Surah Al-An'am English Translation & Transliteration

¹All praise belongs to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and brought into being the darkness and the light (1). Even so, the disbelievers who cover up the truths that come from Allah set others up as equal to their Lord (2).

²It is Allah who created you from clay and then appointed a term/span. There is a term/span set with Him. Yet you still waver in doubt about the resurrection.

³For He is Allah in the heavens and on the earth. He knows what you keep secret and what you disclose. Moreover, He knows what you will earn.

⁴Whenever any verse from among their Lord's verses comes to them, the only thing they do is turn away from it.

⁵Now the Quran, the evidence of the truth, has come to them, but they at once clung to lies in the face of it. Soon the news of the truths they kept making light of and mocking will reach them.

⁶Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them? We had settled them in fertile lands such as We have not given you, sent down abundant, blessed rain upon them from the sky, and made rivers flow beneath their feet. Yet We destroyed them for their sins and brought other generations into being after them.

⁷Even if We had sent down this revelation to you as a text written on paper, and they had touched it with their own hands, (1) those disbelievers would still have said: "This is nothing but plain sorcery"(2).

⁸And they say: "If only an angel had been sent down to him!" Had We sent down an angel, the matter would have been decided, and they would have been given no further chance.

⁹And even if We had made him an angel, We would still have made him in the form of a man, and they would have fallen into the very confusion they are in now.

¹⁰Messengers before you were mocked too, but the very truth they mocked closed in on those who mocked them from every side.

¹¹Say: "Travel through the land and see what the end of those who clung to lies in the face of the truth was!"

¹²Say also: "To whom belongs all that is in the heavens and on the earth?" Say: "To Allah, who has made mercy a principle binding upon Himself!" He will surely gather you all together on the Day of Resurrection, of whose coming there is no doubt. Those who have brought ruin upon themselves are the ones who do not believe in this truth, the Quran.

¹³Yet everything that dwells in the night and the day belongs to Allah. He hears everything and knows everything.

¹⁴Say: "Am I to take as my protector/guardian anyone other than Allah, who created the heavens and the earth from nothing, (1) who feeds every living being but needs no one to feed Him?" (2) Say: "I have been commanded to be the foremost of those who submit to Allah, and told: 'Never be one of those who associate partners with Allah!'" (3).

¹⁵Say: "If I disobey my Lord's command, I surely fear the punishment of a terrible day."

¹⁶Whoever is kept away from the punishment on that day, Allah has protected him by His mercy. That is the clear salvation.

¹⁷If Allah touches you with harm, none can remove it but He. And if He wills good for you, He has power over all things.

¹⁸For it is He who holds absolute authority over His servants; it is He who does everything in its proper place and is aware of everything.

¹⁹Say: "Who is the greatest and most trustworthy as a witness?" Answer: "Allah is witness between me and you, and this Quran has been revealed to me so that I may warn with it you and whomever this message reaches. Do you really bear witness that there are other gods alongside Allah?" Say: "I will never bear witness to that!" And say: "He is only one God, and I am clear of those things you associate with Him as partners."

²⁰Those to whom We gave revelation before recognize it as they recognize their own sons. Those who have brought loss upon themselves are the ones who do not believe in this truth, the Quran.

²¹Who does greater wrong/is more astray than one who attributes his own invented lies to Allah, or clings to lies in the face of His verses? It is a fact that those who slander Allah will never prosper.

²²On that day We will gather them all together; then We will say to those who associated partners with Allah: Where are those partners you claimed?

²³Then their only ploy will be to say: "By Allah, our Lord, we swear that we were not among those who associated partners/committed shirk."

²⁴Just look how they lied against themselves, and how the things they invented forsook them and vanished.

²⁵And among them are some who seem to listen to you. Even if they saw every kind of sign, they would not believe in Our verses, because they have closed their hearts to knowledge and do not want to hear with their ears. And to argue with you, they say: "This is nothing but the legends of the ancients."

²⁶They both keep others away from the Quran and deprive themselves of it. In the end they destroy themselves without realizing it.

