the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1. The Most Gracious (Allâh)!
2. He 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).
6. And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both prostrate themselves (to Allah – See V.22:18) (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
7. And the heaven: He has raised it 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 down (laid) for the creatures.
11. Therein are fruits and 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 (jinn and men) deny?
14. He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.
15. And the jinn: He created from a smokeless flame of fire.
16. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn 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 (jinn and men) deny?
19. He has let loose the two seas (the salt and fresh water) 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 (jinn 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 (jinn 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 (jinn 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 remain forever.
28. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
29. Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He is (engaged) in some affair (such as giving honour or disgrace to some, life or death to some, etc.)!
30. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
31. We shall attend to you, O you two classes (jinn and men)!
32. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
33. O assembly of jinn and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, then pass beyond (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 (jinn 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 (jinn and men) deny?
37. Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red like red-oil, or red hide – [See V.70:8]
38. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
39. So on that Day no question will be asked of man or jinns as to his sin, [because they have already been known from their faces either white (dwellers of Paradise – true believers of Islamic Monotheism) or black (dwellers of Hell – polytheists; disbelievers, criminals)].
40. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
41. The Mujrimûn (polytheists, criminals, sinners) 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 (jinn and men) deny?
43. This is the Hell which the Mujrimûn (polytheists, criminals, sinners) denied.
44. They will go between it (Hell) and the fierce boiling water!
45. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
46. But for him who[1] fears the standing before his Lord, there will be two Gardens (i.e. in Paradise).[2]
47. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
48. With spreading branches.
49. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn 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 (jinn 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 (jinn 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 (jinn and men) deny?
56. Wherein both will be Qâsirât-ut-Tarf [chaste females (wives) restraining their glances, desiring none except their husbands], with whom no man or jinni has hadtamth[3] before them.
57. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
58. (In beauty) they are like rubies and coral.
59. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn 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 (jinn 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 (jinn and men) deny?
64. Dark green (in colour).
65. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
66. In them (both) will be two springs gushing forth.
67. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn 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 (jinn and men) deny?
70. Therein (Gardens) will be Khairâtun-Hisân [fair (wives) good and beautiful];
71. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
72. Hûr[1] (beautiful, fair females) guarded in pavilions;
73. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
74. With whom no man or jinni has had tamth[2] before them.
75. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
76. Reclining on green cushions and rich beautiful mattresses.
77. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?
78. Blessed be the Name of your Lord (Allâh), the Owner of Majesty and Honour. Madinah Complex.
