| Surah 17
- The Children of Israel |
In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
[17.1] Glory
be to Him Who made His servant to go
on a night from the Sacred Mosque to
the remote mosque of which We have
blessed the precincts, so that We
may show to him some of Our signs;
surely He is the Hearing, the
Seeing.
[17.2] And We gave Musa the
Book and made it a guidance to the
children of Israel, saying: Do not
take a protector besides Me;
[17.3] The offspring of those
whom We bore with Nuh; surely he was
a grateful servant.
[17.4] And We had made known
to the children of Israel in the
Book: Most certainly you will make
mischief in the land twice, and most
certainly you will behave insolently
with great insolence.
[17.5] So when the promise
for the first of the two came, We
sent over you Our servants, of
mighty prowess, so they went to and
fro among the houses, and it was a
promise to be accomplished.
[17.6] Then We gave you back
the turn to prevail against them,
and aided you with wealth and
children and made you a numerous
band.
[17.7] If you do good, you
will do good for your own souls, and
if you do evil, it shall be for
them. So when the second promise
came (We raised another people) that
they may bring you to grief and that
they may enter the mosque as they
entered it the first time, and that
they might destroy whatever they
gained ascendancy over with utter
destruction.
[17.8] It may be that your
Lord will have mercy on you, and if
you again return (to disobedience)
We too will return (to punishment),
and We have made hell a prison for
the unbelievers.
[17.9] Surely this Quran
guides to that which is most upright
and gives good news to the believers
who do good that they shall have a
great reward.
[17.10] And that (as for)
those who do not believe in the
hereafter, We have prepared for them
a painful chastisement.
[17.11] And man prays for
evil as he ought to pray for good,
and man is ever hasty.
[17.12] And We have made the
night and the day two signs, then We
have made the sign of the night to
pass away and We have made the sign
of the day manifest, so that you may
seek grace from your Lord, and that
you might know the numbering of
years and the reckoning; and We have
explained everything with
distinctness.
[17.13] And We have made
every man's actions to cling to his
neck, and We will bring forth to him
on the resurrection day a book which
he will find wide open:
[17.14] Read your book; your
own self is sufficient as a reckoner
against you this day.
[17.15] Whoever goes aright,
for his own soul does he go aright;
and whoever goes astray, to its
detriment only does he go astray:
nor can the bearer of a burden bear
the burden of another, nor do We
chastise until We raise an apostle.
[17.16] And when We wish to
destroy a town, We send Our
commandment to the people of it who
lead easy lives, but they transgress
therein; thus the word proves true
against it, so We destroy it with
utter destruction.
[17.17] And how many of the
generations did We destroy after
Nuh! and your Lord is sufficient as
Knowing and Seeing with regard to
His servants' faults.
[17.18] Whoever desires this
present life, We hasten to him
therein what We please for
whomsoever We desire, then We assign
to him the hell; he shall enter it
despised, driven away.
[17.19] And whoever desires
the hereafter and strives for it as
he ought to strive and he is a
believer; (as for) these, their
striving shall surely be accepted.
[17.20] All do We aid-- these
as well as those-- out of the bounty
of your Lord, and the bounty of your
Lord is not confined.
[17.21] See how We have made
some of them to excel others, and
certainly the hereafter is much
superior in respect of excellence.
[17.22] Do not associate with
Allah any other god, lest you sit
down despised, neglected.
[17.23] And your Lord has
commanded that you shall not serve
(any) but Him, and goodness to your
parents. If either or both of them
reach old age with you, say not to
them (so much as) "Ugh" nor chide
them, and speak to them a generous
word.
[17.24] And make yourself
submissively gentle to them with
compassion, and say: O my Lord! have
compassion on them, as they brought
me up (when I was) little.
[17.25] Your Lord knows best
what is in your minds; if you are
good, then He is surely Forgiving to
those who turn (to Him) frequently.
[17.26] And give to the near
of kin his due and (to) the needy
and the wayfarer, and do not
squander wastefully.
[17.27] Surely the
squanderers are the fellows of the
Shaitans and the Shaitan is ever
ungrateful to his Lord.