²⁷If only you could see their state when they are made to stand before the Fire and say: "Ah, if only we could be sent back to the world, and not cling to lies in the face of our Lord's verses, and be among the believers!"

²⁸No—it is only that the truth formerly hidden from them has now come out. Were they sent back to the world, they would return to what they had been forbidden. For they are truly liars.

²⁹For they used to say: "There is nothing but this life of ours in this world; there is no other life. Nor will we be raised again."

³⁰If only you could see the moment when they are made to stand before their Lord, and Allah says to them: "Is this not the truth, then?" and they say: "By our Lord, it truly is!" and (Allah) says: "Then taste the punishment for covering up the truths!"

³¹Those who do not take meeting Allah into account have lost. When at last the Hour, the end of this world, suddenly comes upon them, they will say, carrying their sins on their backs: "Woe to us for not taking the Hereafter into account!" Mark how evil is the load they bear!

³²The life of this world is nothing but play and amusement. But the abode of the Hereafter is better for those who act responsibly and guard themselves. Will you still not use your reason?

³³We certainly know that what they say grieves you. Yet it is not you they are calling a liar; in truth, those wrongdoers who persist in error knowingly refuse to believe in Allah's verses, even though they know this Quran is the truth.

³⁴Do not forget that the messengers before you were also accused of lying. They were patient until Our help came. For there is no power that can change Allah's words in which He has written that He will help. And surely some of the news of these messengers has come to you.

³⁵If their turning away weighs heavily on you, then, if you are able to dig a tunnel into the depths of the earth or set up a ladder to the sky, bring them the sign/miracle they demand. Had Allah willed, He would have gathered them all upon guidance/the right path. So never be one of the ignorant!

³⁶Only those who listen with their hearts accept the call;(1) as for the dead, Allah will raise them, and then they will be returned to Allah to give account (2).

³⁷They said: "Should not a miracle have been sent down to him from his Lord?" Say: "Allah is certainly able to send down every kind of miracle. But most of them are not aware of this."

³⁸All the living creatures on the earth, and all the birds that fly with their wings, are communities like you. We have left nothing out of this Book, the Quran. Then they will all be gathered before their Lord.

³⁹Those who cling to lies in the face of Our verses are deaf and mute, left in layers of darkness. Allah confirms the misguidance of whoever wishes to stray, and guides whoever wishes to His straight path.

⁴⁰Say: "Have you ever considered: if Allah's punishment overtook you, or the Hour, the moment of this world's breakup, came upon you—tell me, if you are truthful in your claim, would you implore anyone other than Allah?"

⁴¹No, you would implore Allah alone. And He, if He sees fit, would remove the affliction you prayed to have removed, and you would forget the things you associated with Him.

⁴²Indeed, We sent messengers to the communities that came and went before you too, and We put them through severe hardship and distress so that they might acknowledge their helplessness and implore Us.

⁴³If only, when Our punishment came upon them, they had acknowledged their helplessness and implored Us! But their hearts had hardened, for Satan had made what they did look good to them.

⁴⁴And they turned a deaf ear to all the warnings given to them. So We threw open to them the gates of every blessing, and while they were exulting in the pleasure of the blessings granted to them, We suddenly punished them in such a way that they were plunged into a whirlpool of despair.

⁴⁵Praise (hamd) be to the Lord/Owner of the worlds, for thus were the people who persisted in ingratitude rooted out.

⁴⁶Say: "Have you ever considered: if Allah were to make your ears deaf and your eyes blind and seal your hearts, is there any god other than Allah who could restore them to you?" See how We set out Our verses in different ways. Yet they still turn away.

⁴⁷Say: "Have you ever considered: if Allah's punishment came upon you suddenly or openly, would anyone be destroyed but a wrongdoing people who persist in error?"

⁴⁸For We send the messengers only as bearers of good news and warners. So whoever believes and sets his affairs right will have no fear, nor will they grieve.

⁴⁹But as for those who cling to lies in the face of Our verses, punishment will touch them because they strayed from Allah's path.

⁵⁰Say: "I do not tell you that Allah's treasuries (of reward and blessing) are in my hands. Nor do I know the unseen (what will happen in the future), nor do I tell you that I am an angel/a king. I follow only the Quran that is revealed to me." Say: "Can one who is blind to the truth and one who sees it be equal? Will you still not reflect?"

