Al-Hijr

In the name of God, the Gracious, the
Merciful.

1. Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the Verses of
the Book, a Quran that makes things clear.
2. Perhaps those who disbelieve would like
to become Muslims.
3. Leave them to eat, and enjoy, and be
lulled by hope. They will find out.
4. We have never destroyed a town unless
it had a set time.

5. No nation can bring its time forward,
nor can they delay it.
6. And they said, “O you who received the
message, you are insane.”
7. Why do you not bring us the angels, if
you are truthful?”
8. We do not send the angels down except
with reason, and they will not be held
back.
9. Surely We revealed the message, and
We will surely preserve it.
10. We sent others before you, to the former
communities.
11. But no messenger came to them, but
they ridiculed him.
12. Thus We slip it into the hearts of the
guilty.
13. They do not believe in it, though the
ways of the ancients have passed away.
14. Even if We opened for them a gateway
into the sky, and they began to ascend
through it.
15. They would still say, “Our eyes are hallucinating;
in fact, we are people bewitched.”
16. We placed constellations in the sky,
and made them beautiful to the beholders.
17. And We guarded them from every outcast
devil.
18. Except one who steals a hearing, and is
followed by a visible projectile.
19. We spread the earth, and placed stabilizers
in it, and in it We grew all things in
proper measure.
20. And in it We created livelihoods for
you, and for those for whom you are not
the providers.
21. There is not a thing but with Us are its
stores, and We send it down only in precise
measure.
22. And We send the fertilizing winds; and
send down water from the sky, and give it
to you to drink; and you are not the ones
who store it.
23. It is We who give life and cause death,
and We are the Inheritors.
24. And We know those of you who go
forward, and We know those who lag behind.
25. It is your Lord who will gather them
together. He is the Wise, the Knowing.
26. We created the human being from clay,
from molded mud.
27. And the jinn We created before, from
piercing fire.
28. Your Lord said to the angels, “I am creating
a human being, from clay, from
molded mud.”
29. “When I have formed him, and
breathed into him of My spirit, fall down
prostrating before him.”
30. So the angels prostrated themselves, all
together.
31. Except for Satan. He refused to be
among those who prostrated themselves.
32. He said, “O Satan, what kept you from
being among those who prostrated themselves?”
33. He said, “I am not about to prostrate
myself before a human being, whom You
created from clay, from molded mud.”
34. He said, “Then get out of here, for you
are an outcast”.
35. “And the curse will be upon you until
the Day of Judgment.”
36. He said, “My Lord, reprieve me until
the Day they are resurrected.”
37. He said, “You are of those reprieved.”
38. “Until the Day of the time appointed.”
39. He said, “My Lord, since You have
lured me away, I will glamorize for them
on earth, and I will lure them all away.”
40. “Except for Your sincere servants
among them.”
41. He said, “This is a right way with Me.”
42. “Over My servants you have no authority,
except for the sinners who follow you.”
43. And Hell is the meeting-place for them
all.
44. “It has seven doors; for each door is an
assigned class.”
45. But the righteous will be in gardens
with springs.
46. “Enter it in peace and security.”
47. And We will remove all ill-feelings
from their hearts—brothers and sisters, on
couches facing one another.
48. No fatigue will ever touch them therein,
nor will they be asked to leave it.
49. Inform My servants that I am the Forgiver,
the Merciful.
50. And that My punishment is the painful
punishment.
51. And inform them of the guests of
Abraham.
52. When they entered upon him, and said,
“Peace.” He said, “We are wary of you.”
53. They said, “Do not fear; we bring you
good news of a boy endowed with
knowledge.”
54. He said, “Do you bring me good news,
when old age has overtaken me? What
good news do you bring?”
55. They said, “We bring you good news in
truth, so do not despair.”
56. He said, “And who despairs of his
Lord’s mercy but the lost?”
57. He said, “So what is your business, O
envoys?”
58. They said, “We were sent to a sinful
people.”
59. “Except for the family of Lot; we will
save them all.”
60. “Except for his wife.” We have determined
that she will be of those who lag
behind.
61. And when the envoys came to the family
of Lot.
62. He said, “You are a people unknown to
me.”
63. They said, “We bring you what they
have doubts about.”
64. “We bring you the truth, and we are
truthful.”
65. “Travel with your family at the dead of
the night, and follow up behind them, and
let none of you look back, and proceed as
commanded.”
66. And We informed him of Our decree:
the last remnant of these will be uprooted
by early morning.
67. And the people of the town came joyfully.
68. He said, “These are my guests, so do
not embarrass me.”
69. “And fear God, and do not disgrace
me.”
70. They said, “Did we not forbid you from
strangers?”
71. He said, “These are my daughters, if
you must.”
72. By your life, they were blundering in
their drunkenness.
73. So the Blast struck them at sunrise.
74. And We turned it upside down, and
rained down upon them stones of baked
clay.
75. Surely in that is a lesson for those who
read signs.
76. And it is on an existing road.
77. Surely in that is a sign for the believers.
78. The people of the Woods were also
wrongdoers.
79. So We took revenge upon them. Both
are clearly documented.
80. And the people of the Rock also rejected
the messengers.
81. We gave them Our revelations, but they
turned away from them.
82. They used to carve homes in the mountains,
feeling secure.
83. But the Blast struck them in the morning.
84. All they had acquired was of no avail to
them.
85. We did not create the heavens and the
earth, and what lies between them, except
with truth. The Hour is coming, so forgive
with gracious forgiveness.
86. Your Lord is the All-Knowing Creator.
87. We have given you seven of the pairs,
and the Grand Quran.
88. Do not extend your eyes towards what
We have bestowed on some couples of
them to enjoy, and do not grieve over
them, and lower your wing to the believers.
89. And say, “I am the clear warner.”
90. Just as We sent down to the separatists.
91. Those who made the Quran obsolete.
92. By your Lord, we will question them all.
93. About what they used to do.
94. So proclaim openly what you are commanded,
and turn away from the polytheists.
95. We are enough for you against the
mockers.
96. Those who set up another god with
God. They will come to know.
97. We are aware that your heart is strained
by what they say.
98. So glorify the praise of your Lord, and
be among those who bow down.
99. And worship your Lord, in order to
attain certainty.