The Beneficent

The Beneficent
With the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Very-Merciful.

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The RaHmān (The All-Merciful Allah)

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has taught the Qur’ān.

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He has created man.

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He has taught him (how) to express himself.

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The sun and the moon are (bound) by a (fixed) calculation.

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And the vine and the tree both prostrate (to Allah).

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He raised the sky high, and has placed the scale,

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so that you should not be wrongful in weighing.

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Observe the correct weight with fairness, and do not make weighing deficient.

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As for the earth, He has placed it for creatures,

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in which there are fruits and date palms having sheaths,

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and the grain having chaff, and fragrant flowers.

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So, (O mankind and Jinn,) which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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He has created man from dry clay, ringing like pottery,

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and created Jann (father of the Jinn) from a smokeless flame of fire.

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So, (O mankind and Jinn,) which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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He is the Lord of both points of sunrise and both points of sunset.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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He let forth the two seas to meet together,

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while there is a barrier between them; they do not encroach (upon one another).

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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From both of them come forth the pearl and the coral.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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And His are the sailing ships raised up in the sea like mountains.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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Every one who is on it (the earth) has to perish.

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And your Lord’s Countenance will remain, full of majesty, full of honour.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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All those in the heavens and the earth beseech Him (for their needs.) Every day He is in a state of action.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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Soon We are going to spare Ourselves for you (to reckon your deeds), O two heavy species (of Jinn and mankind)!

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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O genera of Jinn and mankind, If you are able to penetrate beyond the realms of the heavens and the earth, then penetrate. You cannot penetrate without power.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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A flame of fire and a smoke will be loosed against you, and you will not (be able) to defend.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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So, (it will be a terrible event) when the sky will be split apart and will become rosy, like (red) hides.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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On that day, neither a man will be questioned about his sin, nor a Jinn.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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The guilty ones will be recognized (by angels) through their marks and will be seized by foreheads and feet.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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This is Jahannam (Hell) that the guilty people deny.

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They will circle around between it and between hot, boiling water.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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And for the one who is fearful of having to stand before his Lord, there are two gardens, -

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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- both having branches.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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In both there are two flowing springs.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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In both there are two kinds of every fruit.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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(The people of these gardens will be) reclining on floorings whose (even) linings will be of thick silk, and the fruits plucked from the two gardens will be at hand.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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In them there will be maidens restraining (their) glances, whom neither a man might have touched before them, nor a Jinn.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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They will look like rubies and corals.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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Is there any reward for goodness other than goodness?

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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And besides these two, there are two other gardens (for the second category of the God-fearing),-

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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- both (gardens are) dark green!

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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In both there are two springs gushing forth profusely.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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In both there are fruits and date-palms and pomegranates.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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In them there will be women, good and gorgeous,-

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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- the houris, kept guarded in pavilions-

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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- whom neither a man might have touched before them, nor a Jinn.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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(The people of these gardens will be) reclining on green cushions and marvelously beautiful mattresses.

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So, which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?

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Glorious is the name of your Lord, the Lord of Majesty, the Lord of Honour.