37:1  By the rangers rangin

37:2  and the scarers scarin

37:3  and the reciters of a Remembrance

37:4  surely your God is One

37:5  Lord of the heavens and the earth, and of what between them is Lord of the Easts

37:6  We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the star

37:7  and to preserve against every rebel Satan

37:8  they listen not to the High Council, for they are pelted from every side

37:9  rejected, and theirs is an everlasting chastisement

37:10  except such as snatches a fragment, and he is pursued by a piercing flame

37:11  So ask them for a pronouncement -- Are they stronger in constitution, or those We created? We created them of clinging clay

37:12  Nay, thou marvellest; and they scof

37:13  and, when reminded, do not remembe

37:14  and, when they see a sign, would scoff

37:15  and they say, 'This is nothing but manifest sorcery

37:16  What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised up

37:17  What, and our fathers, the ancients?

37:18  Say: 'Yes, and in all lowliness.

37:19  For it is only a single scaring, then behold, they are watchin

37:20  and they say, 'Woe, alas for us! This is the Day of Doom.

37:21  'This is the Day of Decision, even that you cried lies to

37:22  Muster those who did evil, their wives, and that they were serving

37:23  apart from God, and guide them unto the path of Hell

37:24  And halt them, to be questioned

37:25  "Why help you not one another?"

37:26  No indeed; but today they resign themselves in submissio

37:27  and advance one upon another, asking each other questions

37:28  These say, 'Why, you of old would come to us from the right hand.

37:29  Those say, 'No; on the contrary, you were not believers

37:30  we had no authority over you; no, you were an insolent people

37:31  So our Lord's Word is realised against us; we are tasting it

37:32  Therefore we perverted you, and we ourselves were perverts.

37:33  So all of them on that day are sharers in the chastisement

37:34  Even so We do with the sinners

37:35  for when it was said to them, 'There is no god but God,' they were ever waxing proud

37:36  saying, 'What, shall we forsake our gods for a poet possessed?

37:37  'No indeed; but he brought the truth, and confirmed the Envoys

37:38  Now certainly you shall be tasting the painful chastisement

37:39  and not be recompensed, except according to what you were doing.

37:40  Except for God's sincere servants

37:41  for them awaits a known provision

37:42  fruits -- and they high-honoure

37:43  in the Gardens of Blis

37:44  upon couches, set face to face

37:45  a cup from a spring being passed round to them

37:46  white, a delight to the drinkers

37:47  wherein no sickness is, neither intoxication

37:48  and with them wide-eyed maidens restraining their glance

37:49  as if they were hidden pearls

37:50  They advance one upon another, asking each other questions

37:51  One of them says, 'I had a comrad

37:52  who would say, "Are you a confirmer

37:53  What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be requited?"

37:54  He says, 'Are you looking down?

37:55  Then he looks, and sees him in the midst of Hell

37:56  He says, 'By God, wellnigh thou didst destroy me

37:57  But for my Lord's blessing, I were one of the arraigned

37:58  What, do we then not di

37:59  except for our first death, and are we not chastised

37:60  This is indeed the mighty triumph

37:61  for the like of this let the workers work.

37:62  Is that better as a hospitality, or the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum

37:63  We have appointed it as a trial for the evildoers

37:64  It is a tree that comes forth in the root of Hell

37:65  its spathes are as the heads of Satans

37:66  and they eat of it, and of it fill their bellies

37:67  then on top of it they have a brew of boiling water

37:68  then their return is unto Hell

37:69  They found their fathers erring

37:70  and they run in their footsteps

37:71  Before them erred most of the ancients

37:72  and We sent among them warners

37:73  and behold, how was the end of them that were warned

37:74  except for God's sincere servants

37:75  Noah called to Us; and how excellent were the Answerers

37:76  And We delivered him and his people from the great distress

37:77  and We made his seed the survivors

37:78  and left for him among the later fol

37:79  'Peace be upon Noah among all beings!

37:80  Even so We recompense the good-doers

37:81  he was among Our believing servants

37:82  Then afterwards We drowned the rest

37:83  Of his party was also Abraham

37:84  when he came unto his Lord with a pure heart

37:85  when he said to his father and his folk, 'What do you serve

37:86  Is it a calumny, gods apart from God, that you desire

37:87  What think you then of the Lord of all Being?

37:88  And he cast a glance at the stars

37:89  and he said, 'Surely I am sick.

37:90  But they went away from him, turning their backs

37:91  Then he turned to their gods, and said, 'What do you eat

37:92  What ails you, that you speak not?

