Ahmed Ali
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Alif-Lam-Meem. (Alphabets of the Arabic language – Allah and to whomever He reveals, know their precise meanings.)
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Alif Lam Mim
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المۤ
Alif-Lam-Meem. (Alphabets of the Arabic language – Allah and to whomever He reveals, know their precise meanings.)
Alif Lam Mim
اس میں کچھ شک نہیں کہ یہ کتاب جہان کے پالنے والے کی طرف سے نازل ہوئی ہے
The revelation of the Book is, without doubt, from the Lord Of The Creation.
The sending down of the Book, wherein no doubt is, from the Lord of all Being.
کیا وہ کہتے ہیں کہ اس نے خود بنائی ہے بلکہ یہ سچی کتاب تیرے رب کی طرف سے ہے تاکہ تو اس قوم کوڈرائے جن کے پاس تجھ سے پہلے کوئی ڈرانے والا نہیں آیا تاکہ وہ راہ پر آئيں
What! They dare say that, “He has fabricated it”? In fact it is the Truth from your Lord, in order that you warn a nation towards whom no Herald of Warning came before you, in the hope of their attaining guidance.
Or do they say, 'He has forged it'? Say: 'Not so; it is the truth from thy Lord that thou mayest warn a people to whom no warner came before thee, that haply so they may be guided.
الله وہ ہے جس نے آسمانوں اور زمین کو اورجو کچھ ان میں ہے چھ روز میں بنایا پھر عرش پر قائم ہوا تمہارے لیے اس کے سوا نہ کوئی کارساز ہے نہ سفارشی پھر کیا تم نہیں سمجھتے
It is Allah Who created the heavens and the earth, and all what is between them, in six days, then (befitting His Majesty) established Himself over the Throne (of control); leaving Allah, there is neither a friend nor an intercessor for you; so do you not ponder?
God is He that created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, then seated Himself upon the Throne. Apart from Him, you have no protector neither mediator; will you not remember?
وہ آسمان سے لے کر زمین تک ہر کام کی تدبیر کرتا ہے پھراس دن بھی جس کی مقدار تمہاری گنتی سے ہزار برس ہو گی وہ انتظام اس کی طرف رجوع کرے گا
He plans (all) the job(s) from the heaven to the earth – then it will return to Him on the Day which amounts to a thousand years in your count.
He directs the affair from heaven to earth, then it goes up to Him in one day, whose measure is a thousand years of your counting.
وہی چھپی اور کھلی بات کا جاننے والا زبردست مہربان ہے
This is the All Knowing – of all the hidden and the visible, the Most Honourable, the Most Merciful.
He is the knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the All-mighty, the All-compassionate,
جس نے جو چیز بنائی خوب بنائی اور انسان کی پیدائش مٹی سے شروع کی
The One Who created all things excellent, and Who initiated the creation of man from clay.
who has created all things well. And He originated the creation of man out of clay,
پھر اس کی اولاد نچڑے ہوئے حقیر پانی سے بنائی
Then kept his posterity with a part of an abject fluid.
then He fashioned his progeny of an extraction of mean water,
پھراس کے اعضا درست کیے اور اس میں اپنی روح پھونکی اور تمہارے لیے کان اور آنکھیں اور دل بنایا تم بہت تھوڑا شکر کرتے ہو
Then made him proper and blew into him a spirit from Him, and bestowed ears and eyes and hearts to you; very little thanks do you offer!
then He shaped him, and breathed His spirit in him. And He appointed for you hearing, and sight, and hearts; little thanks you show.
اور کہتے ہیں کہ ہم جب زمین میں نیست و نابود ہو گئے تو کیا پھر نئے سرے سے پیدا ہوں گے بلکہ وہ اپنے رب سے ملنے کے منکر ہیں
And they said, “When we have mingled into the earth, will we be created again?”; in fact they disbelieve in the meeting with their Lord.
They say, 'What, when we have gone astray in the earth, shall we indeed be in a new creation?' Nay, but they disbelieve in the encounter with their Lord.
کہہ دو تمہاری جان موت کا وہ فرشتہ قبض کرے گا جو تم پر مقرر کیا گیا ہے پھر تم اپنے رب کے پاس لوٹائے جاؤ گے
Proclaim, “The angel of death, who is appointed over you, causes you to die and then towards your Lord you will return.”
