
They are the People of Paradise, abiding in it forever; the reward of their deeds.
Those are the inhabitants of Paradise, therein dwelling forever, as a recompense for that they have been doing.
اور ہم نے انسان کو اپنے والدین کے ساتھ نیکی کرنے کی تاکید کی کہ اسے اس کی ماں نے تکلیف سے اٹھائے رکھا اور اسے تکلیف سے جنا اوراس کا حمل اور دودھ کا چھڑانا تیس مہینے ہیں یہاں تک کہ جب وہ اپنی جوانی کو پہنچا اور چالیں سال کی عمر کو پہنچا تو اس نے کہا اے میرے رب مجھے توفیق دے کہ میں تیری نعمت کا شکر ادا کروں جو تو نے مجھ پر انعام کی اور میرے والدین پر اور میں نیک عمل کروں جسے تو پسند کرے اور میرے لیے میری اولاد میں اصلاح کر بے شک میں تیری طرف رجوع کرتا ہوں اور بے شک میں فرمانبردار میں ہوں
And We have commanded man to be good towards parents; his mother bore him with hardship, and delivered him with hardship; and carrying him and weaning him is for thirty months; until when he* reached maturity and became forty years of age, he said, “My Lord! Inspire me to be thankful for the favours you bestowed upon me and my parents, and that I may perform the deeds pleasing to You, and keep merit among my offspring; I have inclined towards you and I am a Muslim.” (* This verse was revealed concerning S. Abu Bakr – the first caliph, R. A. A)
We have charged man, that he be kind to his parents; his mother bore him painfully, and painfully she gave birth to him; his bearing and his weaning are thirty months. Until, when he is fully grown, and reaches forty years, he says, 'O my Lord, dispose me that I may be thankful for Thy blessing wherewith Thou hast blessed me and my father and mother, and that I may do righteousness well-pleasing to Thee; and make me righteous also in my seed. Behold, I repent to Thee, and am among those that surrender.'
یہی وہ لوگ ہیں جن سے ہم وہ نیک عمل قبول کرتے ہیں جو انہوں نے کیے اور بہشتیوں میں شامل کر کے ان کے گناہوں سے درگزر کرتے ہیں یہ اس سچے وعدے کے مطابق ہے جو ان سے کیا گیا تھا
These are the ones whose good deeds We will accept, and overlook their shortfalls – among the People of Paradise; a true promise which is being given to them.
Those are they from whom We shall accept the best of what they have done, and We shall pass over their evil deeds. They are among the inhabitants of Paradise -- the promise of the very truth, which they were promised.
اور جس نے اپنے ماں باپ سے کہا کہ تم پر تف ہے کیاتم مجھے یہ وعدہ دیتے ہو کہ میں قبر سے نکالا جاؤں گا حالانکہ مجھ سے پہلے بہت سی امتیں گزر گئیں اور وہ دونوں الله سے فریاد کر رہے ہیں کہ ارے تیرا ناس ہو ایمان لا بے شک الله کاوعدہ سچا ہے پھر وہ کہتا ہے یہ ہے کیا مگر پہلوں کے افسانے
And the one who said to his parents, “Uff – I am fed up with both of you! What! You promise me that I will be raised again whereas generations have passed away before me?” And they both seek Allah’s help and say to him, “May you be ruined, accept faith! Indeed Allah’s promise is true”; he therefore answers, “This is nothing except stories of former people.”
But he who says to his father and his mother, 'Fie upon you! Do you promise me that I shall be brought forth, when already generations have passed away before me?' while they call upon God for succour -- 'Woe upon thee! Believe; surely God's promise is true'; then he says, 'This is naught but the fairy-tales of the ancients' --
یہ وہ لوگ ہیں کہ ان کے حق میں بھی ان لوگوں کے ساتھ الله کا قول پورا ہو کر رہا جو ان سے پہلے جن اور انسان ہوگزرے ہیں بے شک وہی خسارہ اٹھانے والے ہیں
It is these upon whom the Word has proved true, among the nations that passed away before them, of jinns and men; indeed they were losers.
such men are they against whom has been realized the Word concerning nations that passed away before them, men and jinn alike; they were losers.
