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Surah 55

Ar-Rahmaan

The Beneficent

78 VersesMedinan RevelationMishary Rashid Alafasy
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Ayah 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ

English Translation

THE MOST GRACIOUS

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Ayah 2

عَلَّمَ ٱلْقُرْءَانَ

English Translation

has imparted this Qur’an [unto man].

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Ayah 3

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ

English Translation

He has created man:

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Ayah 4

عَلَّمَهُ ٱلْبَيَانَ

English Translation

He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech.

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Ayah 5

ٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍۢ

English Translation

[At His behest] the sun and the moon run their appointed courses;

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Ayah 6

وَٱلنَّجْمُ وَٱلشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدَانِ

English Translation

[before Him] prostrate them­selves the stars and the trees.

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Ayah 7

وَٱلسَّمَآءَ رَفَعَهَا وَوَضَعَ ٱلْمِيزَانَ

English Translation

And the skies has He raised high, and has devised [for all things] a measure,

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Ayah 8

أَلَّا تَطْغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْمِيزَانِ

English Translation

so that you [too, O men,] might never transgress the measure [of what is right]:

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Ayah 9

وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلْوَزْنَ بِٱلْقِسْطِ وَلَا تُخْسِرُوا۟ ٱلْمِيزَانَ

English Translation

weigh, therefore, [your deeds] with equity, and cut not the measure short!

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Ayah 10

وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَضَعَهَا لِلْأَنَامِ

English Translation

And the earth has He spread out for all living beings,

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Ayah 11

فِيهَا فَٰكِهَةٌۭ وَٱلنَّخْلُ ذَاتُ ٱلْأَكْمَامِ

English Translation

with fruit thereon, and palm trees with sheathed clusters [of dates],

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Ayah 12

وَٱلْحَبُّ ذُو ٱلْعَصْفِ وَٱلرَّيْحَانُ

English Translation

and grain growing tall on its stalks, and sweet-smelling plants.

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Ayah 13

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 14

خَلَقَ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن صَلْصَٰلٍۢ كَٱلْفَخَّارِ

English Translation

He has created man out of sounding clay, like pottery,

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Ayah 15

وَخَلَقَ ٱلْجَآنَّ مِن مَّارِجٍۢ مِّن نَّارٍۢ

English Translation

whereas the invisible beings He has created out of a confusing flame of fire.

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Ayah 16

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 17

رَبُّ ٱلْمَشْرِقَيْنِ وَرَبُّ ٱلْمَغْرِبَيْنِ

English Translation

[He is] the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunrise, and the Sustainer of the two farthest points of sunset.

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Ayah 18

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustain­er’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 19

مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ

English Translation

He has given freedom to the two great bodies of water, so that they might meet:

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Ayah 20

بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌۭ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِ

English Translation

[yet] between them is a barrier which they may not transgress.

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Ayah 21

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 22

يَخْرُجُ مِنْهُمَا ٱللُّؤْلُؤُ وَٱلْمَرْجَانُ

English Translation

Out of these two [bodies of water] come forth pearls, both great and small.

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Ayah 23

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 24

وَلَهُ ٱلْجَوَارِ ٱلْمُنشَـَٔاتُ فِى ٱلْبَحْرِ كَٱلْأَعْلَٰمِ

English Translation

And His are the lofty ships that sail like [floating] mountains through the seas.

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Ayah 25

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 26

كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَيْهَا فَانٍۢ

English Translation

All that lives on earth or in the heavens is bound to pass away:

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Ayah 27

وَيَبْقَىٰ وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو ٱلْجَلَٰلِ وَٱلْإِكْرَامِ

English Translation

but forever will abide thy Sustainer’s Self, full of majesty and glory.

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Ayah 28

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 29

يَسْـَٔلُهُۥ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ ۚ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ هُوَ فِى شَأْنٍۢ

English Translation

On Him depends all creatures in the heavens and on earth; [and] every day He manifests Himself in yet another [wondrous] way.

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Ayah 30

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 31

سَنَفْرُغُ لَكُمْ أَيُّهَ ٱلثَّقَلَانِ

English Translation

[ONE DAY] We shall take you to task, O you sin-laden two!

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Ayah 32

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 33

يَٰمَعْشَرَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنسِ إِنِ ٱسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَن تَنفُذُوا۟ مِنْ أَقْطَارِ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ فَٱنفُذُوا۟ ۚ لَا تَنفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَٰنٍۢ

English Translation

O you who live in close communion with [evil] invisible beings and humans! If you [think that you] can pass beyond the regions of the heavens and the earth, pass beyond them! [But] you cannot pass beyond them, save by a sanction [from God]!

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Ayah 34

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 35

يُرْسَلُ عَلَيْكُمَا شُوَاظٌۭ مِّن نَّارٍۢ وَنُحَاسٌۭ فَلَا تَنتَصِرَانِ

English Translation

A flash of fire will be let loose upon you, and smoke, and you will be left without succour!