⁵¹Warn with this Quran those who fear being gathered before their Lord, so that they may realize that there they will have no protector/guardian and no intercessor. Perhaps they will guard themselves.

⁵²Do not drive away from your presence those who implore their Lord morning and evening, seeking His good pleasure! You are not accountable for them, nor are they accountable for you. If you were to drive them away, you would be one of the wrongdoers who wrong them.

⁵³In this way We test people by means of one another, so that they say: "Of all of us, are these the ones Allah has chosen to favor?" But does Allah not know best who are grateful?

⁵⁴When those who believe and trust in Our verses wholeheartedly come to you, say to them: "Peace be upon you (Salamun alaykum), good news to you! Your Lord has made mercy a principle binding upon Himself. So whoever does evil out of ignorance and then promptly repents/turns back from wrong and sets himself right—He is surely matchless in forgiveness and possesses endless mercy."

⁵⁵Thus We make Our verses clear and understandable, so that the wrongness of the way of those steeped in sin may become plain.

⁵⁶Say: "I have been forbidden to serve those you place between yourselves and Allah and implore in prayer." And say also: "Nor can I follow your invented desires and whims; then I would have gone astray and would not be among the rightly guided."

⁵⁷And say also: "I rely on clear evidence from my Lord, the Quran. And you have rejected it. The punishment you want hastened is not in my hands; judgment belongs to Allah alone. He gives the true judgment, for He is the best of those who distinguish truth from falsehood."

⁵⁸Say: "If the punishment you want to come quickly were in my hands, the matter between you and me would already have been settled. But Allah knows best who the wrongdoers deserving punishment are."

⁵⁹For the keys of the unseen/the unknown are with Him alone. No one knows them but He. He knows all that happens on land and at sea. Not even a falling leaf is outside His knowledge; and every seed in the depths of the earth, everything moist or dry, is present in a clear book/law.

⁶⁰It is He who causes you to die/takes away your consciousness by night and knows what you do by day. Then He raises you to life again each morning/restores your consciousness to you, so that you may live out the appointed term. In the end your return is to Him, and then He will inform you, one by one, of what you have done.

⁶¹It is He who holds absolute authority over His servants. He sends over you (angels) who watch over you and record what you do. At last, when death comes to one of you, Our messengers carry out their duty in full and take his soul.

⁶²Then they are returned to Allah, their true Master. Take note: judgment belongs to Him alone. He is the swiftest of those who take account.

⁶³Say: "Who saves you from the darkness of land and sea when you pray to Him with heartfelt pleading: 'If You save us, we will surely be among the grateful'?"

⁶⁴Say: "It is Allah who will save you from that and from every other distress. Yet you still associate partners with Allah."

⁶⁵Say: "It is He who has the power to send punishment upon you from above you or from beneath your feet, or to split you into factions and set you against one another." See how We make the verses clear and understandable, so that they may grasp them fully!

⁶⁶Your people have clung to lies in the face of the Quran, even though it is the very truth. Say: "I am not your guardian/advocate."

⁶⁷Every piece of news has a moment when it will come true. You will come to know in time.

⁶⁸When you see those who speak disparagingly about Our verses, do not sit with them unless they move on to some other discourse/talk! And if Satan makes you forget, then once you remember, do not stay in the company of the wrongdoers who make light of and mock Allah's verses!

⁶⁹Those who act responsibly bear no responsibility for those people's reckoning. But they owe them a reminder; perhaps they will guard themselves.

⁷⁰Those whom the life of this world has deceived, (1) and who have thus made their religion into play and amusement—leave them to themselves (2) and remind them of this truth through the Quran: (3) "Every person will be held in pledge for what he has earned (4). Therefore he will have no protector/guardian or intercessor to place between himself and Allah, (5) and even if he offered every possible ransom, it would never be accepted from him (6). These are the ones who will be dragged to destruction because of what they did; because they did not believe in My verses, there is for them a drink that burns their insides and a painful punishment." (7)

⁷¹Say: "After Allah has shown us the right path, (1) are we to implore, besides Allah, those who can neither benefit nor harm us (2)? Are we to be like someone who, wandering bewildered on the earth, abandons his companions who call him to the right path, saying 'Come to us,' (3) and, taken in by Satan's enticements, tumbles over a precipice?" (4). Say: "The only right path is the path Allah shows, and we have been commanded to submit to the Lord of the worlds." (5)

⁷²And perform the prayer, giving it its due, and act responsibly toward Him. For it is He before whom you will be gathered.

