English Al-Mukhtasar — Al-Waqi'ah 56:1 – Al-Balad 90:20

When the inevitable rising will occur.

There will be no soul that denies it like how it used to deny in the world.

It will bring the sinful disbelievers low by entering them into the Fire, and it will raise the mindful believers high by entering them into Paradise.

When the earth is shaken violently.

And the mountains are completely crushed.

Due to this crushing they will become scattered dust.

You will be in three categories on that day.

The people of the right hand, who will receive their books in their right hands. How high and great will be their rank!

The people of the left hand, who will receive their books in their left hands. How despicable and wretched will be their ranks.

Those who were foremost in doing good deeds in the world they will be foremost in the afterlife to enter Paradise.

They are the ones who will be brought close to Allah.

In gardens of delight, they will enjoy different types of delight.

A group from this nation and from previous nation.

A few people at the end of time will be the foremost ones that are brought close.

On couches woven with gold.

Reclining on these couches facing one another and no one will look at the back of another.

Children who will never face old age or extinction will roam around them, to serve them.

They will roam around them holding handle-less jugs, jugs with handles, and glasses of unlimited wine that flows in Paradise.

It is not like the wine of the world; it’s drinkers will not get headaches nor suffer intoxication.

These children will also roam around them with fruits, from which they may choose.

They will also roam around with the meat of birds their hearts desire.

They will also have beautiful, wide-eyed women in Paradise.

Like pearls protected within their shells.

As a reward for the good actions they used to do in the world.

They will not hear any foul language in Paradise, nor any language that incurs sin.

They will only hear the angels greeting them, and the greetings of one another.

And the People of the Right: who are the People of the Right? Their rank and status with Allah is indeed, great!

They will be among harmless, thornless lote trees.

And bananas, neatly arranged in rows with one another.

And lengthened, continuous, unmoving shadows.

And flowing water which never stops.

And many fruits that cannot be counted.

They will never finish, because they are not seasonal, nor will there be anything that comes in between their desire for them at any time.

And raised spreads, spread on the couches.

Indeed, I created the aforementioned wide-eyed women in an extraordinary way.

I made them virgins, previously untouched.

They are very loving to their husbands, and equal to them in age.

I created them for the People of the Right: those who will be taken towards the right as a sign of their excellence.

They are a group from the nations of the previous Prophets.

And a group from the nation of Muhammad (peace be upon him), which is the last of all nations.

As for the People of the Left: who are the People of the Left? Their state and outcome is indeed, very bad.

They will be among severely hot winds and extremely hot water.

And in the shadow of black smoke.

Neither will it be pleasant, nor will it be a good sight.

Indeed, before they came to the punishment, they were enjoying the luxuries in the world, caring only for their desires.

They used to persist on disbelief in Allah and the worship of idols instead of Him.

They also used to reject the resurrection, and they would say regarding it, mocking it and thinking it to be far-fetched: “What, when we die and become dust and decayed and decomposed bones, shall we be resurrected after that?”

“Will our ancient forefathers who died before us also be resurrected?”

O Messenger! Say to these deniers of the resurrection: “Indeed, the earlier generations of people and the later ones from them...

“...will soon be inevitably gathered on the Day of Judgement to be taken to account and requited.”

Then, O you rejectors of the resurrection and deviants from the straight path!

You shall, on the Day of Judgement, eat from the fruits of the tree of Al-Zaqqūm, which are the worst and most disgusting of fruits.

You will fill your hungry bellied with the fruits of that bitter tree.

Then you will drink extremely hot water on top of that.

You will drink so much of it, just like a camel suffering from a burning thirst drinks.

The aforementioned bitter fruit and extremely hot water is your hospitality you will be received with on the Day of Requital.

O rejectors! I created you from non-existence, so why do you not believe I will resurrect you after you have died?

O people! Do you not see the semen you ejaculate into the wombs of your wives?

Is it you that creates that semen, or am I the one who creates it?

I determine death between you; each one of you has a fixed amount of time which he neither goes beyond nor falls short of. I am not incapable...

of changing the form and appearance that you currently hold, and recreating you into a form and appearance that you do not know of.

Verily, you know how I created you initially, so do you not take heed and realise that the being who created you in the first place, is capable of resurrecting you after you die?

Do you see the seeds you plant in the earth?

Are you the ones who make that seed grow, or am I the one that makes it grow?

If I wish to ruin that crop, I can do so after bringing it close to ripening and harvest. You would then be left shocked at what affected it.

You would say, “Indeed, we lost everything we spent, and we have been punished.”

“Rather, we have been deprived of sustenance.”

Do you see the water you drink when you are thirsty?

Are you the ones who cause it to fall from the clouds in the sky, or am I the one who sends it down?

If I wanted to make that water extremely bitter, such that it would be of no use for drinking nor for irrigation, I would have done so. Will you then not be grateful to Me for sending it down as palatable and a mercy for you?

Do you see the fire that you ignite for your interests?

Are you the ones who make the trees you ignite it with, grow, or am I the one who causes it to grow, being kind to you?

I am the one who made this fire for you as a reminder to you of the fire of the Afterlife, and I made it a means of benefit for the travellers among you.

O Messenger! So glorify your great Lord, of everything that in unbefitting of Him.

Allah takes an oath on the positions of the stars and their orbits.

And indeed, taking an oath of these orbits is a great thing - if only you were to understand its greatness-, because there are uncountable signs and lessons in it.

O people! Indeed, the Qur’ān that is recited to you is a noble Qur’ān, because of the great benefits that it contains.

It is in a record preserved from the eyes of people, i.e. the Preserved Tablet.

Only the angels, pure of sin and defects can touch it.

It is a revelation from the Lord of the creations, on His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

O idolaters! Do you then reject this speech, and not believe in it?

And do you show your gratitude to Allah for the blessings He has provided you with, by rejecting Him and attributing the rain to the setting of stars, by saying, “It rained upon us due to the setting of so and so star”.

Why not, when the soul reaches the throat...

and at that time, you see the dying person in front of you...

whilst My angels are closer to the dying person than you are, but you do not see them...

Why then, if you are not going to be resurrected - as you claim - for requital...

return this soul that is leaving your dead, if you are truthful? You cannot do it.

As for if the dying person is one of those who hasten towards good...

he will be in such comfort after which there will be no tiring, good sustenance and mercy. He will have a Paradise in which he will live in luxury, enjoying whatever his soul desires.

And if the dying person is from the People of the Right, do not worry about their condition, because they will be in peace and security.

And if the dying person is from the People of the Right, do not worry about their condition, because they will be in peace and security.

And if the dying person is from the rejectors of what the Messenger (peace be upon him) brought: the deviators from the straight path...

then he will have some hospitality presented to him, which will be extremely hot water.

And he will have to burn in the fire of hell.

O Messenger! Indeed, the stories I have narrated to you are convincingly true, in which there is no doubt.

So glorify the great name of your Lord, and proclaim His purity from all defects.

Every creation of His in the heavens and the earth proclaims the glory and purification of Allah. He is the almighty whom no one can overpower; the Wise in His creation and His measure.

To Him alone belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He gives life to whoever He wishes to give life to, and causes death to whoever He wishes to cause death to. He is capable of everything; nothing is outside His ability.

He is the First; nothing existed before Him. He is the Last; nothing will exist after Him. He is the Apparent; there is nothing above Him. He is the Intimate; there is nothing without Him, and He knows everything, He does not miss anything.

He is the one who created the heavens and the earth in six days, starting from Sunday and finishing on Friday, yet He is capable of having created them in less than the duration of the blinking of an eye. He then rose over His Throne as befits Him (may He be glorified). He knows everything that enters the earth, i.e. every drop of rain and every seed etc.; He knows everything that emerges from it, i.e. every shoot, mineral etc.; He knows everything that descends from the sky i.e. rain, revelation etc., and He knows everything that ascends to it i.e. angels, souls and deeds of the servants etc. And He is with you wherever you are O people, in terms of His knowledge: nothing is hidden from Him and He sees everything you do. None of your actions are hidden from Him, and He will requite you for them.

To Him alone belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and to Him alone return all affairs. He will then take the creations to account on the Day of Judgement and requite them for their deeds.

He enters the night into the day and so the darkness arrives and people sleep; He enters the day into the night and so the light arrives and people go about their business. He is aware of everything that the hearts of His servants contain; none of it is hidden from Him.

Bring faith in Allah and bring faith in His Messenger, and spend from the wealth that Allah has made you deputies in, using it according to what Allah has legislated for you. As for those of you who have faith in Allah and spend their wealth in His path, for them is a great reward with Him, which is Paradise.

And what stops you from bringing faith in Allah, when the Messenger is calling you towards Allah hoping that you bring faith in your Lord (may He be glorified), and Allah has taken a covenant from you that will believe in Him when He took you out from the loins of your fathers? If you believe in that, then believe!

He is the one who sends down clear verses upon His servant Muhammad (peace be upon him), to take you out of the darkness of disbelief and ignorance, into the light of faith and knowledge. And indeed, Allah is kind and merciful to you that He sent His Prophet to you as a guide and a bearer of glad tidings.

And what is stopping you from spending in the path of Allah, when the treasures of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah? O believers! Those of you who spent their wealth in the path of Allah seeking His pleasure before the conquest of Makkah and fought the disbelievers in aid of Islam, are greater in rank according to Allah and higher in status than those who spent their wealth in His path and fought the disbelievers after the conquest of Makkah. However, Allah has promised both groups Paradise, and He is aware of your actions; none of them are hidden from Him and He will soon requite you for them.

Who is there that will spend his wealth for the pleasure of Allah happy at heart, so that Allah may grant him a multitude of reward for the wealth he has spent, on top of the noble reward of Paradise he will receive on the Day of Judgement?

On the day when you will see the believing men and women, with their light ahead of them and to their right. It will be said to them on that day, “Your glad tidings today are of gardens under the palaces and trees of which rivers flow, and in which you will live forever. That reward is the great success, that cannot be equalled by any other.”

On the day when the hypocrite males and females will say to those who brought faith in Allah and His Messenger: “O believing men and women! Wait for us; perhaps we can take a flare of your light that will help us cross the Bridge?” It will be said to the hypocrites, mocking them: “Turn back and find the light which you can use for yourselves!” A wall will then be placed between them which will have a door; the inner side on which the believers are will have mercy in it, while the outer side on which the hypocrites are will have the punishment.

The hypocrites will call out to the believers, saying: “Were we not with you upon Islam and obedience?” The Muslims will reply: “No, you were with us, but you deceived your souls with hypocrisy and doomed them, and you anticipated that the believers are defeated so you can then announce your disbelief. You also doubted in the help of Allah coming for the believers and in the resurrection after death. False ambitions also deceived you, until death came to you whilst you were chasing them, and Satan also deceived you about Allah.”

O hypocrites! Today no ransom will be accepted from you from the punishment of Allah, nor from those who disbelieved in Allah openly, and your outcome and the outcome of the disbelievers is the hellfire. It is most deserving of you, and you are most deserving of it; how bad an outcome it is!

Has not the time come for those who have faith in Allah and His Messenger that their hearts soften and become tranquil through the remembrance of Allah (may He be glorified), and through the promises and warnings that have been revealed in the Qur’ān? Has the time not come that they do not become like the Jews who were given the Torah and the Christians who were given the Gospel, in terms of their hearts hardening? This was due to the period prolonging between them and the era of their Prophets. The majority of them left the obedience of Allah, going into His disobedience.

Know that indeed, Allah revives the earth by causing it to grow after it has dried up. O people! Verily Allah has clearly explained the proof and evidence of His capability and oneness, so that perhaps you may understand them and know that the one who revives the earth after its death is also capable of resurrecting you after your deaths, and is capable of making your hearts soft after they have become hard.

Indeed, those men who spend some of their wealth, and those women who spend some of their wealth, spending it with happiness of heart and without recounting favours or causing harm, their reward will be multiplied for them. Each good deed will be multiplied by ten of its like, up until seven hundred times or more. Together with that, they will receive a generous reward from Allah: Paradise.

Those who have faith in Allah and in His messengers without differentiating between them are the ones who are the truthful ones. The martyrs have their generous reward prepared for them with Allah, and they will also have a light which shines in front of them and on their right sides on the Day of Judgement. As for those who disbelieved in Allah and His messengers and rejected My verses that were revealed to My Messenger, they are the people of hell which they will enter on the Day of Judgement and live within forever, never to come out of it.

Know that the life of the world is only a pastime that the bodies play with; futility that the hearts engage in; beauty that you adorn yourselves with; boasting with one another over possessions and power, and taking pride in abundance of wealth and offspring. It is just like rainfall that pleases the farmers with the growth it brings, but the green growth does not last long before it begins to dry. Then, O onlooker, you see it after its greenery having turned yellow. Allah then turns it into broken bits falling apart. And in theِ Afterlife there will be a severe punishment for the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and a special forgiveness from Allah for the sins of His believing servants.

O people! Hasten towards good deeds i.e. repentance and other actions, through which you will achieve forgiveness for your sins. You will also acquire through them a Paradise the width of which is the width of the heavens and the earth; Allah has prepared this Paradise for those who bring faith in Him and His messengers. That reward is a favour of Allah that He grants whichever of His servants He wishes; He (may He be glorified) is the bestower of great favours to His believing servants.

No calamity afflicts the people on earth i.e. a drought etc., nor a personal calamity, except that it has been recorded in the Preserved Tablet before I created the creations. Indeed, that is easy for Me.

O people! That is so that you do not grieve over anything you miss out on, and so that you do not show happiness that leads to arrogance over every blessing Allah has given you. Indeed, Allah does not love anyone who is arrogant and boastful over what Allah has granted him.

Those who are miserly in spending whatever is obligatory on them to spend and instruct others to be miserly, are losers. Whoever turns away from the obedience of Allah will never harm Allah; he only harms himself. Indeed, Allah is the Self-sufficient; He is in no need of the obedience of His servants, and He is praiseworthy in every state.

Verily I sent My messengers with clear evidence and manifest proof, and sent down books with them and the balance, so that people would uphold justice. I also sent down iron in which there is great strength; armour is made from it, together with it having many other benefits for the people in their manufacturing and handicrafts. And also because Allah can make it obvious to the people who it is that supports Him and His messengers in secret. Indeed, Allah is Strong and Almighty; nothing can overcome His decree nor is He incapable of doing anything.

And verily I sent Noah and Abraham peace be upon him as messengers, and placed messengership in their offspring; I did not send any Prophet except from their progeny, giving them the revealed books; I only revealed books to a messenger from their progeny. So from their progenies are those who were rightly guided to the straight path and are successful, but the majority of them left the obedience of Allah.

Then followed them up with my messengers and I sent them one after the other to their nations. I sent after them Jesus the son of Mary and gave him the Gospel, placing gentleness and mercy in the hearts of those who brought faith in him. They were affectionate and merciful to one another, but innovated extremism into their religion and left aside marriage and comforts which I had made permissible for them. I did not seek that from them; they made it necessary upon themselves and in doing so innovating in the religion. I only sought that they follow the My pleasure which they did not do, and so I granted those who believed from them their reward. However, the majority of them left My obedience by rejecting what My Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) brought to them.

O those who have faith in Allah and act upon whatever He has legislated for them! Be mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed; He will give you double the reward for your bringing faith in Muhammad (peace be upon him) and in the previous messengers. He will also create for you a light through which you will be guided in your worldly life and which you shall use on the Bridge on the Day of Judgement. He will also forgive your sins and not take you to account for them. And Allah is the bestower of great favours to His servants; no limiter can limit His favour, nor can anyone count it.

O believers! Verily I have clearly explained My great favour I have prepared for you in the multitude of rewards, so that the people of the previous Book i.e. the Jews and Christians know that they cannot access any of the favour of Allah in terms of being able to give it to whomsoever they wish, and so that they also know that true favour is in Allah’s Hands (may He be glorified); He grants it to whomsoever He wishes. And Allah is the bestower of great favours, which He exclusively gives to whichever of His servants He wishes.

O Messenger! Verily Allah has heard the words of the woman (She was Khawlah bint Tha‘labah) who was discussing the issue of her husband with you (who was Aws ibn Al-Ṣāmit) after he had done Ẓihār to her. She was complaining to Allah about what her husband had done to her, and Allah was listening to your exchange of words; nothing is hidden from Him, indeed, He is The Hearing of the speech of His servants and The Seeing of their actions; none of them are hidden from Him.

Those who do Ẓihār to their wives, by saying to them: “You are for me like the back of my mother”, have lied in this statement of theirs. Their wives are not their mothers; their mothers are only those women who gave birth to them, and when they make such statements they are uttering a disgusting, false statement. But indeed, Allah is overlooking and forgiving: He has legislated an atonement for you to free you of the sin.

It is necessary upon those who utter this disgusting statement and then intend to have sexual intercourse with the wife they did Ẓihār to, that they make amends by freeing a slave before they have intercourse. This aforementioned ruling you have been commanded to carry out is a reprimand for you for the Ẓihār. And Allah is aware of your actions; none of your actions are hidden from Him.

So whoever cannot find a slave to free, it is necessary upon him to fast for two months consecutively before he has sexual intercourse with the wife he did Ẓihār to. Then, whoever is incapable of fasting for two months consecutively, should feed sixty poor people. This command I have given is so that you believe that Allah is the one who has commanded you with it and so you carry it out. These rulings that I legislate for you are My limits I have set for My servants, so do not trespass them. As for those who disbelieve in the commands of Allah and the limits He has set, they will face a painful punishment.

