30:1  A. L. M.

30:2  The Romans have been defeated

30:3  in the lowest of the lands. After their defeat, they will gain victory

30:4  in a few years. The matter is up to God, both before and after. On that day, the believers shall rejoice

30:5  in God's victory. He grants victory to whom He wills. He is the Dignified, the Merciful.

30:6  Such is God's promise. God never breaks His promise, but most people do not know.

30:7  They are quite familiar with the superficial aspects of the worldly life, and of the Hereafter, they are oblivious.

30:8  Have they not reflected within themselves? God did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them except with truth and for a specified term. Yet many people disbelieve in the meeting with their Lord.

30:9  Have they not travelled in the land and seen what the outcome of those before them was? They were more powerful than them, and they cultivated the land and inhabited it far more than they did inhabit it. And their messengers came to them with the clear proofs. God was not to wrong them, but it was they who wronged themselves.

30:10  Consequently, the outcome of those who have committed evil will also be evil, for they denied God's revelations, and they used to mock them.

30:11  God initiates the creation, and then He repeats it. Then to Him, you shall be returned.

30:12  And on the Day the Hour comes to pass, the criminals will be in total despair.

30:13  They had no intercessors from among their partners, and so, they renounced their partners.

30:14  The Day the Hour comes to pass will be the Day they separate.

30:15  As for those who believed and did good deeds, they will be rejoicing in a lush meadow.

30:16  As for those who disbelieved and denied Our revelations and the meeting of the Hereafter, they will be arraigned unto the punishment.

30:17  So glory to God when you retire at night and when you rise in the morning.

30:18  And praise is due to Him in the heavens and the earth, in the evening and when you are at midday.

30:19  He extracts the living out of the dead and extracts the dead out of the living. He brings the land to life after its death. Likewise, you will be brought out.

30:20  From among His signs is that He created you from dust, then behold, you are human beings spreading out.

30:21  And from among His signs is that He created for you spouses from yourselves that you may find tranquillity in them. And He placed love and mercy between you. Indeed, in that are signs for people who reflect.

30:22  And from among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your languages and your colours. Indeed, in that are signs for the knowledgeable.

30:23  And from among His signs is your sleep by night and by day and your seeking of His bounty. Indeed, in that are signs for people who listen.

30:24  And from among His signs is that He shows you the lightning, striking fear as well as inspiring hope, and He brings water down from the sky with which He brings to life the land after it had died. Indeed, in that are signs for people who reason.

30:25  And from among His signs is that the heaven and the earth stand by His command. Then when He calls you out of the earth, with one call, you will at once emerge.

30:26  To Him belongs all who are in the heavens and the earth; all are obedient to Him.

30:27  He is the One who initiates the creation, and then repeats it, which is even easier for Him. He sets the highest example in the heavens and the earth. He is the Dignified, the Wise.

30:28  He cites for you an example from among yourselves: Do you have from those whom your right hand possesses partners in what We have provided you with, such that you are equal therein? Do you fear them as you fear one another? We thus detail the revelations for people who reason.

30:29  Rather, the transgressors have followed their personal desires without knowledge. Who then can guide those whom God has misguided and who have no supporters?

30:30  So direct your face towards the religion as a monotheist. Such is the natural instinct that God instilled in the people. There is no changing the creation of God. Such is the correct religion, but most people do not know.

30:31  Turn to Him, reverence Him, observe the Salat, and do not be of the mushrikeen

30:32  among those who divided their religion and became sects, each party rejoicing in what they have.

30:33  If harm touches the people, they implore their Lord, turning to Him. Then if He grants them a taste of mercy from Him, some of them revert to associating partners with their Lord,

30:34  thereby disbelieving in what We have given them. So enjoy yourselves, for you will surely come to know.

30:35  Or have We brought down upon them authorisation which speaks to them about the partners whom they used to associate with Him?

30:36  If We grant the people a taste of mercy, they rejoice therein, and if something bad befalls them, as a result of what their hands have put forth, they immediately despair.

30:37  Or have they not seen that God extends the provision for whom He wills and restricts it? Indeed, in that are signs for people who believe.

30:38  So give the relative his decreed right, as well as the needy and the homeless. This is better for those who seek the Face of God, and those are the successful ones.

30:39  That which you give out with the intention of usury, aiming to gain increases out of people's money, does not gain anything with God, while as what you give as Zakat, seeking the Face of God, it is those for whom is given a manifold increase.

30:40  God is the One who created you, then provided for you, then He puts you to death, then He brings you to life. Does any of your partners do any of these things? Glory to Him and exalted is He, far above what they associate with Him.

30:41  Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea as a result of what people's hands have earned. He will let them taste the consequences of some of what they had done so that they may revert.

30:42  Say, "Travel in the land and look what the outcome of those who came before was." Most of them were mushrikeen.

30:43  So direct your face towards the correct religion before a Day comes from God that cannot be turned back. On that Day, they will be separated.

30:44  Whoever disbelieves bears the consequence of his disbelief, while those who do good deeds, they are preparing for themselves

30:45  so that He may reward those who believed and did good deeds from His favour. Indeed, He does not like the disbelievers.

30:46  And from among His signs is that He sends the winds bearing good news and lets you taste of His mercy, and for the ships to sail by His command, and for you to seek of His bounty so hopefully you may give thanks.

30:47  We have sent messengers before you to their people, and they came to them with the clear proofs. Then We inflicted retribution upon those who committed crimes, and it is binding on Us to support the believers.

30:48  God is the One who sends the winds, which then stir up clouds that He spreads in the sky as He wills. He then piles it up, and so you see the rain coming out from within it. Then when He makes it fall down on whom He wills of His servants, they rejoice,

30:49  though previously, before it was brought down upon them, they were in total despair!

30:50  So look at the effects of God's mercy, how He brings the land to life after it had died. Such is the One who will resurrect the dead. He is Capable of all things.

30:51  And if We were to send a wind, and they saw it turning yellow, they would continue thereafter to disbelieve.

30:52  You cannot make the dead hear, nor can you make the deaf hear the call if they turn their backs.

30:53  Nor can you guide the blind out of their misguidance. You can only be heard by those who believe in Our revelations, for they are Submitters.

30:54  God is the One who created you from weakness, then decreed strength after the weakness, then decreed weakness and grey hair after the strength. He creates what He wills. He is the Knowledgeable, the Capable.

30:55  On the Day the Hour comes to pass, the criminals will swear that they remained only for one hour! That is how they were deluded.

30:56  Those who were given the knowledge and the faith said, "You have remained according to God's decree until the Day of Resurrection, and this is the Day of Resurrection, but you knew not."

30:57  On that Day, the transgressors will not benefit from their excuses, nor will their repentance be accepted.

30:58  We have cited for the people in this Quran all kinds of examples. And if you were to bring them a sign, those who disbelieved would say, "You are nothing but falsifiers."

30:59  Thus does God seal the hearts of those who do not know.

30:60  So be patient. Indeed, God's promise is truthful, and do not let those who lack certainty belittle you.