37:1  By those ranged in ranks

37:2  and the drivers driving

37:3  and the reciters of a reminder

37:4  truly your God is One

37:5  Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is between them, and Lord of the easts

37:6  Truly We adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the stars

37:7  and a guard against every defiant satan

37:8  They listen not to the Highest Assembly, for they are repelled from every side

37:9  cast out, and theirs shall be a punishment everlasting

37:10  save one who snatches a fragment as a piercing flame pursues him

37:11  So ask them, are they more difficult to create, or those whom We created? Truly We created them from a viscous clay

37:12  Indeed, but thou dost marvel, while they scoff

37:13  And when they are reminded, they do not remember

37:14  And when they see a sign, they seek to scoff

37:15  and say, “This is naught but manifest sorcery

37:16  What! When we have died and are dust and bones are we to be resurrected

37:17  and our fathers of old?

37:18  Say, “Yes, and debased will you be.

37:19  Then there will be but a single cry. And they will then behold

37:20  They will say, “Oh, woe unto us! This is the Day of Judgment.

37:21  This is the Day of Division that you used to deny

37:22  Gather those who did wrong together with their spouses and that which they used to worshi

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

37:24  And stop them. Surely they are to be questioned

37:25  “What ails you that you do not help one another?

37:26  Nay, but this Day they will surrender

37:27  And they will turn to one another, questioning each other

37:28  saying, “Truly you used to come to us from the right.

37:29  They reply, “Nay, but you were not believers

37:30  And we had no authority over you. Rather, you were a rebellious people

37:31  So the Word of our Lord has come due for us; truly we shall taste [it]

37:32  We caused you to err for truly we were errant.

37:33  Verily that Day they will share in the punishment

37:34  Thus do We deal with the guilty

37:35  Indeed, when it was said unto them, “There is no god but God,” they waxed arrogant

37:36  saying, “Are we to forsake our gods for a poet possessed?

37:37  Nay! He has come with the truth and confirmed the messengers

37:38  Truly you shall taste the painful punishment

37:39  And you shall not be requited, save for that which you used to do

37:40  Not so for God’s sincere servants

37:41  For them there shall be a known provision

37:42  fruits. And they will be honore

37:43  in Gardens of bliss

37:44  upon couches, facing one another

37:45  with a cup from a gushing spring brought round

37:46  white, delicious to those who drink thereof

37:47  No headiness lies therein; nor are they intoxicated by it

37:48  And theirs shall be maidens of modest gaze with lustrous eyes

37:49  as if they were hidden eggs

37:50  And they will turn to one another, questioning each other

37:51  One among them will say, “I had a companio

37:52  who would say, ‘Are you among those who confirm

37:53  What! When we have died and are dust and bones, are we to be requited?’

37:54  He will say, “Will you look?

37:55  So he will look and see him in the midst of Hellfire

37:56  He will say, “By God! You did well-nigh destroy me

37:57  and if not for the blessing of my Lord, I would have been among the arraigned

37:58  Are we then not to die

37:59  but our first death, and are we not to be punished

37:60  This indeed is the great triumph!

37:61  For the like of this, then, let the laborers labor

37:62  Is this a better welcome or the tree of Zaqqum

37:63  Truly We have made it a trial for the wrongdoers

37:64  Truly it is a tree that emerges in the depths of Hellfire

37:65  Its spathes are as the heads of satans

37:66  They will eat thereof and fill their bellies therewith

37:67  Then on top of it they will have a brew of a boiling liquid

37:68  Then their return shall be unto Hellfire

37:69  Truly they found their fathers astray

37:70  yet they hasten in their footsteps

37:71  And before them most of those of old had indeed gone astray

37:72  though We had indeed sent warners among them

37:73  So behold how those who were warned fared in the end

37:74  Not so for God’s sincere servants

37:75  And indeed Noah cried out to Us. How excellent are those who respond

37:76  We saved him and his people from great distress

37:77  and We made his progeny endure

37:78  and We left [a blessing] upon him among later generations

37:79  “Peace be upon Noah throughout the worlds.

37:80  Thus do We recompense the virtuous

37:81  Truly he was among Our believing servants

37:82  Then We drowned the others

37:83  And surely among his party was Abraham

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

37:85  when he said unto his father and his people, “What do you worship

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

37:87  What, then, think you of the Lord of the worlds?

37:88  Then he cast a glance at the star

37:89  and said, “Truly I am sick.

37:90  But they turned their backs on him

37:91  Then he went quietly to their gods and said, “Will you not eat

37:92  What ails you that you speak not?

