55:1  THE MOST GRACIOU

55:2  has imparted this Qur’an [unto man]

55:3  He has created man

55:4  He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech

55:5  [At His behest] the sun and the moon run their appointed courses

55:6  [before Him] prostrate themselves the stars and the trees

55:7  And the skies has He raised high, and has devised [for all things] a measure

55:8  so that you [too, O men,] might never transgress the measure [of what is right]

55:9  weigh, therefore, [your deeds] with equity, and cut not the measure short

55:10  And the earth has He spread out for all living beings

55:11  with fruit thereon, and palm trees with sheathed clusters [of dates]

55:12  and grain growing tall on its stalks, and sweet-smelling plants

55:13  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:14  He has created man out of sounding clay, like pottery

55:15  whereas the invisible beings He has created out of a confusing flame of fire

55:16  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:17  [He is] the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunrise, and the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunset

55:18  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:19  He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet

55:20  [yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress

55:21  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:22  Out of these two [bodies of water] come forth pearls, both great and small

55:23  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:24  And His are the lofty ships that sail like [floating] mountains through the seas

55:25  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:26  All that lives on earth or in the heavens is bound to pass away

55:27  but forever will abide thy Sustainer’s Self, full of majesty and glory

55:28  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:29  On Him depends all creatures in the heavens and on earth; [and] every day He manifests Himself in yet another [wondrous] way

55:30  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:31  [ONE DAY] We shall take you to task, O you sin-laden two

55:32  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:33  O you who live in close communion with [evil] invisible beings and humans! If you [think that you] can pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, pass beyond them! [But] you cannot pass beyond them, save by a sanction [from God]

55:34  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:35  A flash of fire will be let loose upon you, and smoke, and you will be left without succour

55:36  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:37  And when the sky is rent asunder and becomes red like [burning] oil

55:38  which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:39  For on that Day neither man nor invisible being will be asked about his sins

55:40  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:41  All who were lost in sin shall by their marks be known, and shall by their forelocks and their feet be seized

55:42  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:43  This will be the hell which those who are lost in sin [now] call a lie

55:44  between it and [their own] burning-hot despair will they wander to and fro

55:45  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:46  BUT FOR THOSE who of their Sustainer’s Presence stand in fear, two gardens [of paradise are readied]

55:47  which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

55:48  [two gardens] of many wondrous hues

55:49  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:50  In [each of] these two [gardens] two springs will flow

55:51  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:52  In [each of] these two will two kinds of every fruit be [found]

55:53  Which, then, of your Sustainer s powers can you disavow

55:54  [In such a paradise the blest will dwell,] reclining upon carpets lined with rich brocade; and the fruit of both these gardens will be within easy reach

55:55  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:56  In these [gardens] will be mates of modest gaze, whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then

55:57  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:58  [When you are promised splendours] as though [of] rubies and [of] pearls –

55:59  which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:60  Could the reward of good be aught but good

55:61  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:62  And besides those two will be yet two [other] gardens

55:63  which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

55:64  two [gardens] of the deepest green

55:65  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:66  In [each of] these two [gardens] will two springs gush forth

55:67  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:68  In both of them will be [all kinds of] fruit, and date-palms and pomegranates

55:69  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:70  In these [gardens] will be [all] things most excellent and beautiful

55:71  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:72  [There the blest will live with their] companions pure and modest, in pavilions [splendid]

55:73  which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

55:74  [companions] whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then

55:75  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:76  [In such a paradise will they dwell,] reclining upon meadows green and carpets rich in beauty

55:77  Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow

55:78  HALLOWED be thy Sustainer’s name, full of majesty and glory