Al-Isra

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

 1. Glory to Him who journeyed His servant
by night, from the Sacred Mosque to
the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We
have blessed, in order to show him of Our
wonders. He is the Listener, the Beholder.
2. And We gave Moses the Scripture, and
made it a guide for the Children of Israel:
Take none for protector other than Me.
3. The descendants of those We carried
with Noah. He was an appreciative servant.

4. And We conveyed to the Children of
Israel in the Scripture: You will commit
evil on earth twice, and you will rise to a
great height.
5. When the first of the two promises came
true, We sent against you servants of
Ours, possessing great might, and they
ransacked your homes. It was a promise
fulfilled.
6. Then We gave you back your turn
against them, and supplied you with
wealth and children, and made you more
numerous.
7. If you work righteousness, you work
righteousness for yourselves, and if you
commit evil, you do so against yourselves.
Then, when the second promise comes
true, they will make your faces filled with
sorrow, and enter the Temple as they entered
it the first time, and utterly destroy
all that falls into their power.
8. Perhaps your Lord will have mercy on
you. But if you revert, We will revert. We
have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.
9. This Quran guides to what is most upright;
and it gives good news to the believers
who do good deeds, that they will have
a great reward.
10. And those who do not believe in the
Hereafter—We have prepared for them a
painful punishment.
11. The human being prays for evil as he
prays for good. The human being is very
hasty.
12. We have made the night and the day
two wonders. We erased the wonder of the
night, and made the wonder of the day
revealing, that you may seek bounty from
your Lord, and know the number of years,
and the calculation. We have explained all
things in detail.
13. For every person We have attached his
fate to his neck. And on the Day of Resurrection,
We will bring out for him a book
which he will find spread open.
14. “Read your book; today there will be
none but yourself to call you to account.”
15. Whoever is guided—is guided for his
own good. And whoever goes astray—goes
astray to his detriment. No burdened soul
carries the burdens of another, nor do We
ever punish until We have sent a messenger.
16. When We decide to destroy a town, We
command its affluent ones, they transgress
in it, so the word becomes justified against
it, and We destroy it completely.
17. How many generations have We destroyed
after Noah? Your Lord is sufficient
as Knower and Beholder of the sins of his
servants.
18. Whoever desires the fleeting life, We
expedite for him what We decide to give
him, to whomever We desire. Then We
consign him to Hell, where he will roast,
condemned and defeated.
19. But whoever desires the Hereafter, and
pursues it as it should be pursued, while
he is a believer—their effort will be appreciated.
20. To all—these and those—We extend
from the gifts of your Lord. The gifts of
your Lord are not restricted.
21. See how We have favored some of them
over others; yet the Hereafter is greater in
ranks, and greater in favors.
22. Do not set up another god with God,
lest you become condemned and damned.
23. Your Lord has commanded that you
worship none but Him, and that you be
good to your parents. If either of them or
both of them reach old age with you, do
not say to them a word of disrespect, nor
scold them, but say to them kind words.
24. And lower to them the wing of humility,
out of mercy, and say, “My Lord, have
mercy on them, as they raised me when I
was a child.”
25. Your Lord knows best what is in your
minds. If you are righteous—He is Forgiving
to the obedient.
26. And give the relative his rights, and the
poor, and the wayfarer, and do not squander
wastefully.
27. The extravagant are brethren of the
devils, and the devil is ever ungrateful to
his Lord.
28. But if you turn away from them, seeking
mercy from your Lord which you hope
for, then say to them words of comfort.
29. And do not keep your hand tied to your
neck, nor spread it out fully, lest you end
up liable and regretful.
30. Your Lord expands the provision for
whomever He wills, and restricts it. He is
fully Informed, Observant of His servants.
31. And do not kill your children for fear of
poverty. We provide for them, and for
you. Killing them is a grave sin.
32. And do not come near adultery. It is
immoral, and an evil way.
33. And do not kill the soul which God has
made sacred, except in the course of justice.
If someone is killed unjustly, We have
given his next of kin certain authority. But
he should not be excessive in killing, for
he will be supported.
34. And do not go near the orphan’s property,
except with the best of intentions,
until he has reached his maturity. And
honor your pledge, because the pledge
involves responsibility.
35. And give full measure when you measure,
and weigh with accurate scales. That
is fair, and the best determination.
36. And do not occupy yourself with what
you have no knowledge of. The hearing,
and the sight, and the brains—all these
will be questioned.
37. And do not walk proudly on earth. You
can neither pierce the earth, nor can you
match the mountains in height.
38. The evil of all these is disliked by your
Lord.
