HOLY QUR'AN

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HOLY QUR'AN, Continued
Translated by M.H. Shakir

Edited by Yasin T. al-Jibouri

yasinaljibouri@hotmail.com

SURA 86

Al-Tariq

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By the sky and the night-visitor (in it);
And what will explain to you what the night-visitor is?
(It is) the star of piercing brightness;
There is no soul without a protector over it.
Now let man consider of what he is created!
He is created of a drop emitted,
Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:
Surely (Allah) is able to bring him back (to life)!
The Day that all secret things will be tested,
(Man) will have no power, nor anyone to help.
By the firmament which returns (in its rounds),
And the Earth which opens out (for the gushing of springs or the sprouting of vegetation),
Behold! This is the word that distinguishes (good from evil):
It is not a thing for amusement.
As for them, they are only plotting a scheme,
And I am planning a scheme.
Therefore grant a respite to the disbelievers: Grant a respite to them gently (for a while).

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SURA 87

Al-A'la

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Glorify the name of the Guardian-Lord, the Most High,
Who has created, and further given order and proportion;
Who has ordained laws and granted guidance;
And who brings out the (green and luscious) pasture,
And then makes it (only) swarthy stubble.
By degrees We shall teach you to declare (the message), so you will not forget,
Except as Allah wills, for He knows what is manifest and what is hidden.
And We will make it easy for you (to follow) the simple (path).
Therefore grant admonishment in case the admonishment benefits (the hearer).
The admonishment will be received by those who fear (Allah):
But it will be avoided by the most unfortunate ones,
Who will enter the great Fire,
In which they will neither die nor live.
But those who purify themselves will prosper,
And glorify the name of their Guardian-Lord, and (lift their hearts) in prayers.
Nay! (Behold!) You prefer the life of this world;
But the hereafter is better and more enduring.
And this is in the Books of the earliest (Revelations),
The Books of Abraham and Moses.

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SURA 88

Al-Ghashiyah

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Has the story of the overwhelming (event) reached you?
Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,
Laboring (hard), weary,
While they enter the blazing Fire,
While they are given, to drink, of a boiling spring.
There will be no food for them except bitter thorns,
Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
Pleased with their striving,
In a Garden on high,
Where they hear no (word) of vanity:
(There) will be a bubbling spring in it:
(There) will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high in it,
Goblets placed (ready),
And cushions set in rows,
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
Do they not look at the camels, how they are created?
And at the sky, how it is raised high?
And at the mountains, how they are firmly fixed?
And at the earth, how it is spread out?
Therefore grant admonishment, for you are to admonish.
You are not to manage (men's) affairs.
But if any turns away and rejects Allah,
Allah will punish him with a mighty punishment.
For they will return to Us;
Then it will be for Us to call them to account.

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SURA 89

Al-Fajr

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By the break of day;
By the ten nights;
By the even and odd (contrasted);
And by the night when it passes away;
Is there in these any adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand?
Do you not see how your Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people),
Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars,
The like of which were not created in (all) the land?
And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley?
And with Pharaoh, Lord of Stakes?
These transgressed in the land beyond bounds.
And heaped mischief (on mischief) therein.
Therefore your Lord poured on them a scourge of diverse chastisements:
For your Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch-tower.
Now, as for man, when his Lord tries him, giving him honor and gifts, (puffed up) he then says, “My Lord has honored me.”
But when He tries him, restricting his subsistence for him, (in despair) he then says, “My Lord has humiliated me!”
Nay! Nay! But you do not honor the orphans!
Nor do you encourage one another to feed the poor!
And you devour inheritance greedily,
And you love wealth inordinately!
Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,
And your Lord comes and His angels, rank upon rank,
And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face)! on that Day man will remember; but how will that remembrance avail him?
He will say, “Ah! If only I had sent forth (good deeds) for my (future) life.”
For that Day His chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
And His bonds will be such as none (else) can bind.
To the righteous soul (will be said,) “O soul, at rest and satisfied!
“Return to your Lord! well pleased, and well-pleasing to Him!
“Enter then among My devotees!
“Yes, enter My heaven!”

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SURA 90

Al-Balad

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

I call to witness this city;
And you are free (from obligation to) this city;
And (the mystic ties) of parent and child;
Truly We have created man into toil and struggle.
Does he think that none has power over him?
He may (boastfully) say, “I have squandered wealth in abundance!”
Does he think that none sees him?
Have We not made a pair of eyes for him,
And a tongue, and a pair of lips?
And shown him the two ways?
But he has made no haste on the steep path,
And what will explain to you the steep path?
(It is) freeing the bondman;
Or the giving of food in a Day of privation,
To the orphan with claims to kinship,
Or to the indigent (lying) in the dust.
He will then be of those who believe and enjoin patience, (constancy, and self-restraint,) and enjoin deeds of kindness and compassion.
Such are the companions of the right hand.
But those who reject Our Signs are the (unhappy) companions of the left hand.
Overwhelming them will be the Fire vaulted over (all round).