37:93  And he turned upon them smiting them with his right hand

37:94  Then came the others to him hastening

37:95  He said, 'Do you serve what you hew

37:96  and God created you and what you make?

37:97  They said, 'Build him a building, and cast him into the furnace!

37:98  They desired to outwit him; so We made them the lower ones

37:99  He said, 'I am going to my Lord; He will guide me

37:100  My Lord, give me one of the righteous.

37:101  Then We gave him the good tidings of a prudent boy

37:102  and when he had reached the age of running with him, he said, 'My son, I see in a dream that I shall sacrifice thee; consider, what thinkest thou?' He said, 'My father, do as thou art bidden; thou shalt find me, God willing, one of the steadfast.

37:103  When they had surrendered, and he flung him upon his brow

37:104  We called unto him, 'Abraham

37:105  thou hast confirmed the vision; even so We recompense the good-doers

37:106  This is indeed the manifest trial.

37:107  And We ransomed him with a mighty sacrifice

37:108  and left for him among the later fol

37:109  'Peace be upon Abraham!

37:110  Even so We recompense the good-doers

37:111  he was among Our believing servants

37:112  Then We gave him the good tidings of Isaac, a Prophet, one of the righteous

37:113  And We blessed him, and Isaac; and of their seed some are good-doers, and some manifest self-wrongers

37:114  We also favoured Moses and Aaron

37:115  and We delivered them and their people from the great distress

37:116  And We helped them, so that they were the victors

37:117  and We gave them the Manifesting Book

37:118  and guided them in the straight path

37:119  and left for them among the later fol

37:120  'Peace be upon Moses and, Aaron!

37:121  Even so We recompense the good-doers

37:122  they were among Our believing servants

37:123  Elias too was one of the Envoys

37:124  when he said to his people, 'Will you not be godfearing

37:125  Do you call on Baal, and abandon the Best of creators

37:126  God, your Lord, and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients?

37:127  But they cried him lies; so they will be among the arraigned

37:128  except for God's sincere servants

37:129  and We left for him among the later fol

37:130  'Peace be upon Elias!

37:131  Even so We recompense the good-doers

37:132  he was among Our believing servants

37:133  Lot too was one of the Envoys

37:134  when We delivered him and his people all together

37:135  save an old woman among those that tarried

37:136  then We destroyed the others

37:137  and you pass by them in the mornin

37:138  and in the night; will you not understand

37:139  Jonah too was one of the Envoys

37:140  when he ran away to the laden shi

37:141  and cast lots, and was of the rebutted

37:142  then the whale swallowed him down, and he blameworthy

37:143  Now had he not been of those that glorify God

37:144  he would have tarried in its belly until the day they shall be raised

37:145  but We cast him upon the wilderness, and he was sick

37:146  and We caused to grow over him a tree of gourds

37:147  Then We sent him unto a hundred thousand, or more

37:148  and they believed; so We gave them enjoyment for a while

37:149  So ask them for a pronouncement -- Has thy Lord daughters, and they sons

37:150  Or did We create the angels females, while they were witnesses

37:151  Is it not of their own calumny that they say

37:152  'God has begotten?' They are truly liars

37:153  Has He chosen daughters above sons

37:154  What ails you then, how you judge

37:155  What, and will you not remember

37:156  Or have you a clear authority

37:157  Bring your Book, if you speak truly

37:158  They have set up a kinship between Him and the jinn; and the jinn know that they shall be arraigned

37:159  Glory be to God above that they describe

37:160  except for God's sincere servants

37:161  But as for you, and that you serve

37:162  you shall not tempt any against Hi

37:163  except him who shall roast in Hell

37:164  None of us is there, but has a known station

37:165  we are the rangers

37:166  we are they that give glory

37:167  What though they would say

37:168  'If only we had had a Reminder from the ancients

37:169  then were we God's sincere servants.

37:170  But they disbelieved in it; soon they shall know

37:171  Already Our Word has preceded to Our servants, the Envoys

37:172  assuredly they shall be helped

37:173  and Our host -- they are the victors

37:174  So turn thou from them for a while

37:175  and see them; soon they shall see

37:176  What, do they seek to hasten Our chastisement

37:177  When it lights in their courtyard, how evil will be the morning of them that are warned

37:178  So turn thou from them for a while

37:179  and see; soon they shall see

37:180  Glory be to thy Lord, the Lord of Glory, above that they describe

37:181  And peace be upon the Envoys

37:182  and praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being