⁷³For it is He who created the heavens and the earth for a true purpose (1), and the moment He says "Be," a thing enters the process of becoming. His word/command is sure to come true, (2) and on the day the Trumpet (Sur) is blown, sovereignty is His alone (3). He knows everything within the reach of perception and everything beyond it. For it is He who does everything in its proper place and is aware of everything (4).

⁷⁴Recall when Abraham said to his father Azar: "Do you take idols as gods? I see you and your people in clear misguidance."

⁷⁵Thus We showed Abraham the system of sovereignty over the heavens and the earth/taught him to grasp their magnificent order, so that his faith might be strengthened and made firm.

⁷⁶When the darkness of night closed in on him, he saw a star and said: "This is my Lord." But when the star set, he said: "I do not love things that set."

⁷⁷At another time, when he saw the moon rising, he said: "This is my Lord!" But when it too set, he said: "If my Lord does not guide me to the right path, I will surely be one of this people who have gone astray."

⁷⁸Then, when Abraham saw the sun rising, he said: "This is my Lord, for this is greater and brighter." When it too set, he said: "O my people, I am clear of the partners/shirk you associate with Allah.

⁷⁹Now, with my whole being, purified of shirk/as a hanif, I have turned to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in a matchless way, and I am not one of those who associate partners with Allah," he said.

⁸⁰And his people began to argue with him. Abraham said: "Do you argue with me about Allah when He has guided me to the right path? I do not fear at all those things you associate with Him. Nothing happens except as my Lord wills. For my Lord encompasses everything with His boundless knowledge. Will you still not reflect and come to your senses?

⁸¹And why should I fear the things you associate with Him, when you do not fear associating with Allah things for which He has sent down no knowledge or evidence? Tell me, if you know: which of the two sides is more entitled to be safe from fear?"

⁸²Those who believe and do not taint their faith with wrongdoing/shirk—it is they who are entitled to safety from fear. And it is they who are on the right path.

⁸³This is Our system of proof that We gave Abraham to use against his people. For We raise to high ranks whomever We choose. Your Lord surely does everything in its proper place and knows all things.

⁸⁴We granted Isaac and Jacob to Abraham, and We guided each of them to the right path. Before that, We had guided Noah, and from his descendants David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron. This is how We reward those who do good.

⁸⁵Zechariah, John (Yahya), Jesus, and Elijah (Ilyas)—all of them were among the good and virtuous.

⁸⁶Ishmael, Elisha (al-Yasa'), Jonah, and Lot—each of them We favored above the peoples among whom they lived.

⁸⁷And from among their forefathers, their children, and their brothers, We chose some and guided them to the right path.

⁸⁸This is Allah's guidance, by which He leads to the right path whoever among His servants deserves it. Had they associated partners with Allah, all that they had done would surely have come to nothing.

⁸⁹These are the ones to whom We gave the Book, wisdom, and prophethood. If these people do not believe in this revelation, We will entrust it to another people who will believe in it.

⁹⁰All of these are people whom Allah guided. So follow their way, and say: "I ask of you no wage for conveying this message. For this Quran is only a warning and an admonition for all peoples."

⁹¹They did not value and recognize Allah as He deserves when they said: "Allah has not sent down anything to any human being."(1) Ask them: "Who sent down the Book that came to Moses—a guide and a light for humankind—which you have put down on sheets of paper, disclosing some of it (2) and concealing much of it (because it did not suit you), (3) and through which you were taught what neither you nor your forefathers knew?" Say: "Allah!" Then leave them to amuse themselves with their idle talk. (4)

⁹²And this Quran too is a source of blessing that We have sent down, confirming the truths that came before it, so that you may warn the mother city and the people around it. Those who believe and trust in the Hereafter also believe and trust in this Quran, and they are constant in their prayers.

