12. He will forgive you
Your sins, and admit you
To Gardens beneath which
Rivers flow, and to beautiful
Mansions in Gardens
Of Eternity: that is indeed
The supreme Achievement.

13. And another (favour
Will He bestow), which ye
Do love, — help from God
And a speedy victory.
So give the Glad Tidings
To the Believers.

14. O ye who believe!
Be ye helpers of God:
As said Jesus the son of Mary
To the Disciples, “Who will be
My helpers to (the work
Of) God?” Said the Disciples,
“We are God’s helpers!”
Then a portion of the Children
Of Israel believed, and
A portion disbelieved:
But We gave power
To those who believed,
Against their enemies,
And they became
The ones that prevailed.

Sūra LXII.

Jumu‘a, or the Assembly (Friday) Prayer.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful.

1. Whatever is
In the heavens and
On earth, doth declare
The Praises and Glory
Of God, — the Sovereign,
The Holy One, the Exalted
In Might, the Wise.

2. It is He Who has sent
Amongst the Unlettered
An apostle from among
Themselves, to rehearse
To them His Signs,
To sanctify them, and
To instruct them in Scripture
And Wisdom, — although
They had been, before,
In manifest error; —

3. As well as (to confer
All these benefits upon)
Others of them, who
Have not already joined them:
And He is Exalted
In Might, Wise.

4. Such is the Bounty of God,
Which He bestows
On whom He will:
And God is the Lord
Of the highest bounty.

5. The similitude of those
Who were charged
With the (obligations
Of the) Mosaic Law,
But who subsequently failed
In those (obligations), is
That of a donkey
Which carries huge tomes
(But understands them not).
Evil is the similitude
Of people who falsify
The Signs of God:
And God guides not
People who do wrong.

6. Say: “O ye that
Stand on Judaism!
If ye think that ye
Are friends to God,
To the exclusion of
(Other) men, then express
Your desire for Death,
If ye are truthful!”

7. But never will they
Express their desire
(For Death), because of
The (deeds) their hands
Have sent on before them!
And God knows well
Those that do wrong!

8. Say: “The Death from which
Ye flee will truly
Overtake you: then will
Ye be sent back
To the Knower of things
Secret and open: and He
Will tell you (the truth
Of) the things that ye did!”

SECTION 2.

9. O ye who believe!
When the call is proclaimed
To prayer on Friday
(The Day of Assembly),
Hasten earnestly to the
Remembrance
Of God, and leave off
Business (and traffic):
That is best for you
If ye but knew!

10. And when the Prayer
Is finished, then may ye
Disperse through the land,
And seek of the Bounty
Of God: and celebrate
The Praises of God
Often (and without stint):
That ye may prosper.

11. But when they see
Some bargain or some
Amusement, they disperse
Headlong to it, and leave
Thee standing. Say:
“The (blessing) from the Presence
Of God is better than
Any amusement or bargain!
And God is the Best
To provide (for all needs).”

Sūra LXIII.

Munāfiqūn, or the Hypocrites.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful

1. When the Hypocrites
Come to thee, they say,
“We bear witness that thou
Art indeed the Apostle
Of God.” Yea, God
Knoweth that thou art
Indeed His Apostle,
And God beareth witness
That the Hypocrites are
Indeed liars.

2. They have made their oaths
A screen (for their misdeeds):
Thus they obstruct (men)
From the Path of God:
Truly evil are their deeds.

3. That is because they believed,
Then they rejected Faith:
So a seal was set
On their hearts: therefore
They understand not.

4. When thou lookest
At them, their exteriors
Please thee; and when
They speak, thou listenest
To their words. They are
As (worthless as hollow)
Pieces of timber propped up,
(Unable to stand on their own).
They think that every
Cry is against them.
They are the enemies;
So beware of them.
The curse of God be
On them! How are they
Deluded (away from the Truth)!

5. And when it is said
To them, “Come, the Apostle
Of God will pray for your
Forgiveness” they turn aside
Their heads, and thou wouldst
See them turning away
Their faces in arrogance.

6. It is equal to them
Whether thou pray for
Their forgiveness or not.
God will not forgive them.
Truly God guides not
Rebellious transgressors.

7. They are the ones who say,
“Spend nothing on those
Who are with God’s Apostle,
To the end that they
May disperse (and quit Medina).”
But to God belong
The treasures of the heavens
And the earth; but
The Hypocrites understand not.

8. They say, “If we
Return to Medina, surely
The more honourable (element)
Will expel therefrom the meaner”.
But honour belongs to God
And His Apostle, and
To the Believers; but
The Hypocrites know not.

SECTION 2.

9. O ye who believe!
Let not your riches
Or your children divert you
From the remembrance of God.
If any act thus,
The loss is their own.