Indeed, those who regard Allah and His Messenger to be their enemies will be humiliated and exiled, just as the people of the past who regarded them as enemies were humiliated and exiled. Verily I have revealed clear verses, and those who disbelieve in Allah, His Messenger and His verses will face a humiliating punishment.

On the day when Allah will resurrect them all, not leaving any of them out. He will then inform them of their shameful actions in the world which He recorded against them. He misses none of their actions, yet they themselves will forget them but find them having been recorded in their books of deeds, which leave no small or big deed unrecorded. And Allah is aware of everything; none of their actions remain hidden from Him.

O Messenger! Do you not see that Allah knows everything that is in the heavens and everything on Earth; nothing within them is hidden from Him? No three people talk among themselves except that Allah (may He be glorified) is the fourth among them through His knowledge; nor do five people talk among themselves except that He may He be glorified is the sixth among them through His knowledge; nor any less or any more than these numbers, except that Allah is with them through His knowledge wherever they may be. No speech of theirs remains hidden from Him; He will then inform them of their actions on the Day of Judgement. Indeed, He knows everything; nothing is hidden from Him.

O Messenger! Do you not see the Jews who used to secretly whisper when they would see a believer, then Allah prohibited them from such whispering, but they would return to committing exactly that which Allah prohibited them from: secretly discussing sin among themselves i.e. backbiting the believers, inciting people against them, and disobedience to the Messenger. O Messenger! When they come to they greet you with a greeting Allah has not taught you to greet with, i.e. by saying: ‘As-sāmu ‘alayk’ meaning ‘death be upon you’, and they say, rejecting the Prophet (peace be upon him): “Why does Allah not punish us for what we say? Because if he was truthful in his claim that he is a Prophet, Allah would have punished us for what we say about him!” Hell is enough of a punishment for them for what they say; they will definitely suffer its heat. What an evil outcome they will face!

O those who have faith in Allah and act upon what He has legislated for them! Do not secretly discuss things that incur sin, incite enmity against, or disobedience to the Messenger, in case you become like the Jews. Rather, discuss things that lead to obedience to Allah and refraining from His disobedience. And be mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, because He alone is the one towards whom you will be gathered on the Day of Judgement for accountability and requital.

Secret discussions that contain sin, inciting enmity and disobedience to the Messenger are only the result of Satan adorning and whispering to his associates, so that he can cause grief to the believers that they are being plotted against. However, neither Satan nor his beautification of things will harm the believers in any way, except if Allah wills and intends it. So it is upon Allah that the believers should rely in all their affairs.

After Allah mentioned the etiquette of speech, He mentions the etiquette of gatherings, and says: O those who have faith in Allah and act upon what Allah has legislated for them! When you are told: “Make space in gatherings”, then make space; Allah will create ease for you in your worldly lives and in the afterlife. And when you are told: “Leave from so and so gathering so that people of virtue may take part in them”, leave those gatherings; Allah (may He be glorified) will raise in great stature those who have faith among you and those blessed with knowledge. And Allah is the knower of whatever you do; none of your actions are hidden from Him, and He will requite you for them.

O those who have faith in Allah and act upon what He has legislated for them! When you intend to talk privately with the Messenger, give some charity before you talk in private with him. That giving in charity will be better and purer for you because of being an act of obedience to Allah that purifies the hearts. But if you do not find anything you can give in charity, there is no harm in you talking in private with him, because Allah Forgiving of the sins of His servants and He is merciful towards them by not burdening them except with what they are capable of.

Do you fear poverty by presenting charity before talking privately with the Messenger? So when you do not do that which Allah commanded you to do, and Allah forgave you by allowing you not to give in charity, now perform prayer to perfection, give Zakat on your wealth, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah is aware of your actions; nothing is hidden from Him and He will soon requite you for them.

O Messenger! Do you not see the hypocrites who befriend the Jews whom Allah is angry with due to their disbelief and sins? These hypocrites are neither from the believers nor from the Jews; rather, they are uncertain between the two: neither are they on one side nor the other. Yet they will swear that they are Muslims and that they did not relate information about the Muslims to the Jews, but they are liars despite their oaths.

Allah has prepared a severe punishment for them in the afterlife, where He will enter them into the lowest depths of the hellfire. Indeed, the acts of disbelief they commit in the world are shameful.

They take the oaths they swear as protection against being killed due to disbelief, by outwardly showing Islam to protect their lives and wealth. So they turn the people away from the truth by belittling and hindering the Muslims. Therefore, they will face a humiliating punishment which will humiliate and shame them.

Their wealth and their offspring will not benefit them in the slightest. They are the people of the hellfire who will enter it and reside in it for ever, the punishment never stopping on them.

Remember the day when Allah will resurrect them all for requital, not leaving any of them out. They will swear in front of Allah that they were not upon disbelief nor hypocrisy; rather they were only believers who acted in accordance to the pleasure of Allah. They will take oaths in front of Him in the afterlife just as they would take oaths in front of you, O believers, in the world that they were believers. They will think that by taking these oaths in front of Allah they will be in a position to bring some benefit to themselves or prevent some harm falling upon themselves. Know well that indeed, they are true liars in their oaths in the world and in the afterlife.

Satan has taken control over them and through his whispers, has made them forget the remembrance of Allah, so they do not act to earn His pleasure, but only do those things that incur His wrath. They are the party of Iblīs and his followers. Know well that indeed, the party of Iblīs and his followers are the losers in the world and the afterlife, because they have sold guidance in exchange for deviance, and Paradise for the hellfire.

Indeed, those who regard Allah and His Messenger as enemies are some of the ones whom Allah will humiliate in the world and the afterlife, and the ones who are the most dishonourable from the disbelieving nations.

Allah has decreed in His prevailing knowledge that He and His messengers will definitely be victorious over His enemies with strength and evidence. Indeed, Allah has the power to help His messengers, and is the Almighty who can take retribution from His enemies.

O Messenger! You will not find a people believing in Allah and in the Day of Judgement, who love and befriend those who regard Allah and His Messenger as enemies, even though these enemies of Allah and His messengers happen to be their fathers, sons, brothers, or tribe members they affiliate themselves to. This is because faith prevents them from befriending the enemies of Allah and His Messenger, and because the connection of faith is greater than all connections, so it is to be given priority at times of conflict. Those who do not befriend the enemies of Allah and His Messenger - even if they are their own relatives - are the ones in whose hearts Allah has established faith such that they do not waver, and has strengthened with His proof and light. He will also enter them on the Day of Judgement into everlasting gardens, under the palaces and trees of which rivers flow, and in which they shall live forever, without its luxuries ever finishing or them ever becoming extinct. Allah is pleased with them to a degree that He will never be displeased with them afterwards, and they are also pleased with Him because of Him having given them favours which will never finish, one of which is the ability to see Him may He be glorified. They are the party of Allah that fulfils whatever He commands and refrain from the things He does not allow. Know well that indeed, the party of Allah are the ones who will succeed by achieving their objective and remaining safe from their fears in the world and the afterlife.

Every creation in the heavens and the earth proclaims the purity and sanctity of Allah from everything that does not befit Him. He is the Almighty whom no one can overcome, the Wise in His creation, legislation and decree.

He is the one who exiled the Banū an-Naḍīr who had disbelieved in Allah and rejected His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him), from their houses in Al-Madīnah the first time towards the Levant region. They were from the Jews: the people of the Torah. After they had broken their treaty and sided with the idolaters against the Messenger, He exiled them towards the Levant. O believers! You did not think they would leave their homes because of the might and strength they possessed, and they themselves thought that their fortresses they had fortified would protect them from the might of Allah and His punishment. Then, the might of Allah came upon them in a manner they did not anticipate, when He commanded His Messenger to fight them and exile them from their homes. Allah also put extreme fear into their hearts, and they began demolishing their homes with their own hands from the inside so that the believers could not take advantage of them, while the Muslims demolished them from the outside. O people of insight! So take heed of what befell them due to their disbelief and do not be like them, in case you get the same requital as they did, and face the same punishment they faced.

Had it not been that Allah had decreed exile for them, He would have punished them in the world with execution and captivity, like He did with their brothers from the Banū Qurayḍah. And for them in the afterlife is the punishment of the hellfire that awaits them, wherein they shall live forever.

Whatever happened to them happened because they took Allah and His Messenger as enemies through their disbelief and breaking of the treaties. And whoever takes Allah as his enemy, Allah is severe in punishment, so he will soon suffer His sever punishment.

O believers! Whatever date palm you cut down to infuriate the enemies of Allah in the battle of the Banū an-Naḍīr, or you left it standing with its trunk to make use of it, was done with the command of Allah; it was not done to cause destruction on earth like they claimed. It was also done so that Allah could humiliate through it those who left the obedience of Allah from the Jews: those that broke the treaties and chose the path of treason over the path of loyalty.

And whatever wealth of the Banū an-Naḍīr Allah returned to His Messenger, you did not haste in seeking it through riding on horses or camels, nor did you face any difficulty in acquiring it. Rather, Allah gives power to His Messenger over whatever He wishes, and He has given power to His Messenger over the Banū an-Naḍīr such that he conquered their communities without any fighting. And Allah is capable of everything, Nothing is outside His ability.

Whatever wealth of the people of the villages Allah favoured His Messenger with without a fight, is for Allah: He can give it to whoever He wishes; it is also for the Messenger to own; for his relatives from the Banū Hāshim and the Banū Al-Muṭṭalib in compensation for the charity they have been prevented from accepting; for the orphans; the needy and the foreigner whose ration has run out. This distribution is so that the wealth is not only confined to the rich rather than the poor. O believers! Whatever wealth of the Fay’ the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he does not allow you to take, then refrain from it. And be mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed. Indeed, Allah is severe in punishment, so fear His punishment.

A part of this wealth will be spent on the needy who migrated in the path of Allah and were forced to leave their wealth and offspring, hoping that Allah will confer His grace upon them by providing for them in the world and by becoming pleased with them in the afterlife. They also help Allah and His Messenger by striving in the path of Allah. they are the ones who are truly firmly grounded in faith.

After Allah mentioned the migrants and praised them, He mentions the Helpers and praises them also, saying may He be glorified: And those Helpers who inhabited Al-Madīnah before the Migrants and chose to bring faith in Allah and His Messenger, they love those who migrated to them from Makkah and do not feel any anger or jealousy towards those who migrated in the path of Allah when they are given any of the Fay’ whilst not being given anything themselves. They give priority to the Migrants over themselves in worldly shares, even though they themselves are needy and poor. Whoever Allah saves from the greed of his own self for wealth, and he spends it in His path, they are the ones who are successful by achieving whatever they hope for and gaining salvation from whatever they fear.

And those who came after these people and followed them with righteousness until the Day of Judgement, say: “O our Lord forgive us and our brothers in religion who preceded us in bringing faith in Allah and His Messenger, and do not place any grudge or resentment in our hearts for any of the believers. Our Lord! Indeed, You are kind to Your servants and merciful towards them.”

O Messenger! Do you not see those that have concealed disbelief and outwardly shown faith, saying to their brothers in disbelief from the Jews: the followers of the distorted Torah: “Remain in your homes because we will never abandon you and never give you up. If the Muslims exile you from your homes, we will also leave in solidarity with you, and we will never obey anyone who prevents us from leaving with you. And if they were to fight you, we will definitely help you against them.” Allah testifies that indeed, the hypocrites are liars in their claims that they will leave with the Jews if they were to be exiled, and that they would fight with them if they were fought against.

If the Muslims exile the Jews, they will not leave with them, and if they fight them, they will neither support nor help them. Even if they go to help or support them against the Muslims, they will flee from the battlefield, after which the hypocrites will never be helped; rather, Allah will humiliate and shame them.

O believers! You are more fearful within the hearts of the Jews and hypocrites than Allah. Their extreme fear of you and feeble fear of Allah is because they are a people who have no understanding. If they had understanding, they would know that Allah is more deserving of being feared, because He is the one who gave you power over them.

O believers! The Jews will not fight you united except in dwellings fortified with walls, or from behind walls, because they cannot face you due to their cowardice. Their internal might is severe due to their enmity to one another. You think of them to be one force and that their pedestal is one, but the reality is that their hearts are divided and conflicting. This conflict and enmity is because they do not understand; if they were to understand they would recognise the truth and follow it, not dispute in it.

The analogy of these Jews in their disbelief and the punishment that afflicted them, is like that of the idolaters of Makkah not so long before them. They tasted the evil consequences of their disbelief, and on the day of Badr many were killed and others taken captive. They will also face a painful punishment in the afterlife.

Their analogy in their listening to the hypocrites is like that of Satan when he beautifies disbelief for the human, then, when he disbelieves because of his beautification of it, he says: “I have nothing to do with you after you have disbelieved; I fear Allah the Lord of the creations.”

So the ultimate outcome of Satan and whoever followed him will be that they (meaning the followed Satan and the human followers of his) will be in the hellfire on the Day of Judgement, wherein they shall have to remain forever. That requital that awaits them is the requital of those who oppress themselves by trespassing the limits of Allah.

O those who have faith in Allah and act upon whatever He has legislated for them! Be mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things he has not allowed. Each soul should ponder over what good deeds it has send forth for the Day of Judgement. So be mindful of Allah; indeed, Allah is aware of your actions, none of them are hidden from Him, and He will soon requite you for them.

Do not become like those who forgot Allah by not fulfilling His commands nor refraining from the things He did not allow, so Allah made them forget themselves and they did not act upon that which would save them from the wrath and punishment of Allah. Those who forgot Allah and did not fulfil His commands or refrain from the things He did not allow are the ones who left the obedience of Allah.

The people of the hellfire and the people of Paradise are not equal. Rather, they are different in their requital just like they differed in their actions in the world. The people of Paradise are the ones who are successful by having achieved whatever they sought and gaining safety from whatever they feared.

If I had revealed this Qur’ān onto a mountain, you would have seen, O Messenger, that mountain, despite its solidity, humbled and fearful due to the extreme fear of Allah. This is because of the scolding admonitions and severe warnings it contains. These analogies that I draw for the people are so that perhaps they use their intelligence and take heed of the lessons and advices its verses contain.

He is Allāh, the one whom there is no true deity except Him; He is the Knower of the absent and the present: nothing is hidden from Him; the Benevolent of the world and the afterlife and their Merciful: His mercy encompasses the worlds; the Master; the Pure and Sacred from every deficiency; the Faultless from every defect; The Corroborator of His messengers with manifest signs; the Observer of the actions of His servants; the Almighty whom no one can overpower; the Omnipotent who controls everything through His power, the Imperious. Pure and glorified is He from the idols and other things the idolaters ascribe to Him.

He is Allāh, the one whom there is no true deity except Him; He is the Knower of the absent and the present: nothing is hidden from Him; the Benevolent of the world and the afterlife and their Merciful: His mercy encompasses the worlds; the Master; the Pure and Sacred from every deficiency; the Faultless from every defect; The Corroborator of His messengers with manifest signs; the Observer of the actions of His servants; the Almighty whom no one can overpower; the Omnipotent who controls everything through His power, the Imperious. Pure and glorified is He from the idols and other things the idolaters ascribe to Him.

He is the Creator who created everything; the Originator of things; the Fashioner of His creations according to His wishes. For Him may He be glorified are the most beautiful names which contain His lofty attributes. Everything in the heavens and on earth glorifies Him from every deficiency. He is the Almighty whom no one can overpower; the Wise in His creation, legislation and decree.

O those who have faith in Allah and act upon what He has legislated for them! Do not take My enemies and your enemies as intimate friends who you befriend and love, when they have disbelieved in the religion that has come to you at the hands of your Messenger. They also drove the Messenger out of his home in Makkah, and drove you out of your homes in Makkah too. They do not consider the bonds of kinship nor blood in your regard; not due to anything except that you have brought faith in Allah who is your Lord. So if you have truly gone out to strive in My path and to seek My pleasure, do not befriend them while also secretly sending the information about the Muslims, out of your love for them. I know better of what you conceal in that regard, and what you disclose; nothing is hidden from me in any case. And whoever intimately befriends and loves the disbelievers has verily strayed from the middle path, deviated from the truth and avoided that which is right.

If they get their chance, they will disclose the enmity they harbour in their hearts towards you and will stretch their hands out to you to harm and beat you, while swearing and abusing you with their tongues. They will also desire that you disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger so that you become just like them.

Your ties of kinship will never benefit you, nor your offspring, if you intimately befriend the disbelievers due to them. On the Day of Judgement, Allah will separate between you and enter the people of Paradise into Paradise and the people of the hellfire into the hellfire, so you will be of no use to one another. And Allah is watchful of your actions; none of them are hidden from Him (may He be glorified) and He will soon requite you for them.

O believers! You have a beautiful example to follow in Abraham (peace be upon him) and the believers who were with him, when they said to their disbelieving people: “We have nothing to do with you and the idols you worship instead of Allah. We have disbelieved in the religion you are upon; enmity and dislike has become apparent between us and you until you bring faith in Allah alone and do not ascribe anyone as partner to Him.” So it is necessary for you to proclaim innocence from your disbelieving nation just like they did, except for the statement Abraham (peace be upon him) made to his father: “I will definitely seek forgiveness on your behalf from Allah”: do not follow him in that because it was before Abraham lost hope in his father bringing faith. It is therefore not allowed for a believer to seek forgiveness on behalf of an idolater. Neither can you prevent any punishment of Allah coming upon yourself. O our Lord! Upon You we rely in all our affairs, to You we return in repentance, and to you is our return on the Day of Judgement.

