Surah Hud: Thematic English Translation (Mustafa Çevik)

Alif. Lam. Ra. This Book is a divine Book made up of verses full of wisdom that set out rulings, explained in detail by Allah, who knows everything fully, through the harmonious arrangement of words formed from the letters that are the sounds of your language.

O people! Allah has sent you this Book so that you may follow the system of life that is the reason for your creation and serve none but Him.

O Prophet! Say: “I too have been charged with inviting you to this and with giving good news to those who follow the call. Cleanse yourselves by repenting, ask Allah for forgiveness, and turn to living the life that is the reason for your creation, so that Allah may grant you a peaceful, honorable, virtuous, and blessed life until your term in this world runs out.

If you turn your backs on this call, are ungrateful, and oppose it, you will have condemned yourselves to a dreadful punishment on the Day of Reckoning. In the end every person will be returned to Allah to receive what he deserves. Allah’s power is sufficient for everything.”

Those who shy away from believing in Allah’s call shut and cover their ears, eyes, and hearts, layer upon layer, against Allah’s verses, so as to protect their present position. Without doubt Allah knows very well why they do so. He knows best what people conceal, what they reveal, and what they do and why.

Allah creates every living being He creates together with its provision. How long they will live, how they use their choices, and where their place will be after death are also known to Allah and kept on record.

Allah created the heavens and the earth in six stages; then He created water and, manifesting His knowledge and power upon water, created the essence of all living things from water too; and, establishing His sovereignty over what He created from water, He bound their lives to laws and established their order. Then, to test which of you will follow His call, He set limits concerning your deeds and left you alone with your choices.

O Prophet! When you now tell people, “You will be raised to life again after death and called to account for the way you lived your worldly lives,” some of them will say, “These are baseless words, spoken to bewitch us.”

If We postpone for a while the punishment they deserve, then they say, “If the punishment we are threatened with is coming, let it come at once, and let us see.” Will they be able to say this on the day they meet it, too? On That Day there is no power that can turn the punishment away from them; and at last the punishment they mocked will have closed in on them from every side, and by then it will long since have been too late.

If, after granting the human being blessings from Our presence, We take them back from him, he at once turns ungrateful toward Us, forgets what We gave him, and falls into despair. Or if, after some hardship or misfortune that has befallen him, We bring him well-being and abundant blessings, then instead of turning to Us in thanks and obedience, he says, “My misfortunes have let go of me, I am free of my troubles, I have removed the causes that brought me to this,” takes the credit himself for all that happened, and grows arrogant, spoiled, and insolent.

But those who believe in Allah and struggle with patience and perseverance to win His good pleasure stand firm against the hardships and difficulties they meet; they do not fall into despair or turn ungrateful, but take refuge in Allah. And when they attain blessings and are delivered from hardships, they give thanks to Him, conscious that it is Allah who delivers them and bestows the blessings. For these believers there is divine forgiveness and a magnificent reward.

O Prophet! Will you give up the call because your heart is heavy and your spirits are low over the polytheists saying, “A treasure should have been sent down to him from the sky, and we should have seen an angel with him, so that we might believe he is a prophet”? That is exactly what they want. Do not forget that you are only a warner. Allah sees and watches over everything.

They also say, “Muhammad made up the Quran.” Say to them: “If you are sincere in this claim, and really believe it and think the verses are the words of a human being, then make up ten surahs yourselves, like the surahs of the Quran and equal to them; and to be able to do so, call to your aid anyone besides Allah from whom you can get help. If even so you cannot produce anything, then at least understand that this Quran is the work of Allah’s knowledge, and that there is no true god but Allah. Should you not now submit to this truth?”

Whoever is taken in by nothing but the passing enjoyment, pleasure, and allure of this brief worldly life, gets carried away by it, and chases after it, is paid the full return for his effort in this world. But such people’s share in the Hereafter will be nothing but the Fire. This will be the recompense for not reckoning with the Hereafter while in the world. In the end they will realize that they have spent their lives on meaningless and worthless things.

Can one who pays no heed to the life of the Hereafter ever be the same as one who believes in his Lord’s verses and believes that a witness is watching over him? Before the Quran, too, Allah sent the Gospel, which invited people to the reason for their creation, and before that the Torah with Moses, as a guide. Those who believe in the truths that remain from them turn to and submit to what they are invited to through the Quran. And whoever turns away from this call, his destination will be Hell. Have no doubt about this. (Do not hold back from conveying Allah’s verses!) But sadly most people still do not believe this truth.

