Ar-Ra'd

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

1. Alif, Lam, Meem, Ra. These are the
signs of the Scripture. What is revealed to
you from your Lord is the truth, but most
people do not believe.
2. God is He who raised the heavens without
pillars that you can see, and then settled
on the Throne. And He regulated the
sun and the moon, each running for a
specified period. He manages all affairs,
and He explains the signs, that you may be
certain of the meeting with your Lord.
3. And it is He who spread the earth, and
placed on it mountains and rivers. Of every
kind of fruit He made a pair of two. He

causes the night to overlap the day. In that
are signs for people who reflect.
4. On earth are adjacent terrains, and gardens
of vines, and crops, and date-palms,
from the same root or from distinct roots,
irrigated with the same water. We make
some taste better than others. In that are
proofs for people who reason.
5. Should you wonder—the real wonder is
their saying: “When we have become dust,
will we be in a new creation?” Those are
they who defied their Lord. Those are they
who will have yokes around their necks.
Those are the inhabitants of the Fire,
where they will remain forever.
6. And they urge you to hasten evil before
good, though examples have passed away
before them. Your Lord is full of forgiveness
towards the people for their
wrongdoings, yet your Lord is severe in
retribution.
7. Those who disbelieve say, “Why was a
miracle not sent down to him from his
Lord?” You are only a warner, and to every
community is a guide.
8. God knows what every female bears,
and every increase and decrease of the
wombs. With Him, everything is by measure.
9. The Knower of the Invisible and the
Visible, the Grand, the Supreme.
10. It is the same; whether one of you conceals
his speech, or declares it; whether he
goes into hiding by night, or goes out by
day.
11. He has a succession, before him and
behind him, protecting him by God’s
command. God does not change the condition
of a people until they change what
is within themselves. And if God wills any
hardship for a people, there is no turning
it back, and apart from Him they have no
protector.
12. It is He who shows you the lightening,
causing fear and hope. And He produces
the heavy clouds.
13. The thunder praises His glory, and so
do the angels, in awe of Him. And He
sends the thunderbolts, striking with them
whomever He wills. Yet they argue about
God, while He is Tremendous in might.
14. To Him belongs the call to truth. Those
they call upon besides Him do not respond to them with anything—except as
someone who stretches his hands towards
water, so that it may reach his mouth, but
it does not reach it. The prayers of the unbelievers
are only in vain.
15. To God prostrates everyone in the
heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly,
as do their shadows, in the morning
and in the evening.
16. Say, “Who is the Lord of the heavens
and the earth?” Say, “God.” Say, “Have
you taken besides Him protectors, who
have no power to profit or harm even
themselves?” Say, “Are the blind and the
seeing equal? Or are darkness and light
equal? Or have they assigned to God associates,
who created the likes of His creation,
so that the creations seemed to them
alike? Say, “God is the Creator of all
things, and He is The One, the Irresistible.”
17. He sends down water from the sky, and
riverbeds flow according to their capacity.
The current carries swelling froth. And
from what they heat in fire of ornaments
or utensils comes a similar froth. Thus
God exemplifies truth and falsehood. As
for the froth, it is swept away, but what
benefits the people remains in the ground.
Thus God presents the analogies.
18. For those who respond to their Lord is
the best. But as for those who do not respond
to Him, even if they possessed everything
on earth, and twice as much, they
could not redeem themselves with it.
Those will have the worst reckoning; and
their home is Hell—a miserable destination.
19. Is he who knows that what was revealed
to your from your Lord is the truth, like he
who is blind? Only those who reason will
remember.
20. Those who fulfill the promise to God,
and do not violate the agreement.
21. And those who join what God has
commanded to be joined, and fear their
Lord, and dread the dire reckoning.
22. And those who patiently seek the presence
of their Lord, and pray regularly, and
spend from Our provisions to them, secretly
and openly, and repel evil with
good. These will have the Ultimate Home.
23. Everlasting Gardens, which they will
enter, along with the righteous among
their parents, and their spouses, and their
descendants. And the angels will enter
upon them from every gate.
24. “Peace be upon you, because you endured
patiently. How excellent is the Final
Home.”
25. As for those who violate the promise to
God, after pledging to keep it, and sever
what God has commanded to be joined,
and spread corruption on earth—these,
the curse will be upon them, and they will
have the Worst Home.
26. God dispenses the provisions to whomever
He wills, and restricts. And they delight
in the worldly life; yet the worldly
life, compared to the Hereafter, is only
enjoyment.
27. Those who disbelieve say, “If only a
miracle was sent down to him from his
Lord.” Say, “God leads astray whomever
He wills, and He guides to Himself whoever
repents.”
28. Those who believe, and whose hearts
find comfort in the remembrance of God.
Surely, it is in the remembrance of God
that hearts find comfort.”
29. For those who believe and do righteous
deeds—for them is happiness and a beautiful
return.
30. Thus We have sent you among a community
before which other communities
have passed away, that you may recite to
them what We revealed to you. Yet they
deny the Benevolent One. Say, “He is my
Lord; there is no god but He; in Him I
trust, and to Him is my repentance.”
31. Even if there were a Quran, by which
mountains could be set in motion, by
which the earth could be shattered, or by
which the dead could be made to speak. In
fact, every decision rests with God. Did
the believers not give up and realize that
had God willed, He would have guided all
humanity? Disasters will continue to strike
those who disbelieve, because of their
deeds, or they fall near their homes, until
God’s promise comes true. God never
breaks a promise.
32. Messengers before you were ridiculed,
but I granted the disbelievers respite, and
then I seized them. What a punishment it
was.
33. Is He who is watchful over the deeds of
every soul? Yet they ascribe associates to
God. Say, “Name them. Or are you informing
Him of something on earth He
does not know, or is it a show of words?”
In fact, the scheming of those who disbelieve
is made to appear good to them, and
they are averted from the path. Whomever
God misguides has no guide.
34. There is for them torment in the worldly
life, but the torment of the Hereafter is
harsher. And they have no defender
against God.
35. The likeness of the Garden promised to
the righteous: rivers flowing beneath it; its
food is perpetual, and so is its shade. Such
is the sequel for those who guard against
evil, but the sequel of the disbelievers is
the Fire.
36. Those to whom We gave the Scripture
rejoice in what was revealed to you, while
some factions reject parts of it. Say, “I am
commanded to worship God, and to never
associate anything with Him. To Him I
invite, and to Him is my return.”
37. Thus We revealed it an Arabic code of
law. Were you to follow their desires, after
the knowledge that has come to you, you
would have neither ally nor defender
against God.
38. We sent messengers before you, and
We assigned for them wives and offspring.
No messenger could bring a sign except
with the permission of God. For every era
is a scripture.
39. God abolishes whatever He wills, and
He affirms. With Him is the source of the
Scripture.
40. Whether We show you some of what
We have promised them, or We cause you
to die—your duty is to inform, and Ours is
the reckoning.
41. Do they not see how We deal with the
earth, diminishing it at its edges? God
judges; and nothing can hold back His
judgment. And He is quick to settle accounts.
42. Those before them planned, but the
entire plan is up to God. He knows what
every soul earns. Those who disbelieve will
know to whom the Ultimate Home is.
43. Those who disbelieve say, “You are not
a messenger.” Say, “God is a sufficient
witness between me and you, and whoever
has knowledge of the Scripture.”