O our Lord! Do not make us a trial for the disbelievers by giving them power over us, so they can say: “If they were on the truth we would not have been given power over them”, and O our Lord forgive our sins for us, because indeed, You are the Almighty who can never be overpowered; the Wise in your creation, legislation and decree.

This good example is only followed by those who have hope for good from Allah in the world and afterlife. Those who turn away from this good example, then Allah is in no need of His servants. He does not require their obedience and He is worthy of praise in every state.

Perhaps Allah will bring about affection between you, O believers, and those disbelievers whom you oppose by guiding them to Islam and they will become your brothers in religion. Allah has power to turn their hearts to faith. Allah Forgiving towards those of His servants who repent and He is merciful towards them.

Allah does not prohibit you from those who have not fought you on account of your Islam, and who have not expelled you from your homes, that you be good and fair to them by giving them any right they have against you. An example of this is how Asma bint Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq behaved with her disbelieving mother when she came to visit her after she had taken permission from the Prophet (peace be upon him) for this and he instructed her to join family ties. Allah loves those who are just to themselves, their families and what they are in charge of.

Allah only prohibits you from those who fought you on account of your faith, expelled you from your homes and aided in your expulsion. He prohibits you from aligning yourselves with them. Those of you who align themselves with them, they are the ones who wrong themselves by bringing them to the point of destruction on account of their going against Allah’s instruction.

O you who have faith in Allah, and who act on what He has ordained for you, when believing women come to you as emigrants from the land of disbelief to the land of Islam, then test them with respect to the sincerity of their faith. Allah knows best about their faith - nothing of what their hearts contain is hidden from Him. If you are sure of their being believers after such a test that makes their sincerity apparent to you, then do not send them back to their disbelieving husbands. It is not lawful for believing women to be married to disbelievers and it is not lawful for disbelievers to marry believing women. Give their husbands the dowry that they paid. There is no sin on you, O believers, if you marry them after their waiting period is over if you give them their dowry. The person whose wife is a disbeliever or who turned away from Islam, then he should not retain her, because their marriage has terminated by her disbelief. Ask the disbelievers for the dowry you paid to your renegade wives and let them ask for the dowry of their wives who accepted Islam. That - which has been mentioned about your and their returning the dowry - is Allah’s judgment. He (may He be glorified) passes judgment amongst you as He wills. Allah knows the states and actions of His servants. Nothing of that is hidden from Him. He is Wise in what He ordains for His servants.

If it happens that some of your women leave you for the disbelievers as renegades and you demand your dowry from the disbelievers but they do not give it to you, and thereafter you acquire booty from the disbelievers, then give those husbands whose wives left as renegades the equivalent of the dowry they paid. Be mindful of Allah, in Whom you have faith, by fulfilling His instructions and avoiding His prohibitions.

O prophet, when believing women come to pledge allegiance to you - as occurred at the time of the conquest of Makkah - that they will not associate anything as partner to Allah, but they will worship Him alone, nor steal, nor commit adultery, nor kill their children in accordance with the custom of the people of ignorance, nor attribute to their husbands their children from adultery, no go against you in any righteous thing such as His prohibition from wailing, shaving off hair and tearing garments: - then accept their pledge of allegiance, and seek forgiveness for them from Allah for their sins after they pledge allegiance to you. Allah Forgiving to those servants of His who repent to him and He is merciful to them.

Since the Sūrah commenced with a warning against becoming allies with Allah’s enemies, it ends with a warning against the same to reiterate what was said previously. Allah said: O you who have faith in Allah, and who act on what He has ordained for you, do not take as allies a people with whom Allah is angry. They do not have conviction in the afterlife. Instead they despair of it just like their despair of the return of their dead to them, because they reject resurrection.

Whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth declares the transcendence and purity of Allah (may He be glorified) from everything that is not appropriate for Him. He is the Mighty whom none can overpower, Wise in His creating, decrees and laws.

O you who have faith in Allah, why do you say: ‘We did something,’ when in reality you did not do it?! Like the statement of one of you: “I fought and struck with my sword,’ whereas he did not fight and strike with his sword.

It is a most detested thing to Allah that you say what you do not do. It is only appropriate for a believer to be truthful with Allah, and for his actions to confirm his statements.

Allah loves the believers who fight in His path seeking His pleasure, in rows alongside one another as if they are a structure that it tightly compacted.

After Allah mentioned fighting and praised the believers who stand tightly together in fighting in His path, He mentioned the opposition that the people of Moses and Jesus displayed towards their messengers, as a warning to the believers against opposing their prophet, and He said: Remember, O Messenger, when Moses said to his people: O my people! Why do you hurt me by going against my instruction when you know that I am Allah’s messenger to you?! When they moved away and deviated from the truth that he brought to them, Allah caused their hearts to move away from the truth and steadfastness. Allah does not guide to the truth a people who go against His obedience.

Remember, O Messenger, when Jesus son of Mary (peace be upon him) said: O Israelites, I am Allah’s messenger. He has sent me to you to confirm the Torah that was revealed before me. I am nothing new among the messengers. I have come to give the good news of a messenger who will come after me, whose name is Ahmad. When Jesus brought the evidence indicating his truthfulness to them, they said: ‘This is clear magic, and we will never follow you.’

There is none who is more wrong than the one who makes up lies about Allah when he makes rivals for Him that he worships besides Him, whilst he is called to Islam, the religion of pure monotheism for Allah. Allah does not guide a people who wrong themselves by committing idolatry and sins to that in which lies their rectitude and righteousness.

These deniers want to extinguish Allah’s light with the false statements and distortion of the truth that proceed from them. Allah will perfect His light despite them by making His religion triumph in the east and the west of the earth and by raising His word.

Allah is the One Who sent His messenger, Muhammad (peace be on him) with the religion of Islam, the religion of guidance and direction to good, the religion of beneficial knowledge and righteous action, so that He makes it prevail over all other religions despite the idolaters who hate for it to be established on earth.

O you who have faith in Allah, and act on what He has ordained for you, shall I show and guide you to a profitable trade, that will rescue you from a painful punishment.

This profitable trade is that you have faith in Allah and His messenger, and you strive in His path (may He be glorified) by spending your wealth and giving your lives to seek His pleasure. That action is better for you if you know, so rush towards it.

The profit of this trade is that Allah will forgive your sins and enter you into gardens under the palaces and trees of which rivers flow and He will enter you into pleasant homes in gardens of permanence from which you will not be transferred. That mentioned recompense is the supreme success to which no other success can come close.

Part of the profit of this trade is another feature that you love, which is immediate in this world, that Allah will assist you against your enemy, and He will give you an imminent victory which is the conquest of Makkah and other places. O Messengers, tell the believers about the victory that will please them in the world and the attainment of Paradise in the afterlife.

O you who have faith in Allah, and who act on what He has ordained for you, become Allah’s helpers by helping His religion that was brought by your messenger, just as the disciples provided their help when Jesus (peace be upon him) told them: ‘Who will be my helpers to Allah?’ They replied to him at once: ‘We are Allah’s helpers.’ So a group of the Israelites believed in Jesus (peace be upon him) and another group disbelieved. Then We supported those who believed in Jesus against those who rejected him and they became dominant.

All created things in the heavens and all created things on earth declare Allah’s transcendence and purity from every attribute of deficiency that is not appropriate for Him. He is the Sovereign, Who is alone in His sovereignty, free from every deficiency, the Mighty Whom none can overpower, the Wise in His creating, decree and laws.

He is the One Who sent amongst the Arabs, who could neither read nor write, a messenger from their own kind, reciting to them His verses, which He revealed to him, purifying them from disbelief and bad morals, teaching them the Qur’ān and teaching them the Sunnah. Prior to his being sent to them they were clearly misguided from the truth, as they used to worship idols, spill blood and sever family ties.

He sent this messenger to another people from the Arabs and others that have not come yet, but who are still to come. He is the Mighty Whom none can overpower, the Wise in His creating, laws and decree.

That which has been mentioned - about sending the messenger to the Arabs and to others - is Allah’s grace that He gives to whoever He wishes. Allah possesses great favour and part of His great favour is the sending of the messenger of this nation to all of mankind.

After Allah mentioned His favour by sending the messenger and revealing the Qur’ān, He mentions the conduct of some of the followers of Moses (peace be upon him) who turned away from practicing on what was contained in the Torah, as a warning to this nation against following them, and He said: The example of the Jews who were charged with carrying out what was contained in the Torah and who left out what they were charged with, is like that of a donkey carrying huge books. It does not know what has been loaded onto it. Is it books or something else? How bad is the example of those who deny Allah’s words. Allah does not guide people who do wrong to reach the truth.

Say, O Messenger: O you who have remained on Judaism after it was distorted, if you claim that you are Allah’s friends, whom He has specifically chosen as friends to the exclusion of other people, then hope for death, so that He can quickly give you the honour He has chosen for you - according to your claim - if you are true in your claim that you are Allah’s friends to the exclusion of other people.

They will never hope for death. Instead they will hope to remain forever in the world because of the disbelief, sins and wrong they did and the distortion and changes they made to the Torah. Allah knows those who do wrong. Nothing of their actions is hidden from Him and He will give them the recompense for that.

Say, O Messenger, to these Jews: The death from which you flee will inevitably catch up with you sooner or later. Then you will return on the Day of Resurrection to Allah, Who knows everything that is seen or unseen. Nothing is hidden from Him. He will then tell you about what you used to do in the world and give you the recompense for that.

O you who have faith in Allah, and who act on what He has ordained for you, when the caller to prayer calls out on the day of Friday after the speaker ascends the pulpit, then hurry to the mosques to attend the speech and the prayer and leave trading, so that it does not distract you from obedience. That hurrying and leaving out trading after the call for the Friday prayer is better for you, O believers. If you know that, then fulfil what Allah has instructed you to do.

When you have completed the Friday prayer then spread out on earth searching for lawful earnings and the fulfilment of your needs, and seek of Allah’s bounty by way of lawful earnings and lawful profit. Remember Allah abundantly during your search for provision and do not let your search for provision make you forget Allah’s remembrance, in the hope that you will attain what you love and be saved from what you fear.

When some Muslims see a trade or entertainment they disperse, going out towards it and leave you, O Messenger, standing on the pulpit. Say, O Messenger-: The recompense for righteous action with Allah is better than the trade and entertainment that you go out towards. Allah is the best of providers.

When the hypocrites, who outwardly profess Islam and inwardly conceal disbelief, come to your gathering, O Messenger, they say: ‘We testify that you are truly the messenger of Allah.’ Allah testifies that the hypocrites are lying in their claim that they testify from the depth of their hearts that you are His messenger.

They have made the oaths that they swear on their claim of faith a cover and protection for them from being killed or imprisoned. They turned people away from faith by the doubts and rumours that they spread. Evil is the hypocrisy and false oaths that they perpetrate.

That is because they hypocritically professed faith, but faith did not reach their hearts, and then they secretly rejected Allah, so He put a seal on their hearts on account of their disbelief so that faith cannot enter it. Due to this seal they do not understand that in which lies their rectitude and righteousness.

When you see them, their appearance and form impresses you, because of the youthfulness and luxury they possess. If they speak, you listen to their speech because of its eloquence. As if they are propped-up timber in your gathering, O Messenger. They do not understand or pay heed to anything. They think that every sound is targeting them because of their cowardice. They are truly the enemy, so be careful, O Messenger, that they do not divulge a secret of yours or make a plot against you. May Allah curse them! How are they deluded from faith despite the clarity of its evidence and its glaring proof!

When these hypocrites are told: Come to the Messenger of Allah and apologize for what you’ve done, he will seek from Allah forgiveness for your sins, they turn their heads in mockery and jest, and you see them turning away from what they are instructed to do, whilst they are too proud to accept the truth and submit to it.

It is the same whether you, O Messenger, seek forgiveness for their sins or you do not seek forgiveness for them. Allah will never forgive their sins. Allah does not guide those who go against His obedience and who persist in disobeying Him.

They are the ones who say: “Do not spend your wealth on those poor people who are with the Messenger of Allah and the bedouins around Madina so that they disperse away from him.”The treasures of the heavens and the earth belong to Allah alone. He grants them to whichever servants of His He wishes. But the hypocrites do not know that the treasures of provision are in His hand, may He be glorified.

Their leader, Abdullah bin Ubayy, says: If we return to Madina, the mighty - which is me and my people - will drive out the weak - which is Muhammad and his companions. To Allah alone belongs all might and to His Messenger and to the believers, and not to Abdullah bin Ubayy and his followers. But the hypocrites do not know that might belongs to Allah and to His Messenger and to the believers.

After Allah showed the keenness of the hypocrites on holding back from spending in order to prevent others from Allah’s path, He warns the believers against doing the same and instructs them to spend in His path by saying: O you who have faith in Allah, and who act on what He has ordained for you, do not let your wealth nor your children distract you from the prayer or any of the other obligations of Islam. Those whose wealth and children distract them from the prayer and the other obligations that Allah has imposed on them, they are the true losers who will lose themselves and their families on the day of judgment.

Spend from the wealth that Allah has provided to you before death comes to one of you and he says to his Lord: Lord, if only You would reprieve me for a short while, I would give charity from my wealth in Allah’s path and I would be one of Allah’s righteous servants whose actions are righteous.

Allah(may He be glorified), will never reprieve a soul when its time comes and its life has ended. Allah is aware of what you do. Nothing of that is hidden from Him and He will recompense you for the same, if good then with good, and if evil then with bad.

All created things in the heavens and all created things on earth declare Allah’s transcendence and purity from every attribute of deficiency that is not appropriate for Him. Sovereignty belongs to Him alone and there is no sovereign besides Him. Good praise is due to Him alone. He has power over all things. Nothing is outside His ability.

He is the One Who created you, O people. Some of you reject Him, and their destination is the Fire, and some of you have faith in Him, and their destination is Paradise. Allah sees what you do. None of your actions are hidden from Him and He will give you the recompense for them.

He created the heavens and He created the earth with truth. He did not create them in vain. He formed you, O people - and made your forms beautiful as a favour and bounty from Him. If he wished, He could have made them ugly. To Him alone is the return on the Day of Judgement and He will give you the recompense of your actions, if good then with good, and if evil then with bad.

He knows whatever is in the heavens and He knows whatever is on earth. He knows the actions that you conceal and those that you reveal. Allah is the Knower of the good or bad that the hearts contain. Nothing of that is hidden from Him.

Has the news of the nations who denied before you not reached you, O idolaters - such as the people of Noah, the Ad, the Thamud and others. They tasted the punishment of the disbelief they had perpetrated in the world, and in the afterlife they will receive a painful punishment. Indeed, that has come to you. So take a lesson from their eventual outcome and repent to Allah before that which befell them befalls you.

That punishment which came on them, only came on them on account of the fact that their messengers used to bring clear evidence and glaring proof from Allah, but they said in denial of the fact that messengers could be from the human race: ‘Are human beings going to guide us to the truth?!’ So they disbelieved and turned away from having faith in them. But they did not harm Allah at all. Allah is in no need of their faith and obedience, because their obedience does not increase him in anything. Allah is Self-Sufficient and in no need of His servants. He is praiseworthy in His statements and actions.

Those who disbelieved in Allah claimed that Allah will not bring them back to life after their death. Say, O Messenger, to these people who deny resurrection: Indeed, by my Lord, you will be resurrected on the day of judgment. Then you will be told about what you used to do in the world. Resurrection is easy for Allah, for He had created you the first time. Thus, He is able to bring you back to life after your death for the reckoning and recompense.

So have faith, O people, in Allah and have faith in His Messenger. Have faith in the Qur’ān which I revealed to My messenger. Allah is aware of what you do. None of your actions are hidden from Him and He will give you the recompense for them.

Remember, O Messenger, the day when Allah will gather you on the Day of Judgement to give you the recompense for your actions. That is the day when the loss of the disbelievers will become clear, as the believers will inherit the homes of the people of the Fire in Paradise, and the people of the Fire will inherit the homes of the people of Paradise in the Fire. Those who have faith in Allah and do righteous deeds, Allah will remit their sins from them and enter them into gardens, under the palaces and trees of which rivers flow, to live in them forever and never to come out, the bliss of which will not end. That which they attained is the great success, which no other success can come close to.

Those who disbelieved in Allah and reject My verses, which I revealed to My messenger, they are the people of the Fire who will remain there forever. What an evil destination is theirs!

No one is afflicted with any difficulty in himself, his wealth or his children except by Allah’s decree and decision. Those who have faith in Allah and in His decree and decision, Allah guides their hearts to submit to his Command and to be pleased with His decree. Allah knows everything, nothing is hidden from Him.

Follow Allah and follow the Messenger. If you turn away from what the Messenger brought to you, then the sin of such turning away is to your detriment. The Messenger’s duty is only to convey what I have instructed him to convey, and He has conveyed what he was instructed to convey.

Allah is the Being deserving of worship. There is no other being deserving of worship besides Him. Let the believers place their reliance in Allah alone in all their affairs.

O you who have faith in Allah, and who act on what He has ordained for you, among your wives and your children there is an enemy of yours, because they will distract you from the remembrance of Allah and striving in His path and they will discourage you. So be careful of their having an effect on you. If you overlook, ignore and cover up their mistakes, then Allah will forgive your sins and have mercy on you. The recompense will be of the same kind as the deed.