39. That is some of the wisdom your Lord
has revealed to you. Do not set up with
God another god, or else you will be
thrown in Hell, rebuked and banished.
40. Has your Lord favored you with sons,
while choosing for Himself daughters
from among the angels? You are indeed
saying a terrible thing.
41. We have explained in this Quran in
various ways, that they may remember,
but it only adds to their rebellion.
42. Say, “If there were other gods with
Him, as they say, they would have sought
a way to the Lord of the Throne.”
43. Be He glorified. He is exalted, far above
what they say.
44. Praising Him are the seven heavens,
and the earth, and everyone in them.
There is not a thing that does not glorify
Him with praise, but you do not understand
their praises. He is indeed Forbearing
and Forgiving.
45. When you read the Quran, We place
between you and those who do not believe
in the Hereafter an invisible barrier.
46. And We drape veils over their hearts,
preventing them from understanding it,
and heaviness in their ears. And when you
mention your Lord alone in the Quran,
they turn their backs in aversion.
47. We know well what they listen to, when
they listen to you, as they conspire, when
the wrongdoers say, “You only follow a
man bewitched.”
48. Note what they compared you to. They
are lost, and unable to find a way.
49. And they say, “When we have become
bones and fragments, shall we really be
resurrected as a new creation?”
50. Say, “Even if you become rocks or iron.
51. Or some substance, which, in your
minds, is even harder.” Then they will say,
“Who will restore us?” Say, “The One who
originated you the first time.” Then they
will nod their heads at you, and say,
“When will it be?” Say, “Perhaps it will be
soon.”
52. On the Day when He calls you, you will
respond with His praise; and you will realize
that you stayed only a little.
53. Tell My servants to say what is best.
Satan sows discord among them. Satan is
to man an open enemy.
54. Your Lord knows you best. If He wills,
He will have mercy on you; and if He
wills, He will punish you. We did not send
you as their advocate.
55. Your Lord knows well everyone in the
heavens and the earth. We have given
some prophets advantage over others, and
to David We gave the Psalms.
56. Say, “Call upon those you claim besides
Him. They have no power to relieve your
adversity, nor can they change it.”
57. Those they call upon are themselves
seeking means of access to their Lord, vying
to be nearer, and hoping for His mercy,
and fearing His punishment. The punishment
of your Lord is to be dreaded.
58. There is no city but We will destroy
before the Day of Resurrection, or punish
it with a severe punishment. This is inscribed
in the Book.
59. Nothing prevents Us from sending miraculous
signs, except that the ancients
called them lies. We gave Thamood the
she-camel, a visible sign, but they mistreated
her. We do not send the signs except
to instill reverence.
60. We said to you that your Lord encompasses
humanity. We did not make the
vision We showed you, except as a test for
the people, and the tree cursed in the
Quran. We frighten them, but that only
increases their defiance.
61. When We said to the angels, “Bow
down before Adam,” they bowed down,
except for Satan. He said, “Shall I bow
down before someone You created from
mud?”
62. He said, “Do You see this one whom
You have honored more than me? If You
reprieve me until the Day of Resurrection,
I will bring his descendants under my
sway, except for a few.”
63. He said, “Begone! Whoever of them
follows you—Hell is your reward, an ample
reward.”
64. “And entice whomever of them you can
with your voice, and rally against them
your cavalry and your infantry, and share
with them in wealth and children, and
make promises to them.” But Satan promises
them nothing but delusion.
65. “As for My devotees, you have no authority
over them.” Your Lord is an adequate
Guardian.
66. Your Lord is He who propels for you
the ships at sea, that you may seek of His
bounty. He is towards you Most Merciful.
67. When harm afflicts you at sea, those
you pray to vanish, except for Him. But
when He saves you to land, you turn away.
The human being is ever thankless.
68. Are you confident that He will not
cause a track of land to cave in beneath
you, or unleash a tornado against you, and
then you find no protector?
69. Or are you confident that He will not
return you to it once again, and unleash a
hurricane against you, and drown you for
your ingratitude? Then you will find no
helper against Us.
70. We have honored the Children of Adam,
and carried them on land and sea, and
provided them with good things, and
greatly favored them over many of those
We created.
71. On the Day when We call every people
with their leader. Whoever is given his
record in his right hand—these will read
their record, and they will not be wronged
one bit.
72. But whoever is blind in this, he will be
blind in the Hereafter, and further astray
from the way.
73. They almost lured you away from what
We have revealed to you, so that you
would invent something else in Our name.
In that case, they would have taken you
for a friend.
74. Had We not given you stability, you
might have inclined towards them a little.
