Thunder (Chapter Thirteen) (feat. English Quran)

Chapter 13 THE THUNDER In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Alif-Lam-Mim-Ra These are the verses of the book, this Qur'an And that which has been revealed to you, O Muhammad, from your Lord is the truth, but Most men do not believe Allah is He who raised the heavens without any pillars that you can perceive When He rose above the throne in a manner that suits His majesty, He has subjected the Sun and the moon to each running its course for a term appointed He regulates all affairs, explaining the signs and revelations in detail that you may believe With certainty in the meeting with your Lord And it is He who spread out the earth and placed there firm mountains and rivers And from the different kinds of fruit He made them into pairs, males and females He brings the night as a cover over the day Indeed in these things there are signs and revelations for people who reflect And in the earth are neighboring tracts and gardens of vines and green crops, and dead Palms growing out two or three from a single stem root, or otherwise from one stem root For every palm, watered with the same water, yet some of them we make more excellent than Others to eat Indeed in these things there are signs for people who understand And if you, O Mohammed, wonder at these polytheists who deny your message of Islamic monotheism And have taken besides Allah others for worship, who can neither harm nor benefit, then wondrous Is their saying, When we are dust, shall we then be raised in a new creation They are those who disbelieve in their Lord They are those who will have iron chains tying their hands to their necks They will be dwellers of the fire to abide there They challenge you to bring doom upon them rather than turning righteous Sufficient precedents have been set for them in the past, but indeed your Lord is full Of forgiveness for mankind in spite of their wrongdoing, and indeed your Lord is also severe In punishment Then the disbelievers say, Why is a sign not sent down to him from his Lord You are only a warner, and to every people there is a guide Allah knows what every female bears, and what every womb releases or gains Everything with him is in due proportion, all-knower of the unseen and the seen, the Most great, the most high It is the same to him whether any of you conceal his speech or declare it openly, whether He hide by night or go forth freely by day For each person there are angels in succession before and behind him They guard him by the command of Allah Indeed Allah will not change the good condition of a people as long as they do not change Their state of goodness themselves And when Allah wills a people's punishment, there can be no turning back from it, and They will find besides him no protector It is he who shows you the lightning as a fear for travellers and as a hope for those Who wait for rain, and it is he who creates the clouds heavy with water And the thunder glorifies and praises him, and so do the angels because of his awe He sends thunderbolts, and with them he strikes whom he wills But the disbelievers dispute about Allah He is mighty in strength and severe in punishment For him alone is the word of truth, that none has the right to be worshipped but he And those whom the polytheists and disbelievers invoke answer them no more than one who stretches Forth his hand at the edge of a deep well for water to reach his mouth But it does not reach him, and the invocation of the disbelievers is nothing but an error And of no use And to Allah alone falls in prostration whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly Or unwillingly, and so do their shadows in the mornings and the afternoons Say O Muhammad, who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth Say, It is Allah Say, Have you then taken for worship protectors other than him, such as have no power, either For benefit or for harm to themselves Say, Is the blind equal to the one who sees, or darkness equal to light Or do they assign to Allah partners who created the like of his creation, so that the creation Which they made and his creation seemed alike to them Say, Allah is the Creator of all things He is the One, the Irresistible He sends down rain from the sky, and the valleys flow according to their measure But the flood bears away the foam that mounts up to the surface And from the ore, which they heat in the fire in order to make ornaments or utensils, rises A foam like it Thus does Allah by parables separate truth and falsehood Then as for the foam it passes away as scum upon the banks, while that which is for the Good of mankind remains in the earth Thus Allah sets forth parables for truth and falsehood For those who answered their Lord's call, and believed in the oneness of Allah, and Followed his messenger Muhammad, is paradise But those who have not answered his call, and disbelieved in the oneness of Allah, and Have not followed his messenger Muhammad, if they had all that is in the earth together With its like, they would offer it in order to save themselves from the torment, but it Will all be in vain For them there will be a terrible reckoning, their dwelling place will be hell, and worst Indeed is that place for rest Shall he who knows that what has been revealed to you, O Muhammad, from your Lord is the Truth, be like him who is blind But it is only the men of understanding that pay heed, those who fulfil the covenant of Allah, and do not break the covenant Those who join that which Allah has commanded to be joined, they are good to their relatives And do not sever the bond of kinship Those who fear their Lord, and dread the terrible reckoning, and abstain from all kinds of sins And evil deeds which Allah has forbidden, and perform all kinds of good deeds which Allah has ordained And those who remain patient, seeking their Lord's countenance, perform prayer, and spend Out of that which we have bestowed on them, secretly and openly, and defend evil with Good, for such there is a good end Everlasting gardens in paradise, which they shall enter along with those who acted righteously From among their fathers and their wives and their offspring And angels shall enter to them from every gate, saying, Peace be upon you, for you persevered In patience Excellent indeed is the final home And those who break the covenant of Allah, after pledging to it, and sever that which Allah has commanded to be joined, by severing the bond of kinship, and not being good to Their relatives, and work mischief in the land, on them is the curse They will be far away from Allah's mercy, and for them is the unhappy evil home of hell Allah increases provision for whom He wills, and withholds it from whom He wills And they rejoice in the life of this world, whereas the life of this world, as compared With the hereafter, is but a brief passing enjoyment And those who disbelieve say, Why is a sign not sent down to Muhammad from his Lord Say, Indeed, Allah sends astray whom He wills, and guides to Himself those who turn to Him In repentance Those who believe in the oneness of Allah, and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance Of Allah, indeed, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest Those who believe in the oneness of Allah, and work righteousness, all kinds of happiness Is for them, and a beautiful place of final return Thus we have sent you, O Muhammad, to a community before whom other communities have passed Away, in order that you might recite to them what we have inspired to you, while they disbelieve In the most gracious Allah Say, He is my Lord, none has the right to be worshipped but He In Him is my trust, and to Him will be my return with repentance And if there had been a Koran with which mountains could be moved from their places, or the earth Could be cloven asunder, or the dead could be made to speak, it would not have been other Than this Koran But the decision of all things is certainly with Allah Have then those who believe not y