1By the angels ranged in order for Songs of Praise.

2And by those who repel demons.

3And by those who recite the Koran for warning.

4Truly your God is but one.

5Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of all that is between them, and Lord of the East.

6We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars.

7They serve also as a guard against every rebellious Satan.

8That they overhear not what passeth in the assembly on high, for they are darted at from every side.

9Driven off and consigned to a lasting torment.

10While, if one steal a word by stealth, a glistening flame pursueth him.

11Ask the Meccans then, Are they, or the angels whom we have made, the stronger creation? Aye, of coarse clay have we created them.

12But while thou marvellest they mock.

13When they are warned, no warning do they take.

14And when they see a sign, they fall to mocking.

15And say, "This is no other than clear sorcery.

16What! when dead, and turned to dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised?

17Our sires also of olden times?"

18Say, Yes; and ye shall be covered with disgrace.

19For, one blast only, and lo! they shall gaze around them, And shall say, "Oh! woe to us! this is the day of reckoning; This is the day of decision which ye gainsaid as an untruth."

22Gather together those who have acted unjustly, and their consorts, and the gods whom they adored.

23Beside God; and guide them to the road for Hell.

24Set them forth: they shall be questioned.

25"How now, that ye help not one another?"

26But on this day they shall submit themselves to God.

27And shall address one another with mutual reproaches.

28They shall say, "In sooth, ye came to us in well-omened sort."

29But they will answer, "Nay, it was ye who would not believe; and we had no power whatever over you. Nay, ye were people given to transgress.

31Just, therefore, is the doom which our Lord hath passed upon us. We shall surely taste it.

32We made you err, for we had erred ourselves."

33Partners therefore shall they be in punishment on that day.

34Truly, thus will we deal with the wicked.

35Because when it was said to them, There is no God but God, they swelled with pride.

36And said, "Shall we then abandon our gods for a crazed poet?"

37Nay, he cometh with truth and confirmeth the Sent Ones of old.

38Ye shall surely taste the painful punishment.

39And ye shall not be rewarded but as ye have wrought.

40Save the sincere servants of God!

41A stated banquet shall they have.

42Of fruits; and honoured shall they be.

43In the gardens of delight.

44Upon couches face to face.

45A cup shall be borne round among them from a fountain.

46Limpid, delicious to those who drink.

47It shall not oppress the sense, nor shall they therewith be drunken.

48And with them are the large-eyed ones with modest refraining glances, fair like the sheltered egg.

50And they shall address one another with mutual questions.

51Saith one of them, "I truly had a bosom friend.

52Who said, 'Art thou of those who credit it?

53What! when we shall have died, and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be judged?"'

54He shall say to those around him, "Will ye look?"

55And he shall look and see him in the midst of Hell.

56And he shall say to him, "By God, thou hadst almost caused me to perish.

57And, but for the favour of my Lord, I had surely been of those who have been brought with thee into torment."

58"But do we not die," say the blessed.

59"Any other than our first death? and have we escaped the torment?"

59For the like of this should the travailers travail!

60This truly is the great felicity!

60Is this the better repast or the tree Ez-zakkoum?

61Verily, we have made it for a subject of discord to the wicked.

62It is a tree which cometh up from the bottom of hell.

63Its fruits is as it were the heads of Satans.

64And, lo! the damned shall surely eat of it and fill their bellies with it.

65Then shall they have, thereon, a mixture of boiling water.

66Then shall they return to hell.

67They found their fathers erring.

68And they hastened on in their footsteps.

69Also before them the greater number of the ancients had erred.

70Though we had sent warners among them.

71But see what was the end of these warned ones.

72Except of God's true servants.

73Noah called on us of old, and right prompt were we to hear him.

74And we saved him and his family out of the great distress.

75And we made his offspring the survivors.

76And we left for him with posterity.

77"Peace be on Noah throughout the worlds!"

78Thus do we reward the well-doers.

81For he was one of our believing servants;–

82And the rest we drowned.

83And truly, of his faith was Abraham.

84When he brought to his Lord a perfect heart.

85When he said to his father and to his people, "What is this ye worship?

86Prefer ye with falsehood gods to God?

87And what deem ye of the Lord of the worlds?"

88So gazing he gazed towards the stars.

89And said, "In sooth I am ill.

90And they turned their back on him and departed.

91He went aside to their gods and said, "Do ye not eat?

92What aileth you that ye do not speak?"

