How many did We destroy before them of the generations, then they cried while the time of escaping had passed away. |
How many of the gardens and fountains have they left! / And cornfields and noble places! / And goodly things wherein they rejoiced; / Thus (it was), and We gave them as a heritage to another people. |
How shall Allah guide a people who disbelieved after their believing and (after) they had borne witness that the Apostle was true and clear arguments had come to them; and Allah does not guide the unjust people. |
How shall they be reminded, and there came to them an Apostle making clear (the truth), / Yet they turned their backs on him and said: One taught (by others), a madman. |
How, then, will you guard yourselves, if you disbelieve, on the day which shall make children grey-headed? / The heaven shall rend asunder thereby; His promise is ever brought to fulfillment. |
I deliver to you the messages of my Lord, and I offer you good advice and I know from Allah what you do not know. |
I swear by the daybreak, / And the ten nights, / And the even and the odd, / And the night when it departs. |
I swear by the emissary winds, sent one after another (for men's benefit), / By the raging hurricanes, / Which scatter clouds to their destined places, / Then separate them one from another, / Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation, / To clear or to warn. |
I swear by the fig and the olive, / And mount Sinai, / And this city made secure, / Certainly We created man in the best make. |
I swear by the mansions of the stars, / And the promised day, / And the bearer of witness and those against whom the witness is borne. |
I swear by the star when it goes down. |
I swear by the sun and its brilliance, / And the moon when it follows the sun, / And the day when it shows it, / And the night when it draws a veil over it, / And the heaven and Him Who made it, / And the earth and Him Who extended it, / And the soul and Him Who made it perfect, / Then He inspired it to understand what is right and wrong for it; / He will indeed be successful who purifies it, / And he will indeed fail who corrupts it. |
I swear by the time, / Most surely man is in loss, / Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience. |
I swear by the wind that scatters far and wide, / Then those clouds bearing the load (of minute things in space). |
Ibrahim was not a Jew nor a Christian but he was (an) upright (man), a Muslim, and he was not one of the polytheists. |