36:1  YA. SIN

36:2  By the wise Koran

36:3  Surely of the Sent Ones, Thou

36:4  Upon a right path

36:5  A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful

36:6  That thou shouldest warn a people whose fathers were not warned and therefore lived in heedlessness

36:7  Just, now, is our sentence against most of them; therefore they shall not believe

36:8  On their necks have we placed chains which reach the chin, and forced up are their heads

36:9  Before them have we set a barrier and behind them a barrier, and we have shrouded them in a veil, so that they shall not see

36:10  Alike is it to them if thou warn them or warn them not: they will not believe

36:11  Him only shalt thou really warn, who followeth the monition and feareth the God of mercy in secret: him cheer with tidings of pardon, and of a noble recompense

36:12  Verily, it is We who will quicken the dead, and write down the works which they have sent on before them, and the traces which they shall have left behind them: and everything have we set down in the clear Book of our decrees

36:13  Set forth to them the instance of the people of the city when the Sent Ones came to it

36:14  When we sent two unto them and they charged them both with imposture - therefore with a third we strengthened them: and they said, "Verily we are the Sent unto you of God."

36:15  They said, "Ye are only men like us: Nought hath the God of Mercy sent down. Ye do nothing but lie."

36:16  They said, "Our Lord knoweth that we are surely sent unto you

36:17  To proclaim a clear message is our only duty."

36:18  They said, "Of a truth we augur ill from you: if ye desist not we will surely stone you, and a grievous punishment will surely befall you from us."

36:19  They said, "Your augury of ill is with yourselves. Will ye be warned? Nay, ye are an erring people."

36:20  Then from the end of the city a man came running: He said, "O my people! follow the Sent Ones

36:21  Follow those who ask not of you a recompense, and who are rightly guided

36:22  And why should I not worship Him who made me, and to whom ye shall be brought back

36:23  Shall I take gods beside Him? If the God of Mercy be pleased to afflict me, their intercession will not avert from me aught, nor will they deliver

36:24  Truly then should I be in a manifest error

36:25  Verily, in your Lord have I believed; therefore hear me."

36:26  - It was said to him, "Enter thou into Paradise:" And he said, "Oh that my people kne

36:27  How gracious God hath been to me, and that He hath made me one of His honoured ones."

36:28  But no army sent we down out of heaven after his death, nor were we then sending down our angels

36:29  There was but one shout from Gabriel, and lo! they were extinct

36:30  Oh! the misery that rests upon my servants! No apostle cometh to them but they laugh him to scorn

36:31  See they not how many generations we have destroyed before them? Not to false gods is it that they shall be brought back

36:32  But all, gathered together, shall be set before Us

36:33  Moreover, the dead earth is a sign to them: we quicken it and bring forth the grain from it, and they eat thereof

36:34  And we make in it gardens of the date and vine; and we cause springs to gush forth in it

36:35  That they may eat of its fruits and of the labour of their hands. Will they not therefore be thankful

36:36  Glory be to Him, who hath created all the sexual pairs of such things as Earth produceth, and of mankind themselves; and of things beyond their ken

36:37  A sign to them also is the Night. We withdraw the day from it, and lo! they are plunged in darkness

36:38  And the Sun hasteneth to her place of rest. This, the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knowing

36:39  And as for the Moon, We have decreed stations for it, till it change like an old and crooked palm branch

36:40  To the Sun it is not given to overtake the Moon, nor doth the night outstrip the day; but each in its own sphere doth journey on

36:41  It is also a sign to them that we bare their posterity in the full-laden Ark

36:42  And that we have made for them vessels like it on which they embark

36:43  And if we please, we drown them, and there is none to help them, and they are not rescued

36:44  Unless through our mercy, and that they may enjoy themselves for yet awhile

36:45  And when it is said to them, Fear what is before you and what is behind you, that ye may obtain mercy. . .

36:46  Aye, not one sign from among the signs of their Lord dost thou bring them, but they turn away from it

36:47  And when it is said to them, Give alms of what God hath bestowed on you, they who believe not say to the believers, "Shall we feed him whom God can feed if He will? Truly ye are in no other than a plain error."

36:48  And they say, "When will this promise be fulfilled, if what ye say be true?"

36:49  They await but a single blast: as they are wrangling shall it assail them

36:50  And not a bequest shall they be able to make, nor to their families shall they return

36:51  And the trumpet shall be blown, and, lo! they shall speed out of their sepulchres to their Lord

36:52  They shall say, "Oh! woe to us! who hath roused us from our sleeping place? 'Tis what the God of Mercy promised; and the Apostles spake the truth."

36:53  But one blast shall there be, and, lo! they shall be assembled before us, all together

36:54  And on that day shall no soul be wronged in the least: neither shall ye be rewarded but as ye shall have wrought

36:55  But joyous on that day shall be the inmates of Paradise, in their employ

36:56  In shades, on bridal couches reclining, they and their spouses

36:57  Therein shall they have fruits, and shall have whatever they require

36:58  "Peace!" shall be the word on the part of a merciful Lord

36:59  "But be ye separated this day, O ye sinners

36:60  Did I not enjoin on you, O sons of Adam, 'Worship not Satan, for that he is your declared foe,

36:61  But 'Worship Me: this is a right path'

36:62  But now hath he led a vast host of you astray. Did ye not then comprehend

36:63  This is Hell with which ye were threatened

36:64  Endure its heat this day, for that ye believed not."

36:65  On that day will we set a seal upon their mouths; yet shall their hands speak unto us, and their feet shall bear witness of that which they shall have done

36:66  And, if we pleased, we would surely put out their eyes: yet even then would they speed on with rivalry in their path: but how should they see

36:67  And, if we pleased, we would surely transform them as they stand, and they would not be able to move onward, or to return

36:68  Him cause we to stoop through age whose days we lengthen. Will they not understand

36:69  We have not taught him (Muhammad) poetry, nor would it beseem him. This Book is no other than a warning and a clear Koran

36:70  To warn whoever liveth; and, that against the Infidels sentence may be justly given

36:71  See they not that we have created for them among the things which our hands have wrought, the animals of which they are masters

36:72  And that we have subjected them unto them? And on some they ride, and of others they eat

36:73  And they find in them profitable uses and beverages

36:74  Yet have they taken other gods beside God that they might be helpful to them

36:75  No power have they to succour them: yet are their votaries an army at their service

36:76  Let not their speech grieve thee: We know what they hide and what they bring to light

36:77  Doth not man perceive that we have created him of the moist germs of life? Yet lo! is he an open caviller

36:78  And he meeteth us with arguments, and forgetteth his creation: "Who," saith he, "shall give life to bones when they are rotten?"

36:79  SAY: He shall give life to them who gave them being at first, for in all creation is he skilled

36:80  Who even out of the green tree hath given you fire, and lo! ye kindle flame from it

36:81  What! must not He who hath created the Heavens and the Earth be mighty enough to create your likes? Yes! and He is the skilful creator

36:82  His command when He willeth aught, is but to say to it, BE, and IT IS

36:83  So glory be to Him in whose hand is sway over all things! And to Him shall ye be brought back