93He broke out upon them, with the right hand striking.

94When his tribesmen came back to him with hasty steps.

95He said, "Worship ye what ye carve.

96When God hath created you, and that ye make?"

97They said, "Build up a pyre for him and cast him into the glowing flame."

98Fain would they plot against him, but we brought them low.

99And he said, "Verily, I repair to my Lord who will guide me.

100O Lord give me a son, of the righteous."

101We announced to him a youth of meekness.

102And when he became a full-grown youth.

102His father said to him, "My son, I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice thee; therefore, consider what thou seest right."

103He said, "My father, do what thou art bidden; of the patient, if God please, shalt thou find me."

104And when they had surrendered them to the will of God, he laid him down upon his forehead.

105We cried unto him, "O Abraham!

106Now hast thou satisfied the vision." See how we recompense the righteous.

107This was indeed a decisive test.

108And we ransomed his son with a costly victim.

109And we left this for him among posterity.

110"PEACE BE ON ABRAHAM!"

111Thus do we reward the well-doers.

112For he was of our believing servants.

113And we announced Isaac to him–a righteous Prophet–

114And on him and on Isaac we bestowed our blessing. And among their offspring were well-doers, and others, to their own hurt undoubted sinners.

115And both of them, and their people, we rescued from the great distress.

115And of old, to Moses and to Aaron shewed we favours.

116And we succoured them, and they became the conquerors.

117And we gave them (Moses and Aaron) each the lucid book.

118And we guided them each into the right way.

119And we left this for each among posterity.

120"PEACE BE ON MOSES AND AARON."

121Thus do we reward the well-doers.

122For they were two of our believing servants.

123And Elias truly was of our Sent Ones.

124When he said to his people, "Fear ye not God?

125Invoke ye Baal and forsake ye the most skilful Creator?

126God is your Lord, and the Lord of your sires of old?"

127But they treated him as a liar, and shall therefore be consigned to punishment.

128Except God's faithful servants.

129And we left this for him among posterity.

130"PEACE BE ON ELIASIN!"

131Thus do we reward the well-doers.

132For he was one of our believing servants.

133And Lot truly was of our Sent Ones.

134When we rescued him and all his family.

135Save an aged woman among those who tarried.

136Afterward we destroyed the others.

137And ye indeed pass by their ruined dwellings at morn.

138And night: will ye not then reflect?

139Jonas, too, was one of the Apostles.

140When he fled unto the laden ship.

141And lots were cast, and he was doomed.

142And the fish swallowed him, for he was blameworthy.

143But had he not been of those who praise Us.

144In its belly had he surely remained, till the day of resurrection.

145And we cast him on the bare shore–and he was sick;–

146And we caused a gourd-plant to grow up over him.

147And we sent him to a hundred thousand persons, or even more.

148And because they believed, we continued their enjoyments for a season.

149Inquire then of the Meccans whether thy Lord hath daughters, and they, sons?

150Have we created the angels females? and did they witness it?

151Is it not a falsehood of their own devising, when they say.

152"God hath begotten"? They are indeed liars.

153Would he have preferred daughters to sons?

154What reason have ye for thus judging?

155Will ye not then receive this warning?

156Have ye a clear proof for them?

157Produce your Book if ye speak truth.

158And they make him to be of kin with the Djinn: but the Djinn have long known that these idolaters shall be brought up before God.

159Far be the glory of God from what they impute to him.

160"His faithful servants do not thus.

161Moreover, ye and what ye worship.

162Shall not stir up any against God.

163Save him who shall burn in Hell.

164And verily each one of us hath his appointed place.

165And we range ourselves in order.

166And we celebrate His praises."

167And if those infidels say.

168"Had we a revelation transmitted to us from those of old.

169We had surely been God's faithful servants."

170Yet they believe not the Koran. But they shall know its truth at last.

171Our word came of old to our servants the apostles.

172That they should surely be the succoured.

173And that our armies should procure the victory for them.

174Turn aside therefore from them for a time.

175And behold them, for they too shall in the end behold their doom.

176Would they then hasten our vengeance?

177But when it shall come down into their courts, an evil morning shall it be to those who have had their warning.

178Turn aside from them therefore for a time.

179And behold; for they too shall in the end behold their doom.

180Far be the glory of thy Lord, the Lord of all greatness, from what they impute to him.

181And peace be on his Apostles!

182And praise be to God the Lord of the worlds.