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Ayah 36

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 37

فَإِذَا ٱنشَقَّتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ وَرْدَةًۭ كَٱلدِّهَانِ

English Translation

And when the sky is rent asunder and becomes red like [burning] oil

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Ayah 38

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 39

فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ لَّا يُسْـَٔلُ عَن ذَنۢبِهِۦٓ إِنسٌۭ وَلَا جَآنٌّۭ

English Translation

For on that Day neither man nor invisible being will be asked about his sins.

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Ayah 40

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 41

يُعْرَفُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ بِسِيمَٰهُمْ فَيُؤْخَذُ بِٱلنَّوَٰصِى وَٱلْأَقْدَامِ

English Translation

All who were lost in sin shall by their marks be known, and shall by their forelocks and their feet be seized!

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Ayah 42

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 43

هَٰذِهِۦ جَهَنَّمُ ٱلَّتِى يُكَذِّبُ بِهَا ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ

English Translation

This will be the hell which those who are lost in sin [now] call a lie:

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Ayah 44

يَطُوفُونَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ حَمِيمٍ ءَانٍۢ

English Translation

between it and [their own] burning-hot despair will they wander to and fro!

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Ayah 45

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 46

وَلِمَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ جَنَّتَانِ

English Translation

BUT FOR THOSE who of their Sustainer’s Presence stand in fear, two gardens [of paradise are readied] -

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Ayah 47

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

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Ayah 48

ذَوَاتَآ أَفْنَانٍۢ

English Translation

[two gardens] of many wondrous hues.

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Ayah 49

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 50

فِيهِمَا عَيْنَانِ تَجْرِيَانِ

English Translation

In [each of] these two [gardens] two springs will flow.

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Ayah 51

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 52

فِيهِمَا مِن كُلِّ فَٰكِهَةٍۢ زَوْجَانِ

English Translation

In [each of] these two will two kinds of every fruit be [found].

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Ayah 53

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 54

مُتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَىٰ فُرُشٍۭ بَطَآئِنُهَا مِنْ إِسْتَبْرَقٍۢ ۚ وَجَنَى ٱلْجَنَّتَيْنِ دَانٍۢ

English Translation

[In such a paradise the blest will dwell,] reclin­ing upon carpets lined with rich brocade; and the fruit of both these gardens will be within easy reach.

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Ayah 55

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 56

فِيهِنَّ قَٰصِرَٰتُ ٱلطَّرْفِ لَمْ يَطْمِثْهُنَّ إِنسٌۭ قَبْلَهُمْ وَلَا جَآنٌّۭ

English Translation

In these [gardens] will be mates of modest gaze, whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then.

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Ayah 57

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sus­tainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 58

كَأَنَّهُنَّ ٱلْيَاقُوتُ وَٱلْمَرْجَانُ

English Translation

[When you are promised splendours] as though [of] rubies and [of] pearls –

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Ayah 59

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 60

هَلْ جَزَآءُ ٱلْإِحْسَٰنِ إِلَّا ٱلْإِحْسَٰنُ

English Translation

Could the reward of good be aught but good?

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Ayah 61

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 62

وَمِن دُونِهِمَا جَنَّتَانِ

English Translation

And besides those two will be yet two [other] gardens -

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Ayah 63

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

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Ayah 64

مُدْهَآمَّتَانِ

English Translation

two [gardens] of the deepest green.

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Ayah 65

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 66

فِيهِمَا عَيْنَانِ نَضَّاخَتَانِ

English Translation

In [each of] these two [gardens] will two springs gush forth.

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Ayah 67

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sus­tainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 68

فِيهِمَا فَٰكِهَةٌۭ وَنَخْلٌۭ وَرُمَّانٌۭ

English Translation

In both of them will be [all kinds of] fruit, and date-palms and pomegranates.

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Ayah 69

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 70

فِيهِنَّ خَيْرَٰتٌ حِسَانٌۭ

English Translation

In these [gardens] will be [all] things most excellent and beautiful.

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Ayah 71

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 72

حُورٌۭ مَّقْصُورَٰتٌۭ فِى ٱلْخِيَامِ

English Translation

[There the blest will live with their] companions pure and modest, in pavilions [splendid] -

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Ayah 73

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

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Ayah 74

لَمْ يَطْمِثْهُنَّ إِنسٌۭ قَبْلَهُمْ وَلَا جَآنٌّۭ

English Translation

[companions] whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then.

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Ayah 75

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 76

مُتَّكِـِٔينَ عَلَىٰ رَفْرَفٍ خُضْرٍۢ وَعَبْقَرِىٍّ حِسَانٍۢ

English Translation

[In such a paradise will they dwell,] reclining upon meadows green and carpets rich in beauty.

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Ayah 77

فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ

English Translation

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

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Ayah 78

تَبَٰرَكَ ٱسْمُ رَبِّكَ ذِى ٱلْجَلَٰلِ وَٱلْإِكْرَامِ

English Translation

HALLOWED be thy Sustainer’s name, full of majesty and glory!

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