Who could be more astray and more unjust than one who attributes to Allah the lies he himself has invented? Such people will be brought before their Lord on the Day of Reckoning, and their crimes will be laid before them in the presence of witnesses. They will certainly receive the punishment for keeping people from following the truth and for making it seem incomprehensible; they will find no friend to save them from the punishment of Hell, and they will not escape Allah’s punishment.

On the Day of Reckoning the false gods will vanish, and so those who deceived themselves and others by following them will suffer great ruin and destruction.

But those who believe and submit to their Lord through their righteous deeds will be rewarded with Paradise, the home of blessings, where they will abide forever.

The case of these two groups (the believers and the deniers) is like that of one who is blind and deaf and one who sees and hears. Can the two ever be the same? So it is with one who believes and one who does not. This is a clear warning for those who wish to take counsel.

We also sent Noah to his people as a prophet. He called out to his people: “O my people! I am a messenger whom Allah has appointed to invite you, with clear verses, to the truth that is the reason for your creation. Take no god but Allah and serve none but Him. Otherwise I fear that a dreadful punishment will befall you.”

Thereupon the chiefs of his people, opposing the call Noah was making through Allah’s revelation, said to him: “We do not believe that you are a prophet, nor do we believe what you say; you are an ordinary mortal like us. Moreover, no one has shown interest in your call and joined it except some of the weak, powerless, low-class people of society. So you have no superiority over us either. We think you are all liars.”

Thereupon Noah said to them, “O my people! If prophethood has indeed been given to me by my Lord, and I invite you, with clear verses sent by my Lord, to live the life whose limits Allah has set, the reason for your creation, and you still persist in not believing, can you not see that your end will be ruin? I am not going to force you to believe what I say.”

Then he said: “O my people! I ask no wage of you for conveying what is right. The One who will reward my effort is my Lord. And know well that I am not going to drive away from me the people who have believed in the call, whom you call weak, powerless, and low-class, just because you do not want them. They know very well that in the end they will return to their Lord and receive the recompense for whom they lived their worldly lives for and by what standard. But you are an ungrateful and ignorant people, and that is why you do not turn to what is right. If I were to give in to you and drive them away from me, no one could save me from my Lord’s punishment.”

“O my people! I do not tell you that Allah’s treasures are with me, nor do I know the unseen, nor am I an angel; and as for those people you call low-class, Allah knows best their place with Him and what is in their hearts; if I set about saying things I do not know about this, I would be one of the wrongdoers, the ignorant.”

Thereupon the chiefs of his people said, “O Noah! For so long you have kept saying very negative things about our system and morality, and you have gone much too far! Enough now; we will certainly not accept your call; but if you want to prove the truth of what you say, bring down on us the punishment you threaten us with, and let us see.”

Noah said to them, “It is Allah who will bring this punishment upon you. If He wills, you will never escape it. If you have decided to persist stubbornly in associating partners with Allah and in disbelief, then my counsel will be of no use to you. But never forget that Allah is my Lord and your Lord, and that He will raise everyone to life again after death and call them to account for their stance toward His call.”

O Prophet! Or do those who associate partners with Allah say that you have made up the story of Noah too? Say to them: “If I have made it up, the sin and its burden are mine. And I bear no responsibility at all for the crimes you commit; their sin and burden are yours.”

When it became plain that no one of Noah’s people, apart from very few, would accept the call made in Allah’s name, Allah revealed to Noah: “O Noah! It has become certain that none of your people will believe in you except those who have already believed. So do not grieve any more over what they are doing, and begin building the ship under Our protection, as We teach you by revelation. Do not ask Me that those who turn their backs on the call be forgiven and spared the punishment; I have decided to drown them.”

So Noah began to build the ship. While he was busy with this, the chiefs of his people mocked Noah whenever they passed by him. And Noah would say to them, “Go on, mock and amuse yourselves; have no doubt that soon it is you who will be the ones mocked, and besides the humiliating punishment that will befall you in this world, you will also be condemned to the lasting punishment of Hell in the Hereafter.”