Say: 'Death's angel, who has been charged with you, shall gather you, then to your Lord you shall be returned.'
اور کبھی تو دیکھے جس وقت منکر اپنے رب کے سامنے سر جھکائے ہوئے ہوں گے اے رب ہمارے ہم نے دیکھ اور سن لیا اب ہمیں پھر بھیج دے کہ اچھے کام کریں ہمیں یقین آ گیا ہے
And if you see when the guilty will hang their heads before their Lord; “Our Lord! We have seen and heard, therefore send us back in order that we do good deeds – we are now convinced!”
Ah, if thou couldst see the guilty hanging their heads before their Lord! 'Our Lord, we have seen and heard; now return us, that we may do righteousness, for we have sure faith.'
اور اگر ہم چاہتے ہیں تو ہر شخص کو ہدایت پر لے آتے لیکن ہماری بات پوری ہو کر رہی کہ ہم جنوں اور آدمیوں سے جہنم بھر کر رہیں گے
And had We willed We would have given every soul its guidance, but My Word is decreed that I will certainly fill hell with these jinns and men, combined.
'If We had so willed, We could have given every soul its guidance; but now My Word is realized -- " Assuredly I shall fill Gehenna with jinn and men all together."
تو اب اس کا مزہ چکھو کہ تم اپنے اس دن کے آنے کو بھول گئے تھے ہم نے تمہیں بھلا دیا اور اپنے کیے کے بدلہ میں ہمیشہ کا عذاب چکھو
“Therefore taste the recompense of your forgetting the confronting of this day of yours; We have abandoned you – now taste the everlasting punishment, the recompense of your deeds!”
So now taste, for that you forgot the encounter of this your day! We indeed have forgotten you. Taste the chastisement of eternity for that you were doing!'
بس ہماری آیتوں پر وہ ایمان لاتے ہیں کہ جب انہیں وہ آیتیں یاد دلائی جاتی ہیں تو وہ سجدہ میں گر پڑتے ہیں اور اپنے رب کی حمد کے ساتھ تسبیح بیان کرتے ہیں اور وہ تکبر نہیں کرتے
Only those believe in Our signs who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and proclaim the Purity of their Lord while praising Him, and are not conceited. (Command of prostration # 9).
Only those believe in Our signs who, when they are reminded of them, fall down prostrate and proclaim the praise of their Lord, not waxing proud.
اپنے بستروں سے اٹھ کر اپنے رب کو خوف اور امید سے پکارتے ہیں اور ہمارے دیئے میں سے کچھ خرچ بھی کرتے ہیں
Their sides stay detached from their beds and they pray to their Lord with fear and hope – and they spend from what We have bestowed upon them.
Their sides shun their couches as they call on their Lord in fear and hope; and they expend of that We have provided them.
پھر کوئی شخص نہیں جانتا کہ ان کے عمل کے بدلہ میں ان کی آنکھو ں کی کیا ٹھنڈک چھپا رکھی ہے
So no soul knows the comfort of the eyes that is kept hidden for them*; the reward of their deeds. (Paradise)
No soul knows what comfort is laid up for them secretly, as a recompense for that they were doing.
کیا مومن اس کے برابر ہے جو نا فرمان ہو برابر نہیں ہو سکتے
So will the believer ever be equal to the one who is lawless? They are not equal!
What? Is he who has been a believer like unto him who has been ungodly? They are not equal.
سو وہ لوگ جو ایمان لائے اور اچھے کام کیے تو ان کے ان کاموں کے سبب جو وہ کیا کرتے تھے مہمانی میں ہمیشہ رہنے کے باغ ہیں
Those who accepted faith and did good deeds – for them are the Gardens of (everlasting) stay; a welcome in return for what they did.
As for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, there await them the Gardens of the Refuge, in hospitality for that they were doing.
اور جنہوں نے نافرمانی کی ان کا ٹھکانا آگ ہے جب وہاں سے نکلنے کا ارداہ کریں گے تو اس میں پھر لوٹا دیئے جائیں گے اور انہیں کہا جائے گا آگ کا وہ عذاب چکھو جسے تم جھٹلایا کرتے تھے
And those who are lawless – their destination is the fire; whenever they wish to come out of it, they will be returned into it, and it will be said to them, “Taste the punishment of the fire you used to deny!”
