39:1  Revelation of the book from Allah, The All-mighty, The All-wise.

39:2  Truly We have revealed the book unto you by the truth so worship Allah while making the religion sincere only for Him.

39:3  Truly the sincere religion is for Allah only but those who have taken allies besides Him [they say], “We worship them not except that they may bring us very close to Allah.” Truly Allah will judge between them with wisdom in all that wherein they differ. Truly Allah does not guide one who is a liar, ungrateful.

39:4  Had Allah willed to take [unto Himself] a son, truly He would have chosen that which He pleases from whatever He creates. Glory be unto Him. He is Allah, The One, The All Over-powering.

39:5  He created the heavens and the earth by the truth. He causes the night to wrap around the day and He causes the day to wrap around the night and He has made the sun and the moon subservient, each running to an appointed term. Truly He is The All-mighty, The Oft-Forgiving.

39:6  He created you from one life then He made its mate out of it and has sent down for you eight pairs from the cattle. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in three darknesses. That is Allah your Lord for Him is the dominion. There is no deity save He. Where then are you being turned away?

39:7  If you show ingratitude, truly Allah is All-self-sufficient from you but He does not please the ingratitude for His slaves. But if you are grateful, He is pleased with it for your sake and no bearer of a burden can bear the burden of another and then unto your Lord will be your place of return. Then He will inform you about all that you used to do. Truly He is All-knowing about the essence of the bosoms.

39:8  And when harm touches the human being, he calls unto his Lord turning back to Him but then when He grants him a grace from Himself, he forgets that unto Whom he used to cry before and he makes equals to Allah so that he may misguide [others] from His path. Say, “Enjoy your ingratitude for a little.” Truly you are of the companions of the fire.

39:9  Is the one who devoutly worships in the hours of the night prostrating and standing, wary of the hereafter and places his hope in the mercy of his Lord [equal to one who does not]? Say, “Are those who know equal to those who do not know?” It is only the people of the heart who remember.

39:10  Say, “O my slaves who believe, revere your Lord.” For those who act in excellence in this world, there is an excellent reward for them and Allah’s earth is wide. Only those who are steadfast and patient are given their reward in full without calculation.

39:11  Say, “I indeed am commanded to worship Allah making the religion sincere for Him.”

39:12  And I have been commanded that I should be of the first of those who have submitted themselves to Allah.

39:13  Say, “I indeed fear should I disobey my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous day.”

39:14  Say, “It is Allah that I worship making my religion sincere for Him.”

39:15  Therefore you worship that which you please besides Him. Say, “Truly the losers are those who have lost their own souls and their families on the day of resurrection.” Lo! That is the most evident loss.

39:16  There will be for them from above them waves from the fire and from beneath them waves [from the fire]. That is what Allah forewarns His servants with. Therefore O My servants revere Me.

39:17  And those who keep themselves far from the Taghoot lest they serve it and they turn to Allah [in hope] for them are the glad tidings therefore give the glad tidings to My slaves.

39:18  Those who hear the word and then follow the most excellent of it. It is they whom Allah has truly guided and it is they who are the people of the heart.

39:19  Is one on whom the sentence of the punishment has passed [like one on whom the word of mercy has been made true]? Are you then going to rescue one who is in the fire?

39:20  But those who revere their Lord, for them there will be mansions, above them mansions built high, the rivers flow beneath them. This is the promise of Allah. Allah fails not the promise.

39:21  Have you not seen that Allah has sent down water from the sky and then caused it to run through waterways in the earth to water springs, then with it He brings forth a crop in various colors, then it moves into luxuriance, then you see it turn yellow, then He makes it into debris? Truly in that surely is a remembrance for the people of the heart.

39:22  Is he whose bosom Allah has expanded towards self-submission [for Allah] so that he is on a light from his Lord [not better guided]? But woe unto those whose hearts are hard towards the remembrance of Allah. Those are in misguidance most evident.

