Sura 55: Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan)
Number of verses: 78
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
1. The Most Gracious.
2. Teacher of the Quran.
3. Creator of the human
beings.
4. He taught them how to
distinguish.
5. The sun and the
moon are perfectly calculated.
6. The stars and the
trees prostrate.
7. He constructed the sky
and established the law.
8. You shall not
transgress the law.
9. You shall establish
justice; do not violate the law.
10. He created the
earth for all creatures.
11. In it there are
fruits, and date palms with their hanging fruit.
12. Also grains and the
spices.
13. (O humans and jinns,)
which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
14. He created the
human from aged clay, like the potter's clay.
15. And created the jinns
from blazing fire.
16. (O humans and jinns,)
which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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*55:11 Compare the spaceship
Earth's renewable systems and reproducing astronauts with the
most sophisticated spaceships that we launch into space. God be
glorified.
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17. Lord of the two
easts and the two wests.
18. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
19. He separates the
two seas where they meet.
20. A barrier is placed
between them, to prevent them from transgressing.
21. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
22. Out of both of
them you get pearls and coral.
23. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
24. He gave you ships
that roam the sea like flags.
25. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
26. Everyone on earth
perishes.
27. Only the presence of
your Lord lasts. Possessor of Majesty and Honor.
28. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
29. Imploring Him is
everyone in the heavens and the earth. Every day He is in full
control.
30. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
31. We will call you
to account, O humans and jinns.
32. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
33. O you jinns and
humans, if you can penetrate the outer limits of the heavens and
the earth, go ahead and penetrate. You cannot penetrate without
authorization.
34. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
35. You get bombarded
with projectiles of fire and metal, and you cannot win.
36. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
37. When the sky
disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint.
38. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
39. On that day, no
human, nor a jinn, will be asked about his sins.
40. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
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41. (This is because)
the guilty will be recognized by their looks; they will be taken
by the forelocks and the feet.
42. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
43. This is Gehenna
that the guilty used to deny.
44. They will circulate
between it and an intolerable inferno.
45. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
46. For those who
reverence the majesty of their Lord, two gardens (one for the
jinns and one for the humans).
47. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
48. Full of
provisions.
49. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
50. Two springs are in
them, flowing.
51. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
52. Of every fruit in
them, two kinds.
53. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
54. While relaxing on
furnishings lined with satin, the fruits are within reach.
55. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
56. Their beautiful
mates were never touched by any human or jinn.
57. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
58. They look like
gems and coral.
59. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
60. Is the reward of
goodness anything but goodness?
61. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
62. Below them are two
gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).
63. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
64. Side by side.
65. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
66. In them, wells to
be pumped.
67. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
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*55:44 Full details about the High
Heaven, Low Heaven, the Purgatory, Hell, and the intolerable
inferno are given in Appendices 5 and 11.
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68. In them are
fruits, date palms, and pomegranate.
69. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
70. In them are
beautiful mates.
71. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
72. Confined in the
tents.
73. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
74. No human ever
touched them, nor a jinn.
75. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
76. They relax on
green carpets, in beautiful surroundings.
77. Which of your Lord's
marvels can you deny?
78. Most
exalted is the name of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor.
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