37:1  By the angels ranged in order for Songs of Praise

37:2  And by those who repel demons

37:3  And by those who recite the Koran for warning

37:4  Truly your God is but one

37:5  Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth, and of all that is between them, and Lord of the East

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

37:7  They serve also as a guard against every rebellious Satan

37:8  That they overhear not what passeth in the assembly on high, for they are darted at from every side

37:9  Driven off and consigned to a lasting torment

37:10  While, if one steal a word by stealth, a glistening flame pursueth him

37:11  Ask the Meccans then, Are they, or the angels whom we have made, the stronger creation? Aye, of coarse clay have we created them

37:12  But while thou marvellest they mock

37:13  When they are warned, no warning do they take

37:14  And when they see a sign, they fall to mocking

37:15  And say, "This is no other than clear sorcery

37:16  What! when dead, and turned to dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised

37:17  Our sires also of olden times?"

37:18  Say, Yes; and ye shall be covered with disgrace

37:19  For, one blast only, and lo! they shall gaze around them

37:20  And shall say, "Oh! woe to us! this is the day of reckoning

37:21  This is the day of decision which ye gainsaid as an untruth."

37:22  Gather together those who have acted unjustly, and their consorts, and the gods whom they adore

37:23  Beside God; and guide them to the road for Hell

37:24  Set them forth: they shall be questioned

37:25  "How now, that ye help not one another?"

37:26  But on this day they shall submit themselves to God

37:27  And shall address one another with mutual reproaches

37:28  They shall say, "In sooth, ye came to us in well-omened sort:"

37:29  But they will answer, "Nay, it was ye who would not believe

37:30  and we had no power whatever over you. Nay, ye were people given to transgress

37:31  Just, therefore, is the doom which our Lord hath passed upon us. We shall surely taste it

37:32  We made you err, for we had erred ourselves."

37:33  Partners therefore shall they be in punishment on that day

37:34  Truly, thus will we deal with the wicked

37:35  Because when it was said to them, There is no God but God, they swelled with pride

37:36  And said, "Shall we then abandon our gods for a crazed poet?"

37:37  Nay, he cometh with truth and confirmeth the Sent Ones of old

37:38  Ye shall surely taste the painful punishment

37:39  And ye shall not be rewarded but as ye have wrought

37:40  Save the sincere servants of God

37:41  A stated banquet shall they hav

37:42  Of fruits; and honoured shall they b

37:43  In the gardens of delight

37:44  Upon couches face to face

37:45  A cup shall be borne round among them from a fountain

37:46  Limpid, delicious to those who drink

37:47  It shall not oppress the sense, nor shall they therewith be drunken

37:48  And with them are the large-eyed ones with modest refraining glances

37:49  fair like the sheltered egg

37:50  And they shall address one another with mutual questions

37:51  Saith one of them, "I truly had a bosom friend

37:52  Who said, 'Art thou of those who credit it

37:53  What! when we shall have died, and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be judged?"

37:54  He shall say to those around him, "Will ye look?"

37:55  And he shall look and see him in the midst of Hell

37:56  And he shall say to him, "By God, thou hadst almost caused me to perish

37:57  And, but for the favour of my Lord, I had surely been of those who have been brought with thee into torment."

37:58  "But do we not die," say the blessed

37:59  "Any other than our first death? and have we escaped the torment?"

37:60  This truly is the great felicity

37:61  For the like of this should the travailers travail

37:62  Is this the better repast or the tree Ez-zakkoum

37:63  Verily, we have made it for a subject of discord to the wicked

37:64  It is a tree which cometh up from the bottom of hell

37:65  Its fruits is as it were the heads of Satans

37:66  And, lo! the damned shall surely eat of it and fill their bellies with it

37:67  Then shall they have, thereon, a mixture of boiling water

37:68  Then shall they return to hell

37:69  They found their fathers erring

37:70  And they hastened on in their footsteps

37:71  Also before them the greater number of the ancients had erred

37:72  Though we had sent warners among them

37:73  But see what was the end of these warned ones

37:74  Except of God's true servants

37:75  Noah called on us of old, and right prompt were we to hear him

37:76  And we saved him and his family out of the great distress

37:77  And we made his offspring the survivors

37:78  And we left for him with posterity

37:79  "Peace be on Noah throughout the worlds!"

37:80  Thus do we reward the well-doers

37:81  For he was one of our believing servants;

37:82  And the rest we drowned

37:83  And truly, of his faith was Abraham

37:84  When he brought to his Lord a perfect heart

37:85  When he said to his father and to his people, "What is this ye worship

37:86  Prefer ye with falsehood gods to God

37:87  And what deem ye of the Lord of the worlds?"

37:88  So gazing he gazed towards the stars

37:89  And said, "In sooth I am ill

37:90  And they turned their back on him and departed

37:91  He went aside to their gods and said, "Do ye not eat

37:92  What aileth you that ye do not speak?"

