http://www.humanreligions.info/sura_50.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: Qaf
English: Qaf
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 49 (Al-Hujraat - The Private Apartments)
> Sura 51 (Adh-Dhariyat - The Winnowing Winds)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 77 (Al-Mursalat - The Emissaries)
> Sura 90 (Al-Balad - The City)
Verses: 45
| 1 | Qaf. By the glorious Koran! | For more on Sura 50:38 see Christianity's 7 Day Creation Myth: 6. The Day of Rest: Is God Really All-Powerful?. |
| 2 | Nay, but they marvel that a warner has come to them from among them; and the unbelievers say, 'This is a marvellous thing! | |
| 3 | What, when we are dead and become dust? That is a far returning!' | |
| 4 | We know what the earth diminishes of them; with Us is a book recording. | |
| 5 | Nay, but they cried lies to the truth when it came to them, and so they are in a case confused. | |
| 6 | What, have they not beheld heaven above them, how We have built it, and decked it out fair, and it has no cracks? | |
| 7 | And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every joyous kind | |
| 8 | for an insight and a reminder to every penitent servant. | |
| 9 | And We sent down out of heaven water blessed, and caused to grow thereby gardens and grain of harvest | |
| 10 | and tall palm-trees with spathes compact, | |
| 11 | a provision for the servants, and thereby We revived a land that was dead. Even so is the coming forth. | |
| 12 | Cried lies before them the people of Noah and the men of Er-Rass, and Thamood, | |
| 13 | and Ad and Pharaoh, the brothers of Lot, | |
| 14 | the men of the Thicket, the people of Tubba'. Every one cried lies to the Messengers, and My threat came true. | |
| 15 | What, were We wearied by the first creation? No indeed; but they are in uncertainty as to the new creation. | |
| 16 | We indeed created man; and We know what his soul whispers within him, and We are nearer to him than the jugular vein. | |
| 17 | When the two angels meet together, sitting one on the right, and one on the left, | |
| 18 | not a word he utters, but by him is an observer ready. | |
| 19 | And death's agony comes in truth; that is what thou wast shunning! | |
| 20 | And the Trumpet shall be blown; that is the Day of the Threat. | |
| 21 | And every soul shall come, and with it a driver and a witness. | |
| 22 | 'Thou wast heedless of this; therefore We have now removed from thee thy covering, and so thy sight today is piercing.' | |
| 23 | And his comrade shall say, 'This is what I have, made ready.' | |
| 24 | 'Cast, you twain, into Gehenna every froward unbeliever, | |
| 25 | every hinderer of the good, transgressor, disquieter, | |
| 26 | who set up with God another god; therefore, you twain, cast him into the terrible chastisement.' | |
| 27 | And his comrade shall say, 'Our Lord, I made him not insolent, but he was in far error.' | |
| 28 | He shall say, 'Dispute not before Me! For I sent you beforehand -- the threat. | |
| 29 | The Word is not changed with Me; I wrong not My servants.' | |
| 30 | Upon the day We shall say unto Gehenna, 'Art thou filled?' And it shall say, 'Are there any more to come?' | |
| 31 | And Paradise shall be brought forward to the godfearing, not afar: | |
| 32 | 'This is that you were promised; it is for every mindful penitent.' | |
| 33 | Whosoever fears the All-merciful in the Unseen, and comes with a penitent heart: | |
| 34 | 'Enter it in peace! This is the Day of Eternity.' | |
| 35 | Therein they shall have whatever they will; and with Us there is yet more. | |
| 36 | How many a generation We destroyed before them that was stronger in valour than they, then they searched about in the land; was there any asylum? | |
| 37 | Surely in that there is a reminder to him who has a heart, or will give ear with a present mind. | |
| 38 | We created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, and no weariness touched Us. | |
| 39 | So be thou patient under what they say, and proclaim thy Lord's praise before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, | |
| 40 | and proclaim thy Lord's praise in the night, and at the ends of the prostrations. | |
| 41 | And listen thou for the day when the caller shall call from a near place. | |
| 42 | On the day they hear the Cry in truth, that is the day of coming forth. | |
| 43 | It is We who give life, and make to die, and to Us is the homecoming. | |
| 44 | Upon the day when the earth is split asunder from about them as they hasten forth; that is a mustering easy for Us. | |
| 45 | We know very well what they say; thou art not a tyrant over them. Therefore remind by the Koran him who fears My threat. |