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SURA 91

Al-Shams

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By the sun and his (glorious) splendor;
By the moon as she follow him;
By the day as it shows up (the sun's) glory;
By the night as it conceals it;
By the firmament and its (wonderful) structure;
By the earth and its (wide) expanse;
By the soul, and the proportion and order given thereto;
And its enlightenment as to its wrong and right;
Truly he succeeds who purifies it,
And he fails who corrupts it!
The Thamud (people) rejected (their Prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing.
Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety),
But God's Messenger said to them, “It is God's she-camel! So (do not bar her from) having her drink!”
Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)!
And for Him (there) is no fear of its consequences.

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SURA 92

Al-Layl

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By the night as it conceals (the light);
By the day as it appears in glory;
By (the mystery of) the creation of male and female;
Truly (the ends) you strive for are diverse.
So he who gives (in charity) and fears (Allah),
And (in all sincerity) testifies to the best,
We will indeed make smooth for him the path to bliss.
But he who is a greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient,
And gives the lies to the best,
We will indeed make smooth for him the path to misery;
Nor will his wealth benefit him when he falls headlong (into the pit).
Truly We take it upon Ourselves to guide,
And truly the end and the beginning (belong) to Us.
I warn you, therefore, of a Fire blazing fiercely;
None shall reach it but those most unfortunate ones,
Who grant the lie to truth and turn their backs.
But those most devoted to Allah shall be removed far from it,
Those who spend their wealth to increase in self-purification,
And have in their minds no favor from anyone for which a reward is expected in return,
But only the desire to seek the countenance of their Lord Most High,
Soon will they attain (complete) satisfaction.

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SURA 93

Al-Dhuha

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By the glorious morning light,
And by the night when it is still,
The Guardian-Lord has not forsaken you, nor is He displeased.
And truly the hereafter will be better for you than the present.
And soon your Guardian Lord will grant you (that with which) you will be well-pleased.
Did He not find you an orphan and provide you with shelter (and care)?
And He found you wandering, and He gave you guidance?
And He found you in need, and made you independent?
Therefore, do not treat the orphan with harshness,
Nor repulse the petitioner (unheard);
But the bounty of your Lord! Rehearse and proclaim!

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SURA 94

Al-Sharh

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Have We not expanded your chest for you?
And removed your burden from you
Which galled your back?
And raised high the esteem (in which) you (are held)?
So, truly, with every difficulty, there is relief:
Truly with every difficulty, there is relief.
Therefore, when you are free (from your immediate task), still labor hard,
And turn (all) your attention to your Lord.

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SURA 95

Al-Teen

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By the fig and the olive,
And the Mount of Sinai,
And this city of security,
We have indeed created man in the best of molds,
Then We abase him to be the lowest of the low,
Except those who believe and do righteous deeds, for they shall have an unfailing reward.
Then what can, after this, contradict them as to the Judgment (to come)?
Is not Allah the Wisest of judges?

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SURA 96

Iqraa, Proclaim!

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Proclaim! (or read) in the name of your Lord and Cherisher, Who created,
Created man out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood:
Proclaim! And your Lord is Most Bountiful,
Who taught (you the use of) the pen,
Taught man what he did not know.
Nay! Man transgresses all bounds,
In that he looks upon himself as self-sufficient.
Truly (all) will return to your Lord.
Do you see one who forbids,
A votary when he (turns) to pray?
Do you see if he is on (the path of) guidance?
Or enjoins righteousness?
Do you see if he denies (the truth) and turn away?
Does he not know that Allah sees?
Let him beware! If he does not desist, We will drag him by the forelock,
A lying, sinful forelock!
Then, let him call (for help) to his council (of comrades):
We will call upon the angels of punishment (to deal with him)!
Nay! Do not heed him, but bow in adoration, and bring yourself closer (to Allah)!

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SURA 97

Al-Qadr, The Night of Power

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

We have indeed revealed this (message) in the Night of Power:
And what will explain to you what the night of power is?
The night of power is better than a thousand months.
In it the angels and the spirit descend by God's permission, on every errand:
Peace! ..., until the break of dawn!

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SURA 98

Al-Bayyinah

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Those who reject (the truth) among the People of the Book and among the polytheists were not going to depart (from their ways) until clear evidence came to them,
A Messenger from Allah, reciting scriptures kept pure and holy:
In which (there) are right and straight laws (or decrees).
Nor did the People of the Book make schisms until a clear evidence came to them.
And they have been commanded no more than this: To worship Allah, offering Him sincere devotion, being true (in faith): To establish regular prayers, and to practice regular charity: that is the right and straight religion.
Those who reject (the truth) among the People of the Book and among the polytheists, will be in Hell-fire, to dwell therein (forever). The worst of creatures are they.
Those who have faith and do righteous deeds are the best of creatures indeed.
Their reward is with Allah: Gardens of eternity beneath which rivers flow; They will dwell therein forever; Allah well is pleased with them, and they with Him. All this for such as fear their Lord and Cherisher.