Your wealth and your children are a trial and test for you. They may entice you to earn the unlawful and leave out following Allah. Allah has with Him great reward for those who give preference to following Him over following their children and becoming occupied with wealth. This great recompense is Paradise.

So be mindful of Allah by fulfilling His instructions and avoiding His prohibitions as far as you can follow Him. Listen and follow Allah and His messenger. Spend your wealth, which Allah has provided to you, in avenues of good. Those whom Allah has protected from the greed of their souls, they are the ones who will attain what they desire and who will be saved from what they fear.

If you give Allah a good loan, by spending your wealth in His path, He will multiply the reward for you by making each good deed equal to ten of its like, up until seven hundred times or even more, and He will overlook your sins. Allah is Appreciative and gives huge reward for little action, and He is Forbearing and does not rush to punish.

Allah (may He be glorified) knows what is in the Ghaib and He knows what is present. Nothing of that is hidden from Him. He is the Mighty, Whom none can overpower, the Wise in His creating, decrees and laws.

O Prophet! If you or any of the men from your nation intend to divorce your wives, then he should issue a divorce to her considering her waiting period. That is that the divorce should be issued in a period of purity between two separate menses, in which he has not had sexual relations with her. Also, keep track of the waiting period, so that you are able to take your wives back within it if you intend to do so. And be mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed; do not force your divorced wives out of the homes they live in, until their waiting periods finish, except if they commit an obvious shameful act i.e. adultery. Those are the limits of Allah He has set for His servants; whoever trespasses the limits of Allah has indeed, oppressed himself by placing himself in a situation of doom, because of disobeying his Lord. O divorcée! You do not know, perhaps Allah may create a longing in the heart of the spouse, and he may take his wife back.

So when they draw nearer to the end of their waiting periods, take them back if you long to do so, while maintaining the best of conduct, or do not take them back until their waiting periods finish and they gain control over their own affairs, after fulfilling for them their rights. And if you intend to either take them back or separate from them, make two honest people from among you witness it to dispel any dispute in future. O witnesses! Give testimony seeking the pleasure of Allah. These laws are mentioned to remind those that bring faith in Allah and in the Day of Judgement, because it is them who truly benefit from reminders and advice. And whoever is mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, Allah will create an exit for him from every difficulty and worry.

And He will provide for him in ways he did not even imagine, nor had ever thought of. Whoever relies on Allah in his matters, He will be sufficient for him. Indeed, Allah will make His decision come to pass; nothing makes him incapable nor does He miss anything. He has appointed a fixed time for everything, so the severity and ease both have fixed times; they are never permanent on the human.

As for those divorcées who have no hope in menstruating due to old age, if you doubt in the manner of calculating their waiting period, then it is three months. Likewise, the waiting period of girls who have not reached the age of puberty and hence do not menstruate, their waiting period will also be three months. As for pregnant women, their waiting period after divorce or being widowed is when they give birth. Whoever is mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, Allah will make his affairs easy for him and make easy every difficult matter.

O believers! The aforementioned laws of divorce, revocation and waiting periods are the laws of Allah which He has revealed upon you so that you may implement them. And whoever is mindful of Allah by fulfilling his commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, Allah will erase the bad deeds that he committed from his record and grant him a great reward in the afterlife, i.e. Paradise and everlasting blessings.

After Allah mentioned the laws of divorce and revocation, He then mentions the laws of providing expenses and shelter, saying: O husbands! House them wherever you yourselves live, according to your means; Allah does not burden you with anything other than that. Do not put any restriction in expenses and shelter upon them, hoping to place them in difficulty. If the divorcée is pregnant, spend on her until she gives birth, and if she breastfeeds your child for you then give her the wage of her breastfeeding. Come to a mutual agreement over the matter of the wage with appropriate courtesy; if the husband shows miserliness in the wage the wife wants, or if she shows greed and is not content with anything except her demands, then the father of the child should hire a foster mother who breastfeeds his child for him.

Whoever has abundance in wealth should spend well on the wife he has divorced and upon his child; and whoever is financially restricted should spend according to what Allah has given him. Allah does not burden any soul except with what He has provided it with, never does He burden them with more than that or more than the strength it holds. Allah will soon create abundance and independence after his difficult state.

After Allah mentioned a set of commands, He then warns against turning away from them and mentions the evil outcome of doing so. He says: There are many communities whom I took to account severely for their evil deeds, after they had disobeyed the commands of their Lord may He be glorified and His Messengers (peace be upon them). I also punished them with a horrible punishment in the world and the afterlife.

So they tasted the outcome of their evil deeds, and their finale was losing out in the world and losing out in the afterlife.

Allah has prepared for them a strong punishment, so be mindful of Allah, O people of intelligence, who have faith in Allah and His Messenger - by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, so that the same punishment that afflicted them does not afflict you as well. Verily Allah has revealed a reminder that reminds you of the evil outcome of disobeying Him, and the good outcome of obeying him.

This reminder is a Messenger of His who recites His clear verses to you, wherein there is no ambiguity, in the hope that he removes those who have faith in Allah and believe in His Messenger and do good deeds, from the darkness of deviance into the light of guidance. And whoever has faith in Allah and does good deeds, Allah will enter them into gardens under the palaces and trees of which rivers flow, and wherein they will reside forever. Verily Allah will sustain them well by entering them into a Paradise, the bounties of which shall never finish.

Allah is the one who created the seven heavens. He also created seven earths just like He created seven heavens. His instructions related to matters of the universe and religion descend through the heavens. Perhaps this will make you realise that Allah is capable of everything, and that He be glorified has encompassed everything with His knowledge; nothing is hidden from Him in the heavens or the earth.

O Messenger! Why do you make impermissible that which Allah has made permissible for you, i.e. making use of your servant girl Mariah, wanting to please your wives in doing so after they expressed protective jealousy over her? Allah is Forgiving towards you and is Merciful to you.

Verily, Allah has legislated for you to break your oaths by giving expiation if you find something better than the oaths your took or if you go against them. Allah is your helper and He is The Knower of your circumstances and what is best for you; He is The Wise in His legislation and decree.

And remember when the Prophet (peace be upon him) mentioned something only to Ḥafṣah, and that was that he will never again go close to his wife Mariah. So after Ḥafṣah informed ‘Ā’ishah of the information, and Allah informed His Messenger of his secret having been spread, he reprimanded Ḥafṣah and told her part of what she had said, not mentioning another. So she asked him, “Who informed you of this?” He replied, “The Knower of everything and The Aware of every hidden thing informed me of it.”

It is your duty that you both repent, because your hearts have inclined towards liking something the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) disliked, i.e. staying away from his servant girl and forbidding her upon himself. And if you insist upon joining forces against him, then know that Allah is his guardian and helper, and so is Gabriel and the best of believers. The angels are also his helpers and supporters after Allah against those who cause inconvenience to him.

It is very likely that if His Messenger was to divorce both of you, Allah may He be glorified will give him wives better than you, who are submissive to his instructions, believing in Allah and His Messenger, obedient to Allah, repenting of their sins, devoted to their Lord, fasting; previously married and virgins whom no one except the Messenger has touched. However, he did not divorce them.

O those who have faith in Allah and act according to what He has legislated for them! Put up a barrier for yourselves and your families against a huge fire which is stoked with people and stones. Appointed over this fire are tough angels who are harsh to whoever enters it. They do not disobey the command of Allah when He commands them, and they do whatever He commands them to do without hesitation or showing weakness.

The disbelievers will be told on the day of resurrection: O you who have disbelieved in Allah! Do not make excuses today for the disbelief and sins you used to commit, because your excuses will not be accepted. Today, you will be requited only for the disbelief in Allah and rejection of His Messengers you used to perpetrate in the world.

O those who have faith in Allah and act according to what He has legislated for them! Repent to Allah sincerely for your sins; Allah will erase your sins from your records and enter you into gardens on the, under the palaces and trees of which rivers flow, on the Day of Judgement: a day on which Allah will not humiliate the Prophet nor those who had faith with him, by entering them into the hellfire. Rather, their light will shine in front of them and their right sides on the Bridge, and they will be saying: “O our Lord! Perfect for us our light so that we can enter Paradise and not be like the hypocrites whose light dies out at the Bridge; and forgive our sins for us, because You are indeed, capable of everything. You are not incapable of perfecting our light and forgiving our sins.”

O Messenger! Strive against the disbelievers with the sword, and against the hypocrites with your tongue and upholding the punishments. And be harsh against them so that they fear you. The abode they will end up in on the Day of Judgement is hell, and that abode is a very evil abode indeed.

Allah gives an example of those who disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger that their relationship with the believers will not benefit them in any condition: the example of the two wives of two of the prophets of Allah: the wives of Noah and Lot. For verily they were wives to two pious servants, but they deceived their husbands by preventing from the path of Allah and helping the people of disbelief from their nations. Their being wives of these two pious servants did not help them, and it will be said to them: “Enter into the hellfire amongst the disbelievers and transgressors entering it.”

And Allah also mentions an example to those who have faith in Him and His Messengers, that their connections with the disbelievers will not harm them or affect them as long as they remain steadfast upon the truth: the example of the wife of Pharaoh when she said: “O my Lord! Build a house for me near You in Paradise, and save me from the tyranny of Pharaoh, his might and his evil deeds; and save me also from the people who wrong themselves by following him in his transgression and oppression.”

And Allah also mentions an example for those who have faith in Him and His Messengers, in the condition of Mary the daughter of ‘Imrān who safeguarded her private parts from fornication, so Allah commanded Gabriel to blow into her due to which she fell pregnant through the power of Allah with Jesus the son of Mary, without a father. She also believed in the religions of Allah and the books revealed to His Messengers, and she was obedient to Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He did not allow.

The goodness of Allah who solely possesses the kingdom is great and abundant. He is capable of everything, Nothing is outside His ability.

The one who created death and life to test you, O people, which one of you is better in terms of actions. He is the Almighty who no one can overpower; the Forgiving of the sins of whichever of His servants repents to him.

The one who created the seven heavens, each one layered above the one before it without touching it. O observer! You will not witness any discrepancy or misappropriation in the creation of Allah. So look again, do you see cracks or splits? You will never see them; you will only see a perfect, masterful creation.

Then, look again time after time; your eyesight will return humiliated without having found any defect or fault in the creation of the heaven; exhausted without being able to see.

And verily I adorned the nearest sky to the earth with shining stars, making them shoot and repelling with them the satans with them who try to eavesdrop. I have also prepared for them a blazing fire in the afterlife.

And for those who disbelieve in their Lord, on the Day of Judgement there is the punishment of a raging fire. Very evil is place they will return to.

When they will be thrown into the hellfire, they will hear an extremely evil sound: it will be bubbling like a boiling pot.

It almost bursts within itself and comes apart due to its extreme rage over those that are thrown into it. Each time a group is thrown into it from the disbelievers, the angels appointed over it will ask them scoldingly: “Did a Messenger not come to you in the world, warning you of the punishment of Allah?”

The disbelievers will say, “Indeed! A Messenger did come to us warning us of the punishment of Allah but we rejected him, and we said to him, “Allah did not reveal any revelation. O Messengers! You are in nothing but clear deviance from the truth.””

The disbelievers will say, “If we had listened attentively, or had thought clearly like the one who can differentiate the truth from falsehood, we would not have been amongst the people of the hellfire. Rather, we would have had faith in the Messengers and believed in whatever they brought, being from the people of Paradise.”

So they will confess against themselves to having disbelieved and rejected, thereby being worthy of the hellfire. So away with the people of the hellfire!

After Allah mentions the traits of the disbelievers and their requital, he follows it up with mentioning the qualities of the people of faith and their requital, saying: “Indeed, those who fear Allah in privacy, they will be forgiven for their sins and will get a great reward, i.e. Paradise.”

O people! Speak secretively or openly; Allah hears it anyway. Indeed, He may He be glorified is aware of whatever is in the hearts of His servants; nothing is hidden from Him in that regard.

Does the one who created all creation not know of the secret, and that which is more inconspicuous than the secret? He is The Kind to His servants; The Aware of their affairs. Nothing is hidden from Him in that regard.

He is the one who made the earth soft and easy for you to live on, so travel around to its edges and eat from the provision He has prepared for you within it. To Him alone you will be resurrected for accountability and requital.

Do you feel safe from the being in the heavens that He may cause the earth to split beneath you, just as He caused it to split beneath Korah, despite it having been soft and easy to live on? It could suddenly shake with you on it, after being firm and solid.

Or do you feel safe from the being in the heavens that He could rain down stones upon you just like He did upon the people of Lot? Then you will realise, when you see My punishment for yourselves, My warnings to you. But you will never be able to benefit from them after having witnessed the punishment.

Verily, the nations that came before these idolaters rejected, and so the punishment of Allah descended upon them after they insisted in their disbelief and rejection, so how was My disavowal of them? Verily, it was a severe disavowal.

Do these rejectors not see the birds above them flying in rows, side by side with one another? What stops them from falling to the ground, except Allah? Indeed, He is The Seeing of everything, nothing is hidden from Him.

O disbelievers! There is no army that can save you from the punishment of Allah if He decides to punish you. The disbelievers are in nothing but deception; Satan has deceived them and they have fallen into his deception.

And there is no one that can sustain you if Allah stops His provisions from reaching you. Rather, the crux is that the disbelievers have prolonged in transgression, arrogance and refusal of the truth.

So is the one who walks while falling on his face i.e. the idolater more guided, or the believer who walks upright on the straight path?

O Messenger! Say to these idolaters who reject: “Allah is the one who created you and made for you ears through which you hear, eyes with which you see, and hearts through which you think. Little do you show gratitude to Him for the blessings He has conferred upon you.

O Messenger! Say to these idolaters who reject: “Allah is the one who dispersed you on earth and made you spread upon it, not your idols which cannot create anything. To Him alone you will be gathered on the Day of Judgement for accountability and requital, not your idols. So fear Him and worship Him alone.

And the rejectors of the resurrection, thinking it to be far-fetched, say, “O Muhammad! When will this promise that you and your companions promise us with, happen, if you are truthful in your claim that it will occur?”

Say, O Messenger: “The knowledge of the Hour is with Allah; only He knows when it will occur. I am only a clear warner in my warning to you.”

So when the promise will come upon them and they will see the punishment close to them on the Day of Judgement, the faces of those who disbelieved in Allah will change and become dark. And it will be said to them, “This is what you used to ask for and want hastily!”

O Messenger! Say to these rejecting idolaters, reprimanding them: “Tell me, if Allah was to case death to me and to those with me i.e. the believers, who will save the disbelievers from a painful punishment?” No one will ever save them from it.

O Messenger! Say to these idolaters: “He is The Merciful who invites you to worshipping Him alone. We have brought faith in Him, and upon Him alone we rely for our affairs. You will soon know, inevitably, who was in clear deviance and who was on the straight path.”

O Messenger! Say to these idolaters: “Tell me, if the water you drink from was to seep away into the earth and you could not get to it, who then would bring you abundant, flowing water?” No one other than Allah could.

The discussion on similar letters has already passed in Sūrah Al-Baqarah. Allah takes an oath on the Pen and whatever the people write with their pens.

O Messenger! You are not a madman, due to the messengership Allah has blessed you with. Rather, you are free of the insanity the idolaters accuse you with.

Indeed, there is definitely a great, everlasting reward for you for your conveying the message to the people, without there being a favour outstanding upon you for anyone.

And indeed, you are definitely on the greatest of character that the Qur’ān has brought; you are embodied with it to the most perfect degree.

So you will soon see, and these rejectors will also see.

When the truth is revealed, who from amongst you was actually a madman.

O Messenger! Indeed, your Lord knows of whoever deviates from His path, and He is best aware of those who are guided to it. Therefore, He knows that they are the ones who have deviated from it, and that you have been guided to it.

So, O Messenger, do not follow the rejectors in what you have brought.

They wish that you were soft and compromising towards them in matters of religion, so they can be soft and kind to you in return.

And do not follow anyone who frequently takes false oaths, and is vulgar.

Who frequently backbites the people, and bears tales between them to cause division between them.

Who often prevents goodness and oppresses the people in their wealth, their dignity and their lives; who is a habitual sinner and disobeyer.

Who is stubborn and rude, one residing among his people without being related to them.

Just because he is a person of wealth and many sons, he is too arrogant to have faith in Allah and in His Messenger.

When My verses are read to him, he says, “This are the tales written of the people of the past.”

I will place a mark on his nose which will stick with him and disfigure him.

Indeed, I have tested these idolaters with drought and hunger, just as I tested the people of the garden when they swore that they will quickly harvest its fruits in the morning, so that the poor cannot eat from them.

They did not attribute the matter to Allah among themselves, by saying: “If Allah wills”.

So I sent a fire to the garden which consumed it while its owners were asleep, unable to defend it.

It became black, like a dark night.

In the morning, its owners called on each other.

Saying, “Leave early towards your crop before the poor people arrive, if indeed, you wish to harvest your crops.”

So they made their way towards their crop quickly, talking among themselves in hushed tones.

They were saying to one another: “No poor person should come to you at the garden today.”

They left in the early morning, determined not to let anyone get to their crops.

Then, when they saw their crops having been burnt, they said to each other, “Surely, we have lost our way?!”

“Nay! We have been deprived of harvesting our crops because of us having been determined to prevent the poor from eating them.”