[17.28] And if you turn away
from them to seek mercy from your
Lord, which you hope for, speak to
them a gentle word.
[17.29] And do not make your
hand to be shackled to your neck nor
stretch it forth to the utmost
(limit) of its stretching forth,
lest you should (afterwards) sit
down blamed, stripped off.
[17.30] Surely your Lord
makes plentiful the means of
subsistence for whom He pleases and
He straitens (them); surely He is
ever Aware of, Seeing, His servants.
[17.31] And do not kill your
children for fear of poverty; We
give them sustenance and yourselves
(too); surely to kill them is a
great wrong.
[17.32] And go not nigh to
fornication; surely it is an
indecency and an evil way.
[17.33] And do not kill any
one whom Allah has forbidden, except
for a just cause, and whoever is
slain unjustly, We have indeed given
to his heir authority, so let him
not exceed the just limits in
slaying; surely he is aided.
[17.34] And draw not near to
the property of the orphan except in
a goodly way till he attains his
maturity and fulfill the promise;
surely (every) promise shall be
questioned about.
[17.35] And give full measure
when you measure out, and weigh with
a true balance; this is fair and
better in the end.
[17.36] And follow not that
of which you have not the knowledge;
surely the hearing and the sight and
the heart, all of these, shall be
questioned about that.
[17.37] And do not go about
in the land exultingly, for you
cannot cut through the earth nor
reach the mountains in height.
[17.38] All this-- the evil
of it-- is hateful in the sight of
your Lord.
[17.39] This is of what your
Lord has revealed to you of wisdom,
and do not associate any other god
with Allah lest you should be thrown
into hell, blamed, cast away.
[17.40] What! has then your
Lord preferred to give you sons, and
(for Himself) taken daughters from
among the angels? Most surely you
utter a grievous saying.
[17.41] And certainly We have
repeated (warnings) in this Quran
that they may be mindful, but it
does not add save to their aversion.
[17.42] Say: If there were
with Him gods as they say, then
certainly they would have been able
to seek a way to the Lord of power.
[17.43] Glory be to Him and
exalted be He in high exaltation
above what they say.
[17.44] The seven heavens
declare His glory and the earth
(too), and those who are in them;
and there is not a single thing but
glorifies Him with His praise, but
you do not understand their
glorification; surely He is
Forbearing, Forgiving.
[17.45] And when you recite
the Quran, We place between you and
those who do not believe in the
hereafter a hidden barrier;
[17.46] And We have placed
coverings on their hearts and a
heaviness in their ears lest they
understand it, and when you mention
your Lord alone in the Quran they
turn their backs in aversion.
[17.47] We know best what
they listen to when they listen to
you, and when they take counsel
secretly, when the unjust say: You
follow only a man deprived of
reason.
[17.48] See what they liken
you to! So they have gone astray and
cannot find the way.
[17.49] And they say: What!
when we shall have become bones and
decayed particles, shall we then
certainly be raised up, being a new
creation?
[17.50] Say: Become stones or
iron,
[17.51] Or some other
creature of those which are too hard
(to receive life) in your minds! But
they will say: Who will return us?
Say: Who created you at first. Still
they will shake their heads at you
and say: When will it be? Say: Maybe
it has drawn nigh.
[17.52] On the day when He
will call you forth, then shall you
obey Him, giving Him praise, and you
will think that you tarried but a
little (while).
[17.53] And say to My
servants (that) they speak that
which is best; surely the Shaitan
sows dissensions among them; surely
the Shaitan is an open enemy to man.
[17.54] Your Lord knows you
best; He will have mercy on you if
He pleases, or He will chastise you
if He pleases; and We have not sent
you as being in charge of them.
[17.55] And your Lord best
knows those who are in the heavens
and the earth; and certainly We have
made some of the prophets to excel
others, and to Dawood We gave a
scripture.
[17.56] Say: Call on those
whom you assert besides Him, so they
shall not control the removal of
distress from you nor (its)
transference.
[17.57] Those whom they call
upon, themselves seek the means of
access to their Lord-- whoever of
them is nearest-- and they hope for
His mercy and fear His chastisement;
surely the chastisement of your Lord
is a thing to be cautious of.
