Surah The Beneficient [Al-Rahman] in English

The Merciful

has taught the Koran.

He created the human

and taught him its pronunciation.

The sun and the moon to a reckoning.

The stars and the trees prostrate themselves.

He raised the heaven on high and set the scale.

Do not transgress the scales.

Give just weight and do not skimp the scales.

He set down the earth for the creation.

Therein are fruits and palm trees with sheaths,

the grain in the blade; and aromatic herbs.

Which favors of your Lord will you both (humans and jinn) belie?

He created the human from clay, like earthenware

and He created the jinn from smokeless fire.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

The Lord of the Two Easts, the Lord of the Two Wests.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

He has let forth the two seas, they meet together,

and between them is a barrier which they do not overpass.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Pearls and corals come from both.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Also, His are the ships that run, raised up like mountains upon the sea.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

All that live on it will perish.

Yet the Face of your Lord will abide forever, Majestic and Splendid.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Whosoever is in the heaven and earth ask Him. Every day He is upon an affair (He reveals according to His Eternal determination).

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

We shall surely aim, O both burdened.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Tribe of jinn and of human, if you are able to penetrate the provinces of heaven and earth, pass through them! But you shall not pass through except with a power!

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Flames of fire and molten copper shall be loosed against you, and you shall not be helped.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

When the heaven splits asunder and turns crimson, like red leather.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

On that Day, neither human nor jinn shall be asked about his sin.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

The sinners shall be known by their mark, they shall be seized by their forelocks and their feet.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

This is Gehenna (Hell) which the sinners belied,

they shall go round between it, and between a hot, boiling water.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

And for he who fears the standing (before) his Lord there are two Gardens.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

(Gardens) with many branches.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Therein are two running fountains.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Therein are two kinds of every fruit.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

(They shall) recline on couches lined with brocade, and the fruits of the Gardens will be near at hand.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Therein are maidens who restrain their glances, whom neither human nor jinn have touched before.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

As (lovely as) rubies and as (beautiful as) coral.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Shall the recompense of goodness be anything other than goodness?

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

And beside these there shall be two Gardens.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

The greenest of green pastures.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Therein are two gushing fountains of water.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

In them are fruits, palm trees and pomegranates.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

In them shall be good and pleasing.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Maidens (of Paradise, Houris) in cloistered cool pavilions.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Neither human nor jinn will have touched them before.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?

Reclining on green cushions and fine carpets.

Which favors of your Lord will you both belie?