At last, when the Day of Punishment came and, by Our decree, the waters on the earth and beneath the earth began to boil up and surge in floods, We revealed to Noah: “Take on board the ship a pair of each living creature around you, and those of your family who have believed in the call.” The number of those who believed with Noah was quite small anyway.

Noah said to them: “Come, embark on the ship, invoking Allah’s name (saying Bismillah); the sailing of this ship and its coming to rest depend on His laws and His will. Without doubt my Lord is most merciful, compassionate, and forgiving toward the believers.”

The ship began to make its way amid waves like mountains; at one point Noah caught sight, among the waves, of his son, who had chosen to live associating partners with Allah. Noah called out to him, “My dear son, repent of associating partners with Allah, turn to Allah, and come; be among those who are saved with us; do not stay among the deniers.”

But his son said, “I will climb a mountain and escape drowning.” Noah called out to his son, “Today no one who associates partners with Allah and denies the truth can escape Allah’s sentence of destruction, except the believers! They are the ones who will be saved.” Then a great wave came between them, and his son too could not escape drowning.

When they had all been destroyed, Allah commanded, “O earth, swallow your water; O sky, hold back yours!” Thereupon the waters receded. By Allah’s decree the ship came to rest on Mount Judi. Those who disembarked said, “Woe to those who deserved destruction for not turning from their shirk!”

After the Flood, Noah said, “My Lord! My son too was one of my family. I would have liked him to be among those saved, but it was not to be. You are the most just of those who judge, the Judge of all judges.” Thereupon Allah revealed to Noah: “He is by no means to be counted as your family. He chose to be of the family of those who associate partners with Allah; so do not ask Me about something of which you have no certain knowledge, whose inner nature and reality you do not know! If you do so, you will be one of the ignorant; you will be no different from them.”

Noah at once realized his mistake and prayed, “My Lord, I seek refuge in You from asking You for something of which I have no knowledge, whose reality and essence I do not know. If You do not forgive me for this and have mercy on me, I will be among the ruined and the losers.”

Then We revealed to Noah: “O Noah! We will bestow good and blessings on you and on the believers who disembark from the ship with you in peace and safety, and on the believers who will descend from them. As for those who turn away from the call and are ungrateful, We let them live on Our blessings for a while, and then condemn them to an agonizing punishment.”

O Muhammad! Neither you nor your people knew this story of Noah before; this is knowledge We convey to you by revelation. So continue your call with patience, as Noah did, and do not forget that in the end those who win and reach a happy end will be those who remain steadfast in their faith and strive for it.

And to the people of Ad We sent their brother Hud as a prophet. He said to his people: “O my people! Turn to the call of Allah, who created you and endowed you with so many blessings, and serve Him alone; you have no true god other than Him. Stop being ungrateful to Allah at once.

O my people! Repent of your way of life based on shirk and disbelief, and ask Allah for forgiveness, so that He may shower abundant mercy and blessings on you from the sky and add strength to your strength. I ask no wage of you for this counsel and these warnings. The One who will determine the reward for my effort is Allah, who created both me and you. Should you not use your reason, grasp the importance of His call, and turn to Him at once?”

His people replied to Hud: “O Hud! You have not come to us with a miracle that shows you are a prophet, so that we might believe you, abandon our present gods, and follow your call. Do not expect us to accept your call without showing a miracle; it seems that one of our gods has struck you with some affliction, and that is why you want us to abandon our gods; we have nothing else to say to you.”

Hud said to them: “Let Allah be witness, and you too be witnesses, that I am far removed from your gods whom you associate as partners with Allah, and that I will never accept them. If you like, lay your trap against me and do your worst. Do not forget that I trust in Allah, who is my Lord and your Lord.

There is no living creature that Allah does not keep alive and govern by the order He has established. O my people! What is the matter with you, that, this being the truth, you shrink from submitting to your Lord’s call?

If you stubbornly persist in turning away from the Allah-centered system of life that is the reason for your creation, my Lord will bring another people in your place, and no one can prevent it. By rejecting the way of life to which you are invited you cannot harm Allah. My Lord sees and watches over everything; and indeed I have conveyed to you the messages I was asked to convey.”

At last, when Hud’s people came to deserve destruction, We saved Hud and those who believed with him, out of Our mercy, compassion, and tender care, and protected them from the punishment of Hell in the Hereafter.

