Sura 55: Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan)

Sura 55:  Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan)

Number of verses in sura: 78

Order of revelation: 97

 

[55:0]  In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

 

[55:1]  The Most Gracious.

 

[55:2]  Teacher of the Quran.

 

[55:3]  Creator of the human beings.

 

[55:4]  He taught them how to distinguish.

 

[55:5]  The sun and the moon are perfectly calculated.

 

[55:6]  The stars and the trees prostrate.

 

[55:7]  He constructed the sky and established the law.

 

[55:8]  You shall not transgress the law.

 

[55:9]  You shall establish justice; do not violate the law.

 

[55:10]  He created the earth for all creatures.

 

[55:11]  In it there are fruits, and date palms with their hanging fruit.*

 

*55:11 Compare the spaceship Earth’s renewable systems and reproducing astronauts with the most sophisticated spaceships that we launch into space. God be glorified.

 

[55:12]  Also grains and the spices.

 

[55:13]  (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:14]  He created the human from aged clay, like the potter’s clay.

 

[55:15]  And created the jinns from blazing fire.

 

[55:16]  (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:17]  Lord of the two easts and the two wests.

 

[55:18]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:19]  He separates the two seas where they meet.

 

[55:20]  A barrier is placed between them, to prevent them from transgressing.

 

[55:21]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:22]  Out of both of them you get pearls and coral.

 

[55:23]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:24]  He gave you ships that roam the sea like flags.

 

[55:25]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:26]  Everyone on earth perishes.

 

[55:27]  Only the presence of your Lord lasts. Possessor of Majesty and Honor.

 

[55:28]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:29]  Imploring Him is everyone in the heavens and the earth. Every day He is in full control.

 

[55:30]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:31]  We will call you to account, O humans and jinns.

 

[55:32]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:33]  O you jinns and humans, if you can penetrate the outer limits of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and penetrate. You cannot penetrate without authorization.

 

[55:34]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:35]  You get bombarded with projectiles of fire and metal, and you cannot win.

 

[55:36]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:37]  When the sky disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint.

 

[55:38]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:39]  On that day, no human, nor a jinn, will be asked about his sins.

 

[55:40]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:41]  (This is because) the guilty will be recognized by their looks; they will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.

 

[55:42]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:43]  This is Gehenna that the guilty used to deny.

 

[55:44]  They will circulate between it and an intolerable inferno.*

 

*55:44 Full details about the High Heaven, Low Heaven, the Purgatory, Hell, and the intolerable inferno are given in Appendices 5 and 11.

 

[55:45]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:46]  For those who reverence the majesty of their Lord, two gardens (one  for the jinns and one for the humans).

 

[55:47]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:48]  Full of provisions.

 

[55:49]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:50]  Two springs are in them, flowing.

 

[55:51]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:52]  Of every fruit in them, two kinds.

 

[55:53]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:54]  While relaxing on furnishings lined with satin, the fruits are within reach.

 

[55:55]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:56]  Their beautiful mates were never touched by any human or jinn.

 

[55:57]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:58]  They look like gems and coral.

 

[55:59]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:60]  Is the reward of goodness anything but goodness?

 

[55:61]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:62]  Below them are two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).

 

[55:63]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:64]  Side by side.

 

[55:65]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:66]  In them, wells to be pumped.

 

[55:67]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:68]  In them are fruits, date palms, and pomegranate.

 

[55:69]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:70]  In them are beautiful mates.

 

[55:71]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:72]  Confined in the tents.

 

[55:73]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:74]  No human ever touched them, nor a jinn.

 

[55:75]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:76]  They relax on green carpets, in beautiful surroundings.

 

[55:77]  Which of your Lord’s marvels can you deny?

 

[55:78]  Most exalted is the name of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor.