55:1  Rahman (the possessor of all of the qualities referenced by the Beautiful Names),

55:2  Taught the Quran (formed the qualities pertaining to the dimension of Names).

55:3  Created man,

55:4  And taught him eloquence (manifested the Names on man) (as Hadhrat Ali says, “Man became a talking Quran.”);

55:5  The Sun (comprehension) and the Moon (emotion – feeling) are with a measure (in levels).

55:6  The star (ideas) and the tree (the body) are in prostration (in a state of nonexistence in the sight of the Names).

55:7  He has raised the heaven (consciousness; from the level of the self-accusing self [nafs-i lawwama] to the level of the pleasing self [nafs-i mardhiya]) and established a balance (the ability to live in balance of unity and multiplicity).

55:8  That you do not do injustice to that balance (so that you do not go to extreme in one and thus be deprived of the other).

55:9  Evaluate justly (according to the laws of Uluhiyyah) and do not become losers by failing to live by that balance!

55:10  And upon the earth (the body) He formed the creatures (the microuniverse)!

55:11  Therein (on earth) is a fruit (man), like palm trees (brain) full of sheathed clusters (ready and receptive)!

55:12  And sprouted grains (blossoming observations of the reality) and pleasantly scented plants (behaviors pertaining to the reality of man).

55:13  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:14  He created man (the body) from processed dry clay (the formation of the cellular structure).

55:15  And He created the jann (the invisible beings; the jinn) from a smokeless flame of fire (radiation, radiant energy, electromagnetic wave body).

55:16  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:17  He is the Rabb of the two easts (the world and the eternal life after death) and the Rabb of the two wests (the world and the dimension of the grave).

55:18  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:19  He let loose the two seas (angelic and animalistic tendencies; the universal consciousness and the individual consciousness); they meet together.

55:20  Yet between them is a barrier; which they do not transgress (both fulfill their own functions within their own field).

55:21  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:22  From them comes forth the pearl and the coral (various qualities).

55:23  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:24  To Him belong the constructed ships (bodies) that sail like mountains (constructed identities – ego) in the sea (the knowledge of the reality)!

55:25  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:26  Everyone on the earth (corporeal life) is transitory (every sense of self - identity or individual consciousness will taste death).

55:27  Baqi (eternal, without being subject to the concept of time) is the face (the absolute reality) of your Rabb (the meanings of the Names comprising your essence), the Dhul-Jalali Wal-Ikram

55:28  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:29  Everything in the heavens and the earth asks from Him; at every instance HU (the Absolute Essence of Existence) manifests Himself in yet another way!

55:30  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:31  Soon We shall attend to you (for account), O guilt laden community of man and jinn!

55:32  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:33  O communities of jinn and man, if you are able to pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, then pass (live without a body)! But you cannot pass unless you possess the power (the manifestation of Allah’s attribute of Power [Qadir] on you).

55:34  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:35  There will be sent upon (both of) you a flame of fire and smoke (ambiguity and confusion in your consciousness), and you will not be successful!

55:36  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:37  And when (during death) the heaven (the identity; ego) is split asunder and (the reality) becomes (undeniably clear and the ego-self disappears) burnt oil colored, like a rose (the reality is observed)!

55:38  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:39  At that time none among men or jinn will be asked about his offences (they will begin to live the natural consequences of their deeds)!

55:40  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:41  The guilty will be recognized by their faces (the reflection of their disposition) and seized by their foreheads and feet.

55:42  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:43  This is the Hell the guilty ones denied!

55:44  They will go around between it and boiling water (the burning value judgments brought by their conditionings).

55:45  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:46  There are two Paradises for the one who fears the position of His Rabb (action and sensation – Paradises of meaning).

55:47  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:48  With various branches (life qualities) spread out (in both Paradises).

55:49  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:50  In both of them are two springs, flowing!

55:51  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:52  In both (of those Paradises) are fruits (gnosis) of both kinds (extrinsic and intrinsic)!

55:53  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:54  They will rest upon beds whose linings are of silk brocade... The fruits of both Paradises will be so easy to pick!

55:55  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:56  There are those whose glances are directed only to their partners, untouched by any man or jinn before them (no impurities caused by identity/ego-based ideas and emotions)!

55:57  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:58  As if they are rubies or coral.

55:59  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:60  Is not good the reward for good (servitude done through the observation of the Truth)?

55:61  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:62  And besides these two Paradises are two more Paradises.

55:63  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:64  Both of them ever green!

55:65  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:66  In both of them are two springs (reflections of the Rahman), constantly spouting!

55:67  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:68  In both of them are fruits and palm trees (symbolic of consciousness manifesting the attributes of the Truth) and pomegranates (symbolic of the single consciousness administering the life of multiple forms)!

55:69  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:70  In (those Paradises) are the most magnificent, the most beautiful.

55:71  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:72  Houris reserved only for their partners (partners – bodies that are equipped and capacitated to fulfill all of the desires of the forms of consciousness that manifest the attributes of the Truth. Please see 13:35, 47:15)!

55:73  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:74  Untouched by no man or jinn before them (no impurities caused by identity/ego-based ideas and emotions)!

55:75  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:76  They rest upon green cushions and beautifully embroidered fine carpets.

55:77  So, which of the favors of your Rabb (the Names comprising your essence – your consciousness and body) will you deny?

55:78  Sublime is the name of your Rabb the Dhul-Jalali Wal-Ikram!