As-Saaffat (The Rangers)
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In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Compassionate.
(37:1) By the arrangers in ranks.
(37:2) By the forces that repel.
(37:3) By the memory which follows.
(37:4) Your Allah is indeed One.
(37:5) The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what lies between them, and Lord of the easts.
(37:6) We have adorned the lowest heaven with the decoration of planets.
(37:7) To guard against every rebellious devil.
(37:8) They cannot listen to the command up high; and they are bombarded from every side.
(37:9) Outcasts; they will have an eternal retribution.
(37:10) Any of them who snatches something away, he is pursued by a piercing flame.
(37:11) So ask them: "Are they the more powerful creation, or the others We created?" We have created them out of sticky clay. 1
(37:12) While you were awed, they simply mocked.
(37:13) When they are reminded, they do not care.
(37:14) When they see a sign, they make fun of it.
(37:15) They said, "This is nothing but evident magic!"
(37:16) "Can it be that after we die and become dust and bones, that we are resurrected?"
(37:17) "What about our fathers of old?"
(37:18) Say, "Yes, and then you will be humiliated."
(37:19) All it takes is one sound, then they will be staring.
(37:20) They said, "Woe to us, this is the day of Judgment!"
(37:21) This is the day of decisiveness that you used to deny.
(37:22) Gather those who are unjust, and their spouses, and those to whom they have been in obedience,
(37:23) Beside Allah, and guide them to a strait of the Unconscious.
(37:24) Let them stand and be questioned:
(37:25) "Why do you not support one another?"
(37:26) No, for today they have totally given up.
(37:27) Some of them came to each other, questioning.
(37:28) They said, "You used to entice us from the right side."
(37:29) They replied: "No, it was you who were not those who acknowledge."
(37:30) "We never had any power over you, but you were a wicked people."
(37:31) "So our Lord's decree is now upon us, that we will suffer."
(37:32) "We misled you, because we were astray."
(37:33) Then, on that day they will all share in the retribution.
(37:34) This is how We deal with the criminals.
(37:35) When it was said to them: "There is no Allah except Allah," they would be arrogant.
(37:36) They would say, "Shall we leave our Allahs because of a genius poet?"
(37:37) No, he has come with the truth and he has confirmed the messengers.
(37:38) You will taste the greatest of retribution.
(37:39) You are only recompensed for what you have done.
(37:40) This does not apply only to sincere obedients of Allah.
(37:41) For them will be known provisions.
(37:42) Fruits, and they will be honored.
(37:43) In the gardens of bliss.
(37:44) On furnishings which are opposite one another.
(37:45) They will be served with cups of pure drinks.
(37:46) Clear and tasty for the drinkers.
(37:47) There is no bitterness therein, nor will they tire from it.
(37:48) With them are attendants with wide eyes and a splendid look.
(37:49) They are like fragile eggs.
(37:50) So then they approached one another, questioning.
(37:51) One of them said, "I used to have an alter ego."
(37:52) "Who used to say, "Are you among those who acknowledge this?"
(37:53) "That if we die and turn into dust and bones, that we would be called to account?"
(37:54) He said, "Can anyone find him?"
(37:55) So when he looked, he saw him in the Unconscious indifference.
(37:56) He said, "By Allah, you nearly ruined me!"
(37:57) "Had it not been for my Lord's blessing, I would have been with you."
(37:58) "Are we then not going to die,"
(37:59) "Except for our first death, and we will not be punished?"
(37:60) Such is the greatest triumph.
(37:61) For this let those who will work endeavor.
(37:62) Is that a better destination, or the tree of bitterness?
(37:63) We have made it a punishment for the transgressors.
(37:64) It is a tree that grows in the midst of hell.
(37:65) Its shoots are like the devils' heads.
(37:66) They will eat from it, so that their bellies are filled up.
(37:67) Then they will have with it a drink of boiling liquid.
(37:68) Then they will be returned to hell.
(37:69) They had found their parents astray.
(37:70) So they too have hastened in their footsteps.
(37:71) Most of the previous generations have strayed before them.
(37:72) We had sent to them warners.
(37:73) Thus note the consequences for those who were warned.
(37:74) except for Allahs chosen obedients.
(37:75) Noah had called upon Us, for We are the best to respond.
(37:76) We saved him and his family from the great disaster.
(37:77) We made his progeny the one that remained.
(37:78) We kept his history for those who came later.
(37:79) Peace be upon Noah among the worlds.
(37:80) It is such that We reward the righteous.
(37:81) Indeed, he is one of Our trusted obedient.
(37:82) Then We drowned the others.
(37:83) From among his descendants was Abraham.
(37:84) For he came to his Lord with a pure heart.
(37:85) He said to his father and to his people, "What do you obey?
(37:86) Do you covet Allahs other than Allah, fabricating a fiction?
(37:87) "What do you say of the Lord of the worlds?"
(37:88) Then he looked towards the stars.
(37:89) He said, "I am ill!"
(37:90) So they turned away from him and departed.
