ar-Rahman (The Beneficent, The Mercy Giving, The Merciful) at IslamAwakened.com

55:1 The All-Merciful

55:2 He taught the Qur'an

55:3 He created man

55:4 He has taught him distinct (Literally: evident (demonstration) (speech)

55:5 The sun and the moon (run) to all-precisely reckoned (courses)

55:6 And the star and the trees prostrate themselves

55:7 And the heaven, He raised it up, and laid down the Balance

55:8 That you should not be inordinate in the Balance

55:9 And keep up the weight with equity, and do not cause loss in the Balance

55:10 And the earth, He laid down for (all) beings

55:11 Therein are fruits, and palm-trees comprising sheaths

55:12 And grains owning the blades, (Or: husks) and all-fragrant herbs. (Or: soothing comfort

55:13 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) (i.e., the jinn and mankind) cry lies

55:14 He created man of dry clay like earthenware

55:15 And He created the jinn (race) of a merging of fire

55:16 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:17 The Lord of the two easts and The Lord of the two wests

55:18 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:19 He merged the two seas (that) meet together

55:20 Between them (both) is an isthmus (i.e., an obstruction) (which) they do not overpass. (Literally: none of them is inequitable

55:21 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:22 From (both of) them come out (Literally: go out) the pearl and all-merged coral (stones)

55:23 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:24 And to Him belong the running (ships), (sailing) aloft (Literally: raised up, erected) in the sea like landmarks

55:25 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:26 All that (exists) upon it (i.e., the earth) is vanishing

55:27 And there (still) remains (forever) The Face of your Lord, The Owner of Majesty and Munificence

55:28 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:29 Whoever are in the heavens and the earth ask Him; every Day He is upon some (momentous) affair

55:30 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:31 We will soon finish your (affair), O you (both) overburdened (Or: discomforted) ones! (i.e., the jinn and humankind (see verse 33)

55:32 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:33 O company of the jinn and humankind, in case you are able to penetrate through the regions of the heavens and the earth, then penetrate (them)! You will not penetrate except with an all-binding authority

55:34 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:35 Against you (both) will be sent flares of fire, and (molten) brass; then you will not vindicate yourselves

55:36 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:37 Then, when the heaven is cloven so it becomes rosy-like ointment

55:38 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:39 Then upon that Day neither any of humankind nor any of the jinn (race) will be questioned about his guilty deed

55:40 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:41 The criminals will be recognized by their marks, and (they) will be taken (away) by (their) forelocks and (their) feet

55:42 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:43 This is Hell to which criminals cry lies

55:44 They go round between it and between duly boiling (Or: hot) scalding water

55:45 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:46 And for him who fears the Station of his Lord there are two Gardens

55:47 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:48 (Both) comprising (different) species (of trees)

55:49 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:50 In (both of) them are two springs running

55:51 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:52 In (both of) them are two pairs of every fruit

55:53 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:54 Reclining upon beddings, the linings of which are of brocade, and the reapings of the two gardens are within reach

55:55 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:56 Therein are (maidens) restraining their glances whom neither humankind nor the jinn (race) have deflowered before them

55:57 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:58 As if they were the rubies and the all-merged coral (stones)

55:59 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:60 Should the recompense of fairness be (anything) except fairness

55:61 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:62 And lesser (Or: besides) than these two are two gardens

55:63 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:64 Both of dark green tincture

55:65 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:66 In both of them are two spurting springs

55:67 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:68 In both of them are fruits, and palm-trees and pomegranates

55:69 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:70 In them are the most charitalsle (i.e., best; choicest) and fairest of maidens

55:71 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:72 Huris, cloistered in pavilions

55:73 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:74 Whom neither humankind nor the jinn (race) have deflowered before them

55:75 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:76 Reclining upon green pillows and the fairest carpets

55:77 Then to whichever of your Lord's boons do you (both) cry lies

55:78 Supremely Blessed is the Name of your Lord, The Owner of (Highest) Majesty and (Highest) Munificence