39:23  Allah has sent down the most excellent discourse as a book in pairs similar to one another. The skins of those who defer to their Lord shrink at it. Then their skins and their hearts soften towards the remembrance of Allah. That is the guidance of Allah He guides thereby whom He pleases and whoever Allah causes to go astray, there is no guide for him.

39:24  Is one who wards off the evil punishment through His face on the day of resurrection [not better]? And it is told unto those who wrong their own souls, “Taste that which you used to perpetrate.”

39:25  Those before them belied so the punishment came upon them from where they were not aware.

39:26  So Allah made them taste the humiliation in this life but truly the punishment of the hereafter is greater if only they knew.

39:27  And We have set forth for the mankind in this Quran from every type of similitude so that perhaps they may take to remembrance;

39:28  a Quran in Arabic that has no crookedness [obscurity] so that perhaps they may revere Allah.

39:29  Allah has set forth a parable… a man who is owned by partners who are at variance with one another and a man who is wholly dedicated to one man. Are the two equal in similitude? The praise is for Allah. Nay most of them do not know.

39:30  Truly you [O Muhammad] are going to die and they too are certainly going to die.

39:31  Then on the day of resurrection you most certainly will dispute with one another in the presence of your Lord.

39:32  Who then does more wrong to his own soul than one who contrives a lie against Allah or belies the truth when it comes to him? Is there not in the hellfire an abode for the disbelievers?

39:33  And he who comes with the truth and he who testifies to it, it is they who are those who safeguard their own souls.

39:34  For them will be all that they please in the presence of their Lord. That is the reward of those who act in excellence.

39:35  So that Allah may remove from them the worst of that they had done and may reward them their reward according to the best that they used to do.

39:36  Is Allah not All-sufficient for His servant? But they try to frighten you with those besides Him. And whoever Allah causes to go astray, for him there is no guide.

39:37  And whosoever Allah guides, for him there is no one to misguide. Is Allah not All-mighty, Master of retribution.

39:38  And if you ask them, “Who created the heavens and the earth?” They will surely say, “It is Allah.” Say, “Do you then see that those you invoke besides Allah, if Allah wills harm to me, will they be able to remove His harm or if He wills mercy for me, will they be able to hold back His mercy?” Say, “Allah is All-sufficient for me” and in Him let those who trust put their trust.

39:39  Say, “O my people! Work hard from your stand, I am going to work hard [from my stand] and in time you will come to know.

39:40  Who it is upon whom will come a punishment that will humiliate him [in this life] and upon whom will come down an abiding punishment [in the hereafter].”

39:41  We have indeed sent down the book by the truth unto you for [benefit of] the mankind so whoever takes guidance it is for the benefit of his own soul and whoever wanders away from guidance, he only does so for the harm of his own soul and you are not a trustee over them.

39:42  Allah it is He who takes the souls at the time of their death and the ones who have not died [he takes] at the time of their sleep. As for the one on whom the sentence of death He has passed, He withholds but the others He sends back till an appointed term. Truly in that surely are signs for a people who reflect.

39:43  Or is it that they have taken unto themselves intercessors other than Allah? Say, “Even though they have dominion over nothing nor do they have understanding?”

39:44  Say, “The intercession altogether is only for Allah. Dominion of the heavens and of the earth belongs to Him and unto Him you will be brought back.”

39:45  And when Allah all alone is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter feel repugnant but when those besides Him [whom they have taken as partners] are mentioned lo! They are filled with joice.

39:46  Say, “O Allah, Originator of the heavens and of the earth, Knower of the unseen and of the witnessed! It is You who judges between your slaves with wisdom in all that they used to differ therein.

39:47  Those who wrong their own souls, even if they possessed all that is in the earth altogether and the like of it with it, they will surely pay it as a ransom from the evil of the punishment on the day of resurrection. And it was exposed unto them from Allah that which they never expected.

39:48  And the evils of all that they perpetrated became exposed to them and they were besieged by all that they used to mock at.