The most virtuous among them said, “Did I not tell you when you made up your mind to prevent the poor from your crops: “Why do you not glorify Allah and repent to Him?””

They said, “Glory be to our Lord; indeed, we wronged ourselves when we decided to prevent the poor from the crops of our garden.”

So they began to go back on their words out of regret.

They said, regretfully, “How much we have lost! Indeed, we transgressed the limits by depriving the poor of their rights.”

“It is hoped from our Lord that He gives us better than our garden in return. Indeed, we are desirous towards Him; we hope for forgiveness from Him and seek goodness from Him.”

I punish those who disobey Me just like I punished these people with the punishment of depravation. And indeed, the punishment of the afterlife is greater, if only they were to know its severity and permanence.

Indeed, those who are mindful of Allah by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, will have gardens of pleasure by their Lord, wherein they will live in permanent luxury.

Should I make the Muslims the same as the disbelievers in terms of requital, as the idolaters of Makkah claim?

O idolaters! What is wrong with you; how can you come to this oppressive, warped conclusion?

Do you have a book in which you read that there should be equality between the obedient and disobedient?

Indeed, in that book you would then have whatever you choose in the afterlife.

Or, do you have covenants with Me weighted with oaths, that you will get whatever you decide for yourselves?

O Messenger! Ask those making these statement: “Who is their guarantor for this?”

Or do they have associates other than Allah who make them equal in requital with the believers? If so, they should bring forth these associates of theirs if they are true in their claim that they have made them equal in requital with the believers.

On the Day of Judgement, the horror will become clear and our Lord will expose a part of His Shin. The people will be invited to prostrate, so the believers will prostrate, but the disbelievers and hypocrites will remain standing, unable to prostrate.

Their eyesight will be humiliated; humiliation and regret will overcome them. Yet in the world, they were asked to prostrate to Allah while they were in safety from what they will be facing on that day.

O Messenger! Leave me to deal with whoever denies this Qur’ān that has been revealed to you. I will drive them to the punishment gradually, in a way they do not realise that it is a method of leading them gradually into destruction.

And I give them respite for a short while so that they go to extremes in their sin. Indeed, My plan regarding the people of disbelief and rejection is firm; they will not escape Me nor be safe from My punishment.

O Messenger! Do you seek a reward from them for what you invite them towards, due to which they are greatly burdened, being the cause of their turning away from you? The reality is the opposite: you do not seek any reward from them; so what stops them from following you?

Or do they have knowledge of the Ghaib from which they write whatever proof appeal to them, that they then use to argue against you?

O Messenger! So wait for the decision of your Lord to give them respite and gradually lead them into destruction. And do not be like the companion of the whale i.e. Jonah (peace be upon him) who became annoyed with his people, and then called out to his Lord while distressed in the darkness of the sea and the darkness of the stomach of the whale.

Had it not been for the mercy of Allah reaching him, the whale would have thrown him on a barren land, rebuked.

But his Lord chose him and made him one of His pious servants.

And indeed, those who disbelieve in Allah and reject his Messengers could almost bring you to the ground with their eyes due to their extremely sharp glances towards you when they hear this Qur’ān that was revealed to you. While following their desires and turning away from the truth, they say, “Indeed, the Messenger who has brought it is a madman.”

Yet the Qur’ān that has been revealed to you is only a reminder and admonition for the humans and the Jinn.

Allah mentions the hour or resurrection that will occur on everyone.

Then He enhances its importance by asking this question: ‘What is al-Ḥāq-qah?’

Has anyone taught you about this al-Ḥāq-qah?

The Thamūd, the people of Saleh, and the ‘Ād, the people of Hud all denied the Day of Judgement that will strike the people with its severe horrors.

As for the Thamūd, Allah destroyed them with a scream that reached the height of severity and horror.

As for the ‘Ād, Allah destroyed them with a severely cold, relentless wind that reached the height of harshness upon them.

Allah released it upon them for seven nights and eight days, destroying them all. You would have seen the people destroyed in their homes, thrown onto the ground by the wind; as if they were the decomposed trunks of date palms fallen to the ground.

Do you see anyone of them remaining, after the punishment that afflicted them?

Pharaoh and the nations before him, and the communities that were punished by being turned upside down i.e. the people of Lot, all committed wrong acts in ascribing partners with Allah and sins.

Each of them disobeyed their Messengers who were sent to them and rejected them, so Allah seized them with a seizing that exceeded the force required to destroy them.

Indeed, when the water exceeded its limit in rising, I carried those of you who were in their backs on the ark that floated and which Noah (peace be upon him) built upon My command. So in effect, I carried you.

So that I could let the ark and its tale become a lesson through which proof of the destruction of the people of disbelief could be taken, together with the saving of the people of faith, and so attentive ears could take heed.

So when the appointed angel will blow into the trumpet once, being the second blowing.

And the earth and mountains are raised, then crushed with one severe blow, the earth and its mountains will turn to pieces.

On the day when all that happens, the Day of Judgement will occur.

And the sky will crack open on that day because of the angels descending from it. So on that day it will be weak, whereas it was once solid and unyielding.

The angels will be on its edges and corners. Eight elite angels will carry the throne of your Lord on that great day.

O people! On that Day, you will be exhibited for judgemen]; not hidden among you is anything concealed, rather Allah will be fully aware and watchful of it.

As for the one who is given his book of deeds in his right hand, he will say out of happiness and delight, “Take and read my book of deeds!”

“Indeed, I did good deeds in the world and was convinced of being resurrected and having to meet my reward.”

So he will be living in a contented manner because of seeing the everlasting favours.

In a Paradise elevated in position and rank.

The fruits of which will be near to those intending to consume them.

It will be said to them in hospitality, “Eat and drink carefree of any ill repercussions due to the good deeds you sent forth in the days passed in the world.”

As for the one who will be given his book of deeds in his left hand, he will say out of extreme regret, “If only I had not been given my book of deeds, because of the evil deeds deserving punishment within it.”

“And if only I did not know what the result of my giving account was.”

“If only the death I died, was the final one after which I was never resurrected.”

“My wealth did not protect me at all from the punishment of Allah.”

“My evidence has deserted me, as well as all the strength and dignity.”

And it will be said, “O angels! Grab him and gather his hands at his neck.”

“Then enter him into the hellfire so that he sees its heat.”

“Then chain him up with a chain measuring seventy cubits in length.”

“Indeed, he would not believe in Allah the Great.”

“Neither would he encourage others to feed the poor.”

So on the Day of Judgement, he will have no relative to save him from the punishment.

Neither will he have any food to eat except the fluid flowing from the bodies of the people of the hellfire.

Only the sinners will eat from that food.

Allah takes an oath on whatever you see.

And He also takes an oath on whatever you cannot see.

That indeed, the Qur’ān is the speech of Allah, which His noble Messenger recites to the people.

It is not the speech of a poet because it is not on the pattern of a poem; little do you believe!

Neither is it the speech of a fortune teller because the speech of fortune tellers is different to that of this Qur’ān; little do you take heed!

Rather, it is a revelation from the Lord of all creation.

And if Muhammad was to fabricate lies and attribute them to Me, which I had not said.

I would definitely take forceful and due retribution from him.

Then I would cut the vein connected to his heart.

But none of you can protect him from Me, so it is far-fetched that he fabricates lies because of you.

And indeed, the Qur’ān is an admonition for those who are mindful of their Lord by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed.

And I know that there are definitely people among you who reject this Qur’ān.

Indeed, rejection of this Qur’ān will be a means of great regret on the Day of Judgement.

Indeed, the Qur’ān is the certain truth: there is no doubt and dispute that it is from Allah.

O Messenger! So proclaim the purity of you Lord of whatever is not befitting of Him, and remember His great name.

A caller from the idolaters called for the punishment upon himself and his people if this punishment was to actually come. It was a mockery on his part, but it will happen on the Day of Judgement.

It will fall upon the disbelievers in Allah. There will be no one to avert this punishment.

From Allah the possessor of highness, ranks, virtues and favours.

The angels and Gabriel will ascend in them ranks on the Day of Judgement: it is a day of which the duration is fifty thousand years.

O Messenger! So be patient; a patience free of worry and complaint.

Indeed, they think of this punishment to be farfetched and impossible.

But I see it as being near and inevitably occurring.

On the day when the sky will be like molten copper, gold and other metals.

And the mountains will be light, like cotton.

No relative will ask another regarding his state, because each person will be preoccupied with his own self.

Each human will see their relatives clearly, yet despite that no one will ask another due to the horror of the scenario. The one deserving of the hellfire will wish to present his children to the punishment instead of himself.

Or give his wife and brother in ransom.

Or his closest relatives who would stand with him in the face of difficulties.

And he will wish to give every human and Jinn on earth in ransom, wishing that it would save him from the punishment of the hellfire.

It will not be as this criminal will wish for. Indeed, it is the fire of the afterlife which blazes and flares up.

Due to its extreme heat and flares, the skin of the head will come clean apart.

It will call out to whoever turned away from the truth, distanced himself from it, did not bring faith in it nor acted upon it.

And whoever amassed wealth, withholding from spending it in the path of Allah.

Indeed, man has been created extremely greedy.

When a difficulty i.e. illness or poverty befalls him, he shows little patience.

And when something that makes him happy comes to him, i.e. fertility and wealth, he is very resistant in spending it in the path of Allah.

Except for those who perform prayer; they are safe from these blameworthy traits.

Those who are punctual with their prayers; they are not distracted from them and they perform them at their fixed times.

And those who have a set, determined amount of their wealth.

Which they give to whoever asks them or doesn’t, but are deprived of sustenance for whatever reason.

And those who believe in the Day of Judgement: the day Allah will requite everyone with whatever they deserve.

And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord, despite having sent forth good deeds.

Indeed, no intelligent person feels safe from the punishment of his Lord.

And those who safeguard their private parts by concealing them and keeping them away from shameful acts.

Except from their wives or the servant girls they possess, because they are not blameworthy in enjoying them through sexual intercourse or anything less.

Whoever seeks pleasure in other than whatever has been mentioned i.e. wives and servant girls, they are the ones who have transgressed the limits of Allah.

And those who, when entrusted with wealth, secrets etc., or with agreements they enter into, they uphold them: neither betraying their trusts nor breaking their agreements.

And those who give their testimonies in the manner sought from them, without being affected by relationships or enmity.

And those who are punctual in their prayers by performing them at their appropriate times, with due purity and composure, whilst not being distracted from them by anything.

Those possessing the aforementioned qualities will be honoured in gardens, attaining everlasting favours and being able to see the blessed Face of Allah.

O Messenger! What is it that has led these idolaters around you to reject you so quickly?

Surrounding you from your right and left, in groups upon groups.

Do each of them hope that Allah will enter them into the garden of favours, wherein they shall live in luxury among the everlasting bounties, while they remain on their disbelief?

It is not as they imagine. Indeed, I created them from what they know: I created them from a contemptible fluid, and they are weak: they are incapable of bringing benefit or harm for themselves, so how could they be arrogant?

Allah takes an oath on the Lord of the rising places of the sun and the moon. Indeed, Allah is the Capable.

He is capable of destroying them and replacing them with others who obey Him; He is not incapable of doing so. Nor can He be overpowered when He intends to destroy them and replace them.

O Messenger! So leave them to dive into the falsehood and deviance they are already in, and to amuse themselves in their worldly lives, until they encounter the Day of Judgement that they have been promised in the Qur’ān.

On the day when they shall leave their graves in a hurry, as if they are racing towards a banner.

Their eyes will be humiliated, and humiliation will envelop them. That is the day they were promised in the world, but they did not care about it.

Indeed, I sent Noah to his people, inviting them so that he may warn them before a painful punishment afflicts them due to their state of ascribing partners to Allah.

Noah said to his people, “O my people! Indeed, I am a clear warner for you of the punishment of Allah that awaits you if you do not repent to Him.”

“And the gist of my warning to you is: “Worship Allah alone and do not ascribe any partners to Him; be mindful of Him by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things He has not allowed, and obey me in whatever I instruct you to do.”

“Indeed, if you do that, Allah will forgive your sins for you in relation to other than violating the rights of the people. He will also prolong the lifespan of your nations until a time fixed according to His knowledge, wherein you shall populate the earth as long as you remain steadfast on it. Indeed, when death comes, it does not delay. If you truly knew, you would hasten to bringing faith in Allah and repenting to Him from your states of ascribing partners to Him and of deviance.”

Noah said, “O my Lord! Indeed, I called my people to Your worship and oneness, continuously, day and night.”

“But my calling them only increased them in alienation and distanced them from what I called them towards.”

“And whenever I called them towards that which meant forgiveness for their sins, i.e. worshipping You alone, obedience to You and Your Messenger, they blocked their ears with their fingers so that they could not hear my call. They also covered their faces with their clothes so that they could not see me, and they continued in their ascribing partners to you, showing arrogance in not accepting my call to them or submitting to it.”

“O my Lord! I then invited them publicly.”

“I invited them raising my voice, and I also invited them privately in a hushed tone. I used different methods of calling them.”

Then I said to them, “O my people! Seek the forgiveness of your Lord by turning to Him. Indeed, He, may He be glorified, is the oft-Forgiving of the sins of whichever of His servants repents to Him.”

“Because if you do that, Allah will send down frequent rainfall for you, whenever you need it, so you will never face a drought.”

“And He will grant you an abundance of wealth and offspring, make gardens grow for you from which you can consume fruits, and make rivers flow from which you can drink and irrigate your crops and livestock.”

“O my people! What is wrong with you that you do not fear the greatness of Allah, such that you disobey Him without any care?!”

“While He created you in stages, one after the other: a drop of semen, then clotted blood, then a piece of flesh.”

“Do you not see how Allah has created the seven heavens, one on top of the other?”

“And He made the moon a light for the people of the earth, in the nearest of the heavens, also making the sun illuminating.”

“And Allah is the one who created you from the earth, by creating your father Adam from soil. Then, you are also nourished by whatever it grows for you.”

“Allah will then return you to it after your death, and then take you out of it again for the resurrection.”

“And Allah also spread the earth out for you, ready for you to live on.”

“Perhaps you may create wide paths from it, striving to make permissible earnings.”

Noah said, “O my Lord! Indeed, my people have disobeyed me in what I have instructed them to do i.e. accepting Your oneness and worshipping You alone. The lowly among them have followed the nobles, whom You have favoured with wealth and offspring. Your favouring them has only increased them in their deviance.”

The elders among them hatched a great plot by inciting the lowly against Noah.

They said to their followers, “Do not leave the worship of your deities: do not leave the worship of your idols Wadd, Suwā‘, Yaghūth, Ya'ūq and Nasr.”

“Verily, they have led the majority of people astray with these idols. O my Lord! Do not increase those who wrong themselves by persisting on disbelief and sins, except in further deviance from the truth.”

Due to the sins they committed, they were drowned by a flood in the world, and they were made to enter the hellfire immediately after their death. They did not find any helpers to save them from drowning or the hellfire.

And when Allah informed him that no one will ever bring faith from his people, except those had already brought faith, Noah said, “O my Lord! Do not leave any disbeliever walking or moving on earth.”

“O my Lord! If you leave them and give them respite, they will lead your believing servants astray and will only give birth to more transgressors who will not obey You, or extreme ungrateful ones who will not show gratitude for Your favours.”

“O my Lord! Forgive my sins, forgive my parents, and forgive the one who enters my house as a believer. Also forgive the believing men and women, and do not increase those who wrong themselves by disbelief and sins except in destruction and loss.”

Say, O Messenger, to your nation: Allah revealed to me that a group of Jinn listened to my recitation of the Qur’ān in Batn Nakhla. When they went back to their people they said to them: We have heard a recited speech that is impressive in its clarity and eloquence.

This speech that we heard guides to the correct belief, statements and actions, so we believed in it and we will not associate any partner with our Lord Who revealed it.

We have believed that He - exalted be the grandeur and majesty of our Lord - has not taken any wife nor child as the idolaters say.

And that Iblis made an errant statement about Allah by attributing a wife and child to Him, may He be glorified.

And that we thought that the idolaters from among mankind and the jinn were not speaking lies when they claimed that He had a wife and child, so we accepted their statement blindly following them.

And that in the period of ignorance, some men from mankind used to seek protection in the jinn when they came to a frightening place. One of them would say: I seek protection in the leader of this valley from the evil of the foolish ones of his people. As a result, human beings became more afraid and terrified of the jinn.

And that humans thought as you did, O jinn, that Allah will not resurrect anyone after his death for the reckoning and recompense.

And that we sought the news of the heaven and we found the sky full of stern guards, who were the angels, who guarded it from the eavesdropping that we used to do, and full of flaming fires thrown at everyone who comes close to the sky.

And that we in the past used to assume positions in the sky from where we could hear what the angels were deliberating, and then we would convey this to the fortune-tellers on earth. Now things have changed. Anyone of us who now tries to listen finds a flaming fire ready for him. When he goes near, it is released on him and he is burnt by it.

And that we do not know what is the cause of this stern guard, is it that evil is intended for those on earth, or does Allah intend good for them. News of the sky has been cut off from us.

And that we - the group of jinn-: some of us are Allah-conscious and righteous whilst some of us are disbelievers and sinners. We are of different types and of diverse persuasions.

And that we are certain that we cannot escape Allah, may He be glorified, when He intends some matter for us. We will never be able to escape Him by fleeing because He surrounds us.

