1Ha. Mim By this clear Book!

3See! on a blessed night have we sent it down, for we would warn mankind.

4On the night wherein all things are disposed in wisdom.

5By virtue of our behest. Lo! we have ever sent forth Apostles.

6A mercy from thy Lord: he truly heareth and knoweth all things–

7Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth and of all that is between them,–if ye be firm in faith–

8There is no God but He!–He maketh alive and killeth!–Your Lord and the Lord of your sires of old!

9Yet with doubts do they disport them.

10But mark them on the day when the Heaven shall give out a palpable SMOKE.

11Which shall enshroud mankind: this will be an afflictive torment.

12They will cry, "Our Lord! relieve us from this torment: see! we are believers."

13But how did warning avail them, when an undoubted apostle had come to them.

14And they turned their backs on him, and said, "Taught by others, possessed?"

15Were we to relieve you from the plague even a little, ye would certainly relapse.

16On the day when we shall fiercely put forth our great fierceness, we will surely take vengeance on them!

17Of old, before their time, had we proved the people of Pharaoh, when a noble apostle presented himself to them.

18"Send away with me," cried he, "the servants of God; for I am an apostle worthy of all credit.

19And exalt not yourselves against God, for I come to you with undoubted power.

20And I take refuge with Him who is my Lord and your Lord, that ye stone me not.

21And if ye believe me not, at least separate yourselves from me."

22And he cried to his Lord, "That these are a wicked people."

23"March forth then, said God, with my servants by night, for ye will be pursued.

24And leave behind you the cleft sea: they are a drowned host."

25How many a garden and fountain did they quit!

26And corn fields and noble dwellings!

27And pleasures in which they rejoiced them!

28So was it: and we gave them as a heritage to another people.

29Nor Heaven nor Earth wept for them, nor was their sentence respited.

30And we rescued the children of Israel from a degrading affliction–

31From Pharaoh, for he was haughty, given to excess.

32And we chose them, in our prescience, above all peoples.

33And we shewed them miracles wherein was their clear trial.

34Yet these infidels say.

35"There is but our first death, neither shall we be raised again.

36Bring back our sires, if ye be men of truth."

37Are they better than the people of Tobba.

38And those who flourished before them whom we destroyed for their evil deeds?

39We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is between them in sport.

40We have not created them but for a serious end: but the greater part of them understand it not.

41Verily the day of severing shall be the appointed time of all.

42A day when the master shall not at all be aided by the servant, neither shall they be helped.

43Save those on whom God shall have mercy: for He is the mighty, the merciful.

44Verily the tree of Ez-Zakkoum.

45Shall be the sinner's food.

46Like dregs of oil shall it boil up in their bellies.

47Like the boiling of scalding water.

47"–Seize ye him, and drag him into the mid-fire.

48Then pour on his head of the tormenting boiling water.

49–'Taste this:' for thou forsooth art the mighty, the honourable!

50Lo! this is that of which ye doubted."

51But the pious shall be in a secure place.

52Amid gardens and fountains.

53Clothed in silk and richest robes, facing one another.

54Thus shall it be: and we will wed them to the virgins with large dark eyes.

55Therein shall they call, secure, for every kind of fruit.

56Therein, their first death passed, shall they taste death no more; and He shall keep them from the pains of Hell:–

57'Tis the gracious bounty of thy Lord! This is the great felicity.

58We have made this Koran easy for thee in thine own tongue, that they may take the warning.

59Therefore wait thou, for they are waiting.