Thus did We destroy and wipe out root and branch the obstinate, ungrateful people of Ad, who rejected their Lord’s call and rebelled against Him and His messengers. Just as they were cursed in this world, they will be cursed in the Hereafter too and condemned to the punishment of Hell.

And to the people of Thamud We sent their kinsman Salih as a prophet. Salih said to his people: “O my people! Come to know Allah as He deserves, and follow the system of life to which He invites you, the reason for your creation, so that you will have served Him alone. This is the most right path; you have no true god other than Allah. It is He who created you from the earth and keeps you alive, bestowing countless blessings on you; reflect on these things, repent of shirk and disbelief, and turn to Allah.

Allah, our Lord, is most merciful, compassionate, and forgiving toward those who repent, ask for forgiveness, believe in His call, and fulfill what their faith requires; and He is nearer to us than our jugular vein.”

Thereupon his people said to Salih: “O Salih! Before you said these things, you were someone among our people on whom we pinned our hopes, someone we thought would become one of the top rulers of our system; but now you go so far as to ask us to change the way of life we have lived in, and tried to keep alive, since our forefathers; and we are not sure either that you are a prophet or that the system you invite us to is right.”

Salih said to them: “O my people! What if I have been chosen by my Lord as a prophet of mercy and am conveying to you sure knowledge that Allah has revealed, and you stubbornly go on opposing it: do you never consider what Allah will bring upon you? Moreover, if I do not carry out the duty of conveying the message I have been commanded to convey, who can protect me from Allah’s punishment? Following you would surely bring me harm.”

“O my people! The miracle you ask of me as proof of my prophethood is this camel! Leave her alone, and on no account try to harm her. Let her graze on Allah’s land; if you try to harm her, you will be punished with a severe punishment.”

Despite this warning of Salih’s, they slaughtered the camel mercilessly; thereupon Salih said to them, “After staying in your homes for three more days, you will be struck by the punishment I warned you of, and you will never escape it.”

When the time We had set for destruction came, We saved Salih and those who believed with him from the disgrace of that punishment, out of Our mercy, compassion, and tender care. The truth is that your Lord’s power is sufficient to do whatever He wills.

And the ungrateful, unruly, denying people We seized with a violent quake and, amid terrifying cries, made the earth swallow them up. So the people of Thamud vanished as though they had never lived in those lands, and they were wiped off the stage of history.

The angels charged with destroying the people of Lot first came to Abraham’s house to give him the good news of a son, and said, “Peace.” Abraham, saying “Peace” to them, offered his guests a roasted calf. But when he saw that the guests did not touch what was offered, he grew suspicious and uneasy. Seeing this, the messengers said to Abraham, “Do not be afraid; we have in fact been charged with punishing the people of Lot, and with giving you good news.”

At that moment Abraham’s elderly wife, who was in the room to serve the guests, heard the good news that she would have a child named Isaac, and after him a grandson, Jacob; and in astonishment she said, “What? Am I to bear a child, when I am an old woman and my husband is a man worn out with age? Can this be?” The angels said to her, “Do you wonder at Allah’s command?” and then went on, “O people of this house! Allah’s mercy and blessings be upon you! Know well that Allah alone is worthy of thanks and praise; He has power to create and do all that He wills.”

After receiving this good news, and when his fear had passed, Abraham pleaded with Us that the people of Lot should not be destroyed, for Abraham was very tender-hearted, exceedingly compassionate and sensitive, a man who had surrendered himself to Allah.

Thereupon the messenger angels said to Abraham, “O Abraham! Give up this insistence. Our Lord’s judgment on them is final; now no one can save them from this punishment they deserve.”

The messenger angels left Abraham’s house and set out for Lot’s house; and when they reached Lot’s house, Lot, thinking that he could not protect them from the harm of his people, who were morally bankrupt, knew no limits, and had no values whatever, was seized with deep anxiety; not knowing what to do, his heart sank, and he began to say to himself, “Today will be a very hard day.”

Those who saw the guests in human form who had come to Lot’s house at once gathered in front of Lot’s house, pressing against his door, and demanded that Lot hand the guests over to them. Lot, knowing that they wanted the guests from him for their loathsome purposes, went out to the door and said to them: “O my people! Will you shame and disgrace me before my guests? Is there not one sensible man among you? Fear Allah and give up this loathsome habit of yours, and choose what is right, the way of marrying unmarried women and widows; if you do so, you may marry my daughters too.”

