15Al-Hijr

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ الر ۚ تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ وَقُرْآنٍ مُبِينٍ

Alif. Lam. Ra'. These are the verses of the Book, and a Clear Qur'an.

رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ

Soon will the time come when the unbelievers will wish they were Muslims.

ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا وَيُلْهِهِمُ الْأَمَلُ ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

Leave them to eat and enjoy life and let false hopes amuse them. They will soon come to know.

وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابٌ مَعْلُومٌ

Whenever We destroyed a town, a definite term had previously been decreed for it.

مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ

No people can outstrip the term for its destruction nor can it delay it.

وَقَالُوا يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِي نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ الذِّكْرُ إِنَّكَ لَمَجْنُونٌ

They say: "O you to whom the Admonition has been revealed, you are surely crazed.

لَوْ مَا تَأْتِينَا بِالْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ

Why do you not bring down angels upon us if you are indeed truthful?"

مَا نُنَزِّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَمَا كَانُوا إِذًا مُنْظَرِينَ

We do not send down the angels (in frivolity); and when We do send them down, We do so with Truth; then people are granted no respite.

إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ

As for the Admonition, indeed it is We Who have revealed it and it is indeed We Who are its guardians.

وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فِي شِيَعِ الْأَوَّلِينَ

(O Muhammad), certainly We did send Messengers before you among the nations which have gone by.

وَمَا يَأْتِيهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ

And whenever a Messenger came to them, they never failed to mock him.

كَذَٰلِكَ نَسْلُكُهُ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ

Even so We make a way for it (that is, the Admonition) in the hearts of the culprits (like a hot rod);

لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِ ۖ وَقَدْ خَلَتْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ

they do not believe in it. This has been the wont of people of this kind from ancient times.

وَلَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ بَابًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَظَلُّوا فِيهِ يَعْرُجُونَ

If We were even to open for them a way to the heavens, and they could continually climb up to it in broad daylight,

لَقَالُوا إِنَّمَا سُكِّرَتْ أَبْصَارُنَا بَلْ نَحْنُ قَوْمٌ مَسْحُورُونَ

they would still have said: "Surely our eyes have been dazzled; rather, we have been enchanted."

وَلَقَدْ جَعَلْنَا فِي السَّمَاءِ بُرُوجًا وَزَيَّنَّاهَا لِلنَّاظِرِينَ

We have indeed set constellations in the heavens and have beautified them for the beholders,

وَحَفِظْنَاهَا مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ رَجِيمٍ

and have protected them against every accursed satan

إِلَّا مَنِ اسْتَرَقَ السَّمْعَ فَأَتْبَعَهُ شِهَابٌ مُبِينٌ

save him who may eavesdrop, and then a bright flame pursues him.

وَالْأَرْضَ مَدَدْنَاهَا وَأَلْقَيْنَا فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ وَأَنْبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مَوْزُونٍ

As for the earth, We have stretched it out and have cast on it firm mountains, and have caused to grow in it everything well-measured.

وَجَعَلْنَا لَكُمْ فِيهَا مَعَايِشَ وَمَنْ لَسْتُمْ لَهُ بِرَازِقِينَ

And We have provided sustenance for you on it and also for those of whom you are not the providers.

وَإِنْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا عِنْدَنَا خَزَائِنُهُ وَمَا نُنَزِّلُهُ إِلَّا بِقَدَرٍ مَعْلُومٍ

There is nothing except that its treasuries are with Us and We do not send it down except in a known measure.

وَأَرْسَلْنَا الرِّيَاحَ لَوَاقِحَ فَأَنْزَلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَسْقَيْنَاكُمُوهُ وَمَا أَنْتُمْ لَهُ بِخَازِنِينَ

We send fertilizing winds, and then cause rain to descend from the sky, providing you abundant water to drink even though you could not have stored it up for yourselves.

وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ نُحْيِي وَنُمِيتُ وَنَحْنُ الْوَارِثُونَ

It is indeed We Who grant life and cause death and it is We who shall be the sole Inheritors of all.

وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْنَا الْمُسْتَقْدِمِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْنَا الْمُسْتَأْخِرِينَ

Surely We know those of you who have passed before and those who will come later.

وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُ حَكِيمٌ عَلِيمٌ

Indeed your Lord will gather them all together. Surely He is All-Wise, All-Knowing.

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ

Surely We brought man into being out of dry ringing clay which was wrought from black mud,

وَالْجَانَّ خَلَقْنَاهُ مِنْ قَبْلُ مِنْ نَارِ السَّمُومِ

while We had brought the jinn into being before out of blazing fire.

وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنِّي خَالِقٌ بَشَرًا مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ

Recall when your Lord said to the angels: "I will indeed bring into being a human being out of dry ringing clay wrought from black mud.

فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِي فَقَعُوا لَهُ سَاجِدِينَ

When I have completed shaping him and have breathed into him of My Spirit, then fall you down before him in prostration."

فَسَجَدَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ

So, the angels - all of them - fell down in prostration,

إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ أَبَىٰ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَعَ السَّاجِدِينَ

except Iblis; he refused to join those who prostrated.