⁹³Who is a greater slanderer than one who attributes his own invented lies to Allah, (1) or says, "Revelation comes to me too," when nothing has been revealed to him, or says, "I too will send down the like of what Allah has sent down, the Quran"? (2) If only you could see these wrongdoers as they writhe in agony in the grip of death, while the angels stretch out their hands to take their souls, saying: "Come, save yourselves if you can! Today you will taste the punishment of dishonor for attributing falsehoods to Allah and for behaving arrogantly toward/disdainfully of His verses." (3)

⁹⁴Just as We created you alone when you first came into the world, so now you have come before Us all alone, leaving behind everything We bestowed on you. We do not see with you the partners you placed between yourselves and Allah, thinking they would intercede for you; the ties you had formed among yourselves have been torn apart, and those you thought would save you have forsaken you and vanished.

⁹⁵It is surely Allah who splits the seed and the date stone and makes them sprout, who brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living. That is Allah! What, then, has come over you?

⁹⁶It is He who splits the darkness and brings forth the morning, (1) who has made the night a time of stillness/rest, (2) and the sun and the moon a measure of time. This is a measure set by the One who is absolutely supreme and knows all things. (3)

⁹⁷It is He who created the stars for you, so that by their positions you may find your way in the darkness of land and sea. We have indeed set out these verses in detail for a people who can understand the truth.

⁹⁸And it is He who brought you into being from a single essence/soul, and who appointed a place for temporary and lasting life (1). We have indeed set out these verses in detail for a people who can grasp them. (2)

⁹⁹It is He who sends down rain from the sky. With this rain We bring forth every kind of plant; from it We bring forth green shoots, and from them We bring forth grains packed one upon another. From the spathes of the date palm We bring forth clustering dates hanging within easy reach, and many vineyards, olive and pomegranate trees, alike and unalike in color and taste. Look with an eye to taking a lesson at their fruit as it forms and grows, and when it ripens. In all of this there are many lessons for a people who would believe.

¹⁰⁰They set up as partners to Allah the unseen beings/jinn whom He created. Without knowledge they attributed sons and daughters to Him. Yet He is free of and far above these ugly attributions of theirs.

¹⁰¹He is the unprecedented, matchless Creator of the heavens and the earth. How could He have a child when He has never had a spouse? Besides, it is He who created everything, and He knows all things.

¹⁰²The One besides whom there is no god (1) and who is the Creator of everything—that is Allah, (2) your Lord. So serve Him alone, (3) for it is He who is Trustee over all things/watches over everything (4).

¹⁰³No eye or perception can grasp and encompass Him, but He grasps and encompasses all eyes and perceptions. He is the Subtle/beyond comprehension, encompassing everything with His boundless knowledge and aware of everything.

¹⁰⁴Revelation/the Quran, a source of insight/awareness, has come to you from your Lord. Whoever takes the path this revelation shows and acts upon it does so for his own good; and whoever turns blind does so to his own detriment. For I am not your keeper.

¹⁰⁵We set out Our verses in many dimensions, so that they may say, "You have taken lessons from someone," and so that We may make this truth clear to a people who wish to know.

¹⁰⁶Follow what is revealed to you/the Quran from your Lord! There is no god but Him. And turn away from those who associate partners with Allah/pay no heed to the harm they do you.

¹⁰⁷Had Allah willed, they could never have associated partners with Him. We have not made you a watchman over them, nor are you their guardian.

¹⁰⁸Do not revile the beings that those who associate partners with Allah place between themselves and Him and implore in prayer, lest they, in their ignorance, revile Allah out of excess and impudence. Thus to every people their false beliefs and conduct have been made to look good. In the end they will return to their Lord, and Allah will inform them, one by one, of what they did.

¹⁰⁹They swore by Allah with their most solemn oaths that if a miracle were shown to them, they would surely believe in it. Say: "Sending miracles is in Allah's hands. And are you not aware that even if a miracle came, they still would not believe?"

