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By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: Ya Seen
English: Ya Seen
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 35 (Fatir - Originator)
> Sura 37 (As-Saaffat - Those Who Set the Ranks)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 72 (Al-Jinn - The Jinn)
> Sura 25 (Al-Furqan - The Standard)
Verses: 83
| 1 | Ya Sin | For more on Sura 36:38-40 see Christianity v. Astronomy: The Earth Orbits the Sun!: 7. Islam and the Qur'an. For more on Sura 36:38-40 see Islam and Science: Errors in the Qur'an and Arab Education: 1. Astronomy Mistakes. Some comments on Sura 36:40 are on Christianity v. Astronomy: The Earth Orbits the Sun!: 7. Islam and the Qur'an. Some comments on Sura 36:40 are on Islam and Science: Errors in the Qur'an and Arab Education: 1. Astronomy Mistakes. Sura 36:68 is referenced on Why Did Some People in the Bible Live So Long?: 2. Lack of Longevity in the Qur'an. Sura 36:77 appears on Islam and Science: Errors in the Qur'an and Arab Education: 2. Biology Mistakes. |
| 2 | By the Wise Koran, | |
| 3 | thou art truly among the Envoys | |
| 4 | on a straight path; | |
| 5 | the sending down of the All-mighty, the All-wise, | |
| 6 | that thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were never warned, so they are heedless. | |
| 7 | The Word has been realised against most of them, yet they do not believe. | |
| 8 | Surely We have put on their necks fetters up to the chin, so their heads are raised; | |
| 9 | and We have put before them a barrier and behind them a barrier; and We have covered them, so they do not see. | |
| 10 | Alike it is to them whether thou hast warned them or thou hast not warned them, they do not believe. | |
| 11 | Thou only warnest him who follows the Remembrance and who fears the All-merciful in the Unseen; so give him the good tidings of forgiveness and a generous wage. | |
| 12 | Surely it is We who bring the dead to life and write down what they have forwarded and what they have left behind; everything We have numbered in a clear register. | |
| 13 | Strike for them a similitude -- the inhabitants of the city, when the Envoys came to it; | |
| 14 | when We sent unto them two men, but they cried them lies, so We sent a third as reinforcement. They said, 'We are assuredly Envoys unto you. | |
| 15 | They said, 'You are naught but mortals like us; the All-merciful has not sent down anything. You are speaking only lies.' | |
| 16 | They said, 'Our Lord knows we are Envoys unto you; | |
| 17 | and it is only for us to deliver the Manifest Message.' | |
| 18 | They said, 'We augur ill of you. If you give not over, we will stone you and there shall visit you from us a painful chastisement.' | |
| 19 | They said, 'Your augury is with you; if you are reminded? But you are a prodigal people.' | |
| 20 | Then came a man from the furthest part of the city, running; he said, 'My people, follow the Envoys! | |
| 21 | Follow such as ask no wage of you, that are right-guided. | |
| 22 | And why should I not serve Him who originated me, and unto whom you shall be returned? | |
| 23 | What, shall I take, apart from Him, gods whose intercession, if the All-merciful desires affliction for me, shall not avail me anything, and who will never deliver me? | |
| 24 | Surely in that case I should be in manifest error. | |
| 25 | Behold, I believe in your Lord; therefore hear me!' | |
| 26 | It was said, 'Enter Paradise!' He said, 'Ah, would that my people had knowledge | |
| 27 | that my Lord has forgiven me and that He has placed me among the honoured.' | |
| 28 | And We sent not down upon his people, after him, any host out of heaven; neither would We send any down. | |
| 29 | It was only one Cry and lo, they were silent and still. | |
| 30 | Ah, woe for those servants! Never comes unto them a Messenger, but they mock at him. | |
| 31 | What, have they not seen how many generations We have destroyed before them, and that it is not unto them that they return? | |
| 32 | They shall every one of them be arraigned before Us. | |
| 33 | And a sign for them is the dead land, that We quickened and brought forth from it grain, whereof they eat; | |
| 34 | and We made therein gardens of palms and vines, and therein We caused fountains to gush forth, | |
| 35 | that they might eat of its fruits and their hands' labour. What, will they not be thankful? | |
| 36 | Glory be to Him, who created all the pairs of what the earth produces, and of themselves, and of what they know not. | |
| 37 | And a sign for them is the night; We strip it of the day and lo, they are in darkness. | |