75. Then We would have made you taste
double in life, and double at death; then
you would have found for yourself no
helper against Us.
76. They almost provoked you, to expel
you from the land. In that case, they
would not have lasted after you, except
briefly.
77. The tradition of the messengers We
sent before you—you will find no change
in Our rules.
78. Perform the prayer at the decline of the
sun, until the darkness of the night; and
the Quran at dawn. The Quran at dawn is
witnessed.
79. And keep vigil with it during parts of
the night, as an extra prayer. Perhaps your
Lord will raise you to a laudable position.
80. And say, “My Lord, lead me in through
an entry of truth, and lead me out through
an exit of truth, and grant me from You a
supporting power.”
81. And say, “The truth has come, and
falsehood has withered away; for falsehood
is bound to wither away.”
82. We send down in the Quran healing
and mercy for the believers, but it increases
the wrongdoers only in loss.
83. When We bless the human being, he
turns away and distances himself. But
when adversity touches him, he is in despair.
84. Say, “Each does according to his disposition.
Your Lord knows best who is better
guided in the way.”
85. And they ask you about the Spirit. Say,
“The Spirit belongs to the domain of my
Lord; and you were not given except little
knowledge.”
86. If We willed, We could take away what
We revealed to you. Then you will find for
yourself no protecting guardian against
Us.
87. Except through a mercy from your
Lord. His favors upon you have been
great.
88. Say, “If mankind and jinn came together
to produce the like of this Quran, they
could never produce the like of it, even if
they backed up one another.”
89. We have displayed for mankind in this
Quran every kind of similitude, but most
people insist on denying the truth.
90. And they said, “We will not believe in
you unless you make a spring burst from
the ground for us.
91. Or you have a garden of palms and
vines; then cause rivers to gush pouring
through them.
92. Or make the sky fall on us in pieces, as
you claim, or bring God and the angels
before us.
93. Or you possess a house of gold. Or you
ascend into the sky. Even then, we will not
believe in your ascension, unless you bring
down for us a book that we can read.” Say,
“Glory be to my Lord. Am I anything but
a human messenger?”
94. Nothing prevented the people from
believing, when guidance has come to
them, except that they said, “Did God
send a human messenger?”
95. Say, “If there were angels on earth,
walking around in peace, We would have
sent down to them from heaven an angel
messenger.”
96. Say, “God is enough witness between
you and me. He is fully aware of His servants,
and He sees them well.”
97. Whomever God guides is the guided
one. And whomever He leaves astray—for
them you will find no protectors apart
from Him. And We will gather them on
the Day of Resurrection, on their faces,
blind, dumb, and deaf. Their abode is
Hell; whenever it abates, We intensify the
blaze for them.
98. This is their repayment for having blasphemed
against Our revelations, and having
said, “Shall we, when we have become
bones and fragments, be resurrected as a
new creation?”
99. Do they not consider that God, Who
created the heavens and the earth, is Able
to create the likes of them? He has assigned
for them a term, in which there is
no doubt. But the wrongdoers persist in
denying the truth.
100. Say, “If you possessed the treasuries of
my Lord’s mercy, you would have withheld
them, for fear of spending.” The human
being has always been stingy.
101. We gave Moses nine clear signs—ask
the Children of Israel. When he went to
them, Pharaoh said to him, “I think that
you, Moses, are bewitched.”
102. He said, “You know that none sent
these down except the Lord of the heavens
and the earth—eye openers; and I think
that you, Pharaoh, are doomed.”
103. He resolved to scare them off the land,
but We drowned him, and those with him,
altogether.
104. After him, We said to the Children of
Israel, “Inhabit the land, and when the
promise of the Hereafter arrives, We will
bring you all together.”
105. With the truth We sent it down, and
with the truth it descended. And We sent
you only as a bearer of good news and a
warner.
106. A Quran which We unfolded gradually,
that you may recite to the people over
time. And We revealed it in stages.
107. Say, “Believe in it, or do not believe.”
Those who were given knowledge before
it, when it is recited to them, they fall to
their chins, prostrating.
108. And they say, “Glory to our Lord. The
promise of our Lord is fulfilled.”
109. And they fall to their chins, weeping,
and it adds to their humility.
110. Say, “Call Him God, or call Him the
Most Merciful. Whichever name you use,
to Him belong the Best Names.” And be
neither loud in your prayer, nor silent in
it, but follow a course in between.
111. And say, “Praise be to God, who has
not begotten a son, nor has He a partner
in sovereignty, nor has He an ally out of
weakness, and glorify Him constantly.”