¹¹⁰And We turn their hearts and their insight upside down, so that, just as they did not believe the first time, they would still not believe. And We leave them to flounder in their insolence.

¹¹¹Even if Allah had sent down the angels to them, and the dead had spoken to them, and He had laid out before them everything that would prove the truth, they would not have believed unless Allah willed. But most of them do not know this divine law.

¹¹²Devils, seen and unseen, who whisper to one another gilded, beguiling words to deceive people, have thereby become enemies to every prophet. Had your Lord not granted them the right to choose, they could not have done even that. So keep away from them and their invented religion!

¹¹³Their aim is to make the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter incline to those words and be pleased with them, so that they may go on committing the sins they commit.

¹¹⁴When Allah has sent down to you the Book in detail, (1) am I now to seek a judge other than Allah? (2) Those to whom We gave the Book know well that this Quran has been sent down by your Lord as the truth/reality itself. (3) So never be among those who doubt! (4)

¹¹⁵For your Lord's words are complete in truth and justice. There is no power that can change His words/rulings. It is He who hears everything and knows everything.

¹¹⁶If you obey the majority of people on the earth, they will lead you astray from Allah's path. For they follow nothing but baseless conjecture and guesswork, and they only invent lies/act without thinking.

¹¹⁷Your Lord surely knows best who strays from His path. And He knows best those who are on the right path.

¹¹⁸If you believe and trust in Allah's verses, then eat of the animals over which Allah's name has been mentioned.

¹¹⁹Why do you not eat of the animals over which Allah's name has been mentioned, when what is forbidden to you, except in cases of necessity, has been explained to you in detail? Yet many people mislead others in these matters with their own desires and whims, without any knowledge. But your Lord knows best those who overstep the limits (those who claim for themselves the authority to declare things forbidden and lawful).

¹²⁰Abandon sin, both open and hidden. For those who commit sin will pay the penalty for their sins when the time comes.

¹²¹Do not eat of animals slaughtered without Allah's name being mentioned over them. That is rebellion against the command. For people who have become devils inspire their friends to argue with you and win you over. If you obey them, you too will be among those who associate partners with Allah.

¹²²Can one who was dead and whom We brought to life (with revelation and faith), granting him a light/revelation by which to walk among people and find his way, be like one sunk in layers of darkness from which he cannot get out? (1) But, as it turns out, what they do is made to look good to the disbelievers who cover up the truth.(2)

¹²³And thus in every land its sinful leading men come to power through intrigue; but the tricks and traps they set rebound on themselves, and they do not realize it.

¹²⁴Whenever any sign comes to them, they say: "We will not believe until we are given what was given to Allah's earlier messengers." But Allah knows best how to carry out the task of messengership. Those sunk in the swamp of crime and sin will suffer humiliation from Allah and a severe punishment because of the tricks and intrigues they plotted.

¹²⁵Whoever wishes to enter Allah's right path, Allah opens his heart to Islam. And for anyone whose misguidance He confirms, He makes his heart tight and constricted, as though he were climbing up into the sky. Allah leaves those who do not believe in impurity.

¹²⁶This is your Lord's straight path. We have indeed set out the verses in detail for a people who wish to take admonition.

¹²⁷For them there is the abode of safety, happiness, and peace with their Lord. Because of what they did, Allah is their Protector/the One who watches over them.

¹²⁸On that day He will gather them all together and say to them: "O company of unseen jinn-devils, you used every means to lead most of humankind astray." And their followers among humankind will say: "Our Lord, we made use of one another/cooperated, and at last we have reached the end of the term You set for us." And Allah will say: "The Fire is your dwelling place, where you will remain, unless Allah wills that you leave it." For your Lord does everything in its proper place and knows all things.

¹²⁹Thus the wrongdoers who collude with the devils become each other's allies in leading astray, because of what they have done.

¹³⁰"O company of beings, seen and unseen/known and unknown, endowed with will! Did there not come to you messengers from among yourselves, relating My verses to you and warning you that you would come face to face with your reckoning?" They will say: "We bear witness against ourselves that they did come." But the allure of this fleeting worldly life had led them into delusion, and they will have borne witness against themselves that they were disbelievers.