اور ہر ایک کے لیے اپنے اپنے اعمال کے مطابق درجے ہیں تاکہ الله ان کے اعمال کا انہیں پورا عوض دے اور ان پر کچھ بھی ظلم نہ ہوگا
And for all persons are ranks according to their deeds; and so that He may repay them in full for their deeds, and they will not be wronged.
All shall have their degrees, according to what they have wrought, and that He may pay them in full for their works, and they not being wronged.
اور جس دن کافر آگ کے روبرو لائے جائیں گے ان سے (کہا جائے گا) تم (اپنا حصہ) پاک چیزو ں میں سے اپنی دنیا کی زندگی میں لے چکے اور تم ان سے فائدہ اٹھا چکے پس آج تمہیں ذلت کا عذاب دیا جائے گا بدلے اس کے جو تم زمین میں ناحق اکڑا کرتے تھے اوربدلے اس کے جو تم نافرمانی کیاکرتے تھے
And on the day when the disbelievers will be presented upon the fire; it will be said to them, “You have wasted your portion of the good things in the life of this world and enjoyed them; so this day you will be repaid with the disgraceful punishment, the recompense of your wrongfully priding yourself in the land, and because you used to disobey.”
Upon the day when the unbelievers are exposed to the Fire: 'You dissipated your good things in your present life, and you took your enjoyment in them; therefore today you shall be recompensed with the chastisement of humiliation for that you waxed proud in the earth without right, and for your ungodliness.
اور قوم عاد کے بھائی کا ذکر کر جب اس نے اپنی قوم کو (وادی) احقاف میں ڈرایا اور اس سے پہلے اورپیچھے کئی ڈرانے والے گزرے کہ سوائے الله کے کسی کی عبادت نہ کرو بے شک میں تم پر ایک بڑے دن کے عذاب سے ڈرتا ہوں
And remember the fellowman of the tribe of A’ad; when he warned his nation in the Ahqaf* – and indeed Heralds of warning passed away before and after him – that, “Do not worship anyone except Allah; indeed I fear the punishment of a Great Day upon you. (* A country among sand dunes.)
And remember the brother of Ad, when he warned his people beside the sand-dunes -- and already warners had passed away alike before him and behind him -- saying, 'Serve none but God! Truly I fear for you the chastisement of a dreadful day.
انہوں نے کہا کیا تو ہمارے پاس اس لیے آیا ہے کہ تو ہمیں ہمارے معبودوں سے بہکا دے پس ہم پردہ (عذاب) لے آ جس کا تو ہم سے وعدہ کرتا ہے اگر تو سچا ہے
They said, “Have you come to us in order to turn us away from our Gods? Therefore bring upon us what you promise us, if you are truthful.”
They said, 'What, hast thou come to pervert us from our gods? Then bring us that thou promisest us, if indeed thou speakest truly.'
اس نے کہا اس کا علم تو الله کے پاس ہے اورمیں تمہیں وہ (پیغام) پہنچاتا ہوں جو میں دے کر بھیجا گیا ہوں لیکن میں تمہیں دیکھ رہا ہوں تم ایک جاہل قوم ہو
He said, “Its knowledge is only with Allah; and I convey to you the messages of my Lord, but I perceive that you are an ignorant nation.”
He said, 'Knowledge is only with God, and I deliver to you the Message with which I was sent; but I see you are an ignorant people.'
پھر جب انہوں نے اسے دیکھا کہ وہ ایک ابر ہے جو ان کے میدانوں کی طرف بڑھا چلا آ رہا ہے کہنے لگے کہ یہ تو ابر ہے جو ہم پر برسے گا (نہیں) بلکہ یہ وہی ہے جسے تم جلدی چاہتے تھے یعنی آندھی جس میں دردناک عذاب ہے
So when they saw the punishment coming towards their valleys, spread like a cloud on the horizon, they said, “That is a cloud which will shower rain upon us”; said Hud “In fact this is what you were being impatient for; a windstorm carrying a painful punishment.”