قَالَ يَا إِبْلِيسُ مَا لَكَ أَلَّا تَكُونَ مَعَ السَّاجِدِينَ

The Lord inquired: "Iblis! What is the matter with you that you did not join those who prostrated?"

قَالَ لَمْ أَكُنْ لِأَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ

He said: "It does not behove of me to prostrate myself before a human being whom You have created out of dry ringing clay wrought from black mud."

قَالَ فَاخْرُجْ مِنْهَا فَإِنَّكَ رَجِيمٌ

The Lord said: "Then get out of here; you are rejected,

وَإِنَّ عَلَيْكَ اللَّعْنَةَ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ

and there shall be a curse upon you till the Day of Recompense."

قَالَ رَبِّ فَأَنْظِرْنِي إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ

Iblis said: "My Lord! Grant me respite till the Day when they will be resurrected."

قَالَ فَإِنَّكَ مِنَ الْمُنْظَرِينَ

Allah said: "For sure you are granted respite

إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْوَقْتِ الْمَعْلُومِ

until the day of a known time."

قَالَ رَبِّ بِمَا أَغْوَيْتَنِي لَأُزَيِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَأُغْوِيَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

Iblis said: "My Lord! In the manner You led me to error, I will make things on earth seem attractive to them and lead all of them to error,

إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنْهُمُ الْمُخْلَصِينَ

except those of Your servants whom You have singled out for Yourself."

قَالَ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ عَلَيَّ مُسْتَقِيمٌ

Allah said: "Here is the path that leads straight to Me.

إِنَّ عِبَادِي لَيْسَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَانٌ إِلَّا مَنِ اتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ الْغَاوِينَ

Over My true servants you will be able to exercise no power, your power will be confined to the erring ones, those who choose to follow you.

وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمَوْعِدُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

Surely Hell is the promised place for all of them."

لَهَا سَبْعَةُ أَبْوَابٍ لِكُلِّ بَابٍ مِنْهُمْ جُزْءٌ مَقْسُومٌ

There are seven gates in it, and to each gate a portion of them has been allotted.

إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ

As for the God-fearing, they shall be amid gardens and springs.

ادْخُلُوهَا بِسَلَامٍ آمِنِينَ

They will be told: "Enter it in peace and security."

وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍّ إِخْوَانًا عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مُتَقَابِلِينَ

And We shall purge their breasts of all traces of rancour; and they shall be seated on couches facing one another as brothers.

لَا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيهَا نَصَبٌ وَمَا هُمْ مِنْهَا بِمُخْرَجِينَ

They shall face no fatigue in it, nor shall they ever be driven out of it.

۞ نَبِّئْ عِبَادِي أَنِّي أَنَا الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ

(O Prophet), declare to My servants that I am indeed Ever Forgiving, Most Merciful.

وَأَنَّ عَذَابِي هُوَ الْعَذَابُ الْأَلِيمُ

At the same time, My chastisement is highly painful.

وَنَبِّئْهُمْ عَنْ ضَيْفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ

And tell them about Abraham's guests.

إِذْ دَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا سَلَامًا قَالَ إِنَّا مِنْكُمْ وَجِلُونَ

When they came to Abraham they said: "Peace be upon you!" He replied: "Indeed we feel afraid of you."

قَالُوا لَا تَوْجَلْ إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُكَ بِغُلَامٍ عَلِيمٍ

They said: "Do not feel afraid, for we give you the good news of a wise boy."

قَالَ أَبَشَّرْتُمُونِي عَلَىٰ أَنْ مَسَّنِيَ الْكِبَرُ فَبِمَ تُبَشِّرُونَ

Abraham said: "What, do you give me this tiding though old age has smitten me? Just consider what tiding do you give me!"

قَالُوا بَشَّرْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ فَلَا تَكُنْ مِنَ الْقَانِطِينَ

They said: "The good tiding we give you is of truth. Do not, therefore, be of those who despair."

قَالَ وَمَنْ يَقْنَطُ مِنْ رَحْمَةِ رَبِّهِ إِلَّا الضَّالُّونَ

Abraham said: "Who despairs of the Mercy of his Lord except the misguided?"

قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا الْمُرْسَلُونَ

He added: "What is your errand O sent ones?"

قَالُوا إِنَّا أُرْسِلْنَا إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ مُجْرِمِينَ

They said: "Verily we have been sent to a guilty people

إِلَّا آلَ لُوطٍ إِنَّا لَمُنَجُّوهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

excepting the household of Lot. We shall deliver all of them,

إِلَّا امْرَأَتَهُ قَدَّرْنَا ۙ إِنَّهَا لَمِنَ الْغَابِرِينَ

except his wife (about whom Allah says that) We have decreed that she shall be among those who stay behind."

فَلَمَّا جَاءَ آلَ لُوطٍ الْمُرْسَلُونَ

So when the envoys came to the household of Lot,

قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَوْمٌ مُنْكَرُونَ

he said: "Surely you are an unknown folk."

قَالُوا بَلْ جِئْنَاكَ بِمَا كَانُوا فِيهِ يَمْتَرُونَ

They said: "Nay, we have brought to you that concerning which they have been in doubt.

وَأَتَيْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ وَإِنَّا لَصَادِقُونَ

We truly tell you that we have brought to you the Truth.

فَأَسْرِ بِأَهْلِكَ بِقِطْعٍ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ وَاتَّبِعْ أَدْبَارَهُمْ وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ مِنْكُمْ أَحَدٌ وَامْضُوا حَيْثُ تُؤْمَرُونَ

So set out with your family in a watch of the night, and keep yourself behind them, and no one of you may turn around, and keep going ahead as you have been commanded."

وَقَضَيْنَا إِلَيْهِ ذَٰلِكَ الْأَمْرَ أَنَّ دَابِرَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ مَقْطُوعٌ مُصْبِحِينَ

And We communicated to him the decree that by the morning those people will be totally destroyed.

وَجَاءَ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ

In the meantime the people of the city came to Lot rejoicing.

قَالَ إِنَّ هَٰؤُلَاءِ ضَيْفِي فَلَا تَفْضَحُونِ

He said: "These are my guests, so do not disgrace me.

وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلَا تُخْزُونِ

Have fear of Allah, and do not humiliate me."

قَالُوا أَوَلَمْ نَنْهَكَ عَنِ الْعَالَمِينَ

They replied: "Did we not forbid you again and again to extend hospitality to all and sundry?"

قَالَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ بَنَاتِي إِنْ كُنْتُمْ فَاعِلِينَ

Lot exclaimed in exasperation: "If you are bent on doing something, then here are my daughters."

لَعَمْرُكَ إِنَّهُمْ لَفِي سَكْرَتِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ

By your life, (O Prophet), they went about blindly stumbling in their intoxication.

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ مُشْرِقِينَ

Then the mighty Blast caught them at sunrise,

فَجَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ

and turned the land upside down, and rained down stones of baked clay.

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِلْمُتَوَسِّمِينَ

There are great Signs in this for those endowed with intelligence.

وَإِنَّهَا لَبِسَبِيلٍ مُقِيمٍ

The place (where this occurred) lies along a known route.

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Verily there is a Sign in this for the believers.

وَإِنْ كَانَ أَصْحَابُ الْأَيْكَةِ لَظَالِمِينَ

And the people of Aykah were also wrong-doers.

فَانْتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ وَإِنَّهُمَا لَبِإِمَامٍ مُبِينٍ

So We chastised them. The desolate locations of both communities lie on a well-known highway.

وَلَقَدْ كَذَّبَ أَصْحَابُ الْحِجْرِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ

Surely the people of al-Hijr also rejected the Messengers, calling them liars.

وَآتَيْنَاهُمْ آيَاتِنَا فَكَانُوا عَنْهَا مُعْرِضِينَ

We also gave them Our Signs, yet they turned away from them.

وَكَانُوا يَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا آمِنِينَ

They used to hew out houses from the mountains and lived in security.

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ مُصْبِحِينَ

Then the Blast caught them in the morning

فَمَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ

and whatever they had been earning proved of no avail.

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ ۗ وَإِنَّ السَّاعَةَ لَآتِيَةٌ ۖ فَاصْفَحِ الصَّفْحَ الْجَمِيلَ

We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them except with Truth. Surely the Hour will come. So, (O Muhammad), do graciously overlook them (despite their misdeeds).

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ الْخَلَّاقُ الْعَلِيمُ

Your Lord is indeed the Creator of all, the All-Knowing.

وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَاكَ سَبْعًا مِنَ الْمَثَانِي وَالْقُرْآنَ الْعَظِيمَ

We have indeed bestowed on you the seven oft-repeated verses and the Great Qur'an.

لَا تَمُدَّنَّ عَيْنَيْكَ إِلَىٰ مَا مَتَّعْنَا بِهِ أَزْوَاجًا مِنْهُمْ وَلَا تَحْزَنْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَاخْفِضْ جَنَاحَكَ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Do not even cast your eyes towards the worldly goods We have granted to different kinds of people, nor grieve over the state they are in, but turn your loving attention to the believers instead,

وَقُلْ إِنِّي أَنَا النَّذِيرُ الْمُبِينُ

and clearly tell the unbelievers: "I am most certainly a plain warner,"

كَمَا أَنْزَلْنَا عَلَى الْمُقْتَسِمِينَ

even as We had sent warning to those who had divided their religion into fragments;

الَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا الْقُرْآنَ عِضِينَ

those who had split up their Qur'an into pieces.

فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَسْأَلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

By your Lord, We will question them all

عَمَّا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

concerning what they have been doing.

فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ

(O Prophet), proclaim what you are commanded, and pay no heed to those who associate others with Allah in His Divinity.

إِنَّا كَفَيْنَاكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ

Surely We suffice to deal with those who scoff at you,

الَّذِينَ يَجْعَلُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا آخَرَ ۚ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

those who set up another deity alongside Allah. They shall soon come to know.

وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ

We certainly know that their statements sorely grieve you.

فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَكُنْ مِنَ السَّاجِدِينَ

When (you feel so) glorify your Lord with His praise and prostrate yourself before Him,

وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ

and worship your Lord until the last moment (of your life) that will most certainly come.