[17.58] And there is not a
town but We will destroy it before
the day of resurrection or chastise
it with a severe chastisement; this
is written in the Divine ordinance.
[17.59] And nothing could
have hindered Us that We should send
signs except that the ancients
rejected them; and We gave to Samood
the she-camel-- a manifest sign--
but on her account they did
injustice, and We do not send signs
but to make (men) fear.
[17.60] And when We said to
you: Surely your Lord encompasses
men; and We did not make the vision
which We showed you but a trial for
men and the cursed tree in the Quran
as well; and We cause them to fear,
but it only adds to their great
inordinacy.
[17.61] And when We said to
the angels: Make obeisance to Adam;
they made obeisance, but Iblis (did
it not). He said: Shall I make
obeisance to him whom Thou hast
created of dust?
[17.62] He said: Tell me, is
this he whom Thou hast honored above
me? If Thou should respite me to the
day of resurrection, I will most
certainly cause his progeny to
perish except a few.
[17.63] He said: Be gone! for
whoever of them will follow you,
then surely hell is your recompense,
a full recompense:
[17.64] And beguile
whomsoever of them you can with your
voice, and collect against them your
forces riding and on foot, and share
with them in wealth and children,
and hold out promises to them; and
the Shaitan makes not promises to
them but to deceive:
[17.65] Surely (as for) My
servants, you have no authority over
them; and your Lord is sufficient as
a Protector.
[17.66] Your Lord is He Who
speeds the ships for you in the sea
that you may seek of His grace;
surely He is ever Merciful to you.
[17.67] And when distress
afflicts you in the sea, away go
those whom you call on except He;
but when He brings you safe to the
land, you turn aside; and man is
ever ungrateful.
[17.68] What! Do you then
feel secure that He will not cause a
tract of land to engulf you or send
on you a tornado? Then you shall not
find a protector for yourselves.
[17.69] Or, do you feel
secure that He will (not) take you
back into it another time, then send
on you a fierce gale and thus drown
you on account of your
ungratefulness? Then you shall not
find any aider against Us in the
matter.
[17.70] And surely We have
honored the children of Adam, and We
carry them in the land and the sea,
and We have given them of the good
things, and We have made them to
excel by an appropriate excellence
over most of those whom We have
created.
[17.71] (Remember) the day
when We will call every people with
their Imam; then whoever is given
his book in his right hand, these
shall read their book; and they
shall not be dealt with a whit
unjustly.
[17.72] And whoever is blind
in this, he shall (also) be blind in
the hereafter; and more erring from
the way.
[17.73] And surely they had
purposed to turn you away from that
which We have revealed to you, that
you should forge against Us other
than that, and then they would
certainly have taken you for a
friend.
[17.74] And had it not been
that We had already established you,
you would certainly have been near
to incline to them a little;
[17.75] In that case We would
certainly have made you to taste a
double (punishment) in this life and
a double (punishment) after death,
then you would not have found any
helper against Us.
[17.76] And surely they
purposed to unsettle you from the
land that they might expel you from
it, and in that case they will not
tarry behind you but a little.
[17.77] (This is Our) course
with regard to those of Our apostles
whom We sent before you, and you
shall not find a change in Our
course.
[17.78] Keep up prayer from
the declining of the sun till the
darkness of the night and the
morning recitation; surely the
morning recitation is witnessed.
[17.79] And during a part of
the night, pray Tahajjud beyond what
is incumbent on you; maybe your Lord
will raise you to a position of
great glory.
[17.80] And say: My Lord!
make me to enter a goodly entering,
and cause me to go forth a goodly
going forth, and grant me from near
Thee power to assist (me).
[17.81] And say: The truth
has come and the falsehood has
vanished; surely falsehood is a
vanishing (thing).
[17.82] And We reveal of the
Quran that which is a healing and a
mercy to the believers, and it adds
only to the perdition of the unjust.
[17.83] And when We bestow
favor on man, he turns aside and
behaves proudly, and when evil
afflicts him, he is despairing.
