The English Reference Qur’an

In the name of Allah, the most gracious and merciful. Praise be to Allah. Everything in the heavens and the earth is his. He will be praised in the hereafter. He is wise and aware.

He knows what enters the ground, what comes out of it, what comes down from heaven, and what goes up to it. He is merciful and forgiving.

*** Disbelievers say, “The hour will not come upon us.” Say^MS, “Yes it will. [I swear] by my Lord, the knower of the unseen, it will come upon you^MP. Not a speck is hidden from him in the heavens and the earth. No, not even something smaller or larger than that. It is all in a clear book.

This is so that he can reward the believers who do righteous deeds. They will have forgiveness and a generous provision.

Those who try to hinder our signs will have torment of painful impurity.

*** Those who are knowledgeable think that what was revealed to you^MS from your^MS Lord is true, and guides to the path of the Mighty, Praiseworthy One.

Disbelievers say, “Shall we guide you^MP to a man who will tell you^MP that when you^MP are torn in pieces, you^MP will be a new creation?”

Did he invent a lie about Allah? Or is he demonized? No, but those who do not believe in the hereafter will be in torment and far astray.

*** Have they not seen what is in front of them and behind them in heaven and earth? If we want, we will make the earth swallow them up, or make part of the sky fall on them. That is a sign for every servant who turns.

22A4 *** We gave Dawud grace from us, “Mountains, sing Allah’s praises with him and the birds.” We made iron soft for him.

*** “Make^MS coats of mail and measure^MS the chains.” Do^MP righteous deeds. I see your^MP deeds.

To Sulayman [we subjected] the wind. Its morning is a month, and its evening is a month. We made a fountain of brass flow for him. Some jinns worked in front of him by his Lord’s permission. We make those who deviate from our command taste the torment of burning fire.

They made what he willed for him: holy places, statues, large dishes like cisterns, and fixed pots. Family of Dawud, work to give thanks. Few of my servants give thanks.

*** When we determined he would die, only an animal crawling on the ground showed them that he was dead when it ate his staff. When he fell down, the jinns saw clearly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have remained in shameful torment.

*** There was a sign for  Sheba in their dwellings: two gardens, on the right and left. “Eat of the provision of your^MP Lord, and give him thanks.” A good town and a forgiving Lord.

*** But they turned away, so we sent against them the flood of viciousness and replaced their gardens^D with two gardens of bitter food, tamarisks, and a few lote trees.

*** Thus we repaid them for their disbelief. Do we punish any except disbelievers?

*** Between them and the villages we blessed, we made obvious villages, and measured how far it was to walk. “Walk^MP among them nights and days in safety.”

*** They said, “Our Lord, make^MS our journeys farther apart.” They wronged themselves, and we made stories of them, and tore them in pieces. Those are signs for everyone who endures and gives thanks.

*** Iblis confirmed his thought to them, and all but a group of believers followed him.

*** He had no authority over them. It was only so that we would know those who had doubted from those who believe in the hereafter. Your^MS Lord keeps everything.

*** Say^MS, “Pray^MP to those you^MP claimed were gods besides Allah.” They do not even control as much as a speck in the heavens and the earth. They have no other gods in them^D, and he has no helper in them^MP.

No one’s intercession will help with him except the one he gave permission to. When their hearts are free from fear, they will say, “What did your^MP Lord say?” They said, “The truth. He is most high and great.”

22B1 *** Say^MS, “Who provides for you^MP from the heavens and the earth?” Say^MS, “Allah. Either you^MP or we are guided, and the other is clearly lost.”

Say^MS, “You^MP will not be questioned about our wrongdoing, and we will not be questioned about your^MP deeds.”

Say^MS, “Our Lord will gather us together, and then give victory between us in truth. He is victorious and all-knowing.

Say^MS, “Show^MP me the gods you^MP have added to him. No! Allah is mighty and wise.”

We sent you^MS to all people only as a bearer of good news and a warner, but most people do not know it.

They will say, “When is this promise, if you^MP are telling the truth?”

Say^MS, “You^MP have an appointment on a certain day and you^MP cannot advance it or postpone it one hour.”

Disbelievers said, “We will not believe in this recitation, nor in what is in front of it.” What if you^MS saw the wicked brought to stand before their Lord? Some of them will speak to others. The weak will tell the proud, “If not for you^MP, we would have been believers.”

The proud will tell the weak, “Did we block you^MP from guidance after it came to you^MP? No. You^MP are wrongdoers.”

The weak will tell the proud, “No. It was [your] plotting by night and day, since you^MP commanded us to disbelieve in Allah and take rival gods to him.” They will be secretly remorseful when they witness the torment, when we put chains around the disbelievers’ necks. Are they being repaid for anything besides their deeds?

Whenever we sent a warner to a village, the wealthy there said, “We disbelieve in your^MP message.”

They said, “We have more wealth and more children, and we will not be tormented.”

Say^MS, “My Lord gives and withholds provision from those he wills, but most people do not know.

Neither your^MP wealth nor your^MP children can bring you^MP closer to us. Only believers who do righteous deeds will have a double reward for their deeds, and they will be safe in rooms [above].

Those who strive to nullify our signs will be summoned to torment.

Say^MS, “My Lord gives to and withholds provision from those servants of his as he wills. When you^MP donate anything, he will restore it. He is the best provider.

On the day he gathers them all, he will say to the angels, “Did these people worship you^MP?”

They will say, “May you^MS be glorified. You^MS are our master, not them. They worshiped jinns. Most of them believed in them.”

Today, one group  of you can not help or harm another. We will tell the wicked, “Taste the torment of hellfire, which you^MP denied.”

When our signs and miracles are recited to them, they say, “This is only a man who wanted to block you^MP from what our ancestors worshiped.” They say, “This is only an invented lie.” When truth came to the disbelievers, they said, “It is clearly only magic.”

*** We did not bring them books to study and we sent no warner before you^MS to them.

Those before them rejected, and they did not get a tenth of what we brought them. They rejected my messengers. What will my denial be like?

22B2  Say^MS, “I preach one thing to you^MP. Stand before Allah in pairs and individually, and then consider. Your^MP companion is not demonized. He is only a warner to you^MP before severe torment.

Say^MS, “I have not asked you^MP for a wage. Keep it. My wages are from Allah. He is a witness over everything.”

*** Say^MS, “My Lord casts forth truth. He knows well all that is unseen.”

*** Say^MS, “The truth came. Falsehood cannot create or restore.”

*** Say^MS, “If I go astray, I go astray against myself. If I am guided, it is because of what my Lord inspired to me. He hears all, and he is near.

If only you^MS could see when they will be terrified. There is no escape. They will be seized from near by.

*** They said, “We believed in him.” How can they receive it from far away?

They disbelieved in it beforehand, and cast away the unseen from far away.

*** They will be kept away from what they desired, as happened to those of their sects  beforehand. They were in serious doubt.