10. And spend something (in charity)
Out of the substance
Which We have bestowed
On you, before Death
Should come to any of you
And he should say,
“O my Lord! Why didst
Thou not give me
Respite for a little while?
I should then have given
(Largely) in charity, and I
Should have been one
Of the doers of good”.

11. But to no soul
Will God grant respite
When the time appointed
(For it) has come; and God
Is well acquainted
With (all) that ye do.

Sūra LXIV.

Tagābun, or Mutual Loss and Gain.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful.

1. Whatever is
In the heavens and
On earth, doth declare
The Praises and Glory
Of God: to Him belongs
Dominion, and to Him belongs
Praise: and He has power
Over all things.

2. It is He Who has
Created you; and of you
Are some that are
Unbelievers, and some
That are Believers:
And God sees well
All that ye do.

3. He has created the heavens
And the earth
In just proportions,
And has given you shape,
And made your shapes
Beautiful: and to Him
Is the final Goal.

4. He knows what is
In the heavens
And on earth;
And He knows what
Ye conceal and what
Ye reveal: yea, God
Knows well the (secrets)
Of (all) hearts.

5. Has not the story
Reached you, of those
Who rejected Faith aforetime?
So they tasted the evil
Result of their conduct;
And they had
A grievous Penalty.

6. That was because there
Came to them apostles
With Clear Signs,
But they said:
“Shall (mere) human beings
Direct us?” So they rejected
(The Message) and turned away.
But God can do without (them):
And God is
Free of all needs,
Worthy of all praise.

7. The Unbelievers think
That they will not be
Raised up (for Judgment).
Say: “Yea, by my Lord,
Ye shall surely be
Raised up: then shall ye
Be told (the truth) of
All that ye did.
And that is easy for God.”

8. Believe, therefore, in God
And His Apostle, and
In the Light which We
Have sent down. And God
Is well acquainted
With all that ye do.

9. The Day that He assembles
You (all) for a Day
Of Assembly, — that will be
A day of mutual loss
And gain (among you).
And those who believe
In God and work righteousness, —
He will remove from them
Their ills, and He will admit
Them to gardens beneath which
Rivers flow, to dwell therein
For ever: that will be
The Supreme Achievement.

10. But those who reject Faith
And treat Our Signs
As falsehoods, they will be
Companions of the Fire,
To dwell therein for aye:
And evil is that Goal.

SECTION 2.

11. No kind of calamity
Can occur, except
By the leave of God:
And if any one believes
In God, (God) guides his
Heart (aright): for God
Knows all things.

12. So obey God, and obey
His Apostle: but if
Ye turn back, the duty
Of Our Apostle is but
To proclaim (the Message)
Clearly and openly.

13. God! There is no god
But He: and on God,
Therefore, let the Believers
Put their trust.

14. O ye who believe!
Truly, among your wives
And your children are (some
That are) enemies to
Yourselves: so beware
Of them! But if ye
Forgive and overlook,
And cover up (their faults),
Verily God is
Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

15. Your riches and your children
May be but a trial:
But in the Presence of God,
Is the highest Reward.

16. So fear God
As much as ye can;
Listen and obey;
And spend in charity
For the benefit of
Your own souls.
And those saved from
The covetousness of their own
Souls, — they are the ones
That achieve prosperity.

17. If ye loan to God
A beautiful loan, He
Will double it to
Your (credit), and He
Will grant you Forgiveness:
For God is most Ready
To appreciate (service)
Most Forbearing, —

18. Knower of what is hidden
And what is open,
Exalted in Might,
Full of Wisdom.

Sūra LXV.

Ṭalāq, or Divorce.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful.

1. O Prophet! When ye
Do divorce women,
Divorce them at their
Prescribed periods,
And count (accurately)
Their prescribed periods:
And fear God your Lord:
And turn them not out
Of their houses, nor shall
They (themselves) leave,
Except in case they are
Guilty of some open lewdness,
Those are limits
Set by God: and any
Who transgresses the limits
Of God, does verily
Wrong his (own) soul:
Thou knowest not if
Perchance God will
Bring about thereafter
Some new situation.

2. Thus when they fulfil
Their term appointed,
Either take them back
On equitable terms
Or part with them
On equitable terms;
And take for witness
Two persons from among you,
Endued with justice,
And establish the evidence
(As) before God. Such
Is the admonition given
To him who believes
In God and the Last Day.
And for those who fear
God, He (ever) prepares
A way out,

3. And He provides for him
From (sources) he never
Could imagine. And if
Any one puts his trust
In God, sufficient is (God)
For him. For God will
Surely accomplish His purpose:
Verily, for all things
Has God appointed
A due proportion.