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SURA 99

Al-Zalzalah

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

When the earth is shaken to her (utmost) convulsion,
And the earth throws up her burdens (from within),
And man cries (distressed), “What is the matter with her?”
On that Day she will declare her tidings:
Because your Lord will have given her inspiration.
On that Day men will proceed in sorted groups to be shown the deeds that they (had done).
Then anyone who has done an atom's weight of good shall see it!
And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.

SURA 100

Al-Adiyat

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By the (steeds) that run, with panting (breath),
And strike sparks of fire,
And push home the charge in the morning,
And raise clouds of dust all the while,
And penetrate immediately into the midst (of the foe) en masse;
Truly man is ungrateful to his Lord;
And to that (fact) he bears witness (by his deeds);
And he is violent in his love of wealth.
Does he not know! when what is in the graves is scattered around,
And that which is (locked up) in (human) breasts is made manifest,
That their Lord had been well-acquainted with them, (even to) that Day?

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SURA 101

Al-Qari'ah

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

The (Day) of noise and clamor:
And what is the (Day) of noise and clamor?
And what will explain to you what the (Day) of noise and clamor is?
(It is) a Day on which men will be scattered about like moths,
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light,
Will have his home in a (bottomless) pit.
And what will explain to you what this (pit) is?
(It is) a Fire fiercely blazing!

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SURA 102

Al-Takathur

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world) diverts you (from the more serious things),
Until you visit the graves.
But Nay! You will soon know (the reality).
Again, you will soon know!
Nay! Were you to know with certainty of mind, (you would beware)!
You shall certainly see Hell-fire!
Again, you will see it with the certainty of sight!
You will then be questioned that Day about the joy (you indulged in)!

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SURA 103

Al-Asr

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

By (the token of) time (through the ages),
Truly man is in loss,
Except those who have faith and do righteous deeds and (join together) in the mutual teaching of truth, and of patience and constancy.

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SURA 104

Al-Humazah

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Woe unto every (kind of) scandal-monger and backbiter,
Who piles up wealth and lays it by.
Thinking that his wealth would make him last forever!
By no means! He is sure to be thrown into that which breaks to pieces.
And what will explain to you that which breaks to pieces?
(It is) the Fire of (the Wrath of) Allah kindled (to a blaze).
Which mounts (right) to the hearts.
It shall be made into a vault over them,
In columns outstretched.

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SURA 105

Al-Feel

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Do you not see how your Lord dealt with the companions of the elephant?
Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray?
And He sent swarms of birds against them,
Striking them with stones of baked clay.
Then He made them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up.

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SURA 106

Quraish

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

For the covenants (of security and safeguard enjoyed) by Quraish,
Their covenants (covering) journeys by winter and summer,
Let them adore the Lord of this House,
Who provides them with food against hunger, and with security against fear (of danger).

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SURA 107

Al-Ma'un

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Do you see one who denies the Judgment?
Such is the (one) who repulses the orphan (with harshness),
And does not encourage the feeding of the indigent.
So woe unto the worshippers,
Who are neglectful of their prayers,
Those who (want only) to be seen (by men),
But refuse (to supply even) neighborly needs.

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SURA 108

Al-Kawthar, Abundance

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

We have granted the fount (of abundance) to you.
Therefore turn to your Lord in prayers, and (offer) sacrifice.
For he who hates you will be cut off (from future hope).

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SURA 109

Al-Kafirun

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Say: “O you who reject faith!
“I do not worship what you worship.
“Nor will you worship what I worship.
“And I will not worship what you have been wont to worship,
“Nor will you worship what I worship.
“To you is your religion, and to me is mine.”

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SURA 110

Al-Nasr

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

When God's help comes, and victory,
And you see the people enter into God's religion in crowds,
Celebrate your Lord's praises and pray for His forgiveness, for He is oft-Returning (in grace and mercy).

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SURA 111

Abu Lahab

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Perish the hands of Abu Lahab! Let him perish!
All his wealth and all his gains will never avail him!
Soon will he be burnt in a Fire of blazing flame!
His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood as fuel!
A twisted rope of palm-leaf fiber round her (own) neck!

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SURA 112

Al-Ikhlas, Purity of Faith

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Say: “He is Allah, the One and Only;
“Allah the Eternal, the Absolute;
“He does not beget, nor is He begotten;
“And there is none like unto Him.”

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SURA 113

Al-Falaq

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Say: “I seek refuge with the Lord of the dawn,
“From the mischief of created things;
“From the mischief of darkness as it overspreads;
“From the mischief of those who practice secret arts;
“And from mischief of the envious one as he envies.”

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SURA 114

Al-Naas

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Say: “I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of mankind,
“The King (or Ruler) of mankind,
“The God (or Judge) of mankind,
“From the mischief of the whisperer (of evil), who withdraws (after his whisper),
“(The same) who whispers into the hearts of mankind,
“Among Jinns and among Men.”