Then, when they saw it as a sudden cloud coming towards their valleys, they said, 'This is a cloud, that shall give us rain!' 'Not so; rather it is that you sought to hasten -- a wind, wherein is a painful chastisement,
وہ اپنے رب کے حکم سے ہر ایک چیز کو برباد کر دے گی پس وہ صبح کو ایسے ہو گئے کہ سوائے ان کے گھروں کے کچھ نظر نہ آتا تھا ہم اسی طرح مجرم لوگوں کو سزا دیا کرتے ہیں
“That destroys all things by the command of its Lord” – so at morning none could be seen except their empty houses; this is the sort of punishment We mete out to the guilty.
destroying everything by the commandment of its Lord.' So in the morning there was naught to be seen but their dwelling-places. Even so do We recompense the people of the sinners.
اور ہم نے ان لوگوں کو ان باتوں میں قدرت دی تھی کہ تمہیں ان باتوں میں قدرت نہیں دی اور ہم نے انہیں کان اور آنکھیں اور دل دیئے تھے پھر نہ تو ان کے کان ہی کام آئے اور نہ ان کی آنکھیں ہی کام آئیں او رنہ ان کے دل ہی کچھ کام آئے کیوں کہ وہ الله کی آیتوں کو انکار ہی کرتے رہے اور جس عذاب کا وہ ٹھٹھا اڑیا کرتے تھے ان پر آن پڑا
And We had indeed given them the means which We have not given you, and made ears and eyes and hearts for them; so their ears and eyes and hearts did not benefit them at all because they used to deny the signs of Allah, and the punishment they used to mock at encompassed them.
And We had established them in that wherein We have not established you, and We appointed for them hearing, and sight, and hearts; and yet their hearing, their sight and their hearts availed them nothing, since they denied the signs of God, and they were encompassed by that they mocked at.
اور ہم ہلاک کر چکے ہیں جو تمہارے آس پاس بستیاں ہیں اور طرح طرح کے اپنے نشان قدرت بھی دکھائے تاکہ وہ باز آجائيں
And We indeed destroyed townships surrounding you, and brought several signs so that they may desist.
And We destroyed the cities about you, and We turned about the signs, that haply they would return.
پھر ان معبودوں نے کیوں نہ مدد کی جن کو انہوں نے الله کے سوا مرتبہ حاصل کرنے کے لیے معبود بنا رکھا تھا بلکہ وہ تو ان سے کھو ئےگئے تھے اور یہ ان کا جھوٹ تھا اور جو کچھ وہ ڈھکوسلے بنایا کرتےتھے
So why did they – the ones whom they had chosen as Gods as a means of attaining Allah’s proximity – not help them? In fact the disbelievers lost them; and this is just their slander and fabrication.
Then why did those not help them that they had taken to themselves as mediators, gods apart from God? Not so; but they went astray from them, and that was their calumny, and what they had been forging.
اورجب ہم نے آپ کی طرف چند ایک جنوں کو پھیر دیا جو قرآن سن رہے تھے پس جب وہ آپ کے پاس حاصر ہوئے تو کہنے لگے چپ رہو پھر جب ختم ہوا تو اپنی قوم کی طرف واپس لوٹے ایسے حال میں کہ وہ ڈرانے والے تھے
And when We sent a number of jinns towards you (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him), listening attentively to the Qur’an; so when they presented themselves there, they said to each other, “Listen quietly!”; and when the recitation finished, they turned back to their people, giving them warning.
And when We turned to thee a company of jinn giving ear to the Koran; and when they were in its presence they said, 'Be silent!' Then, when it was finished, they turned back to their people, warning.
