Introduction to
Surah
55. Ar-Rahmân
In the Name of Allâh, the Most
Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
1. The Most Beneficent
(Allâh)!
2. Has taught (you
mankind) the Qur'ân (by His Mercy).
3. He created man.
4. He taught him
eloquent speech.
5. The sun and the
moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured
out stages for each (for reckoning, etc.).
6. And the herbs
(or stars) and the trees both prostrate.
7. And the heaven
He has raised high, and He has set up the Balance.
8. In order that
you may not transgress (due) balance.
9. And observe the
weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient.
10. And the earth
He has put for the creatures.
11. Therein are fruits,
date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates).
12. And also corn,
with (its) leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants.
13. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
14. He created man
(Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.
15. And the jinns
did He create from a smokeless flame of fire.
16. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
17. (He is) the Lord
of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early
winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during
early summer and early winter).
18. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
19. He has let loosed
the two seas (the salt water and the sweet) meeting together.
20. Between them
is a barrier which none of them can transgress.
21. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
22. Out of them both
come out pearl and coral.
23. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
24. And His are the
ships going and coming in the seas, like mountains.
25. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
26. Whatsoever is
on it (the earth) will perish.
27. And the Face
of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will abide forever.
28. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
29. Whosoever is
in the heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him).
Every day He has a matter to bring forth (such as giving honour
to some, disgrace to some, life to some, death to some, etc.)!
30. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
31. We shall attend
to you, O you two classes (jinns and men)!
32. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
33. O assembly of
jinns and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the
heavens and the earth, then pass (them)! But you will never be
able to pass them, except with authority (from Allâh)!
34. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
35. There will be
sent against you both, smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass,
and you will not be able to defend yourselves.
36. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
37. Then when the
heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red like red-oil,
or red hide.
38. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
39. So on that Day
no question will be asked of man or jinn as to his sin, (because
they have already been known from their faces either white or
black).
40. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
41. The Mujrimûn
(polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) will be known by their
marks (black faces), and they will be seized by their forelocks
and their feet.
42. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
43. This is Hell
which the Mujrimûn (polytheists, criminals, sinners,
etc.) denied.
44. They will go
between it (Hell) and the boiling hot water!
45. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
46. But for him who
[the true believer of Islâmic Monotheism who performs all
the duties ordained by Allâh and His Messenger Muhammad
SAW , and keeps away (abstain) from
all kinds of sin and evil deeds prohibited in Islâm and]
fears the standing before his Lord, there will be two Gardens
(i.e. in Paradise).[]
47. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
48. With spreading
branches;
49. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
50. In them (both)
will be two springs flowing (free)
51. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
52. In them (both)
will be every kind of fruit in pairs.
53. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
54. Reclining upon
the couches lined with silk brocade, and the fruits of the two
Gardens will be near at hand.
55. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
56. Wherein both
will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands,
whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens
with sexual intercourse) before them.
57. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
58. (In beauty) they
are like rubies and coral.
59. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
60. Is there any
reward for good other than good?
61. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
62. And besides these
two, there are two other Gardens (i.e. in Paradise).
63. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
64. Dark green (in
colour).
65. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
66. In them (both)
will be two springs gushing forth water.
67. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
68. In them (both)
will be fruits, and date- palms and pomegranates.
69. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
70. Therein (gardens)
will be fair (wives) good and beautiful;
71. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
72. Houris[]
(beautiful, fair females) restrained in pavilions;
73. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
74. Whom no man or
jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual
intercourse) before them.
75. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
76. Reclining on
green cushions and rich beautiful mattresses.
77. Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny?
78. Blessed be the
Name of your Lord (Allâh), the Owner of Majesty and Honour.
