Ornaments of gold · Surah 43

Ha. Mim

By the Scripture which maketh plain

Lo! We have appointed it a Lecture, in Arabic that haply ye may understand

And Lo! in the Source of Decrees, which We possess, it is indeed sublime, decisive

Shall We utterly ignore you because ye are a wanton folk

How many a prophet did We send among the men of old

And never came there unto them a prophet but they used to mock him

Then We destroyed men mightier than these in prowess; and the example of the men of old hath gone (before them)

And if thou (Muhammad) ask them: Who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely answer: The Mighty, the Knower created them

Who made the earth a resting-place for you, and placed roads for you therein, that haply ye may find your way

And Who sendeth down water from the sky in (due) measure, and We revive a dead land therewith. Even so will ye be brought forth

He Who created all the pairs, and appointed for you ships and cattle whereupon ye ride

That ye may mount upon their backs, and may remember your Lord's favour when ye mount thereon, and may say: Glorified be He Who hath subdued these unto us, and we were not capable (of subduing them)

And lo! unto our Lord we surely are returning

And they allot to Him a portion of His bondmen! Lo! man is verily a mere ingrate

Or chooseth He daughters of all that He hath created, and honoureth He you with sons

And if one of them hath tidings of that which he likeneth to the Beneficent One, his countenance becometh black and he is full of inward rage

(Liken they then to Allah) that which is bred up in outward show, and in dispute cannot make itself plain

And they make the angels, who are the slaves of the Beneficent, females. Did they witness their creation? Their testimony will be recorded and they will be questioned

And they say: If the Beneficent One had (so) willed, we should not have worshipped them. They have no knowledge whatsoever of that. They do but guess

Or have We given them any scripture before (this Qur'an) so that they are holding fast thereto

Nay, for they say only: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are guided by their footprints

And even so We sent not a warner before thee (Muhammad) into any township but its luxurious ones said: Lo! we found our fathers following a religion, and we are following their footprints

(And the warner) said: What! Even though I bring you better guidance than that ye found your fathers following? They answered: Lo! in what ye bring we are disbelievers

So We requited them. Then see the nature of the consequence for the rejecters

And when Abraham said unto his father and his folk: Lo! I am innocent of what ye worship

Save Him Who did create me, for He will surely guide me

And he made it a word enduring among his seed, that haply they might return

Nay, but I let these and their fathers enjoy life (only) till there should come unto them the Truth and a messenger making plain

And now that the Truth hath come unto them they say: This is mere magic, and lo! we are disbelievers therein

And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns

Is it they who apportion thy Lord's mercy? We have apportioned among them their livelihood in the life of the world, and raised some of them above others in rank that some of them may take labour from others; and the mercy of thy Lord is better than (the wealth) that they amass

And were it not that mankind would have become one community, We might well have appointed, for those who disbelieve in the Beneficent, roofs of silver for their houses and stairs (of silver) whereby to mount

And for their houses doors (of silver) and couches of silver whereon to recline

And ornaments of gold. Yet all that would have been but a provision of the life of the world. And the Hereafter with your Lord would have been for those who keep from evil

And he whose sight is dim to the remembrance of the Beneficent, We assign unto him a devil who becometh his comrade

And lo! they surely turn them from the way of Allah, and yet they deem that they are rightly guided

Till, when he cometh unto Us, he saith (unto his comrade): Ah, would that between me and thee there were the distance of the two horizons - an evil comrade

And it profiteth you not this day, because ye did wrong, that ye will be sharers in the doom

Canst thou (Muhammad) make the deaf to hear, or canst thou guide the blind or him who is in error manifest