39:49  And whenever harm touches the human being, he cries out unto Us but when We endow him with a grace from Us, he says, “It is only given to me because of a knowledge.” Nay! It is a trial but most of them do not know.

39:50  Truly, this was said by those before them but all that they earned was of no avail to them.

39:51  So the evils of what they had perpetrated befell them. And those who had wronged their own souls from among these, the evils of that they have perpetrated will soon befall them and they are not going to be out of reach.

39:52  Do they not know that Allah widens the sustenance for whom He pleases and constricts it [for whom He pleases]. Truly in that surely are signs for a people who believe.

39:53  Say, “O my slaves those who have been wasteful towards their own souls! Do not despair from the mercy of Allah.” Truly Allah forgives the sins altogether. Truly He it is who is The Oft-Forgiving, The Most Merciful.

39:54  And turn yourselves back to your Lord and submit yourselves for Him before the punishment comes upon you then you will not be helped.

39:55  And follow the best of that which has been sent down unto you from your Lord before the punishment comes upon you suddenly while you are not aware.

39:56  Lest a soul says, “Alas unto me for that I have been neglectful with regards to Allah and I was indeed one of those who were jesters.”

39:57  Or lest it says, “If only Allah had guided me, I would surely have been among those who safeguard their own souls.”

39:58  Or lest it says when it sees the punishment, “If only there could be a second turn for me, then I would most certainly be of those who act in excellence.”

39:59  Nay! My signs did indeed come to you but you belied them and you grew arrogant and you were of those who disbelieved.

39:60  And on the day of resurrection you will see those who lied against Allah their faces darkened. Is there not a dwelling place in hellfire for those who are arrogant?

39:61  And Allah will save those who revere Him unto their place of salvation, no evil [fear] will touch them nor will they grieve.

39:62  Allah is the Creator of all things and He is Trustee over everything.

39:63  The keys of the heavens and of the earth belong to Him. But those who disbelieve in the signs of Allah, it is they who are the ones in loss.

39:64  Say, “O you the ignorants! Do you then command me that I worship any other than Allah?”

39:65  And it has indeed been revealed unto you and unto those before you that if you ever ascribe partners to Allah, surely your deeds will fall to naught and surely you will be among the ones in loss.

39:66  Nay! Allah alone do you worship and be among those who are grateful.

39:67  And they have not evaluated Allah to His true worth. The earth altogether will be in His fist on the day of resurrection and the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll by His right hand. Glory be unto Him and far exalted is He above all that they ascribe as partners unto Him.

39:68  And the trumpet was blown into and everyone in the heavens and everyone in the earth was dazed except whom Allah pleases. Then it was blown into again and lo! They are all standing wide awake.

39:69  And the earth brightened with the light of its Lord and the book was laid down and the prophets and the witnesses were brought forth and it [the matter] was decreed between them by the truth and they are not wronged.

39:70  And every soul was rewarded in full for all that it had done and He knows best about all that they do.

39:71  And those who disbelieved were driven to the hellfire in flocks until when they came to it, its doors were opened and its guardians said to them, “Did not the messengers from among yourselves come to you relating the signs of your Lord to you and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours?” They said, “Indeed.” But word of the punishment was already fulfilled upon the disbelievers.

39:72  It was said unto them, “Enter you the doors of the hellfire to abide therein forever. How woeful is the dwelling place of those who are arrogant.”

39:73  And those who revered their Lord were driven to the paradise in flocks until when they came to it and its doors were opened and its guardians said unto them, “Peace be on you. You are pure so enter it to abide herein forever.”

39:74  And they said, “The praise is for Allah who has made His promise to us true and has caused us to inherit the earth we dwell in the garden wherever we please.” And how graceful is the reward of the workers.

39:75  And you will see the angels surrounding the throne, they glorify the praise of their Lord and the matter between them was decreed by the truth and it was said, “The praise is for Allah, Lord of the worlds.”