(37:91) He then went to their idols and said, "Can you not eat?"
(37:92) "What is the matter, you do not speak?"
(37:93) So he then turned on them, striking with his hand.
(37:94) Then they approached him outraged.
(37:95) He said: "Do you really obey what you yourself carve?
(37:96) "While Allah has created you, and all that you make!"
(37:97) They said, "Build for him a structure, and then throw him into its unconscious."
(37:98) So they wanted to harm him, but We made them the losers.
(37:99) He said, "I am going to my Lord; He will guide me."
(37:100) "My Lord, grant me from among the righteous."
(37:101) So We gave him good news of a compassionate child.
(37:102) When he grew enough to work with him, he said, "My son, I am seeing in a dream that I am sacrificing you. What do you think?" He said, "O my father, do what you are commanded to do. You will find me, Allah willing, patient."
(37:103) So when they both had peacefully surrendered, and he put his forehead down.
(37:104) We called him: "O Abraham,"
(37:105) "You have acknowledged the vision." It was such that We rewarded the righteous.
(37:106) Surely, this was an exacting test.
(37:107) We ransomed him with a great animal sacrifice.
(37:108) We kept his history for those who came later.
(37:109) Peace be upon Abraham.
(37:110) It is thus that We reward the righteous.
(37:111) Indeed, he is of (the number of) Our trusted obedients.
(37:112) We gave him the good news of the coming of Isaac, a prophet from among the righteous.
(37:113) We blessed him and Isaac. From among their progeny, some are righteous, and some are clearly wicked.
(37:114) Indeed, We have given Our grace to Moses and Aaron.
(37:115) We saved them and their people from the great disaster.
(37:116) We supported them, so that they became the winners.
(37:117) We gave both the clear book.
(37:118) We guided them to the straight path.
(37:119) We kept their history for those who came later.
(37:120) Peace be upon Moses and Aaron.
(37:121) We thus reward the righteous.
(37:122) Indeed, they are one of Our faithful obedients.
(37:123) And Elias was one of the messengers.
(37:124) When he said to his people: "Would you not be righteous?"
(37:125) "Would you call on Baal and forsake the best Creator?"
(37:126) "Allah is your Lord, and the Lord of your fathers of old!"
(37:127) But they denied him. Thus they were called to account.
(37:128) except for sincere obedients of Allah.
(37:129) We kept his history for those who came later.
(37:130) Peace be upon the family of Elias.
(37:131) We thus reward the righteous.
(37:132) Indeed, he is one of Our trusted obedients.
(37:133) And Lot was one of the messengers.
(37:134) Then We saved him, and his family-all of them,
(37:135) Except an old woman who remained.
(37:136) Then, We destroyed the rest.
(37:137) You pass by their ruins in the morning;
(37:138) In the night. Do you not understand?
(37:139) And Jonah was one of the messengers.
(37:140) When he escaped to the charged ship.
(37:141) He was guilty, so he became among the losers.
(37:142) Thus the fish swallowed him, and he was the one to blame.
(37:143) Had it not been that he was one of those who implored,
(37:144) He would have stayed in its belly until the day of resurrection.
(37:145) So We threw him on the shore while he was sick.
(37:146) We caused seaweed to grow on him.
(37:147) We sent him to a hundred thousand, or more.
(37:148) They acknowledged, so We gave them enjoyment for a time.
(37:149) So ask them: "Are the daughters for your Lord, while the sons are for them?"
(37:150) Or did We create the angels as women, to which they were witnesses?
(37:151) Indeed, in their fiction they speak:
(37:152) "The Allah has begotten." Surely, they are liars.
(37:153) Has He chosen the daughters over the sons?
(37:154) What is wrong with you, how do you judge?
(37:155) Will you not remember?
(37:156) Or do you have a clear proof?
(37:157) Bring forth your book, if you are truthful.
(37:158) They invented a kinship between Him and the genius. But the genius know that they will be gathered.
(37:159) Allah be glorified from what they describe.
(37:160) Only sincere obedients of Allah do not do this.
(37:161) You, and what you obey,
(37:162) You cannot lead away from Him.
(37:163) Besides, whose (destiny) to scorch in the Unconscious.
(37:164) Every one of us has a destined place.
(37:165) We are the ones who are in columns.
(37:166) We are the ones that glorify.
(37:167) They used to say,
(37:168) "If only we had received a reminder from the previous generations,"
(37:169) then we would surely become sincere obedients of Allah.
(37:170) But they rejected it. They will come to know.
(37:171) Our sent obedients have already been told Our Word.
(37:172) That they would be made victorious.
(37:173) That Our soldiers are the winners.
(37:174) So turn away from them for awhile.
(37:175) Observe them; for they will see.
(37:176) Do they seek to hasten Our retribution?
(37:177) Then, when it descends into their courtyard, evil will be the morning, for they have already been warned.
(37:178) Turn away from them for awhile.
(37:179) Observe; for they will see.
(37:180) Glory be to your Lord, the Lord of greatness, for what they have described.
(37:181) Peace be upon the messengers.
