Sura 55: Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan)
Number of verses in sura: 78
Order of revelation: 97
[55:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
[55:1] The Most Gracious.
[55:2] Teacher of the Quran.
[55:3] Creator of the human beings.
[55:4] He taught them how to distinguish.
[55:5] The sun and the moon are perfectly calculated.
[55:6] The stars and the trees prostrate.
[55:7] He constructed the sky and established the law.
[55:8] You shall not transgress the law.
[55:9] You shall establish justice; do not violate the law.
[55:10] He created the earth for all creatures.
[55:11] In it there are fruits, and date palms with their hanging fruit.*
*55:11 Compare the spaceship Earth's renewable systems and reproducing astronauts with the most sophisticated spaceships that we launch into space. God be glorified.
[55:12] Also grains and the spices.
[55:13] (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:14] He created the human from aged clay, like the potter's clay.
[55:15] And created the jinns from blazing fire.
[55:16] (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:17] Lord of the two easts and the two wests.
[55:18] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:19] He separates the two seas where they meet.
[55:20] A barrier is placed between them, to prevent them from transgressing.
[55:21] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:22] Out of both of them you get pearls and coral.
[55:23] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:24] He gave you ships that roam the sea like flags.
[55:25] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:26] Everyone on earth perishes.
[55:27] Only the presence of your Lord lasts. Possessor of Majesty and Honor.
[55:28] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:29] Imploring Him is everyone in the heavens and the earth. Every day He is in full control.
[55:30] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:31] We will call you to account, O humans and jinns.
[55:32] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:33] O you jinns and humans, if you can penetrate the outer limits of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and penetrate. You cannot penetrate without authorization.
[55:34] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:35] You get bombarded with projectiles of fire and metal, and you cannot win.
[55:36] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:37] When the sky disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint.
[55:38] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:39] On that day, no human, nor a jinn, will be asked about his sins.
[55:40] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:41] (This is because) the guilty will be recognized by their looks; they will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.
[55:42] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:43] This is Gehenna that the guilty used to deny.
[55:44] They will circulate between it and an intolerable inferno.*
*55:44 Full details about the High Heaven, Low Heaven, the Purgatory, Hell, and the intolerable inferno are given in Appendices 5 and 11.
[55:45] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:46] For those who reverence the majesty of their Lord, two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).
[55:47] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:48] Full of provisions.
[55:49] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:50] Two springs are in them, flowing.
[55:51] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:52] Of every fruit in them, two kinds.
[55:53] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:54] While relaxing on furnishings lined with satin, the fruits are within reach.
[55:55] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:56] Their beautiful mates were never touched by any human or jinn.
[55:57] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:58] They look like gems and coral.
[55:59] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:60] Is the reward of goodness anything but goodness?
[55:61] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:62] Below them are two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).
[55:63] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:64] Side by side.
[55:65] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:66] In them, wells to be pumped.
[55:67] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:68] In them are fruits, date palms, and pomegranate.
[55:69] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:70] In them are beautiful mates.
[55:71] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:72] Confined in the tents.
[55:73] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:74] No human ever touched them, nor a jinn.
[55:75] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:76] They relax on green carpets, in beautiful surroundings.
[55:77] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
[55:78] Most exalted is the name of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor.
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