Quran Page 598

أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ١٣

Have you seen if he denies and turns away -

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَىٰ ١٤

Does he not know that Allāh sees?

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًا بِالنَّاصِيَةِ ١٥

No! If he does not desist, We will surely drag him by the forelock –

نَاصِيَةٍ كَاذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ ١٦

A lying, sinning forelock.

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُ ١٧

Then let him call his associates;

سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ ١٨

We will call the angels of Hell.

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِب ۩ ١٩

No! Do not obey him. But prostrate and draw near [to Allāh].

إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ ١

Indeed, We sent it [i.e., the Qur’ān] down during the Night of Decree.

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ ٢

And what can make you know what is the Night of Decree?

لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ ٣

The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months.

تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِم مِّن كُلِّ أَمْرٍ ٤

The angels and the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter.

سَلَامٌ هِيَ حَتَّىٰ مَطْلَعِ الْفَجْرِ ٥

Peace it is until the emergence of dawn.

لَمْ يَكُنِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ مُنفَكِّينَ حَتَّىٰ تَأْتِيَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ ١

Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence –

رَسُولٌ مِّنَ اللَّهِ يَتْلُو صُحُفًا مُّطَهَّرَةً ٢

A Messenger from Allāh, reciting purified scriptures

فِيهَا كُتُبٌ قَيِّمَةٌ ٣

Within which are correct writings [i.e., rulings and laws].

وَمَا تَفَرَّقَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ إِلَّا مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ ٤

Nor did those who were given the Scripture become divided until after there had come to them clear evidence.

وَمَا أُمِرُوا إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مُخْلِصِينَ لَهُ الدِّينَ حُنَفَاءَ وَيُقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَيُؤْتُوا الزَّكَاةَ وَذَٰلِكَ دِينُ الْقَيِّمَةِ ٥

And they were not commanded except to worship Allāh, [being] sincere to Him in religion, inclining to truth, and to establish prayer and to give zakāh. And that is the correct religion.