48 But if they turn away-We did not send you as a guardian over them. Your only duty is communication. Whenever We let man taste mercy from Us, he rejoices in it; but when misfortune befalls them, as a consequence of what their hands have perpetrated, man turns blasphemous.
49 To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He creates whatever He wills. He grants daughters to whomever He wills, and He grants sons to whomever He wills.
50 Or He combines them together, males and females; and He renders whomever He wills sterile. He is Knowledgeable and Capable.
51 It is not for any human that God should speak to him, except by inspiration, or from behind a veil, or by sending a messenger to reveal by His permission whatever He wills. He is All-High, All-Wise.
52 We thus inspired you spiritually, by Our command. You did not know what the Scripture is, nor what faith is, but We made it a light, with which We guide whomever We will of Our servants. You surely guide to a straight path.
53 The path of God, to whom belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. Indeed, to God all matters revert.
In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1 Ha, Meem.
2 By the Book that makes things clear.
3 We made it an Arabic Quran, so that you may understand.
4 And it is with Us, in the Source Book, sublime and wise.
5 Shall We hold back the Reminder from you, since you are a transgressing people?
6 How many a prophet did We send to the ancients?
7 No messenger came to them, but they ridiculed him.
8 We destroyed people more powerful than they, and so the example of the ancients has passed away.
9 And if you asked them, "Who created the heavens and the earth?" They would say, "The Mighty, the Knower created them."
10 He who made the earth a habitat for you, and traced pathways for you on it, that you may be guided.
11 He who sends down water from the sky in due proportion; and so We revive thereby a dead land. Thus you will be brought out.
12 He Who created all the pairs; and provided you with ships, and animals on which you ride.
13 That you may mount their backs, and remember the favor of your Lord as you sit firmly upon them, and say, "Glory be to Him Who placed these at our service; surely we could not have done it by ourselves.
14 And surely, to our Lord we will return."
15 Yet they turn one of His servants into a part of Him. Man is clearly ungrateful.
16 Or has He chosen for Himself daughters from what He creates, and favored you with sons?
17 Yet when one of them is given news of what he attributes to the Most Gracious, his face darkens, and he suppresses grief.
18 "Someone brought up to be beautiful, and unable to help in a fight?"
19 And they appoint the angels, who are servants to the Most Gracious, as females. Have they witnessed their creation? Their claim will be recorded, and they will be questioned.
20 And they say, "Had the Most Gracious willed, we would not have worshiped them." But they have no knowledge of that; they are merely guessing.
21 Or have We given them a book prior to this one, to which they adhere?
22 But they say, "We found our parents on a course, and we are guided in their footsteps."
23 Likewise, We sent no warner before you to any town, but the wealthy among them said, "We found our parents on a course, and we are following in their footsteps."
24 He would say, "Even if I bring you better guidance than what you found your parents following?" They would say, "We reject what you are sent with."
25 So We wreaked vengeance upon them. Behold, then, what was the fate of those who deny.
26 When Abraham said to his father and his people, "I am innocent of what you worship.
27 Except for He who created me, for He will guide me."
28 And he made it an enduring word in his progeny, so that they may return.
29 I gave these and their forefathers some enjoyment, until the truth and a manifest messenger came to them.
30 But when the truth came to them, they said, "This is sorcery, and we refuse to believe in it."
31 They also said, "If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities."
32 Is it they who allocate the mercy of your Lord? It is We who have allocated their livelihood in this life, and We elevated some of them in rank above others, that some of them would take others in service. But your Lord's mercy is better than what they amass.
33 Were it not that humanity would become a single community, We would have provided those who disbelieve in the Most Gracious with roofs of silver to their houses, and stairways by which they ascend.
34 And doors to their houses, and furnishings on which they recline.
35 And decorations. Yet all that is nothing but the stuff of this life. Yet the Hereafter, with your Lord, is for the righteous.
36 Whoever shuns the remembrance of the Most Gracious, We assign for him a devil, to be his companion.
37 They hinder them from the path, though they think they are guided.
38 Until, when He comes to Us, he will say, "If only there were between me and you the distance of the two Easts." What an evil companion!
39 It will not benefit you on that Day, since you did wrong. You are partners in the suffering.
40 Can you make the deaf hear, or guide the blind, and him who is in evident error?
41 Even if We take you away, We will wreak vengeance upon them.
42 Or show you what We have promised them; for We have absolute power over them.
43 So adhere to what is revealed to you. You are upon a straight path.
44 It is a message for you, and for your people; and you will be questioned.
45 Ask those of Our messengers We sent before you: "Did We appoint gods besides the Most Gracious to be worshiped?"
46 We sent Moses with Our revelations to Pharaoh and his dignitaries. He said, "I am the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds."
47 But when he showed them Our signs, they started laughing at them.
48 Each sign We showed them was more marvelous than its counterpart. And We afflicted them with the plagues, so that they may repent.
49 They said, "O sorcerer, pray to your Lord for us, according to His pledge to you, and then we will be guided."
50 But when We lifted the torment from them, they immediately broke their promise.
51 Pharaoh proclaimed among his people, saying, "O my people, do I not own the Kingdom of Egypt, and these rivers flow beneath me? Do you not see?
52 Am I not better than this miserable wretch, who can barely express himself?
53 Why are bracelets of gold not dropped