And that when we heard the Qur’ān that guides to what is most upright we had faith in it. Whoever has faith in his Lord will not fear any loss of his good deeds and nor any sin that will be added to his prior sins.

And that some of us submit and follow Allah by obeying Him, and some of us go astray from the path of moderation and steadfastness. Those who submit to Allah by following him and doing righteous actions, they are the ones who have sought after guidance and the right way.

Those who go astray from the path of moderation and steadfastness, they will be firewood that will be used to light the fire of Hell together with other human beings like them.

Just as I revealed to him that a group of the jinn listened to him, I revealed to him that if human beings and the jinn remained steadfast on the path of Islam, and practiced on what it contained, then Allah would have given them plenty water to drink and provided them with various blessings.

To test them in that, are they thankful for Allah’s favours or are they ungrateful for them? Whoever turns away from the Qur’ān and the admonitions it contains, His Lord will enter him into a difficult punishment that he will not be able to bear.

And that the mosques belong to Him (may He be glorified) and not to anyone else. So do not call on anyone together with Allah and become like the Jews and the Christians in their synagogues and churches.

And that when Allah’s servant, Muhammad (peace be on him) stood up to worship His Lord in Batn Nakhla, the jinn were almost piled on top of him because of the huge crowd when they heard him reciting the Qur’ān.

O Messenger! Say to these idolaters: I only call unto my Lord alone and I do not associate anyone else as partner to Him in worship, whoever he may be.

Say to them: I do not have any power to ward off any harm that Allah has decreed for you, nor do I have any power to draw any benefit that Allah has withheld from you.

Say to them: No one can save me from Allah if I go against Him, and I will never find any place of refuge to take refuge in besides Him.

But that which is in my power is to convey to you what Allah has instructed me to convey to you, and His message that He sent with me to you. Whoever goes against Allah and His messenger, his fate is entry into the fire of Hell to remain their forever and never come out.

The disbelievers will persist in their disbelief until when they see on the day of judgment the punishment that they were warned of in the world. At that time, they will come to know who has the weaker protector and they will come to know who has less helpers.

O Messenger! Say to these idolaters who reject the resurrection: I do not know whether the punishment you are warned of is near, or whether it has a fixed time that only Allah knows.

He (may He be glorified) is the knower of the Ghaib, all of it. Nothing of it is hidden from Him. He does not disclose His Ghaib to anyone, but keeps it in His exclusive knowledge.

Except for a messenger whom He, may He be glorified, selects and then discloses to him what He wishes. He sends guards from the angels to go before the messenger and protect him so that no one besides the messenger gains access to this.

This is done in the hope that the messenger may know that the messengers before him had conveyed the messages of their Lord that He had instructed them to convey because of the care that Allah gave to it. Allah’s knowledge surrounds whatever is with the angels and messengers. Nothing of that is hidden from Him. He has counted the number of everything, so that nothing is hidden from Him, may He be glorified.

O you wrapped up in your clothes (i.e. the Prophet (peace be upon him)).

Offer prayer at night except for a little part of it.

Pray for half of it if you wish, or pray for a little less than half until you reach one third.

Or increase it until you reach two thirds. Make the Qur’ān clear when you recite it and recite it slowly.

I am going to send down on you, O Messenger, the Qur’ān, which is a heavy word, due to the obligations, limits, provisions, etiquettes etc. that it contains.

The hours of the night are more suited to the heart for recitation and more correct in speech.

In the day you are busy in your work, and are distracted from reciting the Qur’ān, so pray at night.

Remember Allah with various forms of remembrance, and devote yourself to Him (may He be glorified) fully by making your worship solely for Him.

The Lord of the East and the Lord of the West. There is none deserving of worship besides Him. So take Him as a Trustee Whom you rely on in all your affairs.

Be patient over the mockery and abuse uttered by those who deny, and leave them in a manner that causes no harm.

Do not be concerned about the state of those who deny, those who enjoy the pleasures of the world. Leave them to Me and wait a little for them until their appointed time comes.

In the afterlife, I have heavy chains and a blazing fire.

And a food that chokes the throats because of its extreme bitterness, and a painful punishment, in addition to the above.

That punishment will occur to those who deny on the day when the earth and the mountains will shake and the mountains will become scattered flowing sand because of its extreme horror.

I have sent to you a messenger as a witness over your actions on the day of judgment just as I sent to Pharaoh a messenger, who was Moses, (peace be upon him).

But Pharaoh went against the messenger who was sent to him from his Lord, so I punished him with a severe punishment in the world by drowning and in the afterlife by the punishment of the fire. So you do not go against your messenger or you will be afflicted by what afflicted him.

So how will you protect yourselves - if you reject Allah and deny His messenger - from a long, severe day that will make the head of young children white because of the severity of its horror and its length.

The sky will split because of its horror. Allah’s promise will be inevitably fulfilled.

This admonition - containing an exposition of the horror and severity of the day of judgment - is a reminder that is of benefit to the believers. So whoever wishes to take a path that leads to His Lord let him do so.

Your Lord, O Messenger, knows that you sometimes spend less than two thirds of the night in prayer, sometimes you stand for half the night, sometimes a third, and a group of the believers stand with you. Allah determines the night and day and counts their hours. He (may He be glorified) knows that you are not able to count and keep a record of its hours, and thus standing for the most part of it seeking the required will be difficult for you. He therefore has accepted your repentance. So pray at night as much as is easy for you. Allah knows that some of you, O believers, may be ill and constrained by illness - others will be travelling seeking Allah’s provision, and others will be fighting the disbelievers seeking Allah’s pleasure and to promote Allah’s word. For these people standing in prayer at night is difficult, so pray at night as much as is easy for you and discharge the obligatory prayer in the most perfect manner. Give the charity of your wealth and spend from your wealth in Allah’s path. Whatever good you send forward for yourselves, you will find it to be better and greater in reward. Seek forgiveness from Allah. Allah Forgiving towards those of His servants who repent and He is merciful to them.

O you who is covered with his clothes (this refers to the Prophet (peace be upon him)

Arise and warn of Allah’s punishment.

Declare the greatness of your Lord.

Purify yourself from sins and your clothes from impurities.

Keep away from the worship of idols.

Do not think that you have done a favour to your Lord by regarding your righteous actions to be plenty.

Be patient for Allah’s sake over the harm that you incur.

When the trumpet will be blown a second time.

That day will be a severe day.

For those who reject Allah and His messengers it will not be easy.

Leave me, O Messenger, and the one whom I created alone in the womb of his mother without wealth or children (This refers to Walid bin Al Mughira).

I gave him plenty wealth.

I gave him children who were present with him, who attended gatherings with him and who did not leave him on account of travel due to the abundance of his wealth.

I extended to him his livelihood, provision and children profusely.

Then despite his denial of Me he desires that I give him more after I gave him all of that.

The matter is not as he thinks. He was opposed to My verses that I revealed to My messenger denying them.

I will impose on him difficulty from a punishment that he will not be able to bear.

This disbeliever whom I bestowed with those favours thought about what he should say in order to refute the Qur’ān, and planned this within himself.

So may he be cursed and punished. How did he plan!

Again, may he be cursed and punished. How did he plan!

Then he reconsidered and carefully thought about what he should say.

The he frowned and scowled when he did not find anything to challenge the Qur’ān with.

Then he turned away from faith and was too proud to follow the Prophet (peace be upon him).

He said: This what Muhammad brought is not Allah’s speech, but it is sorcery that he relates from others.

This is not Allah’s speech, but it is the speech of man.

I will enter this disbeliever into one of the levels of the Fire, which is Saqar, to suffer from its heat.

What will tell you, O Muhammad, what Saqar is?!

It does not spare any person that is punished in it except that it comes on him and does not leave him. Then he returns to how it was and it comes to him, again and again.

It severely burns and alters skins.

There are nineteen angels over it who are its wardens.

I did not make the wardens of the Fire except angels, so humans do not have the power to face them. Abu Jahl was lying when he and his people claimed that they have the ability to attack them and then they will come out of the Fire. I did not make this number of theirs except to test those who reject Allah, so that the Jews who were given the Torah and the Christians who were given the Gospel will become certain when the Qur’ān that confirms what is in their scriptures is revealed, so that the faith of the believers increases when the people of the scripture agree with them and the Jews, Christians and the believers do not have any doubt, and so that those who waver in faith and those who are disbelievers say: What does Allah intend by this strange number?! Just as those who deny this number are misguided and those who accept it are guided, Allah misguides whoever He wishes to misguide and He guides whoever He wishes to guide. No one knows the forces of your Lord, because of their huge number, besides Him, may He be glorified. So let Abu Jahl who, mockingly and dismissively, said, “Does Muhammad only have nineteen aides?!” know this. The Fire is only a reminder for human beings, through which they can come to know of Allah’s greatness, may He be glorified.

The statement is not as claimed by some idolaters that he will suffice his companions against the wardens of Hell and take them out of it. Allah took an oath by the moon.

He took an oath by the night when it departs.

He took an oath by the morning when it lights up.

The fire of Hell is one the great calamities.

In order to strike terror and fear in people.

Whoever from amongst you, O people, wishes to go forward with faith in Allah and righteous actions, or to lag behind by disbelief and sins.

Every soul will be taken to task for the actions that it did. Either its actions will destroy it or they will release and rescue it from destruction.

Except for the believers, who wont be taken to task for their sins. Instead, these will be overlooked because of their righteous actions.

On the Day of Judgement, they will be in gardens asking one another.

About the disbelievers who destroyed themselves by the sins they committed.

They will say to them: What entered you into Hell?

The disbelievers will answer them saying: We were not of those who discharged the obligatory prayer in the worldly life.

We did not feed the poor from what Allah gave us.

We used to be with the people of falsehood and go wherever they go. We used to speak to the people of misguidance and deviation.

We used to deny the day of recompense.

We persisted in this denial until death came to us and prevented us from repenting.

On the Day of Judgment, the mediation of intercessors from the angels, prophets and pious ones, will not benefit them, because the requirement for the acceptance of intercession is that the thing for which intercession is made must be approved.

What has made these idolaters turn away from the Qur’ān?!

As if they, in their turning away from and aversion to it, are wild donkeys that are extremely resistant.

That have fled from a lion out of fear for it.

Instead, each one of these idolaters wants for there to be an open book by his head side that tells him that Muhammad is a messenger from Allah. The reason for this is not the lack of proof or weakness of evidence. It is only obstinacy and pride.

The matter is not like that. In fact, the reason for their persistence in their misguidance is that they do not have faith in the punishment of the afterlife, so they remained in their disbelief.

Indeed, this Qur’ān is an admonition and a reminder.

Whoever wishes to read the Qur’ān and take lesson from it does so.

None takes lesson from it besides those whom Allah wills to take lesson. He (may He be glorified) is worthy of being mindful of by the fulfilment of His instructions and the avoidance of His prohibitions. He is worthy of forgiving the sins of His servants when they repent to Him.

Allah took an oath by the Day of Judgement when people stand before the Lord of the worlds.

He took an oath by the pure soul that reproaches its owner for falling short in righteous deeds and for doing wrong deeds. He took an oath by these two things that He will certainly resurrect people for reckoning and recompense.

Does man think that I will not gather his bones to be resurrected after he dies?!

Indeed, I am able together with gathering them to restore his fingertips in a proportionate form just as they were.

But man by his denial of the resurrection wants to continue sinning in the future unchecked.

He skeptically asks about the Day of Judgement: When will it occur?

When the sight is dazzled and astonished at the time when it sees what it used to deny.

And the light of the moon disappears.

And the mass of the sun and the moon are brought together.

The sinning person will say on that day: Where is the escape?!

There is no escape on that day and there is no place in which the sinner can take refuge nor any place that he can seek protection in.

The return and destination on that day will be to your Lord, O Messenger, for the reckoning and recompense.

On the day man will be informed about the actions that he sent forward and those that he left behind.

Instead, man is a witness against himself as his limbs will testify against him in respect of the sins he committed.

Even if he brings excuses to argue on behalf of himself that he did not do any evil, these will not benefit him.

Do not move your tongue, O Messenger, with the Qur’ān hastily for fear of its escaping from you.

It is My duty to gather it in your chest and to establish its recitation on your tongue.

When Gabriel has completed its recitation to you, then be attentive and listen to its being recited.

Then, it is My duty to explain it to you.

Nay, the matter is not as you claimed about the impossibility of resurrection. You know that the One Who was able to create you the first time is not unable to bring you back to life after you die. However, the reason for your denial of resurrection, is your love for the fleeting life of the world.

And your disregard for the life of the afterlife, the path of which is to carry out the acts of obedience that Allah has instructed you to and to leave the unlawful acts that He has prohibited you from.

The faces of the people of faith and fortune on that day will be radiant with light.

Looking at their Lord with enjoyment.

The faces of the people of disbelief and wretchedness on that day will be gloomy.

They will be sure that a great punishment and painful punishment is to come down on them.

The matter is not as the idolaters imagined - that they will not be punished when they die. When the soul of any one of them reaches the upper part of his chest.

And people say to one another: Who can heal this person, perhaps he can be cured?!

The person in agony will be certain at that time that this is the departure from the world by death.

Difficulties will come together at the time when the world ends and the afterlife commences.

When this occurs, the deceased will be driven to his Lord.

The disbeliever did not accept what his messenger brought to him, nor did he pray to Allah, may He be glorified.

Instead, he denied what his messenger brought to him and turned away from it.

Then this disbeliever went to his family swaggering in his gait out of pride.

Allah thus warned the disbeliever that His punishment has come close to him.

He then repeated the sentence by way of emphasis and stated: “Again, closer and closer it comes to you.”

Does man think that Allah will leave him neglected without imposing any laws on him?

Was this human being one day not a drop of sperm spilt into the womb.

Thereafter he was a piece of coagulated blood. Then Allah created him and made his form proportionate.

Then he made his species into two types: Male and female?!

Is not the One Who created man from a drop, then a clot, able to give life once again to the dead for the reckoning and recompense?! Indeed, He is able to do so.

A long period of time has passed over man when he was non-existent and there was no mention of him.

I created man from a drop that was a mixture of the liquid of a man and a woman, to test him with the impositions I placed on him. I made him hearing and seeing to carry out the laws I imposed on him.

I showed him, through the tongues of My messengers, the path of guidance and by that the path of misguidance became clear to him. Thereafter he is either guided to the straight path and becomes a believing servant that is thankful to Allah, or he is misled from it and becomes a disbelieving servant who rejects Allah’s signs.

After Allah mentioned the two types, those who are guided and those astray, he mentioned the reward of each by saying: I have prepared for those who reject Allah and His messengers, chains by which they will be dragged into the fire, and iron collars that will be tied around their necks, and a blazing fire.

The believers who follow Allah will drink on the day of judgment from a filled cup of wine mixed with camphor because of its pleasant fragrance.

This drink that has been prepared for the people of obedience will be from a easily palatable, abundantly flowing spring which will not dry out. The servants of Allah will drink to their fill from it, and be able to cause it to flow and run wherever they wish.

The attributes of the servants who will drink from it, are that they fulfil the acts of obedience to Allah they have imposed upon themselves, and they fear a day of widespread calamity: The Day of Judgement.

They also feed food, despite being in the state of loving food due to being needy and desirous of it. They feed it to the poor, orphans and captives.

They conceal within themselves that they only feed them for the pleasure of Allah; not intending to receive any recompense from those whom they have fed, nor any praise.

We fear from our Lord a day on which the faces of the wretched will be gloomy due to its severity and horror.

So Allah will protect them through His grace from the harm of that great day, and will give them beauty and light on their faces in their honour, together with placing happiness in their hearts.

And Allah will reward them due to their endurance upon acts of obedience, patience upon the decrees of Allah, and resolve from committing sins, with a Paradise in which they shall live in luxury, wearing clothes made of silk.

They will be reclining in it on decorated couches. They will not see in this Paradise a sun to be inconvenienced by its rays, nor will they experience extreme cold; rather they will be in constant shade, without extreme heat or cold.

Its shade will be near to them, and its fruits will be made subservient to whoever eats them, making them easy to access and eat, such that a person lying down, sitting or standing will be able to eat them.

Servants will roam around them with silver utensils and clear glasses whenever they intend to drink.

In their clear colour, they will be like glass, yet they will be made of silver, and they will be measured to perfection: neither bigger or smaller than they intend.

These honoured people will be given a glass of wine to drink, mixed with ginger.

They will also drink from a spring in Paradise named Salsabīl.

And youthful children will roam around them in Paradise. When you see them you will think of them to be scattered pearls, because of the freshness in their faces, their beautiful complexions, their number and their distinction.

When you see what is in Paradise, you will see undescribable luxury and a magnificent kingdom that is unparalleled.

Magnificent green clothes will adorn their upper bodies, made of fine silk and silk brocade. They will also be made to wear silver bracelets, and Allah will give them to drink, a drink free of any spoiling.

It will be said to them in their honour: “Indeed, this luxury you have been given is a reward for you for your good deeds; your deeds were acceptable with Allah.”

O Messenger! Indeed, I have revealed the Qur’ān to you in segments; I did not reveal it to you all at once.

So be patient over what Allah decrees or legislates, and do not follow the sinner in the sin he calls towards, nor the disbeliever in the disbelief he invites towards.

And remember your Lord by performing the Fajr prayer at the starting of the day, and the Ẓuhr and ‘Aṣr prayers at its end.