37:93  He broke out upon them, with the right hand striking

37:94  When his tribesmen came back to him with hasty step

37:95  He said, "Worship ye what ye carve

37:96  When God hath created you, and that ye make?"

37:97  They said, "Build up a pyre for him and cast him into the glowing flame."

37:98  Fain would they plot against him, but we brought them low

37:99  And he said, "Verily, I repair to my Lord who will guide me

37:100  O Lord give me a son, of the righteous."

37:101  We announced to him a youth of meekness

37:102  And when he became a full-grown youth, His father said to him, "My son, I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice thee; therefore, consider what thou seest right." He said, "My father, do what thou art bidden; of the patient, if God please, shalt thou find me."

37:103  And when they had surrendered them to the will of God, he laid him down upon his forehead

37:104  We cried unto him, "O Abraham

37:105  Now hast thou satisfied the vision." See how we recompense the righteous

37:106  This was indeed a decisive test

37:107  And we ransomed his son with a costly victim

37:108  And we left this for him among posterity

37:109  "PEACE BE ON ABRAHAM!"

37:110  Thus do we reward the well-doers

37:111  For he was of our believing servants

37:112  And we announced Isaac to him - a righteous Prophet

37:113  And on him and on Isaac we bestowed our blessing. And among their offspring were well-doers, and others, to their own hurt undoubted sinners

37:114  And of old, to Moses and to Aaron shewed we favours

37:115  And both of them, and their people, we rescued from the great distress

37:116  And we succoured them, and they became the conquerors

37:117  And we gave them (Moses and Aaron) each the lucid book

37:118  And we guided them each into the right way

37:119  And we left this for each among posterity

37:120  "PEACE BE ON MOSES AND AARON."

37:121  Thus do we reward the well-doers

37:122  For they were two of our believing servants

37:123  And Elias truly was of our Sent Ones

37:124  When he said to his people, "Fear ye not God

37:125  Invoke ye Baal and forsake ye the most skilful Creator

37:126  God is your Lord, and the Lord of your sires of old?"

37:127  But they treated him as a liar, and shall therefore be consigned to punishment

37:128  Except God's faithful servants

37:129  And we left this for him among posterity

37:130  "PEACE BE ON ELIASIN!"

37:131  Thus do we reward the well-doers

37:132  For he was one of our believing servants

37:133  And Lot truly was of our Sent Ones

37:134  When we rescued him and all his family

37:135  Save an aged woman among those who tarried

37:136  Afterward we destroyed the others

37:137  And ye indeed pass by their ruined dwellings at mor

37:138  And night: will ye not then reflect

37:139  Jonas, too, was one of the Apostles

37:140  When he fled unto the laden ship

37:141  And lots were cast, and he was doomed

37:142  And the fish swallowed him, for he was blameworthy

37:143  But had he not been of those who praise Us

37:144  In its belly had he surely remained, till the day of resurrection

37:145  And we cast him on the bare shore - and he was sick;

37:146  And we caused a gourd-plant to grow up over him

37:147  And we sent him to a hundred thousand persons, or even more

37:148  And because they believed, we continued their enjoyments for a season

37:149  Inquire then of the Meccans whether thy Lord hath daughters, and they, sons

37:150  Have we created the angels females? and did they witness it

37:151  Is it not a falsehood of their own devising, when they say

37:152  "God hath begotten"? They are indeed liars

37:153  Would he have preferred daughters to sons

37:154  What reason have ye for thus judging

37:155  Will ye not then receive this warning

37:156  Have ye a clear proof for them

37:157  Produce your Book if ye speak truth

37:158  And they make him to be of kin with the Djinn: but the Djinn have long known that these idolaters shall be brought up before God

37:159  Far be the glory of God from what they impute to him

37:160  "His faithful servants do not thus

37:161  Moreover, ye and what ye worshi

37:162  Shall not stir up any against God

37:163  Save him who shall burn in Hell

37:164  And verily each one of us hath his appointed place

37:165  And we range ourselves in order

37:166  And we celebrate His praises."

37:167  And if those infidels say

37:168  "Had we a revelation transmitted to us from those of old

37:169  We had surely been God's faithful servants."

37:170  Yet they believe not the Koran. But they shall know its truth at last

37:171  Our word came of old to our servants the apostles

37:172  That they should surely be the succoured

37:173  And that our armies should procure the victory for them

37:174  Turn aside therefore from them for a time

37:175  And behold them, for they too shall in the end behold their doom

37:176  Would they then hasten our vengeance

37:177  But when it shall come down into their courts, an evil morning shall it be to those who have had their warning

37:178  Turn aside from them therefore for a time

37:179  And behold; for they too shall in the end behold their doom

37:180  Far be the glory of thy Lord, the Lord of all greatness, from what they impute to him

37:181  And peace be on his Apostles

37:182  And praise be to God the Lord of the worlds