4. Such of your women
As have passed the age
Of monthly courses, for them
The prescribed period, if ye
Have any doubts, is
Three months, and for those
Who have no courses
(It is the same):
For those who carry
(Life within their wombs),
Their period is until
They deliver their burdens:
And for those who
Fear God, He will
Make their path easy.

5. That is the Command
Of God, which He
Has sent down to you:
And if any one fears God,
He will remove his ills
From him, and will enlarge
His reward.

6. Let the women live
(In ‘iddat) in the same
Style as ye live,
According to your means:
Annoy them not, so as
To restrict them.
And if they carry (life
In their wombs), then
Spend (your substance) on them
Until they deliver
Their burden: and if
They suckle your (offspring),
Give them their recompense:
And take mutual counsel
Together, according to
What is just and reasonable.
And if ye find yourselves
In difficulties, let another
Woman suckle (the child)
On the (father’s) behalf.

7. Let the man of means
Spend according to
His means: and the man
Whose resources are restricted,
Let him spend according
To what God has given him.
God puts no burden
On any person beyond
What He has given him.
After a difficulty, God
Will soon grant relief.

SECTION 2.

8. How many populations
That insolently opposed
The command of their Lord
And of His apostles,
Did We not then
Call to account,
To severe account?
And We imposed on them
An exemplary Punishment.

9. Then did they taste
The evil result of
Their conduct, and the End
Of their conduct
Was Perdition.

10. God has prepared for them
A severe Punishment
(In the Hereafter).
Therefore fear God,
O ye men of understanding —
Who have believed!
For God hath indeed
Sent down to you
A Message, —

11. An Apostle, who rehearses
To you the Signs of God
Containing clear explanations,
That he may lead forth
Those who believe
And do righteous deeds
From the depths of Darkness
Into Light. And those who
Believe in God and work
Righteousness, He will admit
To Gardens beneath which rivers
Flow, to dwell therein
For ever: God has indeed
Granted for them
A most excellent provision.

12. God is He Who
Created seven Firmaments
And of the earth
A similar number.
Through the midst
Of them (all) descends
His Command: that ye may
Know that God has power
Over all things, and that
God comprehends all things
In (His) Knowledge.

Sūra LXVI.

Taḥrīm, or Holding (something) to be Forbidden.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful.

1. O Prophet! Why
Holdest thou to be forbidden
That which God has
Made lawful to thee?
Thou seekest to please
Thy consorts. But God
Is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

2. God has already ordained
For you, (O men),
The dissolution of your oaths
(In some cases): and God
Is your Protector, and He
Is Full of Knowledge
And Wisdom.

3. When the Prophet disclosed
A matter in confidence
To one of his consorts,
And she then divulged it
(To another), and God made it
Known to him, he confirmed
Part thereof and repudiated
A part. Then when he
Told her thereof, she said,
“Who told thee this?”
He said, “He told me
Who knows and is well-acquainted
(With all things)”

4. If ye two turn in repentance
To Him, your hearts
Are indeed so inclined;
But if ye back up
Each other against him,
Truly God is his Protector,
And Gabriel, and (every)
Righteous one among those
Who believe, — and furthermore,
The angels — will back (him) up.

5. It may be, if he
Divorced you (all)
That God will give him
In exchange Consorts
Better than you,
Who submit (their wills),
Who believe, who are devout,
Who turn to God in repentance,
Who worship (in humility),
Who travel (for Faith) and fast, —
Previously married or virgins.

6. O ye who believe!
Save yourselves and your
Families from a Fire
Whose fuel is Men
And Stones, over which
Are (appointed) angels
Stern (and) severe,
Who flinch not (from
Executing) the Commands
They receive from God,
But do (precisely) what
They are commanded.

7. (They will say),
“O ye Unbelievers!
Make no excuses
This Day! Ye are being
But requited for
All that ye did!”

SECTION 2.

8. O ye who believe!
Turn to God
With sincere repentance:
In the hope that
Your Lord will remove
From you your ills
And admit you to Gardens
Beneath which Rivers flow, —
The Day that God
Will not permit
To be humiliated
The Prophet and those
Who believe with him.
Their Light will run
Forward before them
And by their right hands,
While they say, “Our Lord!
Perfect our Light for us,
And grant us Forgiveness:
For Thou hast power
Over all things.”

9. O Prophet! Strive hard
Against the Unbelievers
And the Hypocrites,
And be firm against them.
Their abode is Hell, —
An evil refuge (indeed).

10. God sets forth,
For an example
To the Unbelievers,
The wife of Noah
And the wife of Lut:
They were (respectively)
Under two of our righteous
Servants, but they were
False to their (husbands),
And they profited nothing
Before God on their account,
But were told: “Enter ye
The Fire along with
(Others) that enter!”