¹³¹This is because your Lord would never destroy a land unjustly while its people were unaware of the truths.

¹³²For everyone there are ranks in proportion to what they have done. For your Lord is not indifferent to what they do.

¹³³Your Lord, the Possessor of mercy, has no need of anyone or anything (1). If He wills, He can do away with you, and just as He brought you into being from another people, if He wills He can bring forth another people after you, in your place (2).

¹³⁴What you have been promised will surely come, and you will never be able to prevent it.

¹³⁵Say: "O my people, do what befits you, and I am doing my duty. You will soon learn, in any case, who will have the happy ending. It is a fact that the wrongdoers who drive themselves to destruction will never prosper."

¹³⁶From the crops and livestock Allah has created, they set aside a share for Allah and say, according to their false beliefs: "This is for Allah, and this is for our partners." The share they set aside for their partners does not reach Allah, but the share they set aside for Allah reaches their partners. What absurd judgments they make!

¹³⁷Thus these perverse beliefs in partners had made even the killing of their children look good to many of those who associate partners with Allah, and so had dragged them into destruction and loss, and they had made their false beliefs into a religion. Had Allah not granted them the right to choose, they could not have done this. So leave them alone with their invented beliefs.

¹³⁸And according to their false beliefs they say: "These animals and crops are sacred/untouchable; no one may eat of them except whom we wish. And these animals may not be ridden or loaded." And there are certain animals over which they do not mention Allah's name, slandering Allah. When the time comes, Allah will punish them for what they invent.

¹³⁹And they say: "What is in the bellies of these animals may be eaten only by our men; it is forbidden to our women. But if it is born dead, all share in it and may eat it." Allah will punish them for the forbidden and lawful things they invent. For it is He who judges, and He who knows all things.

¹⁴⁰Those who kill their children out of ignorance and folly, and forbid the provision Allah has given them, slandering Allah, have certainly lost. For they have knowingly gone astray and failed to reach their goal.

¹⁴¹For it is He who creates, from the same soil, gardens trellised and untrellised, date palms and crops of various kinds whose taste is alike and unalike, olives and pomegranates. Eat of their fruit when they bear fruit, and give the poor their due at harvest time, but do not squander wastefully. For He does not love those who go to excess.

¹⁴²Among the animals there are those that carry loads, and those from whose wool and hair bedding/quilts are made. Eat of what Allah has provided for you, but do not follow those who have become devils. Do not forget that he is your clear enemy.

¹⁴³According to their (the polytheists') claim, the forbidden animals are eight: two of sheep and two of goats. Say: "Has Allah forbidden the two males or the two females? Or does it include what is in the wombs of the two females? Come, inform me with knowledge from a divine source, if you are truthful in your claim."

¹⁴⁴And two of camels and two of cattle. Say: "Has Allah forbidden the two males of these animals or the two females, or does it include what is in the wombs of the females? Or were you witnesses when Allah forbade all this? Who does greater wrong than one who, without any divine knowledge, invents lies against Allah merely to lead people astray from the right path? Allah surely does not bring these wrongdoers who slander Allah to their goals."

¹⁴⁵Say: "Among the rulings revealed to me I find nothing forbidden for anyone to eat except carrion, blood poured forth, and the flesh of swine—which is utterly impure—and an animal sacrificed in idolatrous fashion in the name of other than Allah. But whoever is compelled by necessity and eats of these without craving and without exceeding the limit, let him know well that your Lord is matchless in forgiveness and possesses infinite mercy."

¹⁴⁶To the Jews We forbade every clawed animal. Of cattle and sheep We forbade them the fat, except the fat on their backs or attached to the entrails or the bones. Thus We punished them for their insolence. And We certainly speak the truth.

¹⁴⁷If they try to call you a liar, say: "Your Lord is the Possessor of boundless mercy; but the punishment He brings upon a people sunk in sin cannot be turned back."