But as for the ungodly, their refuge shall be the Fire; as often as they desire to come forth from it, they shall be restored into it, and it shall be said to them, 'Taste the chastisement of the Fire, which you cried lies to.'
اور ہم انہیں قریب کا عذاب بھی اس بڑے عذاب سے پہلے چکھائیں گے تاکہ وہ باز آ جائیں
And We shall indeed make them taste the smaller punishment before the greater punishment, so that they may return.
And We shall surely let them taste the nearer chastisement, before the greater; haply so they will return.
اوراس سے بڑھ کر کون ظالم ہوگا جسے اس کے رب کی آیتوں سے سمجھایا جائے پھر وہ ان سے منہ موڑے ہمیں تو گنہگاروں سے بدلہ لینا ہے
And who is more unjust than one who is preached to from the verses his Lord, then he turns away from them? We will indeed take revenge from the guilty.
And who does greater evil than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord, then turns away from them? We shall take vengeance upon the sinners.
اور البتہ ہم نے موسیٰ کو کتاب دی تھی پھر آپ اس کے ملنے میں شک نہ کریں اور ہم نے ہی اسے بنی اسرائیل کے لیے راہ نما بنایا تھا
And indeed We bestowed the Book to Moosa, therefore have no doubt in its acquisition, and made it a guidance for the Descendants of Israel.
Indeed, We gave Moses the Book; so he not in doubt concerning the encounter with him; and We appointed it for a guidance to the Children of Israel.
اور ہم نے ان میں سے پیشوا بنائے تھے جو ہمارے حکم سے رہنمائی کرتے تھے جب انہوں نے صبر کیا تھا اور وہ ہماری آیتوں پر یقین بھی رکھتے تھے
And We made some leaders among them, guiding by Our command, when they had persevered; and they used to accept faith in Our signs.
And We appointed from among them leaders guiding by Our command, when they endured patiently, and had sure faith in Our signs.
بے شک تیرا رب ہی قیامت کے دن ان میں فیصلہ کرے گا جس بات میں وہ اختلاف کرتے تھے
Indeed your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning the matters in which they used to differ.
Surely thy Lord will distinguish between them on the Resurrection Day, touching that whereon they were at variance.
کیا انھیں اس سے بھی رہنمائی نہ ہوئی کہ ان سے پہلے ہم نے کتنی جماعتیں ہلاک کر دی ہیں جن کے گھروں میں یہ چلتے پھرتے ہیں بے شک اس میں بڑی نشانیاں ہیں پھر کیا وہ سنتے بھی نہیں
And did they not obtain guidance by the fact that We did destroy many generations before them, so now they walk in their houses? Indeed in this are signs; so do they not heed?
Is it not a guidance to them, how many generations We destroyed before them in whose dwelling-places they walk? Surely in that are signs; what, will they not hear?
کیا وہ نہیں دیکھتے کہ ہم پانی کو خشک زمین کی طرف رواں کر کے ا س سے کھیتی نکالتے ہیں جس سے ان کے چار پائے اوروہ خود بھی کھاتے ہیں پھر کیا وہ دیکھتے نہیں
And do they not see that We send the water to the barren land and produce crops with it, so their animals and they themselves eat from it? So do they not perceive?
Have they not seen how We drive the water to the dry land and bring forth crops therewith whereof their cattle and themselves eat? What, will they not see?
اور کہتے ہیں کہ اگر تم سچے ہو تو یہ فیصلہ کب ہوگا
And they say, “When will this decision take place, if you are truthful?”
They also say, 'When shall be this Victory, if you speak truly?'
کہہ دو کہ فیصلہ کا دن کافرو ں کو ان کا ایمان لانا نفع نہ دے گا اور نہ ہی انہیں مہلت دی جائے گی
Proclaim, “On the Day of Decision*, the disbelievers will not benefit from their accepting faith, nor will they get respite.” (* Of death or of resurrection)
Say: 'On the Day of Victory their faith shall not profit the unbelievers, nor shall they be respited.'
سو ان سے کنارہ کر اور انتظار کر وہ بھی انتظار کر رہے ہیں
Therefore turn away from them and wait – indeed they too have to wait.
So turn thou away from them, and wait; they too are waiting.