Quran Surah 67 - Al-Mulk (The Kingdom)
Ayat 1 - BLESSED BE HE who holds the (reins of)
Kingship in His hand, who has power over everything,
Ayat 2 - Who created death and life in order to try
you to see who of you are best of deed. He is all-mighty and forgiving,
Ayat 3 - Who created the seven skies one above the
other. Do you see any disproportion in the creations of Ar-Rahman? Turn your eyes again. Do you see any fissures?
Ayat 4 - Turn your eyes again and again. Your gaze
turns back dazed and tired.
Ayat 5 - We have adorned the lowest sky with lamps,
and made them missiles against the devils, for whom We have prepared a torment of most intense fire.
Ayat 6 - For those who believe not in their Lord
there is the punishment of Hell; and what a wretched destination
Ayat 7 - When they are cast into it, they will hear
it roar and raging
Ayat 8 - As though it would burst with fury. Every
time a crowd is thrown into it, its wardens will ask: "Did no warner come to you?"
Ayat 9 - And they will answer: "Surely; a warner
came to us, but we denied him, and said: ´God did not send down any thing; you are greatly deluded, in fact.´"
Ayat 10 - They will say: "If we had listened and
been wise, we would not have been among the inmates of Hell."
Ayat 11 - So will they confess their guilt. Deprived
(of all joys) will be the inmates of Hell.
Ayat 12 - For those who fear their Lord in secret is
forgiveness and a great reward.
Ayat 13 - Whether you say a thing secretly or openly,
He knows the innermost secrets of your hearts.
Ayat 14 - Can He who has created not know (His
creation)? He is all-penetrating, all-aware.
Ayat 15 - It is lie who made the earth subservient to
you that you may travel all around it, and eat of things He has provided; and to Him will be your resurrection.
Ayat 16 - Are you so unafraid that He who is in
Heaven will not open up the earth to swallow you, when it will begin to tremble?
Ayat 17 - Or have you become so unafraid that He who
is in Heaven will not send a violent wind to shower stones at you? Then you will know the import of My commination!
Ayat 18 - Those before them had also denied. And how
was My punishment then!
Ayat 19 - Do they not see the birds above them flying
wings spread out or folded? Nothing holds them aloft but God. All things are within His purview.
Ayat 20 - What other army do you have to help you
apart from Ar-Rahman? The unbelievers are surely lost in delusion.
Ayat 21 - Who is there to give you food in case He
withholds His bounty? Yet they persist in rebellion and aversion.
Ayat 22 - Will he find the way who grovels flat on
his face, or he who walks straight on the right path?
Ayat 23 - Say: "It is He who raised you and gave you
ears and eyes and hearts. How little are the thanks you offer!"
Ayat 24 - Say: "It is He who dispersed you all over
the earth, and to Him you will be gathered."
Ayat 25 - But they say: "When will this promise come
to pass, if what you say is true?"
Ayat 26 - Say: "God alone has knowledge. My duty is
only to warn you clearly."
Ayat 27 - When they realise it has come upon them,
distraught will be the faces of unbelievers. They will be told: "This is what you asked for."
Ayat 28 - Say: "Just think: If God destroys me and
those with me, or is benevolent to us, who will then protect the unbelievers from a painful doom?"
Ayat 29 - Say: "He is the benevolent; in Him do we
believe, and in Him do we place our trust. You will now realise who is in manifest error."
Ayat 30 - Say: "Just think: If your water were to
dry up in the morning who will bring you water from a fresh, flowing stream?"