But the people, corrupt and conditioned to unruliness and immorality, said to Lot: “You know too that we have no interest in women, married or unmarried. You know what we want; do not waste your words.”

Lot said to himself in helplessness: “Oh, if only I had the strength to stop you, or could take refuge in a fortress to protect me from you and escape facing this situation.”

Seeing Lot grieving in helplessness, the messenger angels said to Lot: “O Lot, do not be afraid! We are your Lord’s messengers. These unruly, perverted people will not be able to distress you any further; leave this city with your family at some hour of the night, and let none of you look back with longing; as for your wife, she, as one who deserves destruction, will stay with them; what will befall the others will befall her too, and toward morning they will be punished with the punishment they deserve. And morning is already drawing near.”

At last, when the time was up, We rained stones marked for their targets down on that wrongdoing and perverted people, turned the place where they lived upside down, and destroyed it.

And to the people of Midian We sent their brother Shuayb as a prophet. He said: “O my people! Come to know Allah as He deserves, take Him alone as God, and respond to His call; only then will you have served Him. You have no true god other than Him; the right to determine how you should live belongs to Allah alone; accordingly, set your morals right and stop giving short measure and short weight. However prosperous and well-off you may seem, if you do not return to living the life that is Allah’s call, you will meet a punishment that will close in on you too and destroy you.”

Then Shuayb went on: “O my people! Do not, by turning away from the system of life to which you are invited in Allah’s name, cause disorder and evil to spread on earth; observe justice in measuring and weighing; do not steal people’s rights from them.

If you give up your way of life in which you associate partners with Allah, return to living by the system that is His call, and conduct your affairs within His limits, the profit you gain will be better for you. I am not a watchman or overseer over you; it is Allah who sees, watches over, and oversees you.”

His people said to Shuayb, “O Shuayb! Is it your prayer that commands us to change the beliefs and way of life we inherited from our forefathers, and to stop buying and selling our goods as we please? Yet we knew you as a very tolerant, agreeable, sensible, and level-headed man; where have you suddenly got all this from?”

Shuayb turned to them and answered: “O my people! I have been charged with conveying to you the verses my Lord has revealed to me. Opposing me as I invite you to what is right will do you no good. My aim, in keeping with my duty, is to save you from the wrongs you are in, from associating partners with Allah, and to turn you to what is right.

If you accept the call and return to what is the reason for your creation, it is you who will gain; I am only a messenger who trusts in and turns to Allah. O my people! Let not your enmity toward me for this call I am making in Allah’s name drag you into a punishment like the one that befell the people of Noah, the people of Hud, or the people of Salih. Moreover, the land of the people of Lot, who were destroyed, is not so very far from you, and you know what befell them.

Turn to Allah and ask His forgiveness, and do not forget that Allah is most merciful, compassionate, and forgiving toward those who repent and turn to His call.”

His people, having listened to what Shuayb said, said to him, “O Shuayb! What you say does not concern us; moreover, you are someone with little power or influence among us. Were it not for your clan behind you and the regard we have for them, we would surely have stoned you and lynched you; on your own you could not stand up to us.”

Shuayb answered them: “O my people! In your view, are the standing and power of my clan greater and more important than the standing and power of Allah, and is that why you disregard Allah and His call and turn your backs? Know well that my Lord sees and knows what you keep saying and doing.

O my people! Do your worst against me. I will not hold back from inviting people to live in keeping with the reason for their creation; when the day comes you will see and understand on whom the humiliating punishment falls and who is the liar and the weak one; and I too will wait with you for what is to come.”

Then, when the time granted them was up, We saved Shuayb and those who believed with him by Our mercy and tender care, and that wrongdoing community, sunk in shirk and disbelief, We shook with a terrible sound and destroyed in their homes; they were wiped off the stage of history as though they had never lived there before; the people of Midian, like the people of Thamud, deserved Hell.

We also sent Moses with Our clear verses and miracles as a messenger to Pharaoh, his elite, and his people; but instead of following the prophet’s call, they chose to take Pharaoh as lord and god and to follow his system of shirk and tyranny.

So it is that on the Day of Resurrection Pharaoh will go at the head of those who followed him and lead them with him into Hell; and Hell is the worst place to go. In this world the curse did not leave them, nor will it leave them in the Hereafter. Could a worse lot befall a human being than this?

