30:1  Alif. Lam. Mim.

30:2  The Romans have been defeated.

30:3  In the nearest part of the earth, but they will after their defeat be victorious

30:4  in few years. For Allah is the commandment before and after and on that day the believers will exult

30:5  in Allah’s help. He helps whom He pleases and He is The All-mighty, The Most Merciful.

30:6  Allah’s promise. Allah does not fail His promise but most of the mankind know not.

30:7  They only know the outer life of this world but they are oblivious of the hereafter [which is the inner life].

30:8  Have they not reflected within themselves? Allah has not created the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them except by the truth and by a term duly appointed but truly many of the mankind surely disbelieves in the meeting of their Lord.

30:9  Have they not travelled in the earth and looked at how was the end of those before them? They used to be more formidable in power than them and they ploughed the earth and they built it more than they built it and their messengers came to them with clear signs. But Allah was not to wrong them but they used to wrong their own souls.

30:10  Then the end of those who did evil was the evil because of that they belied the signs of Allah and they used to mock at them.

30:11  Allah starts the creation and then repeats it and then unto Him you will be returned.

30:12  On the day that the Hour will come to pass, the evildoers will be smitten with despair.

30:13  There shall not be for them any intercessors from those that they ascribe as partners to Allah and they will disbelieve in their partners.

30:14  And on the day the Hour will come to pass, on that day they will segregate.

30:15  As for those who believed and did righteous deeds, they will be delighted in a garden.

30:16  And for those who disbelieved and belied Our signs and the meeting of the hereafter, it is those who will be brought into the punishment.

30:17  So let there be glory to Allh when you are in the evening and when you are in the morning.

30:18  and for Him is the praise in the heavens and in the earth and at night and when you are in the day.

30:19  He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living and gives life to the earth after its death and thus you will be brought forth.

30:20  And among His signs is that He created you from dust and then Lo! You are wholesome humans spreading out all around [in the earth].

30:21  And among His signs is that He has created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them and He has made between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for people who reflect.

30:22  And among His signs is the creation of the heavens and of the earth and the differences of your tongues and of your colors. Truly in that are signs for people who know.

30:23  And among His signs is your sleep [rest] by night and by day and your seeking [by night and by day] from His favor. Truly in that are signs for people who hear.

30:24  And among His signs is that He shows you the lightning [as warning and glad tidings] which occasions fear and hope [in you] and He sends down water from the heaven and by it He brings the earth to life after its death. Truly in that are signs for people who understand.

30:25  And among His signs is that the heaven and the earth stand upright by His commandment. Then when He calls you, by one call, from the earth, behold you come forth.

30:26  And to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. All of them stand in absolute obedience to Him.

30:27  He it is who starts the creation and then repeats it and that is easier for Him and to Him belongs the most high similitude in the heavens and in the earth and He is The All-mighty, The All-wise.

30:28  He has set forth a similitude for you from yourselves. Do you have from among those that your right hands possess who are your partners in that which We have provided you so that you and them are equal in it? You fear them as much as you fear yourselves [those who are your equals]. Thus do We detail the signs for people who understand.

30:29  Nay, those who wrong their own souls follow their vain desires without any knowledge and who can guide the one that Allah has made to go astray and for them there will be no helpers.

30:30  Therefore set your face upright to the religion devoutly. That is the original creation of Allah on which He created mankind at first. No change ever will there be in the creation of Allah. That is the religion the most upright but most of mankind do not know.

30:31  Turning yourself to Him with true yearning and revere Him and establish the prayer and be not of those who ascribe partners to Allah.

30:32  And be not of those who have dismembered their religion and have become factions. Each party exult with that which they have.

30:33  And when a harm touches the mankind, they call their Lord sincerely turning in repentance to Him but when He makes them taste a mercy from Him, lo! A party of them ascribes partners to their Lord.

30:34  Thus they may show their ingratitude for what We have bestowed on them. Then enjoy briefly [that We have given unto you] and in time you will come to know.

30:35  Or have We sent down an authority unto them so that it speaks regarding those things through which they are used to ascribing partners to Allah.

30:36  And when We make the mankind taste a mercy, they exult therein. But when an ill afflicts them because of that which their own hands sent forth, lo! They are in despair.

30:37  Have they not seen that Allah does widen the provision for whom He pleases and He does constrict [it for whom He pleases]. Truly in that surely are signs for people who believe.

30:38  So give unto the one who is near in kinship his right and to the needy and to the way farer. That is best for those who are seeking the face of Allah and it is they who are the prosperous.

30:39  And that which you give out of usury so that it may increase within the wealth of men, it does not increase in the sight of Allah but that which you give out of charity by which you seek the face of Allah, those indeed are the ones who multiply [their wealth] manifolds.

30:40  Allah it is He who has created you, then He provides for you, then He puts you to death, then He brings you to life. Is there any from among those whom you ascribe as partners to Allah who can do any of these things? Glory be unto Him and far exalted is He above all that which they ascribe as partners to Him.

30:41  The corruption has appeared in the land and in the sea because of that which the hands of mankind have wrought so that He make them taste part of what they have worked perhaps they may return.

30:42  Say, “Travel in the earth and look at how was the ending of those before.” Most of them ascribed partners to Allah.

30:43  Therefore, set your face to the most upright religion before a day comes from Allah which cannot be averted. On that day they will split up.

30:44  Whosoever is ungrateful, his ingratitude is but against his own soul and whosoever does a righteous deed, it is only for themselves that they are making the way smooth.

30:45  So that He may reward from His favor those who believe and did righteous deeds. Truly He loves not the disbelievers.

30:46  And among His signs is that He sends the winds as bringers of glad tidings and so that He may make you taste of His mercy and so that the vessel may sail through His command and so that you may seek from His favor and so that perhaps that you may offer gratitude.

30:47  And We did send messengers before to their people and they brought them clear signs then We took vengeance from those who wrought evils and it was binding upon Us to help the believers.

30:48  Allah it is He who sends the wind so that it raises a cloud and then He spreads it in the sky the way He pleases and then He reduces it into pieces and then you see the rain drop issuing forth from within it and if He brings it onto any whom He pleases from among His servants lo! They are rejoicing.

30:49  Even though before it was sent down on them, they were truly before it in despair.

30:50  So look at the effects of the mercy of Allah how He brings the earth to life after its death. Truly He is the one who is going to bring the dead to life and it is He who has power over everything.

30:51  And if We send a wind and they see it turn yellow, they will continue to disbelieve after it.

30:52  Truly you cannot make the dead hear nor can you make the deaf hear the call when they have turned their backs away.

30:53  It is not you who is going to guide the blind from their misguidance. You can only make hear the one who believes in Our signs while they are in submission.

30:54  Allah is the one who created you out of weakness, and then out of weakness He made strength, and then after strength He made weakness and grey hair. He creates what He pleases and He is The All-knowing, The All-powerful.

30:55  And the day the hour will come to pass, the evildoers will swear that they have not stayed except an hour. Thus do they turn away from the truth.

30:56  And those who were given the knowledge and the faith said, “You indeed have stayed in the book of Allah until the day of resurrection, and this is the day of resurrection but you did not use to know.”

30:57  On that day those who have wronged their own souls, their excuses will not be of any use to them and nor will their pleads be accepted.

30:58  We have indeed set forth in this Quran for the mankind from every similitude and if you bring unto them a sign, truly those who disbelieve will say, “You are nothing but people who fabricate falsehood.”

30:59  Thus Allah puts a seal on the hearts of those who know not.

30:60  Therefore have patience. Truly Allah’s promise is true and let not those who have no certitude provoke you.