Translation of the Holy Koran by Shakir
 
Sura 36 Aya 1 to 83
 
  1   [ 36: 1 ] Ya Seen.
  2   [ 36: 2 ] I swear by the Quran full of wisdom
  3   [ 36: 3 ] Most surely you are one of the messengers
  4   [ 36: 4 ] On a right way.
  5   [ 36: 5 ] A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful.
  6   [ 36: 6 ] That you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
  7   [ 36: 7 ] Certainly the word has proved true of most of them, so they do not believe.
  8   [ 36: 8 ] Surely We have placed chains on their necks, and these reach up to their chins, so they have their heads raised aloft.
  9   [ 36: 9 ] And We have made before them a barrier and a barrier behind them, then We have covered them over so that they do not see.
  10   [ 36: 10 ] And it is alike to them whether you warn them or warn them not: they do not believe.
  11   [ 36: 11 ] You can only warn him who follows the reminder and fears the Beneficent Allah in secret; so announce to him forgiveness and an honorable reward.
  12   [ 36: 12 ] Surely We give life to the dead, and We write down what they have sent before and their footprints, and We have recorded everything in a clear writing.
  13   [ 36: 13 ] And set out to them an example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it.
  14   [ 36: 14 ] When We sent to them two, they rejected both of them, then We strengthened ( them ) with a third, so they said: Surely we are messengers to you.
  15   [ 36: 15 ] They said: You are naught but mortals like ourselves, nor has the Beneficent Allah revealed anything; you only lie.
  16   [ 36: 16 ] They said: Our Lord knows that we are most surely messengers to you.
  17   [ 36: 17 ] And nothing devolves on us but a clear deliverance ( of the message ).
  18   [ 36: 18 ] They said: Surely we augur evil from you; if you do not desist, we will certainly stone you, and there shall certainly afflict vou a painful chastisement from us.
  19   [ 36: 19 ] They said: Your evil fortune is with you; what! if you are reminded! Nay, you are an extravagant people.
  20   [ 36: 20 ] And from the remote part of the city there came a man running, he said: O my people! follow the messengers;
  21   [ 36: 21 ] Follow him who does not ask you for reward, and they are the followers of the right course;
  22   [ 36: 22 ] And what reason have I that I should not serve Him Who brought me into existence? And to Him you shall be brought back;
  23   [ 36: 23 ] What! shall I take besides Him gods whose intercession, If the Beneficent Allah should desire to afflict me with a harm, shall not avail me aught, nor shall they be able to deliver me?
  24   [ 36: 24 ] In that case I shall most surely be in clear error:
  25   [ 36: 25 ] Surely I believe in your Lord, therefore hear me.
  26   [ 36: 26 ] It was said: Enter the garden. He said: O would that my people had known
  27   [ 36: 27 ] Of that on account of which my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honored ones!
  28   [ 36: 28 ] And We did not send down upon his people after him any hosts from heaven, nor do We ever send down.
  29   [ 36: 29 ] It was naught but a single cry, and lo! they were still.
  30   [ 36: 30 ] Alas for the servants! there comes not to them an messenger but they mock at him.
  31   [ 36: 31 ] Do they not consider how many of the generations have We destroyed before them, because they do not turn to them?
  32   [ 36: 32 ] And all of them shall surely be brought before Us.
  33   [ 36: 33 ] And a sign to them is the dead earth: We give life to it and bring forth from it grain SQ they eat of it.
  34   [ 36: 34 ] And We make therein gardens of palms and grapevines and We make springs to flow forth in it,
  35   [ 36: 35 ] That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands did not make it; will they not then be grateful?
  36   [ 36: 36 ] Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind and of what they do not know.
  37   [ 36: 37 ] And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, then lo! they are in the dark;
  38   [ 36: 38 ] And the sun runs on to a term appointed for it; that is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knowing.
  39   [ 36: 39 ] And ( as for ) the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm branch.
  40   [ 36: 40 ] Neither is it allowable to the sun that it should overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day; and all float on in a sphere.
  41   [ 36: 41 ] And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship.
  42   [ 36: 42 ] And We have created for them the like of it, what they will ride on.
