15Al-Hijr

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ الر ۚ تِلْكَ آيَاتُ الْكِتَابِ وَقُرْآنٍ مُبِينٍ

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

رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ

Oft times would those who disbelieve fain that they had been Muslims.

ذَرْهُمْ يَأْكُلُوا وَيَتَمَتَّعُوا وَيُلْهِهِمُ الْأَمَلُ ۖ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

Leave them thou to eat and to enjoy, and let vain hope divert them; presently they will know.

وَمَا أَهْلَكْنَا مِنْ قَرْيَةٍ إِلَّا وَلَهَا كِتَابٌ مَعْلُومٌ

And We have not destroyed a town but there was therefor a decree known.

مَا تَسْبِقُ مِنْ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلَهَا وَمَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ

No community precedeth the term thereof nor doth it fall behind.

وَقَالُوا يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِي نُزِّلَ عَلَيْهِ الذِّكْرُ إِنَّكَ لَمَجْنُونٌ

And they say: O thou unto whom the Admonition hath been sent down! verily thou art possessed.

لَوْ مَا تَأْتِينَا بِالْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ

Why bringest thou not angels unto us if thou art of the truthtellers!

مَا نُنَزِّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةَ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَمَا كَانُوا إِذًا مُنْظَرِينَ

We send not the angels down save with judgment, and then they would not be respited.

إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ

Verily We! it is We who have revealed the Admonition, and verily We are the guardians thereof.

وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فِي شِيَعِ الْأَوَّلِينَ

And assuredly We have sent apostles before thee among the sects of the ancients.

وَمَا يَأْتِيهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ

And not an apostle came unto them but at him they were wont to mock.

كَذَٰلِكَ نَسْلُكُهُ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ

Even so we make a way for it in the hearts of the culprits.

لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِ ۖ وَقَدْ خَلَتْ سُنَّةُ الْأَوَّلِينَ

They believe not therein, and already the example of the ancients hath gone forth.

وَلَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ بَابًا مِنَ السَّمَاءِ فَظَلُّوا فِيهِ يَعْرُجُونَ

And if We opened upon them a door of the heaven, and they passed the day mounting thereto.

لَقَالُوا إِنَّمَا سُكِّرَتْ أَبْصَارُنَا بَلْ نَحْنُ قَوْمٌ مَسْحُورُونَ

They would surely say: intoxicated have been our sights; aye! we are a people enchanted.

وَلَقَدْ جَعَلْنَا فِي السَّمَاءِ بُرُوجًا وَزَيَّنَّاهَا لِلنَّاظِرِينَ

And assuredly We have set constellations in the heaven and made it fairseeming unto the beholders

وَحَفِظْنَاهَا مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ رَجِيمٍ

And We have guarded it from every Satan damned.

إِلَّا مَنِ اسْتَرَقَ السَّمْعَ فَأَتْبَعَهُ شِهَابٌ مُبِينٌ

Save him who stealeth the hearing, and him there followeth a flame gleaming.

وَالْأَرْضَ مَدَدْنَاهَا وَأَلْقَيْنَا فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ وَأَنْبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ مَوْزُونٍ

And the earth! We have stretched it out and have cast thereon mountains firm, and We have caused to spring up thereon everything weighed.

وَجَعَلْنَا لَكُمْ فِيهَا مَعَايِشَ وَمَنْ لَسْتُمْ لَهُ بِرَازِقِينَ

And We have appointed thereon for you livelihoods and also for those of whom ye are not the providers.

وَإِنْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا عِنْدَنَا خَزَائِنُهُ وَمَا نُنَزِّلُهُ إِلَّا بِقَدَرٍ مَعْلُومٍ

And there is not of aught but with Us are the treasures thereof, and We send it not down save in a measure known

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

And We send the winds fertilizing, then We send down water from the heaven and We give it to you to drink, and thereof ye could not be the treasurers.

وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ نُحْيِي وَنُمِيتُ وَنَحْنُ الْوَارِثُونَ

And verily We! it is We who give life and death, and We shall be the survivors.

وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْنَا الْمُسْتَقْدِمِينَ مِنْكُمْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْنَا الْمُسْتَأْخِرِينَ

And assuredly We know those of you who have gone before and those who will come hereafter.

وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُ حَكِيمٌ عَلِيمٌ

And veriiy thy Lord! He will gather them, and verily He is Wise. Knowing.

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ

And assuredly We have created human being from ringing clay of loam moulded.

وَالْجَانَّ خَلَقْنَاهُ مِنْ قَبْلُ مِنْ نَارِ السَّمُومِ

And the Jinn, We had created them afore of the fire of the scroching wind.

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

And recall what time thy Lord said unto the angels: verily I am about to createa man from ringing clay of loam moulded.

فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِي فَقَعُوا لَهُ سَاجِدِينَ

Then when I have formed him and breathed into him of My Spirit fall down unto him prostrate.

فَسَجَدَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ

So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together.

إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَ أَبَىٰ أَنْ يَكُونَ مَعَ السَّاجِدِينَ

But Iblis did not; he refused to be with the prostrates.