¹⁴⁸Those who associate partners with Allah say: "Had Allah willed, neither our fathers nor we would have associated partners with Him, nor would we have forbidden anything." (We would not have claimed for ourselves the authority to declare things forbidden and lawful.) Those before them also rejected (the messengers) in the same way, until they tasted Our punishment (1). Say: "Have you any evidence based on divine knowledge that you can present to us? You follow nothing but baseless claims, and you only make things up." (2)

¹⁴⁹Say: "The soundest, most decisive, and most perfect proof belongs to Allah. Had He willed, He would have set you all on the right path."

¹⁵⁰Say: "Come, bring your witnesses who will testify that Allah has forbidden these animals." If they bear false witness, never endorse their testimony! And do not follow the desires and whims of those who cling to lies in the face of Our verses, who do not believe in the Hereafter, and who, moreover, set others up as equal to their Lord!

¹⁵¹Say: "Come, let me tell you what your Lord has made forbidden/inviolable for you: Do not associate anything with Allah as an equal or partner, (1) treat your parents well, (2) and do not kill your children for fear of poverty, for it is We who provide for you and for them!(3) Keep away from every shameful indecency, open and hidden.(4) Do not unjustly take a life that Allah has made inviolable.(5) All this Allah commands you. Perhaps you will use your reason." (6)

¹⁵²And do not come near the property of an orphan with ill intent, other than in a way that is to his benefit, until he reaches maturity (1). Be true and just in measure and weight (2). For We never burden anyone with a responsibility he cannot bear (3). When you speak, be just, even if a relative is concerned.(4) And be true to your covenant/agreement with Allah (5). This is what Allah advises you. Perhaps you will reflect and take admonition (6).

¹⁵³This is My straight path. So follow it, and never stray into other paths that would separate you from this path. All this Allah advises you, so that you may guard yourselves.

¹⁵⁴Then We gave Moses that Book, to complete Our blessing upon those who do good, to explain in detail everything (needed in religion), and as a guide and a mercy, so that they might believe fully in meeting their Lord.

¹⁵⁵And this is a Book We have sent down as a source of blessing. So follow this Quran and fulfill your responsibility, so that you may attain mercy.

¹⁵⁶Lest you should say: "That Book was sent down only to two communities before us, and we were unaware of their teachings,"

¹⁵⁷or lest you should say: "If a Book had been sent down to us too, we would have been more rightly guided than they." Now there has come to you from your Lord the Quran, clear evidence of the truth, a guide and a mercy. Who, then, could do greater wrong than one who clings to lies in the face of Allah's verses and turns away from them? We will punish those who turn away from Our verses with a dreadful punishment for this great crime of theirs against them.

¹⁵⁸Are they now waiting for angels to come to them, or for your Lord Himself to come, or for some of your Lord's signs of punishment and death to come? On the day your Lord's sign of punishment comes, the faith of anyone who did not believe before, or did not produce some good through his faith, will be of no benefit to him. Say: "Wait, then; we too are waiting!"

¹⁵⁹You have nothing to do with those who have broken their religion into pieces and split into factions. Their affair rests with Allah. In due course Allah will inform them of what they did.

¹⁶⁰Whoever comes into the divine presence with a good deed will have ten times its like; and whoever comes with an evil deed will be recompensed only with its like, and they will never be wronged.

¹⁶¹Say: "There is no doubt that my Lord has guided me to the straight path, to the sound religion, the belief system of Abraham, purified of every kind of shirk. For Abraham was never one of those who associate partners with Allah."

¹⁶²Say: "All my acts of worship, bodily and financial, my life and my death, are for Allah, the Lord/Owner of the worlds."

¹⁶³For He has no partner and no equal. This tawhid alone is what I have been commanded, and I am the foremost of the Muslims.

¹⁶⁴Say: "Am I to seek a Lord/lawgiver other than Allah, when He is the Lord of all things? (1) The sins each person commits bind only himself (2). For no one who bears responsibility can bear the responsibility of another (3). Then your return, all of you, will be to your Lord, and He will inform you of all the truths about which you argued and could not agree."(4)

¹⁶⁵It is He who has made you heirs and administrators of this land. And it is He who has raised some of you above others in rank in the blessings and opportunities He has given, in order to test you. Your Lord surely does not punish at once, and He is most forgiving and most merciful.