  43   [ 36: 43 ] And if We please, We can drown them, then there shall be no succorer for them, nor shall they be rescued
  44   [ 36: 44 ] But ( by ) mercy from Us and for enjoyment till a time.
  45   [ 36: 45 ] And when it is said to them: Guard against what is before you and what is behind you, that mercy may be had on you.
  46   [ 36: 46 ] And there comes not to them a communication of the communications of their Lord but they turn aside from it.
  47   [ 36: 47 ] And when it is said to them: Spend out of what Allah has given you, those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Shall we feed him whom, if Allah please, He could feed? You are in naught but clear error.
  48   [ 36: 48 ] And they say: When will this threat come to pass, if you are truthful?
  49   [ 36: 49 ] They wait not for aught but a single cry which will overtake them while they yet contend with one another.
  50   [ 36: 50 ] So they shall not be able to make a bequest, nor shall they return to their families.
  51   [ 36: 51 ] And the trumpet shall be blown, when lo! from their graves they shall hasten on to their Lord.
  52   [ 36: 52 ] They shall say: O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? This is what the Beneficent Allah promised and the messengers told the truth.
  53   [ 36: 53 ] There would be naught but a single cry, when lo! they shall all be brought before Us;
  54   [ 36: 54 ] So this day no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least; and you shall not be rewarded aught but that which you did.
  55   [ 36: 55 ] Surely the dwellers of the garden shall on that day be in an occupation quite happy.
  56   [ 36: 56 ] They and their wives shall be in shades, reclining on raised couches.
  57   [ 36: 57 ] They shall have fruits therein, and they shall have whatever they desire.
  58   [ 36: 58 ] Peace: a word from a Merciful Lord.
  59   [ 36: 59 ] And get aside today, O guilty ones!
  60   [ 36: 60 ] Did I not charge you, O children of Adam! that you should not serve the Shaitan? Surely he is your open enemy,
  61   [ 36: 61 ] And that you should serve Me; this is the right way.
  62   [ 36: 62 ] And certainly he led astray numerous people from among you. What! could you not then understand?
  63   [ 36: 63 ] This is the hell with which you were threatened.
  64   [ 36: 64 ] Enter into it this day because you disbelieved.
  65   [ 36: 65 ] On that day We will set a seal upon their mouths, and their hands shall speak to Us, and their feet shall bear witness of what they earned.
  66   [ 36: 66 ] And if We please We would certainly put out their eyes, then they would run about groping for the way, but how should they see?
  67   [ 36: 67 ] And if We please We would surely transform them in their place, then they would not be able to go on, nor will they return.
  68   [ 36: 68 ] And whomsoever We cause to live long, We reduce ( him ) to an abject state in constitution; do they not then understand?
  69   [ 36: 69 ] And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him; it is nothing but a reminder and a plain Quran,
  70   [ 36: 70 ] That it may warn him who would have life, and ( that ) the word may prove true against the unbelievers.
  71   [ 36: 71 ] Do they not see that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought, so they are their masters?
  72   [ 36: 72 ] And We have subjected them to them, so some of them they have to ride upon, and some of them they eat.
  73   [ 36: 73 ] And therein they have advantages and drinks; will they not then be grateful?
  74   [ 36: 74 ] And they have taken gods besides Allah that they may be helped.
  75   [ 36: 75 ] ( But ) they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them.
  76   [ 36: 76 ] Therefore let not their speech grieve you; surely We know what they do in secret and what they do openly.
  77   [ 36: 77 ] Does not man see that We have created him from the small seed? Then lo! he is an open disputant.
  78   [ 36: 78 ] And he strikes out a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give life to the bones when they are rotten?
  79   [ 36: 79 ] Say: He will give life to them Who brought them into existence at first, and He is cognizant of all creation
  80   [ 36: 80 ] He Who has made for you the fire ( to burn ) from the green tree, so that with it you kindle ( fire ).
  81   [ 36: 81 ] Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yea! and He is the Creator ( of all ), the Knower.
  82   [ 36: 82 ] His command, when He intends anything, is only to say to it: Be, so it is.
  83   [ 36: 83 ] Therefore glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things, and to Him you shall be brought back.