And remember Him by performing the two prayers of the night: The Maghrib and ‘Ishā prayers, together with performing Tahajjud after them.

Indeed, these idolaters love the worldly life and are greedy for it, leaving behind them the Day of Judgement which is a burdensome day due to the difficulties and tests in it.

I have created them and strengthened their creation by giving strength in their joints, limbs etc. And if I wanted to destroy them and replace them with people like them, I would have done so.

Indeed, this Sūrah is a piece of advice and a reminder; whoever wishes to take it as a path to the pleasure of his Lord should do so.

You do not wish to take the path to the pleasure of Allah except that Allah also wishes that from you, because the matter is fully in His control. Indeed, Allah knows the requirements of His servants and what they do not require; He is wise in His creation, decree and legislation.

He enters whichever of His servants He wishes into His mercy, granting them the ability to bring faith and do good deeds. He has also prepared for those who oppress themselves by disbelieving and committing sins, a painful punishment in the afterlife: the punishment of the hellfire.

Allah takes an oath on the constant winds, like the mane of a horse.

And He also takes an oath on the severely blowing winds.

And also on the winds that disperse the rain.

And He also takes an oath on the angels that descend with that which differentiates between truth and falsehood.

And He also takes an oath on the angels who descend bringing revelation.

They descend bringing revelation as a warning from Allah so that He is excused, and warning the people of the punishment of Allah.

Indeed, the resurrection, accounting and requital you have been promised is to happen, inevitably.

When it happens, the stars will suddenly lose their shine, and their light will be extinguished.

The sky will suddenly crack because of the angels descending from it.

The mountains will be suddenly uprooted from their places, and will be made to break up into pieces until they become like dust particles.

And the Messengers will be gathered for a fixed time.

For a great day which has been delayed, so that they can testify against their nations.

For the day of separation between the servants, so that the true can be made clear from the false, and the fortunate from the wretched.

O Messenger! What do you know of the day of separation?

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors who rejected whatever the Messengers brought from Allah.

Did I not destroy the previous nations when they disbelieved in Allah and rejected their Messengers?

Then I followed the rejectors up by sending the later ones into the world, and then destroyed them just as I destroyed those before them.

Like My destruction of those nations, I will destroy the criminals who reject that which Muhammad (peace be upon him) has brought.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors of the warning of Allah of the punishment for the criminals.

O people! Did I not create you from a small amount of despised fluid, i.e. a drop of semen?

I then put that contemptuous fluid into a safe place i.e. the woman’s womb.

For a known period of time, i.e. the duration of pregnancy.

I then decreed the attributes of that child, its fate, colour etc., so I am a greatly capable of all that.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors of the capability of Allah.

Did I not make the earth capable of holding all the people?

It holds their living by letting them live and populate it, and their dead by allowing them to be buried in it.

I also placed high, rooted mountains on it that stop it from shaking. And O people! I provide you with sweet water to drink. So whoever created all that is not incapable of resurrecting you.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors of the favours of Allah.

It will be said to those who rejected whatever their Messengers brought: “O rejectors! Walk to the punishment you used to reject.”

“Walk to the shadow of the smoke of the hellfire, which is split into three parts”

“There is no coolness of shade in it, nor does it stop the flares of the hellfire or its heat from reaching you.”

Indeed, the hellfire spits out sparks, each spark like a palace in size.

It is as if the sparks that it spits out are black mountains in their darkness and size.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors who rejected whatever the Messengers brought from Allah.

This is a day on which they will not speak at all.

Neither will they be given permission to present excuses to their Lord for their disbelief and evils.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors of the news of this day.

This is the day of separation between the creations; I have gathered you and the previous nations on one plain.

So if you have a plan that you may execute to save yourselves from My punishment, try it.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors of the day of separation.

Indeed, those who are mindful of their Lord by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things he has not allowed, they will be in the extending shade of the trees of Paradise, and among sweet, flowing springs.

And among fruits they desire to eat.

And it will be said to them: “Eat from the good, and drink a pleasant, unspoiled drink in return for your good deeds in the world.”

Just as I have requited you with this requital, I requite all those who do good deeds.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors of whatever Allah has prepared for the Mindful.

And it will be said to the rejectors: “Eat and enjoy the tasty things of life for a short time in the world; you are indeed, criminals due to your disbelief in Allah and rejection of His Messengers.”

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors of their requital on the day of recompense.

When these rejectors are told: “Perform prayer for Allah”, they do not pray to Him.

Destruction, punishment and loss on that day will be for the rejectors who rejected whatever the Messengers brought from Allah.

So when they do not bring faith in this Qur’ān that was revealed from their Lord, what other speech will they bring faith in?

What are these idolaters asking one another about, after Allah has sent His Messenger (peace be upon him) to them?

They are asking each other about the great news. It is this Qur’ān that has been revealed to their Messenger, which contains the news of the resurrection.

This Qur’ān that they differ in how they should describe it: is it sorcery, poetry, fortune-telling or the tales of old?

The matter is not as they claim. These rejectors of the Qur’ān will soon know the evil outcome of their rejection.

Then, that will be reemphasised for them.

Did I not make the earth spread out evenly for them so that it is fit for them to live on?

And did I not put mountains on it like pegs to stop it from shaking?

And O people! I created you of different types: some of you are males while others are females.

And I made your sleep the end point of your activeness, so that you may rest.

And I made the night a cover for you with its darkness, like a garment that you cover your private parts with.

And I made the day a field for earning and finding provision.

And I made above you seven, solid skies, perfect in their creation.

And I made the sun an extremely bright and hot lamp.

And I sent some clouds for which the time has come to pour down with abundant rain.

So that through it I can extract different types of grains and crops.

And extract gardens that entwine with one another due to the closeness of the branches of their trees.

After Allah mentioned these blessings that prove His power, He followed it up with mention of the resurrection and the Day of Judgement, because the one who is capable of creating these blessings is also capable of resurrecting the dead and taking them to account. He says: Indeed, the day of separation between the creation was appointed and fixed on a time that will not change.

On that day, the angel will blow into the horn the second time, upon which, O people, you shall come in groups.

And the sky will open up; it will have gaps like open doors.

And the mountains will be made to move until they become like dispersed dust particles; becoming like a mirage.

Indeed, hell is watchful, lying in wait.

For the oppressors, as a point of return they will be made to return to.

Wherein they shall stay for endless ages and years.

They will not experience cold breezes in it that will cool them from the heat of the blaze, nor will they taste any drink that they will enjoy.

They will only taste extremely hot water, and the flowing pus of the people of hell.

As a requital in accordance to the disbelief and deviance they were on.

Indeed, in the world, they did not fear the Allah taking them to account in the afterlife, because they did not bring faith in the resurrection. So if they had feared the resurrection, they would have brought faith in Allah and performed good deeds.

And they vehemently rejected My verses I revealed to My Messenger.

I recorded and counted each of their deeds; they are all written in their books of deeds.

O transgressors! So endure this everlasting punishment; I will not increase you except in punishment upon your punishment.

Indeed, for those who are mindful of their Lord by fulfilling His commands and refraining from the things he has not allowed, there is a point of success they will succeed on, by achieving the Paradise they sought.

It is full of gardens and grapevines.

And women of similar ages.

And full glasses of wine.

In Paradise, they will not hear any false speech, nor lies. Neither will they lie to one another.

All that will be from what Allah will give to them in graciousness and benevolence, and it will be sufficient for them.

He is the Lord of the heavens, the earth and whatever is between them; the benevolent of the world and the afterlife. No one on earth or in the heavens is able to question Him except when He gives them permission.

On the day when Gabriel and the angels will stand in rows, not speaking to intercede on behalf of anyone except whom the Benevolent grants them permission to intercede for, and has made a straight statement i.e. the statement of oneness of Allah.

That which has been described to you is the day in which there is no doubt regarding its occurrence. So whoever wishes salvation on it from the punishment of Allah, he should take the path to it through performing good deeds that will please his Lord.

O people! Indeed, I have warned you of an impending punishment which will occur on the day when a person will see what deeds he sent forth in the world, and the disbeliever will say, wishing safety from the punishment: “If only I had become dust like the animals!” when it is said to them on the Day of Judgement: “Become dust”.

Allah takes an oath on the angels who pull out the souls of the disbelievers with severity and harshness.

And He also takes an oath on the angels who gently remove the souls of the believers with ease and smoothness.

He also takes an oath on the angels who float from the heavens to the earth, by the command of Allah.

And He also takes an oath on the angels who compete with one another to carry out the command of Allah.

He also takes an oath on the angels who execute the decree of Allah that He has commanded them to, i.e. the angels appointed to the deeds of the servants. He takes an oath on all that, that He will definitely resurrect them for accounting and requital.

On the day when the earth will tremble upon the first blowing of the horn.

The second blow will follow it.

The hearts of some people will be fearful on that day.

The effects of humiliation will be apparent on their faces.

They would say: “Will we be returned to life after we have died?”

“When we will become decomposed, empty bones, will we be returned then?!”

They say: “If we are returned, that return will be a loss, and the person returning will be defrauded.”

The matter of the resurrection is easy. It will only be a single scream from the angel appointed to blow.

Then suddenly, everyone will be alive on the face of the earth, after they were dead within it.

O Messenger! Has the news of Moses, his Lord and enemy, Pharaoh, come to you?

When his Lord may He be glorified called out to him at the blessed valley of Tuwa.

Among the things He said to him was: “Go to Pharaoh; indeed, he has trespassed the limits of oppression and arrogance.”

“Then say to him: “O Pharaoh! Do you want to purify yourself from disbelief and sins?”

“I will guide you to your Lord who has created you and provided for you so that you can fear Him and act according to His pleasure, together with refraining from things that cause His wrath.”

Moses (peace be upon him) then showed him the great miracle that proved he was a Messenger from his Lord, i.e. the Hand and the Staff.

Pharaoh did not do anything except reject these signs, and disobeyed the instruction Moses (peace be upon him) gave to him.

He then turned away from bringing faith in what Moses had brought.

And turned his attention to mobilising his armies to overpower Moses. He called out to his people, saying:

“I am your highest Lord; you are not to be obedient to anyone except me.”

So Allah seized him and punished him in the world by drowning him in the sea, and He will punish him in the afterlife by entering him into the severest punishment.

Indeed, in My punishing of Pharaoh in the world and the afterlife, there is admonition for the one who fears Allah, because it is he who benefits from the admonitions.

O rejectors of the resurrection! Is your origination, or the origination of the heavens that He has created, harder for Allah?

He raised the peak of the heaven vertically, and made it smooth: there is no break, crack or defect in it.

And He darkened its night when the sun set, while manifesting its light when it rose.

As for the earth after He created the heavens, He spread it out and placed within it its benefits.

He extracted water from it in the form of flowing springs, and made plants grow on it which the livestock graze.

And He made the mountains stand firm on the earth.

O people! All that is for your benefit, and for the benefit of your livestock. So whoever created all that, is not incapable of recreating you anew.

So when the second blowing will come, which will cover everything with its terror, and the judgement will occur.

On the day when it will come, the human will remember what deeds he sent forth: whether good or bad.

And hell will be brought and unveiled clearly for all to see.

As for the one who transgressed the limits into deviance.

And gave priority to the temporary worldly life over the everlasting afterlife.

Then indeed, the hellfire is his abode he will take shelter towards.

& 41. And as for the one who feared his standing before his Lord and stopped himself from following his desires that were made impermissible by Allah, then Paradise is his abode he will take shelter towards.

& 41. And as for the one who feared his standing before his Lord and stopped himself from following his desires that were made impermissible by Allah, then Paradise is his abode he will take shelter towards.

O Messenger! These rejectors of the resurrection ask you: “When will the Hour occur?”

You do not have any knowledge regarding it that you can mention to them; nor is it befitting of your duty to, because your duty is only to prepare for it.

The total knowledge of the Hour is with your Lord alone.

You are only a warner to the one who fears the Hour, because he is the one who benefits from your warning.

It is as if on the day they see the Hour for themselves, they will not have remained in their worldly lives except for a single evening or morning.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) frowned and turned away.

Because of the arrival of ‘Abdullah ibn Umm Maktūm who came asking for guidance. He was blind, and had come when the Messenger (peace be upon him) was busy with the seniors of the idolaters, hoping they would be guided.

O Messenger! What do you know, maybe this blind man may be purified of his sins?

Or that he may take heed of the advices he hears from you and benefit from them?

As for those who feel they have no need to bring faith in what you have brought, due to the wealth they possess.

You persevere behind them and are attentive to them.

What blame will there be on you if he is not purified of his sins by not repenting to Allah?

As for the one who comes to you running, searching for goodness.

And he fears his Lord.

You are preoccupied from him with others i.e. the senior idolaters.

It should not be like that; it is only admonition and a reminder for those who pay attention.

So whoever wishes to remember Allah should remember Him, and take heed of what is in this Qur’ān.

Because this Qur’ān is in blessed scrolls, with the angels.

They are raised on a high place, pure; no dirt or filth reaches them.

And they are in the hands of Messengers among the angels.

They are honourable in the eyes of their Lord, frequent performers of goodness and obedience.

The disbelieving human is cursed; how severe is his disbelief in Allah!

What substance did Allah create him from, that he has the right to display arrogance on earth and disbelieve in Him?!

He created him from a small amount of fluid, and managed his creation in stages.

Then after these stages, He made the exit from his mother’s belly easy for him.

Then, after spending the amount of life decreed for him, Allah caused death upon him and made a grave for him wherein he remains until he is resurrected.

Then, when He wishes, He will resurrect him for accounting and requital.

It is not like this disbeliever imagines: that he has fulfilled the rights of Allah upon him, because he has not fulfilled the obligatory actions Allah put upon him.

So the human who disbelieves in Allah should look at the food he eats: how did he come to acquire it?

It originates from the rain descending from the sky with force and in abundance.

Then, I split open the earth, so it springs forth with plants.

I then make grains grow on it, i.e. wheat, corn etc.

And I make fresh grapes and fodder grow on it, so it can be feed for your livestock.

And I also make olives and date palms grow on it.

I also make abundant gardens and trees grow on it.

And I make fruits grow on it, together with things your livestock graze.

For your benefit, and the benefit of your livestock.

So when the great shriek will come that will deafen the ears i.e. the second blowing.

On that day a person will run from his brother.

And he will run from his parents.

And he will run from his wife and children.

Each one of them will be in a state where he will be preoccupied from them due to the extreme anxiety on that day.

The faces of the fortunate ones that day will be bright.

Laughing in happiness due to what Allah has prepared for them out of His mercy.

And the faces of the wretched people will have dust on them on that day.

Darkness will come over them.

Those described above in that state will be the ones who combined disbelief and transgression.

When the mass of the sun is gathered and its light vanishes.

When the stars fall one after the other and their light is taken away.

When the mountains are moved from their places.

When pregnant she-camels, which were their most valuable wealth, are neglected by being abandoned by their owners.

When wild animals are gathered with human beings on one plain.

When the seas are lit until they become a fire.

When souls are joined with their likeness. A sinner will be joined with a sinner and a pious person will be joined with a pious person.

When the girl buried alive is asked by Allah.

For what crime were you killed by the person who killed you?

When the servants’ books of deeds are spread open, so that each person can read his book of deeds.

When the sky is stripped like how the skin is stripped away from a sheep.

When the Fire is lit.

When Paradise is brought near to those who are Mindful.

When that occurs, every soul will know what actions it sent forward for that day.

Allah took an oath by the stars that are hidden until they emerge at night.

That run in their orbits and disappear when dawn rises, like a gazelle that goes into its den i.e. its home.

He took an oath by the first part of the night when it approaches, and the last part when it recedes.

He took an oath by the morning when its light emerges.

The Qur’ān that is revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him) is Allah’s speech that was conveyed by a trusted angel, Gabriel (peace be upon him), whom Allah entrusted it to.

One who possess strength and great rank in the sight of the Lord of the Throne, may He be glorified.

He is obeyed by the inhabitants of the heavens and trusted in the revelation that he conveys.

Muhammad (peace be upon him), who is in your company and whose intellect, trustworthiness and truthfulness you know, is not insane as you slanderously claim.

Your companion had seen Gabriel in the form that he was created in the clear horizon of the sky.

Your companion is not miserly with you by not conveying what he was instructed to convey to you, nor does he take any reward like how fortune-tellers take.

This Qur’ān is not the speech of a satan distanced from Allah’s mercy.

So which path will you tread to deny that it is from Allah after all these evidence?!

The Qur’ān is only a reminder and counsel to the jinn and mankind.

For those of you who wish to be steadfast on the path of truth.

You can only will to remain steadfast or do anything else if Allah, the Lord of all created things, wills that.

When the sky will split apart because of the angels descending from it.

When the stars fall one after the other and are scattered.

When the seas are opened into one another and they merge.

When the soil of graves is turned over to resurrect the dead in them.

At that time, every soul will know the actions it sent forward and those it left behind and did not do.

O man who has rejected his Lord! What has made you go against the instruction of your Lord when He gave you respite and did not punish you quickly, as a favour from Him?!

The One Who gave you existence after you were non-existent, and Who proportioned and balanced your limbs.

In whatever form He wished to create you, He created you. He favoured you as He did not create you in the form of a donkey, monkey, dog or other form.

O you who are deceived, the matter is not as you thought! In fact, you deny the day of recompense and do not work for it.

Over you are angels who record your deeds.

Noble in Allah’s sight, scribes who write down your deeds.