11. And God sets forth,
As an example
To those who believe,
The wife of Pharaoh:
Behold she said:
“O my Lord! build
For me, in nearness
To Thee, a mansion
In the Garden,
And save me from Pharaoh
And his doings,
And save me from
Those that do wrong”;

12. And Mary the daughter
Of ‘Imrān, who guarded
Her chastity; and We
Breathed into (her body)
Of Our spirit; and she
Testified to the truth
Of the words of her Lord
And of his Revelations,
And was one of the
Devout (servants).

Sūra LXVII.

Mulk, or Dominion.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,
Most Merciful.

1. Blessed be He
In Whose hands
Is Dominion;
And He over all things
Hath Power; —

2. He Who created Death
And Life, that He
May try which of you
Is best in deed:
And He is the Exalted
In Might, Oft-Forgiving; —

3. He Who created
The seven heavens
One above another:
No want of proportion
Wilt thou see
In the Creation
Of (God) Most Gracious.
So turn thy vision again:
Seest thou any flaw?

4. Again turn thy vision
A second time: (thy) vision
Will come back to thee
Dull and discomfited,
In a state worn out.

5. And We have,
(From of old),
Adorned the lowest heaven
With Lamps, and We
Have made such (Lamps)
(As) missiles to drive
Away the Evil Ones,
And have prepared for them
The Penalty
Of the Blazing Fire.

6. For those who reject
Their Lord (and Cherisher)
Is the Penalty of Hell:
And evil is (such) destination.

7. When they are cast therein,
They will hear
The (terrible) drawing in
Of its breath
Even as it blazes forth,

8. Almost bursting with fury:
Every time a Group
Is cast therein, its Keepers
Will ask, “Did no Warner
Come to you?”

9. They will say: “Yes indeed;
A Warner did come to us,
But we rejected him
And said, ‘God never
Sent down any (Message):
Ye are innothing but
An egregious delusion!’”

10. They will further say:
“Had we but listened
Or used our intelligence,
We should not (now)
Be among the Companions
Of the Blazing Fire!”

11. They will then confess
Their sins: but far
Will be (Forgiveness)
From the Companions
Of the Blazing Fire!

12. As for those who
Fear their Lord unseen,
For them is Forgiveness
And a great Reward.

13. And whether ye hide
Your word or publish it,
He certainly has (full) knowledge,
Of the secrets of (all) hearts.

14. Should He not know, —
He that created?
And He is the One
That understands the finest
Mysteries (and) is
Well-acquainted (with them).

SECTION 2.

15. It is He Who has
Made the earth manageable
For you, so traverse
Ye through its tracts
And enjoy of the Sustenance
Which He furnishes: but
Unto Him is the Resurrection.

16. Do ye feel secure that
He Who is in Heaven
Will not cause you
To be swallowed up
By the earth when it
Shakes (as in an earthquake)?

17. Or do ye feel secure
That He Who is in Heaven
Will not send against you
A violent tornado
(With showers of stones),
So that ye shall
Know how (terrible)
Was My warning?

18. But indeed men before them
Rejected (My warning):
Then how (terrible) was
My rejection (of them)?

19. Do they not observe
The birds above them,
Spreading their wings
And folding them in?
None can uphold them
Except (God) Most Gracious:
Truly it is He
That watches over all things.

20. Nay, who is there
That can help you,
(Even as) an army,
Besides (God) Most Merciful?
In nothing but delusion
Are the Unbelievers.

21. Or who is there
That can provide you
With Sustenance if He
Were to withhold His provision?
Nay, they obstinately persist
In insolent impiety
And flight (from the Truth).

22. Is then one who
Walks headlong, with his face
Grovelling, better guided, —
Or one who walks
Evenly on a Straight Way?

23. Say: “It is He Who
Has created you (and made
You grow), and made
For you the faculties
Of hearing, seeing,
Feeling and understanding:
Little thanks it is ye give.”

24. Say: “It is He Who
Has multiplied you
Through the earth,
And to Him shall ye
Be gathered together.”

25. They ask: When will
This promise be (fulfilled)? —
If ye are telling
The truth.

26. Say: “As to the knowledge
Of the time, it is
With God alone:
I am (sent) only
To warn plainly in public.”

27. At length, when they
See it close at hand,
Grieved will be the faces
Of the Unbelievers,
And it will be said
(To them): “This is
(The promise fulfilled),
Which ye were calling for!”

28. Say: “See ye? —
If God were
To destroy me,
And those with me,
Or if He bestows
His Mercy on us, —
Yet who can deliver
The Unbelievers from
A grievous Penalty?”

29. Say: “He is (God)
Most Gracious: we have
Believed in Him,
And on Him have we
Put our trust:
So, soon will ye know
Which (of us) it is
That is in manifest error.”