English Translation Of ''THE HOLY QUR'AN''

CHAPTER 43. DECORATIONS (az-Zukhruf)

  In  the  name  of  Allah,  the  Gracious,  the  Merciful 

1. Ha, Meem.

2. By the Book that makes things clear.

3. We made it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand.

4. And it is with Us, in the Source Book, sublime and wise.

5. Shall We hold back the Reminder from you, since you are a transgressing people?

6. How many a prophet did We send to the ancients?

7. No messenger came to them, but they ridiculed him.

8. We destroyed people more powerful than they, and so the example of the ancients has passed away.

9. And if you asked them, "Who created the heavens and the earth?" They would say, "The Mighty, the Knower created them."

10. He who made the earth a habitat for you, and traced pathways for you on it, that you may be guided.

11. He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land. Thus you will be brought out.

12. He Who created all the pairs; and provided you with ships, and animals on which you ride.

13. That you may mount their backs, and remember the favor of your Lord as you sit firmly upon them, and say, "Glory be to Him Who placed these at our service; surely we could not have done it by ourselves.

14. And surely, to our Lord we will return."

15. Yet they turn one of His servants into a part of Him. Man is clearly ungrateful.

16. Or has He chosen for Himself daughters from what He creates, and favored you with sons?

17. Yet when one of them is given news of what he attributes to the Most Gracious, his face darkens, and he suppresses grief.

18. "Someone brought up to be beautiful, and unable to help in a fight?"

19. And they appoint the angels, who are servants to the Most Gracious, as females. Have they witnessed their creation? Their claim will be recorded, and they will be questioned.

20. And they say, "Had the Most Gracious willed, we would not have worshiped them." But they have no knowledge of that; they are merely guessing.

21. Or have We given them a book prior to this one, to which they adhere?

22. But they say, "We found our parents on a course, and we are guided in their footsteps."

23. Likewise, We sent no warner before you to any town, but the wealthy among them said, "We found our parents on a course, and we are following in their footsteps."

24. He would say, "Even if I bring you better guidance than what you found your parents following?" They would say, "We reject what you are sent with."

25. So We wreaked vengeance upon them. Behold, then, what was the fate of those who deny.

26. When Abraham said to his father and his people, "I am innocent of what you worship.

27. Except for He who created me, for He will guide me."

28. And he made it an enduring word in his progeny, so that they may return.