They know of every action you do and they write it down.

Those who do abundant acts of good and obedience will be in everlasting bliss on the day of judgment.

Those who committed iniquity will be in a fire that will be burned over them.

They will enter it on the day of recompense and suffer from its heat.

They will never be absent from it. Instead they will remain in it forever.

O Messenger! What will tell you what the day of justice is?

Again, what will tell you what the day of justice is?

A day when no one will be able to benefit anyone. The entire matter on that day will belong to Allah alone, to deal as He wishes, and not to anyone besides Him.

Destruction and loss be for those who give short measure.

They are the ones who, when they measure for themselves from others, they take their full right without any reduction.

But when they measure or weigh for people they reduce the measurement and weight. This was the practice of the people of Madinah at the time the Prophet (peace be on him) migrated to them.

Do these people who do this evil act not know that they will resurrected before Allah?!

For the reckoning and recompense on a day that is great because of the trials and horrors it contains.

The day when people will stand before the Lord of all creation, for the reckoning.

The matter is not as you thought - that there is no resurrection after death. The book of the people of iniquity from amongst the disbelievers and hypocrites will be in loss in the lower earth.

O Messenger! What will tell you what Sijjin is?!

Their book is written and will not vanish. Nor will there be any increase or decrease in it.

Destruction and loss on that day will be for those who deny.

Those who deny the day of recompense in which Allah will give His servants the recompense of the actions they did in the world.

None denies that day except every person who transgresses Allah’s limits and commits abundant sins.

When My verses revealed to My messenger are recited to him, he says: These are stories of the earlier nations and are not from Allah.

The matter is not as these deniers thought. Instead, the sins they used to commit has dominated and covered their minds and they therefore have not seen the truth with their hearts.

Indeed, they will be prevented from seeing their Lord on the day of judgment.

Then they will enter the Fire, to suffer from its heat.

Then on the Day of Judgement it will be said to them in rebuke and censure: This punishment that you received is what you used to deny in the world when your messenger told you about it.

The matter is not as you thought - that there will be no reckoning or recompense. The book of the people of obedience will be in Illiyyun.

O Messenger! What will tell you what Illiyyun is?!

Their book is written and will not vanish. Nor will there be any increase or decrease in it.

This book is witnessed by the angels brought near in every heaven.

Those who do an abundance of good deeds will be in everlasting bliss on the day of judgment.

On decorated couches looking at their Lord, and at everything delightful and pleasing to their souls.

If you see them, you will see in their faces the effect of luxury; in their beauty and splendour.

Their servants will give them wine from sealed containers to drink.

It will give off the fragrance of musk until its very end. For this noble reward the competitors must compete, by doing what pleases Allah and leaving what angers Him.

This sealed drink will be mixed from the spring of Tasnim.

This is a spring in the highest part of Paradise, from which those brought near will drink purely and the rest of the believers will drink from it mixed with other drinks.

Those who committed wrong by the disbelief they held used to mockingly laugh at those who had faith.

When they passed by the believers they would wink at one another in ridicule and amusement.

When they returned to their families they would go back happy with their acts of disbelief and ridicule of the believers.

When they saw the Muslims, they would say: These people are astray from the path of truth, as they abandoned the religion of their forefathers.

Allah did not appoint them to guard their deeds so that they could make this statement of theirs.

On the Day of Judgment, those who have faith in Allah will laugh at the disbelievers just as the disbelievers used to laugh at them in the world.

On decorated couches they will look at the everlasting bliss that Allah prepared for them.

The disbelievers have been given the humiliating punishment as recompense of the actions they did in the world.

When the sky ruptures because of the angels descending from it.

And listens submissively to its Lord, as it rightly should.

When the earth is stretched by Allah as leather is stretched.

And throws out the treasures and the dead in it and becomes rid of them.

And listens submissively to its Lord, as it rightly should.

O man, you are either doing good or evil and you will meet it on the Day of Judgment, so that Allah can give you the recompense for that.

Since Allah mentioned man’s action in brief, he details the condition of those who did action on the day of judgment by saying: As for him who is given his book of deeds in his right hand.

He will have an easy reckoning by Allah and his actions will be presented to Him without his being taken to task.

And he will return to his family delighted.

As for him who is given his book in his left hand behind his back.

He will call out for destruction to himself.

And he will enter the fire of Hell to suffer from its heat.

In the world he was amongst his family rejoicing with his acts of disbelief and sins.

He thought that he will not come back to life after death.

Indeed, Allah will bring him back to life just as He created him the first time. His Lord was watchful of his condition. Nothing of that was hidden from Him and He will give him the recompense for his actions.

Allah took an oath by the redness that is in the horizon after the sun sets.

And He took an oath by the night and what is gathered therein.

And the moon when it comes together and is complete becoming a full moon.

You, O man, will mount one state after another from a drop, then a clot, then a piece of flesh, then life, then death and then resurrection.

What is the matter with these disbelievers who do not have faith in Allah and the last day?!

When the Qur’ān is recited to them, they do not prostrate to their Lord?!

In fact, those who disbelieve reject what their messengers brought to them.

Allah knows well what is contained in their hearts. Nothing of their actions is hidden from Him.

Tell them, O Messenger, about a painful punishment that awaits them.

Except those who have faith in Allah and do good deeds, for them is a reward that will never terminate: Paradise.

Allah took an oath by the sky that contains the phases of the sun, moon etc.

He took an oath by the day of judgment in which He promised to gather all creation.

He took an oath by every witness, like the prophet who is a witness over his nation, and every thing witnessed, like the nation that is a witness over its prophet.

Those who made a huge crevice in the ground are cursed.

In which they lit a fire and threw the believers into it alive.

While they sat around that crevice filled with fire.

They were witnesses to the torture and ill-treatment they meted out to the believers, as they were present there.

These disbelievers found no fault in the believers except that they had faith in Allah, the Mighty, Whom none can overpower, the One Praised in everything.

The One to Whom alone belongs control of the heavens and control of the earth. He is aware of everything. No affair of His servants is hidden from Him.

Those who tortured the believing men and women with the fire in order to turn them away from having faith in Allah alone, and then did not repent to Allah from their sins, for them on the day of judgment is the punishment of Hell and for them is the punishment of the Fire that will burn them, as a recompense for their burning the believers in the fire.

Those who have faith in Allah and do good deeds, for them will be gardens under whose palaces and trees rivers flow. That reward, which is prepared for them, is the supreme success that no other success comes close to.

The seizure of your Lord, O Messenger, of the wrongdoer - even if He gives his respite for a while - is forceful.

He begins the creation and the punishment and repeats them.

He is Forgiving of the sins of His servants who repent and He loves His allies who are Mindful.

Possessor of the Noble Throne.

Doer of the what He wills such as pardoning the sins of whoever He wills and punishing whoever He wills. There is none that can compel Him, may He be glorified.

Has the news of the forces who enlisted to combat and be an obstacle to the truth reached you, O Messenger?!

Pharaoh, and the Thamud, the people of Salih (peace be upon him).

The obstacle to the faith of these people is not that the incidents of the destruction of the nations who denied did not come to them. Instead, they deny what their messengers brought to them due to following desires.

Allah surrounds and keeps a record of their actions. Nothing of that misses him and He will give them the recompense for the same.

The Qur’ān is neither poetry nor rhyme as the deniers claim. Instead, it is a noble Qur’ān.

In a tablet that is protected against alteration and distortion, and decrease and increase.

Allah took an oath by the sky and He took an oath by the star that knocks at night.

O Messenger! What will tell you the status of this great star?!

It is the star that pierces the sky with its glowing light.

There is no soul except that Allah has assigned to it an angel to record its deeds for the reckoning on the day of judgment.

So let man reflect over what Allah created him from, so that Allah’s power and man’s inability becomes clear to him.

Allah created him from a spurting liquid that is split into the womb.

This liquid emerges from between the spinal column of a man and the bones of the chest.

He, may He be glorified - since He created him from that despised liquid - has the power to bring him back to life after death for the reckoning and recompense.

On the day when secrets will be tried and the intentions, beliefs etc. that the hearts conceal will be exposed, and the righteous will be distinguished from the corrupt.

On that day man will not have any power to protect himself from Allah’s punishment, nor any helper to assist him.

Allah took an oath by the sky that contains rain, because it comes down from its direction time after time.

He took an oath by the earth that cracks open to reveal the plants, fruit and trees in it.

This Qur’ān that is revealed to Muhammad (peace be upon him) is a word that separates truth from falsehood, and fact from lie.

It is not a game and falsehood, but it is serious and the truth.

Those who deny what their messenger brought to them plot and scheme to reject and refute his call.

I too plot and scheme to make the religion victorious and to disprove falsehood.

So give respite, O Messenger, to these disbelievers. Give them respite for a short while, and do not seek to hasten their punishment and destruction.

Declare the transcendence of your Lord Who is High above His creation, by uttering His Name when you remember and revere Him.

The One Who created man in due proportion and balanced his stature.

The One Who determined for all created things their species, types and attributes and Who guided every creation to what is appropriate and suitable for it.

The One Who brought out from the earth what your animals graze on.

The He made it into dry blackish straw after it had been green and fresh.

I will teach you, O Messenger, the Qur’ān, and gather it in your chest so you do not forget it. So do not race with Gabriel in the recitation as you used to do with the desire that you do not forget it.

Except for what Allah wishes you to forget for some reason. He (may He be glorified) knows what is made public and what is hidden. Nothing of that is hidden from Him.

I will make it easy for you to do actions that please Allah and enter you into Paradise.

So give counsel to people with the Qur’ān that I reveal to you and remind them as long as the reminder is heard.

The one who fears Allah will pay heed to your counsel, because he is the one who benefits from counsel.

The disbeliever will keep away and alienate himself from the counsel, because he is the most wretched person in the afterlife as he will enter the Fire.

The one who will enter the great Fire of the afterlife to suffer and bear its heat forever.

Then he will remain forever in the Fire without dying therein and being relieved of the punishment he suffers from, and without living a good and decent life.

The one who purified himself from idolatry and sins has attained the objective.

Who remembered his Lord by the various forms of remembrance that He ordained. Who discharged the prayer in the required manner.

But, you give preference to the worldly life and prefer it over the afterlife despite the huge disparity between them.

The Hereafter is indeed, better and superior to the world and the enjoyments and pleasures it contains, and it is more lasting, because the bliss it contains does not ever end.

These instructions and stories that I mentioned to you are in the scriptures revealed before you.

These are the scriptures revealed to Abraham and Moses (peace be upon them).

Has the news of the day of judgment that will overwhelm people with its horrors come to you, O Messenger?!

People on the day of judgment will either be wretched or fortunate. The faces of the wretched will be humiliated and downcast.

Tired and strained due to the chains that they will be dragged by and the shackles that they will be tied with.

Those faces will enter a hot fire to suffer from its heat.

They will be given to drink from a spring with extremely hot water.

They will not have any food to nourish them besides the worst and most rotten type of food from a plant that is called shibriq, which becomes poisonous when it becomes dry.

It does not nourish the one who eats it nor does it satiate his hunger.

The faces of the fortunate on that day will display luxury, delight and happiness, because of the bliss they received.

Pleased with the righteous actions they did in the world, as they had found the reward of their actions stored up and multiplied.

In a Paradise elevated in position and rank.

In Paradise they will not hear any word of falsehood and futility, let alone hearing any prohibited word.

In this Paradise there are flowing springs that they will make flow and direct however they wish.

In it are high couches.

And cups laid out and ready for drinking.

In it are cushions packed closely to one another.

In it are carpets spread out here and there.

After Allah mentioned the disparity between the states of the wretched and the fortunate in the afterlife, He directed the sight of the disbelievers to what will show them the power of the Creator and the beauty of His creation, so that they can use this as evidence for faith in order to enter Paradise and become of the fortunate, by saying: Do they not look with reflection at the camels, how Allah created them and subjugated them to human beings?!

And at the sky, how He raised it so that it became a protected ceiling above them, that does not fall on them?!

And at the mountains, how He erected them and used them to make the earth stable so that it does not shake with the people?!

And at the earth, how He spread it out, and made it suitable for people to settle on?!

After He directed them to look at those things that show His Power, He directed His messenger, saying: So counsel, O Messenger, these people and warn them of Allah’s punishment. You are but one who reminds. You are only required to remind them. Guiding them to faith is in Allah's hands alone.

You have not been given control over them so that you can compel them to have faith.

But, those of them who turn away from faith and reject Allah and His messenger.

Allah will punish them on the Day of Judgement with the greatest punishment by entering them into Hell to remain there forever.

To Me alone is their return after their death.

Then it is My duty alone to call them to account for their actions. This is not for you or anyone besides you.

Allah may He be glorified takes an oath on the dawn.

And He takes an oath on the first ten nights of Dhul-Ḥijjah.

He also takes an oath on the odd and even of things.

And He takes an oath on the night when it arrives, continues and goes away. The complement of these oaths is: you will definitely be requited for your actions.

In any of the aforementioned, is there any oath that benefits the intelligent one?

O Messenger! Do you not see what your Lord did with the ‘Ād i.e. the people of Hud, when they rejected their Messenger?

The tribe of ‘Ād that traced to its forefather, the tall Iram.

The likes of which Allah never created in the cities.

And do you not see what your Lord did with the Thamūd i.e. the tribe of Saleh, who would carve the stones of the mountains, making houses out of them.

And do you not see what your Lord did to Pharaoh, who had pegs with which he punished the people?

All these people transgressed the limit in tyranny and oppression; each of them transgressed it in his land.

They caused an abundance of corruption due to spreading disbelief and sins.

So Allah made them suffer His severe punishment, and annihilated them off the earth.

O Messenger! Indeed, your Lord watches over and observes the actions of the people, so that He can requite whoever does good with Paradise, and whoever does evil with the hellfire.

Because the nations Allah destroyed were blessed with power and strength, Allah explains that blessing them with such is not proof of His being pleased with them. He says: As for the human, it is in his nature that when he is tested by his Lord and He favours him by blessing him with wealth, honour and offspring, he thinks that it is because of his nobility in the eyes of Allah. He says: “My Lord has favoured me because of me being worthy of being favoured.”

And as for when He tests him by restricting his sustenance, he thinks it is because of his insignificance in the eyes of his Lord. So he says: “My Lord has disgraced me.”

Never! It is not as this human thinks, that favouring is proof of Allah being pleased with His servant, and that misfortune is proof of the servant’s insignificance in the eyes of his Lord. Rather, the reality is that you do not show generosity towards the orphan from the sustenance Allah has provided you with.

Neither do any of you encourage the other in feeding the poor person who cannot find anything to consume.

You relentlessly devour the rights of the weak, i.e. the women and orphans, without consideration for its permissibility.

And you intensely love wealth, being miserly in spending it in the path of Allah, due to your greed of it.

These actions are not befitting of you. Remember when the earth will be moved vigorously and shaken.

And your Lord will come, O Messenger, to pass judgement between His servants, and the angels will also come arranged in rows.

And on that day, hell will be brought with it having seventy thousand reins, each rein being pulled by seventy thousand angels. On that day, the human will remember his shortcomings in the rights of Allah, but that remembrance on that day will not benefit him in the slightest, because it will be a Day of Requital, not action!

He will say out of intense regret: “If only I had sent forth good deeds for my life Hereafter, which is the real life.”

On that day no one will penalise like the penalising of Allah, because the penalising of Allah is most severe and lasting.

Neither will anyone bind in chains like His binding of the disbelievers in chains.

After Allah mentioned the requital of the disbelievers, He mentions the requital of the believers. He says: As for the soul of the believer, it will be told at the time of death and on the Day of Judgement: “O the soul contented with faith and good deeds!”

“Return to your Lord, pleased with Him because of the abundant reward you will receive, and with Him may He be glorified being pleased with you because of your good deeds.”

“Now enter along with My pious servants.”

“And enter with them into My Paradise, which I have prepared for them.”

Allah takes an oath on the sacred city i.e. Makkah Al-Mukarramah

O Messenger! It is permissible for you to do whatever you wish on the Day of the Conquest of Makkah, from capital punishment to those whom are deserving of it, to taking captive whomsoever deserves it.

And Allah takes an oath on the father of humanity, also taking an oath on the offspring reproduced from him.

Verily, I have created the human in tiredness and difficulty, because of the severities he experiences in the world.

Does the human think that when he sins, no one is in a position to be able to do anything to him, nor take retribution from him, even if it is his Lord who created him?

He says: “I spent a lot of wealth, heaped up.”

Does this person boastful over the wealth he has spent think that Allah does not see him? And that He will not take him to account over his wealth: how he earned it and where he spent it?

Did I not create eyes for him with which he can see?

And a tongue and lips with which he can speak?

And I made the paths of goodness and evils known to him.

He will be required to cross the valley that separates him from Paradise, which he will cross.

O Messenger! Do you know what the valley is that he has to cross, in order to enter Paradise?

It is to free a male or female slave.

Or to feed on a day of drought, in which food is scarce.

A child who has lost his father, whom he is related to.

Or a poor person who has no possessions.

Then he is required to be from those who have faith in Allah and advise each other to remain steadfast on act of obedience and refraining from sins, and bearing patience over difficulties, together with advising one another to show mercy to the servants of Allah.

Those are the people of the right.

As for those who disbelieve in My verses that were revealed to My Messenger, they are the people of the left.

A closed fire will be set upon them on the Day of Judgement, with which they will be punished.