کہنے لگے اےہماری قوم بیشک ہم نے ایک کتاب سنی ہے جو موسیٰ کے بعد نازل ہوئی ہے ان کی تصدیق کرنے والی ہے جو اس سے پہلے ہو چکیں حق کی طرف ا ور سیدھے راستہ کی طرف رہنمائی کرتی ہے
They said, “O our people! We have indeed heard a Book, sent down after Moosa, which confirms the Books preceding it, and guides towards the Truth and the Straight Path.”
They said, 'Our people, we have heard a Book that was sent down after Moses, confirming what was before it, guiding to the truth and to a straight path.
اے ہماری قوم الله کی طرف بلانے والے کو مان لو اور اس پر ایمان لے آؤ وہ تمہارے لیے تمہارے گناہ بخش دے گا اور تمہیں دردناک عذاب سے بچا لے گا
“O our people! Listen to Allah’s caller and accept faith in Him, so that He may forgive you some of your sins and save you from the painful punishment.”
O our people, answer God's summoner, and believe in Him, and He will forgive you some of your sins, and protect you from a painful chastisement.
اور جو الله کی طرف بلانے والے کو نہ مانے گا تو وہ زمین میں اسے عاجر نہیں کر سکے گا اور الله کے سوا اس کا کوئی مددگار نہ ہوگا یہی لوگ صریح گمراہی میں ہیں
“And whoever does not listen to Allah’s caller cannot escape in the earth, and he has no supporters against Allah; they are in open error.”
Whosoever answers not God's summoner cannot frustrate God in the earth, and he has no protectors apart from Him; those are in manifest error.
کیا انہوں نے نہیں دیکھا جس الله نے آسمانوں اور زمین کو پیدا کرنے میں نہیں تھکا اس پر قاد رہے کہ مردوں کو زندہ کردے کیوں نہیں وہ تو ہر ایک چیز پر قادر ہے
Have they not realised that Allah, Who did not tire in creating the heavens and the earth and in creating them, is Able to revive the dead? Surely yes, why not? Indeed He is Able to do all things.
What, have they not seen that God who created the heavens and earth, not being wearied by creating them, is able to give life to the dead? Yes indeed; He is powerful over everything.
اور جس دن کافر آگ کے سامنے لائے جائیں گے (ان سے کہا جائے گا) کیا یہ امر واقعی نہیں ہے کہیں گے ہمیں اپنے رب کی قسم ضرور امر واقعی ہے ارشاد ہو گا تواپنے کفر کے بدلہ میں اس کا عذاب چکھو
And on the day when the disbelievers are presented upon the fire; it will be said, “Is this not a reality?” They will answer, “By oath of our Lord, surely yes, why not?”; it will be said, “Therefore taste the punishment, the recompense of your disbelief.”
Upon the day when the unbelievers are exposed to the Fire: 'Is not this the truth?' They shall say, 'Yes, by our Lord!' He shall say, 'Then taste the chastisement of your unbelief!'
پھر صبرکر جیسا کہ عالی ہمت رسولوں نے کیا ہے اور ان کے لیے جلدی نہ کر گویا کہ وہ جس دن عذاب دیکھیں گے جس کا ان سے وعدہ کیا جاتا ہے (تو انہیں ایسا معلوم ہو گا) کہ ایک دن میں سے ایک گھڑی بھر رہے تھے آپ کا کام پہنچا دینا تھا سو کیا نافرمان لوگوں کے سوا اور کوئی ہلاک ہوگا
Therefore patiently endure (O dear Prophet Mohammed – peace and blessings be upon him) like the courageous Noble Messengers had endured, and do not be impatient for them; on the day when they see what they are promised, it will be as if they had not stayed on earth except part of a day; this is to be conveyed; will anyone be destroyed, except the disobedient?
So be thou patient, as the Messengers possessed of constancy were also patient. Seek not to hasten it for them -- it shall be as if on the day they see that they are promised, they had not tarried but for an hour of a single day. A Message to be delivered! And shall any be destroyed but the people of the ungodly?