Surah The Beneficient [Al-Rahman] in English

The Merciful

who taught the Quran --

He created man

and He taught him speech.

The sun and the moon move according to a fixed reckoning;

the stars and the trees bend in prostration.

He raised the heavens and set up the measure,

so that you should not transgress the measure.

Always measure with justice and do not give short measure.

He has laid out the earth for His creatures.

On it are fruits and palm-trees with sheathed clusters [of dates],

and grains with their husk and fragrant plants.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

He has created man, from dry ringing clay, like the potter\"s,

and He created the jinns from a flame of fire.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

He is the Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

He has set the two oceans in motion, converging together.

Between them is a barrier, which they do not overrun.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Pearls and corals come forth from both of them.

Which, of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

His are the lofty ships, that rear aloft on the sea like mountains.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

All that is on the earth is doomed to perish,

while your Lord's own Self will remain full of majesty and glory.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Everyone in the heavens and on the earth entreats Him. Every day He manifests Himself in a new state.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Soon We shall attend to you -- two big groups [of jinn and mankind].

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

O company of jinn and men! If you have the power to go beyond the realms of the heavens and the earth, pass beyond them: you cannot pass out but with [Our] authority.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Flames of fire and molten brass shall be sent against both of you, and you will not be able to defend yourselves.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

When the sky is rent asunder, and becomes red like red leather,

which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

For, on that Day, neither man nor jinn will be questioned about his sins.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

The guilty shall be recognized by their marks so they shall be seized by their forelocks and their feet.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

This is the Hell which the guilty called a lie.

They will go round between its flames and boiling water.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

There are two gardens for one who fears standing before his Lord.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

[There will be two gardens with] spreading branches.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

In both of them, there are two springs flowing.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

In both of them, there will be two kinds of every fruit.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

They will recline upon carpets lined with rich brocade; and the fruits of both these gardens will be within easy reach.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Therein are maidens of modest gaze, whom neither a man nor a jinn had ever touched before them.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

[There will be] maidens as fair as corals and rubies.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

The reward of goodness shall be nothing but goodness.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Besides those two there shall be two other gardens.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Both [gardens] of the darkest green.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

In both of them live springs gush forth.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

In both of them there will be fruit trees and date-palms and pomegranates.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Therein will be maidens chaste and beautiful.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

[There the blessed will live with their] pure companions sheltered in pavilions.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

Whom neither a man or jinn had ever touched before them.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?

[They will live in such a paradise] reclining upon green cushions and the finest carpets.

Which of your Lord's wonders would you deny?