37:93  Then he turned upon them, striking with his right hand

37:94  Then they came to him rushing

37:95  He said, “Do you worship that which you carve

37:96  while God created you and that which you make?

37:97  They said, “Erect a building for him and cast him into the fire.

37:98  They desired to scheme against him, so We made them the lowest

37:99  And he said, “Truly I am going unto my Lord. He will guide me

37:100  My Lord, give unto me from among the righteous.

37:101  So We gave him glad tidings of a gentle son

37:102  When he had become old enough to partake of his father’s endeavors, Abraham said, “O my son! I see while dreaming that I am to sacrifice you. So consider, what do you see?” He replied, “O my father! Do as you are commanded. You will find me, God willing, among those who are patient.

37:103  But when they had submitted and Abraham had laid him upon his forehead

37:104  We called unto him, “O Abraham

37:105  Thou hast been true to the vision.” Thus indeed do We recompense the virtuous

37:106  Truly this was the manifest trial

37:107  Then We ransomed him with a great sacrifice

37:108  And We left [a blessing] upon him among later generations

37:109  “Peace be upon Abraham.

37:110  Thus do We recompense the virtuous

37:111  Truly he was among Our believing servants

37:112  And We gave him glad tidings of Isaac, a prophet from among the righteous

37:113  And We blessed him and Isaac. And among their progeny are the virtuous and those who clearly wrong themselves

37:114  And We were gracious unto Moses and Aaron

37:115  We saved them and their people from great distres

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

37:117  And We gave the two of them the Book that makes clear

37:118  and guided the two of them upon the straight path

37:119  And We left [a blessing] upon them among later generations

37:120  “Peace be upon Moses and Aaron.

37:121  Thus indeed do We recompense the virtuous

37:122  Truly they were among Our believing servants

37:123  And truly Elias was among the message bearer

37:124  when he said to his people, “Will you not reverence

37:125  Do you call upon Baal and leave the most beautiful of creators

37:126  God is your Lord and the Lord of your fathers of old.

37:127  But they denied him; so they are surely to be arraigned

37:128  Not so for God’s sincere servants

37:129  And We left [a blessing] upon him among later generations

37:130  “Peace be upon Elias.

37:131  Thus indeed do We recompense the virtuous

37:132  Truly he was among Our believing servants

37:133  And truly Lot was among the message bearers

37:134  Behold! We saved him and his family all together

37:135  save for an old woman who was among those who lagged behind

37:136  Then We destroyed the others

37:137  And truly you pass by them in the mornin

37:138  and at night. Do you not understand

37:139  And truly Jonah was among the message bearers

37:140  Behold! He fled to the full-laden ship

37:141  and then cast lots and was among those rejected

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

37:143  And had he not been among those who glorify

37:144  he would have tarried in its belly till the Day they are resurrected

37:145  So We cast him, sick, upon the barren shore

37:146  And We caused a gourd tree to grow over him

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

37:148  And they believed; so We granted them enjoyment for a while

37:149  So ask them, does your Lord have daughters while they have sons

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

37:151  Behold! It is of their own perversion that they say

37:152  “God has begotten,” while truly they are liars

37:153  Has He chosen daughters over sons

37:154  What ails you? How do you judge

37:155  Do you not reflect

37:156  Or have you a manifest authority

37:157  Bring your Book, then, if you are truthful

37:158  They have made kinship between Him and the jinn—yet the jinn know that they will surely be arraigned

37:159  Glory be to God above that which they ascribe

37:160  Not so for God’s sincere servants

37:161  For truly neither you nor that which you worshi

37:162  can tempt any against Him

37:163  save he who is to burn in Hellfire

37:164  There is none among us, but that he has a known station

37:165  And truly we are those who are ranged [in ranks]

37:166  Truly we are those who glorify

37:167  Indeed, they used to say

37:168  “If only we had a reminder from those of old

37:169  then we would indeed be God’s sincere servants.

37:170  But they disbelieved in it. So soon they will know

37:171  for indeed Our Word has already gone forth unto Our message bearer

37:172  that they will surely be helped

37:173  and that Our host will surely be victorious

37:174  So turn away from them for a time

37:175  and observe them; for they will soon observe

37:176  Do they seek to hasten Our Punishment

37:177  When it alights in their very midst, evil will be the morning of those who were warned

37:178  So turn away from them for a time

37:179  and observe; for they will soon observe

37:180  Glory be to thy Lord, the Lord of Might, above that which they ascribe

37:181  Peace be upon the message bearers

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