O Muhammad! Of the peoples in these stories We tell you, some remains still stand as they were, while others have vanished like a field of crops eaten bare.

We did not wrong those who were ungrateful and rebelled and so deserved destruction; despite being counseled and warned, they stubbornly kept on taking lords and gods other than Allah and following them. Those they took as lords and gods not only were of no use to them, but added to their ruin and brought the punishment down on them.

Your Lord punishes, as it deserves, a community that persistently insists on living as people who associate partners with Allah and deny the truth. Your Lord’s grip is most severe.

In all that has been told there are lessons for those who reflect and use their reason. On the Day of Reckoning people will be gathered in Allah’s presence, and how they lived their worldly lives will be laid bare before their eyes. When That Day We have set comes, We will not postpone it, and on That Day no one will be able to speak without Allah’s leave; and in the end some will attain what they deserve as the blessed, and some as the wretched.

Those who deserve Hell, in their wretched state, will groan and wail in the Hell they deserve; they will remain there as long as the heavens and the earth endure, unless your Lord wills otherwise; without doubt your Lord does what He wills.

But those We deem worthy of Paradise will settle in Paradise and live amid never-ending blessings as long as the heavens and the earth endure, unless your Lord wills otherwise.

O Prophet! Have no doubt that those who take other lords and gods alongside Allah are being dragged to a very evil end by what they chase after. Their forefathers too once persisted in such shirk and disbelief. We will certainly give them too their full share of punishment.

Just as people today are divided in two, into those who accept the call made in Allah’s name through the Quran and those who do not, so in the past the people of Moses also fell into dispute over the call of the Book We sent with him. Had it not been for a word from your Lord, determined beforehand and bound by law, concerning the punishment of such people, judgment would have been passed on the polytheists of today too, and their affair finished. For these too doubt and oppose Allah’s messengers and books.

The truth is that your Lord will give each of those who turn away from the call to the truth the punishment they deserve; He is aware of all they do, secretly or openly.

O Prophet! You and those who believe with you, be upright, as you have been commanded, and strive, within the limits Allah has set, to live by the Allah-centered system of life that is the reason for your creation, and to keep it alive.

Do not incline toward those who associate partners with Allah (the wrongdoers), and do not compromise your faith, or the Fire will touch you too, and then no one will be able to save you from Allah’s punishment; you have no protector (helper) other than Allah.

O believers! Establish the prayer at both ends of the day and in part of the night; and without doubt deeds done in keeping with Allah’s good pleasure protect a person from evil. All this is counsel and a reminder.

As you invite people to the right path, stand firm against the hardships you meet; without doubt Allah rewards abundantly those who strive in this cause.

Among the generations before you, apart from the very few believers whom We saved, no one came forward who strove to rid the societies they lived in of disorder and corruption. And the majority, sunk in shirk and denying the truth, chased after the prosperity and pleasures that corrupted them, and so deserved destruction.

The truth is that your Lord does not destroy with punishment a community whose people have turned to the right path.

Had your Lord willed, He would have forced all people to follow the right path that is the reason for their creation and made them all a single community. But He left every person free to choose his system of life and morality, so that they may become worthy, by their own will and effort, of the place they will reach in the end.

Although Allah, your Lord, created all people to live in keeping with the reason for their creation, endowed them with so many blessings, and made known and showed through prophets and books how this life is to be lived, most people did not use their choice in this direction.

Allah’s promise, “I will fill Hell with the jinn and humans who reject My call,” will without doubt be fulfilled.

O Prophet! By informing you of the stories of the earlier messengers We strengthen you, make you grasp the importance of trusting in and submitting to Allah, and give you the good news that in the end it is the believers who will win; these are at the same time a true counsel and warning for those who use their reason.

O Prophet! Say to those who persist in their shirk and disbelief and are bent on oppressing the believers: “Do not hold back from doing your worst against us, and do not forget that we too will go on doing our utmost to live by the system of life that is Allah’s call, and to keep it alive. In the end both you and we will see who comes out the winner.”

Allah is the true Owner of all that is known and seen, unknown and unseen, in the heavens and on the earth, and in the end everything will return to Him. So turn to Allah’s call and serve Him alone; trust in Him and lean on Him. Allah, your Lord, is aware of everything.