Surah Ghafir Verses 51–85

Indeed, We will support Our messengers and those who believe during the life of this world and on the Day when the witnesses will stand -

The Day their excuse will not benefit the wrongdoers, and they will have the curse, and they will have the worst home [i.e., Hell].

And We had certainly given Moses guidance, and We caused the Children of Israel to inherit the Scripture

As guidance and a reminder for those of understanding.

So be patient, [O Muḥammad]. Indeed, the promise of Allāh is truth. And ask forgiveness for your sin¹³⁷⁵ and exalt [Allāh] with praise of your Lord in the evening and the morning.

Indeed, those who dispute concerning the signs of Allāh without [any] evidence having come to them - there is not within their breasts except pride, [the extent of] which they cannot reach. So seek refuge in Allāh. Indeed, it is He who is the Hearing, the Seeing.

The creation of the heavens and earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most of the people do not know.

And not equal are the blind and the seeing, nor are those who believe and do righteous deeds and the evildoer. Little do you remember.

Indeed, the Hour is coming - no doubt about it - but most of the people do not believe.

And your Lord says, "Call upon Me; I will respond to you." Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell [rendered] contemptible.

It is Allāh who made for you the night that you may rest therein and the day giving sight.¹³⁷⁶ Indeed, Allāh is the possessor of bounty for the people, but most of them are not grateful.

That is Allāh, your Lord, Creator of all things; there is no deity except Him, so how are you deluded?

Thus were those [before you] deluded who were rejecting the signs of Allāh.

It is Allāh who made for you the earth a place of settlement and the sky a structure [i.e., ceiling] and formed you and perfected your forms and provided you with good things. That is Allāh, your Lord; then blessed is Allāh, Lord of the worlds.

He is the Ever-Living;¹³⁷⁷ there is no deity except Him, so call upon Him, [being] sincere to Him in religion. [All] praise is [due] to Allāh, Lord of the worlds.

Say, [O Muḥammad], "Indeed, I have been forbidden to worship those you call upon besides Allāh once the clear proofs have come to me from my Lord, and I have been commanded to submit to the Lord of the worlds."

It is He who created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot; then He brings you out as a child; then [He develops you] that you reach your [time of] maturity, then [further] that you become elders. And among you is he who is taken in death before [that], so that you reach a specified term;¹³⁷⁸ and perhaps you will use reason.

He it is who gives life and causes death; and when He decrees a matter, He but says to it, "Be," and it is.

Do you not consider those who dispute concerning the signs of Allāh - how are they averted?

Those who deny the Book [i.e., the Qur’ān] and that with which We sent Our messengers - they are going to know,

When the shackles are around their necks and the chains; they will be dragged

In boiling water; then in the Fire they will be filled [with flame].

Then it will be said to them, "Where is that which you used to associate [with Him in worship]

Other than Allāh?" They will say, "They have departed from us; rather, we did not used to invoke previously anything." Thus does Allāh put astray the disbelievers.

[The angels will say], "That was because you used to exult upon the earth without right and you used to behave insolently.

Enter the gates of Hell to abide eternally therein, and wretched is the residence of the arrogant."

So be patient, [O Muḥammad]; indeed, the promise of Allāh is truth. And whether We show you some of what We have promised them or We take you in death, it is to Us they will be returned.

And We have already sent messengers before you. Among them are those [whose stories] We have related to you, and among them are those [whose stories] We have not related to you. And it was not for any messenger to bring a sign [or verse] except by permission of Allāh. So when the command of Allāh comes, it will be concluded [i.e., judged] in truth, and the falsifiers will thereupon lose [all].

It is Allāh who made for you the grazing animals upon which you ride, and some of them you eat.

And for you therein are [other] benefits and that you may realize upon them a need which is in your breasts;¹³⁷⁹ and upon them and upon ships you are carried.

And He shows you His signs. So which of the signs of Allāh do you deny?

Have they not traveled through the land and observed how was the end of those before them? They were more numerous than themselves and greater in strength and in impression on the land, but they were not availed by what they used to earn.

And when their messengers came to them with clear proofs, they [merely] rejoiced in what they had of knowledge, but they were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.

And when they saw Our punishment, they said, "We believe in Allāh alone and disbelieve in that which we used to associate with Him."

But never did their faith benefit them once they saw Our punishment. [It is] the established way of Allāh which has preceded among His servants. And the disbelievers thereupon lost [all].