| 38 | And the sun -- it runs to a fixed resting-place; that is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing. | |
| 39 | And the moon -- We have determined it by stations, till it returns like an aged palm-bough. | |
| 40 | It behoves not the sun to overtake the moon, neither does the night outstrip the day, each swimming in a sky. | |
| 41 | And a sign for them is that We carried their seed in the laden ship, | |
| 42 | and We have created for them the like of it whereon they ride; | |
| 43 | and if We will, We drown them, then none have they to cry to, neither are they delivered, | |
| 44 | save as a mercy from Us, and enjoyment for a while. | |
| 45 | And when it is said to them, 'Fear what is before you and what is behind you; haply you will find mercy' -- | |
| 46 | yet never any sign of the signs of their Lord comes to them, but they are turning away from it. | |
| 47 | And when it is said to them, 'Expend of that God has provided you, ' the unbelievers say to the believers, 'What, shall we feed such a one whom, if God willed, He would feed? You are only in manifest error!' | |
| 48 | They also say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if you speak truly?' | |
| 49 | They are awaiting only for one Cry to seize them while they are yet disputing, | |
| 50 | then they will not be able to make any testament, nor will they return to their people. | |
| 51 | And the Trumpet shall be blown; then behold, they are sliding down from their tombs unto their Lord. | |
| 52 | They say, 'Alas for us! Who roused us out of our sleeping place? This is what the All-merciful promised, and the Envoys spoke truly.' | |
| 53 | 'It was only one Cry; then behold, they are all arraigned before Us. | |
| 54 | So today no soul shall be wronged anything, and you shall not be recompensed, except according to what you have been doing. | |
| 55 | See, the inhabitants of Paradise today are busy in their rejoicing, | |
| 56 | they and their spouses, reclining upon couches in the shade; | |
| 57 | therein they have fruits, and they have all that they call for. | |
| 58 | 'Peace!' -- such is the greeting, from a Lord All-compassionate. | |
| 59 | 'Now keep yourselves apart, you sinners, upon this day! | |
| 60 | Made I not covenant with you, Children of Adam, that you should not serve Satan -- surely he is a manifest foe to you -- | |
| 61 | and that you should serve Me? This is a straight path. | |
| 62 | He led astray many a throng of you; did you not understand? | |
| 63 | This is Gehenna, then, the same that you were promised; | |
| 64 | roast well in it today, for that you were unbelievers!' | |
| 65 | Today We set a seal on their mouths, and their hands speak to Us, and their feet bear witness as to what they have been earning. | |
| 66 | Did We will, We would have obliterated their eyes, then they would race to the path, but how would they see? | |
| 67 | Did We will, We would have changed them where they were, then they could not go on, nor could they return. | |
| 68 | And to whomsoever We give long life, We bend him over in His constitution; what, do they not understand? | |
| 69 | We have not taught him poetry; it is not seemly for him. It is only a Remembrance and a Clear Koran, | |
| 70 | that he may warn whosoever is living, and that the Word may be realized against the unbelievers. | |
| 71 | Have they not seen how that We have created for them of that Our hands wrought cattle that they own? | |
| 72 | We have subdued them to them, and some of them they ride, and some they eat; | |
| 73 | other uses also they have in them, and beverages. What, will they not be thankful? | |
| 74 | Yet they have taken, apart from God, gods; haply they might be helped. | |
| 75 | They cannot help them, though they be hosts made ready for them. | |
| 76 | So do not let their saying grieve thee; assuredly We know what they keep secret and what they publish. | |
| 77 | Has not man regarded how that We created him of a sperm-drop? Then lo, he is a manifest adversary. | |
| 78 | And he has struck for Us a similitude and forgotten his creation; he says, 'Who shall quicken the bones when they are decayed?' | |
| 79 | Say: 'He shall quicken them, who originated them the first time; He knows all creation, | |
| 80 | who has made for you out of the green tree fire and lo, from it you kindle.' | |
| 81 | Is not He, who created the heavens and earth, able to create the like of them? Yes indeed; He is the All-creator, the All-knowing. | |
| 82 | His command, when He desires a thing, is to say to it 'Be, ' and it is. | |
| 83 | So glory be to Him, in whose hand is the dominion of everything, and unto whom you shall be returned. |