قَالَ يَا إِبْلِيسُ مَا لَكَ أَلَّا تَكُونَ مَعَ السَّاجِدِينَ

Allah said: O Iblis! what aileth thou that thou art not with the prostrates?

قَالَ لَمْ أَكُنْ لِأَسْجُدَ لِبَشَرٍ خَلَقْتَهُ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ

He said it was not for me that should prostrate myself unto a human being whom Thou hast created from ringing clay of loam moulded.

قَالَ فَاخْرُجْ مِنْهَا فَإِنَّكَ رَجِيمٌ

Allah said: then get thee forth therefrom; verily thou art one damned.

وَإِنَّ عَلَيْكَ اللَّعْنَةَ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ

And verily on thee shall be the curse till the Day of Requital.

قَالَ رَبِّ فَأَنْظِرْنِي إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ

He said: my Lord! respite me then till the Day whereon they will be raised up.

قَالَ فَإِنَّكَ مِنَ الْمُنْظَرِينَ

Allah said: verily then thou art of the respited:

إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْوَقْتِ الْمَعْلُومِ

Till the Day of the Time known.

قَالَ رَبِّ بِمَا أَغْوَيْتَنِي لَأُزَيِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَأُغْوِيَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

He said: my Lord! because Thou hast led me to err I will surely make things fairseeming unto them on the earth and will surely seduce them all:

إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنْهُمُ الْمُخْلَصِينَ

But not such of them as are Thy bondmen single-hearted.

قَالَ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ عَلَيَّ مُسْتَقِيمٌ

Allah said: this is the path leeding unto Me straight.

إِنَّ عِبَادِي لَيْسَ لَكَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُلْطَانٌ إِلَّا مَنِ اتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ الْغَاوِينَ

Verily as for My bondmen, no authority shalt thou have over them, except the erring one who follow thee.

وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمَوْعِدُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

And verily Hell is the place promised unto them all.

لَهَا سَبْعَةُ أَبْوَابٍ لِكُلِّ بَابٍ مِنْهُمْ جُزْءٌ مَقْسُومٌ

Unto it are seven portals; unto each portal is a Portion of them assigned.

إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ

Verily the God-fearing shall be amidst gardens and springs.

ادْخُلُوهَا بِسَلَامٍ آمِنِينَ

Enter therein in peace, secure.

وَنَزَعْنَا مَا فِي صُدُورِهِمْ مِنْ غِلٍّ إِخْوَانًا عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مُتَقَابِلِينَ

And We shall have removed whatsoever of grudge may be in their breasts: brethren they. sitting upon couches facing each other.

لَا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيهَا نَصَبٌ وَمَا هُمْ مِنْهَا بِمُخْرَجِينَ

There shall touch them no toil therein, nor therefrom they shall ever be driven out.

۞ نَبِّئْ عِبَادِي أَنِّي أَنَا الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ

Declare thou unto My bondmen: verily I! I am the Forgiver, the Merciful.

وَأَنَّ عَذَابِي هُوَ الْعَذَابُ الْأَلِيمُ

And verily My torment! that is the torment afflictive

وَنَبِّئْهُمْ عَنْ ضَيْفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ

And declare thou unto them of Ibrahim's guests.

إِذْ دَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا سَلَامًا قَالَ إِنَّا مِنْكُمْ وَجِلُونَ

When they entered unto him, and said; peace! He said: verily we are afraid of you.

قَالُوا لَا تَوْجَلْ إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُكَ بِغُلَامٍ عَلِيمٍ

They said: be not afraid; verily we bear thou the glad tidings of a boy knowing.

قَالَ أَبَشَّرْتُمُونِي عَلَىٰ أَنْ مَسَّنِيَ الْكِبَرُ فَبِمَ تُبَشِّرُونَ

He said: bear ye me glad tidings when old age hath touched me? of what then ye bear me glad tidings?

قَالُوا بَشَّرْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ فَلَا تَكُنْ مِنَ الْقَانِطِينَ

They said: we bear tidings of a truth; be then thou not of the desponding.

قَالَ وَمَنْ يَقْنَطُ مِنْ رَحْمَةِ رَبِّهِ إِلَّا الضَّالُّونَ

He said: and who despondeth of the mercy of his Lord except the astray

قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا الْمُرْسَلُونَ

He said: what is your errand, sent ones?

قَالُوا إِنَّا أُرْسِلْنَا إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ مُجْرِمِينَ

They said: verily we have been sent unto a people guilty-

إِلَّا آلَ لُوطٍ إِنَّا لَمُنَجُّوهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

All except the household of Lut; surely we are going to deliver all of them.

إِلَّا امْرَأَتَهُ قَدَّرْنَا ۙ إِنَّهَا لَمِنَ الْغَابِرِينَ

But not his wife; we have decreed that she will be of those staying behind.

فَلَمَّا جَاءَ آلَ لُوطٍ الْمُرْسَلُونَ

Then when the sent ones entered unto the household of Lut.

قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ قَوْمٌ مُنْكَرُونَ

He said: verily ye are a people stranger.

قَالُوا بَلْ جِئْنَاكَ بِمَا كَانُوا فِيهِ يَمْتَرُونَ

They said: nay! we have come to thee with that whereof they have been dubitating.

وَأَتَيْنَاكَ بِالْحَقِّ وَإِنَّا لَصَادِقُونَ

And we have brought unto thee the truth, and verily we say sooth.

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

So set out thou with thy house hold in a portion of the night, and follow thou their backs, and let not one of you look back, and pass whither ye are commanded.

وَقَضَيْنَا إِلَيْهِ ذَٰلِكَ الْأَمْرَ أَنَّ دَابِرَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ مَقْطُوعٌ مُصْبِحِينَ

And We decreed unto him this commandment because the last of those was to be cut off in the early morning.

وَجَاءَ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ

And there came the people of the city rejoicing

قَالَ إِنَّ هَٰؤُلَاءِ ضَيْفِي فَلَا تَفْضَحُونِ

He said: verily these are my guests, so disgace me not.

وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلَا تُخْزُونِ

And fear Allah, and humiliate me not.

قَالُوا أَوَلَمْ نَنْهَكَ عَنِ الْعَالَمِينَ

They said: forbade we not thee against the worlds?

قَالَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ بَنَاتِي إِنْ كُنْتُمْ فَاعِلِينَ

He said: these are my daughters, if act ye must.

لَعَمْرُكَ إِنَّهُمْ لَفِي سَكْرَتِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ

By thy life, in their intoxication they were wandering bewildered.

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ مُشْرِقِينَ

Then the shout took hold of them at the sunrise.

فَجَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ

And We made the upside there of downwards, and We rained on them stones of baked clay.

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِلْمُتَوَسِّمِينَ

Verily therein are signs for men of sagacity.

وَإِنَّهَا لَبِسَبِيلٍ مُقِيمٍ

And verily they are on a pathway lasting.

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

Verily in that is a sign for the believers.

وَإِنْ كَانَ أَصْحَابُ الْأَيْكَةِ لَظَالِمِينَ

And the dwellers of the wood surely were wrong-doers.

فَانْتَقَمْنَا مِنْهُمْ وَإِنَّهُمَا لَبِإِمَامٍ مُبِينٍ

So We took vengeance on them. And verily both are on a high-road open.

وَلَقَدْ كَذَّبَ أَصْحَابُ الْحِجْرِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ

And assuredly the dwellers of Hijr belied the sent ones.

وَآتَيْنَاهُمْ آيَاتِنَا فَكَانُوا عَنْهَا مُعْرِضِينَ

And We brought Our signs unto them, yet they were averting themselves therefrom.

وَكَانُوا يَنْحِتُونَ مِنَ الْجِبَالِ بُيُوتًا آمِنِينَ

And they were hewing out houses from mountains feeling secure.

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ الصَّيْحَةُ مُصْبِحِينَ

Then the shout took hold of them in the early morn.

فَمَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ

Then availed them not that which they had been earning.

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

And We have not created the heaven and the earth and that which is in between them save with a purpose. And verily the Hour is surely coming; so overlook thou with a seemly overlooking,

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ الْخَلَّاقُ الْعَلِيمُ

Verify thy Lord! He is the Great Creator, the Knower.

وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَاكَ سَبْعًا مِنَ الْمَثَانِي وَالْقُرْآنَ الْعَظِيمَ

And assuredly We have vouchsafed unto thee seven of the repetitions and the mighty Qur'an.

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

Cast not thine eyes toward that which We have let classes of them to enjoy; and grieve not over them, and lower thy wing unto the believers.

وَقُلْ إِنِّي أَنَا النَّذِيرُ الْمُبِينُ

And say thou: verily I! I am a plain warner.

كَمَا أَنْزَلْنَا عَلَى الْمُقْتَسِمِينَ

Even as We sent down on the dividers -

الَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا الْقُرْآنَ عِضِينَ

Those who have made the scripture bits.

فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَسْأَلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

By thy Lord, We will question them all.

عَمَّا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

For that which they have been working.

فَاصْدَعْ بِمَا تُؤْمَرُ وَأَعْرِضْ عَنِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ

Promulgate thou that which thou art commanded, and turn away from the associaters.

إِنَّا كَفَيْنَاكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ

Verily We will suffice unto thee against the mockers.

الَّذِينَ يَجْعَلُونَ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا آخَرَ ۚ فَسَوْفَ يَعْلَمُونَ

Who set up along with Allah anot her god; presently they shall know.

وَلَقَدْ نَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ يَضِيقُ صَدْرُكَ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ

And assuredly We know that thou straitenest thy breast by that which they say.

فَسَبِّحْ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّكَ وَكُنْ مِنَ السَّاجِدِينَ

So hallow thou the praise of thy Lord, and be thou of the prostrate.

وَاعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِينُ

And worship thy Lord until there cometh unto thee the certainty.