[17.84] Say: Every one acts
according to his manner; but your
Lord best knows who is best guided
in the path.
[17.85] And they ask you
about the soul. Say: The soul is one
of the commands of my Lord, and you
are not given aught of knowledge but
a little.
[17.86] And if We please, We
should certainly take away that
which We have revealed to you, then
you would not find for it any
protector against Us.
[17.87] But on account of
mercy from your Lord-- surely His
grace to you is abundant.
[17.88] Say: If men and jinn
should combine together to bring the
like of this Quran, they could not
bring the like of it, though some of
them were aiders of others.
[17.89] And certainly We have
explained for men in this Quran
every kind of similitude, but most
men do not consent to aught but
denying.
[17.90] And they say: We will
by no means believe in you until you
cause a fountain to gush forth from
the earth for us.
[17.91] Or you should have a
garden of palms and grapes in the
midst of which you should cause
rivers to flow forth, gushing out.
[17.92] Or you should cause
the heaven to come down upon us in
pieces as you think, or bring Allah
and the angels face to face (with
us).
[17.93] Or you should have a
house of gold, or you should ascend
into heaven, and we will not believe
in your ascending until you bring
down to us a book which we may read.
Say: Glory be to my Lord; am I aught
but a mortal apostle?
[17.94] And nothing prevented
people from believing when the
guidance came to them except that
they said: What! has Allah raised up
a mortal to be an apostle?
[17.95] Say: Had there been
in the earth angels walking about as
settlers, We would certainly have
sent down to them from the heaven an
angel as an apostle.
[17.96] Say: Allah suffices
as a witness between me and you;
surely He is Aware of His servants,
Seeing.
[17.97] And whomsoever Allah
guides, he is the follower of the
right way, and whomsoever He causes
to err, you shall not find for him
guardians besides Him; and We will
gather them together on the day of
resurrection on their faces, blind
and dumb and deaf; their abode is
hell; whenever it becomes allayed We
will add to their burning.
[17.98] This is their
retribution because they disbelieved
in Our communications and said What!
when we shall have become bones and
decayed particles, shall we then
indeed be raised up into a new
creation?
[17.99] Do they not consider
that Allah, Who created the heavens
and the earth, is able to create
their like, and He has appointed for
them a doom about which there is no
doubt? But the unjust do not consent
to aught but denying.
[17.100] Say: If you control
the treasures of the mercy of my
Lord, then you would withhold (them)
from fear of spending, and man is
niggardly.
[17.101] And certainly We
gave Musa nine clear signs; so ask
the children of Israel. When he came
to them, Firon said to him: Most
surely I deem you, O Musa, to be a
man deprived of reason.
[17.102] He said: Truly you
know that none but the Lord of the
heavens and the earth has sent down
these as clear proof and most surely
I believe you, O Firon, to be given
over to perdition.
[17.103] So he desired to
destroy them out of the earth, but
We drowned him and those with him
all together;
[17.104] And We said to the
Israelites after him: Dwell in the
land: and when the promise of the
next life shall come to pass, we
will bring you both together in
judgment.
[17.105] And with truth have
We revealed it, and with truth did
it come; and We have not sent you
but as the giver of good news and as
a warner.
[17.106] And it is a Quran
which We have revealed in portions
so that you may read it to the
people by slow degrees, and We have
revealed it, revealing in portions.
[17.107] Say: Believe in it
or believe not; surely those who are
given the knowledge before it fall
down on their faces, making
obeisance when it is recited to
them.
[17.108] And they say: Glory
be to our Lord! most surely the
promise of our Lord was to be
fulfilled.
[17.109] And they fall down
on their faces weeping, and it adds
to their humility.
[17.110] Say: Call upon Allah
or call upon, the Beneficent God;
whichever you call upon, He has the
best names; and do not utter your
prayer with a very raised voice nor
be silent with regard to it, and
seek a way between these.
[17.111] And say: (All)
praise is due to Allah, Who has not
taken a son and Who has not a
partner in the kingdom, and Who has
not a helper to save Him from
disgrace; and proclaim His greatness
magnifying (Him). |
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