| | Farook Malik rendition of Surah The Rock, Stoneland, Rock City(al-Hijr)
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| 15:1 | | Alif L'am Ra. These are the verses of the Divine Book, the Glorious Qur’an which makes the things clear. |
| 15:2 | | The Day will come when the unbelievers will wish that they were Muslims. |
| 15:3 | | Leave them alone to eat and enjoy themselves and be deluded by false hopes, for soon they will find out the Truth. |
| 15:4 | | Never did We destroy a town whose term of life was not ordained beforehand. |
| 15:5 | | No people can forestall their doom, nor can they postpone it. |
| 15:6 | | They say: "O you to whom the reminder (The Qur'an) is being revealed! You are surely insane. |
| 15:7 | | Why don’t you bring us the angels, if you are of the truthful ones?" |
| 15:8 | | O Muhammad, tell them: "We do not send down the angels except for just cause (to execute Our scourge), and when they come, people are not given respite. |
| 15:9 | | Surely We have revealed this reminder (The Qur'an); and We will surely preserve it Ourself. |
| 15:10 | | Certainly We sent Messengers before you among the early nations; |
| 15:11 | | but whenever a Messenger came to them, they mocked him. |
| 15:12 | | Thus do We let doubt creep into the hearts of the criminals; |
| 15:13 | | that they do not believe in it (The Qur'an), despite the examples of the people who passed before them. |
| 15:14 | | Even if we had opened a gate in Heaven and they ascend through it and keep on ascending, |
| 15:15 | | still they would have said, 'Our eyes have been dazzled; rather we have been bewitched.'" |
| 15:16 | | It is We who have decked the heavens with constellations and made them fair- seeming for the beholders; |
| 15:17 | | and We have guarded them from every accursed Satan. |
| 15:18 | | Any Satan that steals a hearing, there follows him a fiery comet. |
| 15:19 | | We have spread out the earth and set mountains upon it; and caused to grow every suitable thing therein, |
| 15:20 | | and We provided therein means of sustenance for you and many other creatures to whom you do not provide. |
| 15:21 | | There is nothing which is not in Our inexhaustible treasure and sent down in appropriate measure. |
| 15:22 | | We send the fertilizing winds and send down water from the sky for you to drink; it is not you who hold the storage of this wealth. |
| 15:23 | | Certainly it is We who give life and cause to die, and We are the inheritors of all. |
| 15:24 | | Certainly We have full knowledge of those who have gone before you and certainly We know those who will come later. |
| 15:25 | | Surely your Lord will gather them together; surely He is Wise, Knowledgeable. |
| 15:26 | | We created man from sounding clay, black mud moulded into shape; |
| 15:27 | | while before him We had created Jinn from smokeless fire. |
| 15:28 | | Remember when your Lord said to the angels: "I am about to create a man from sounding clay, black mud moulded into shape; |
| 15:29 | | when I complete his moulding and breath into him of My spirit, kneel down and prostrate before him." |
| 15:30 | | Accordingly the angels prostrated altogether, |
| 15:31 | | except Iblees (The Satan); he refused to join those who prostrated. |
| 15:32 | | Allah asked: "O Iblees! What is the matter with you that you did not join those who prostrated?" |
| 15:33 | | He replied: "It does not behoove me to prostrate myself to this man whom You have created from sounding clay, black mud moulded into shape." |
| 15:34 | | Allah said: "Get out of here, you are accursed. |
| 15:35 | | The curse will remain on you till the Day of Judgement." |
| 15:36 | | At this Iblees requested: "Lord! Give me respite till the Day of Resurrection." |
| 15:37 | | Allah said: "All right! You are given the respite |
| 15:38 | | till the Day of appointed time." |
| 15:39 | | Iblees said: "Lord! Since You let me go astray, I will make evil fair-seeming to them on earth and I will seduce them all |
| 15:40 | | except those of them who are Your sincere devotees." |
| 15:41 | | Allah said: "This course of action is all right with Me |
| 15:42 | | - you will not have any authority over My devotees except those misguided ones who follow you. |
| 15:43 | | They will be all destined for Hell, |
| 15:44 | | which has seven gates, each gate will be assigned to a separate group from among them." |
| 15:45 | | The righteous will be in the midst of the gardens and fountains of paradise |
| 15:46 | | and it will be said to them: "Enter into these in peace and security." |
| 15:47 | | We shall remove all hatred from their hearts -they will become like brothers and sit on couches face to face. |
| 15:48 | | No fatigue will touch them in there, nor will they ever be asked to leave. |
| 15:49 | | O Prophet! Tell My devotees that I am indeed the Forgiving, the Merciful; |
| 15:50 | | but at the same time My punishment is also the most painful punishment. |
| 15:51 | | Tell them about the guests of Abraham. |
| 15:52 | | They entered upon them and said: "Peace be upon you!" But he replied: "Surely we are afraid of you." |
| 15:53 | | They answered: "Do not be afraid of us! We have come to you with good news of a son endowed with knowledge." |
| 15:54 | | He said: "Are you giving me the good news of a son when I have become old? What kind of good news you are giving?" |
| 15:55 | | They replied: "We are giving you true good news; you should not be of those who despair." |
| 15:56 | | He said: "Who would despair of the mercy of his Lord except one who goes astray?" |
| 15:57 | | Then he asked: "On what expedition you have been sent, O emissaries of Allah?" |
| 15:58 | | They replied: "We have been sent to punish a criminal nation, |
| 15:59 | | with the exception of Lot’s (Lot's) family; we will certainly rescue them all |
| 15:60 | | except his wife, who, Allah says, has been destined to remain with those who will stay behind." |
| 15:61 | | So when the emissaries came to the family of Lot, |
| 15:62 | | he said: " You appear to be strangers." |
| 15:63 | | They said: "We have come to you with that concerning which these people had doubts. |
| 15:64 | | We have come to you with the Truth of Allah’s decree and we are telling you the truth. |
| 15:65 | | You should, therefore, depart with your family during the last hours of the night and you yourself should follow them at their rear; let no one of you look back, keep on going where you are commanded to go." |
| 15:66 | | We informed him about this decree of Ours that the roots of the sinners of his city would be cut off by the morning. |
| 15:67 | | The people of the town came rejoicing to the house of Lot when they heard the news of those two young male visitors. |
| 15:68 | | Lot said: "They are my guests, so do not disgrace me. |
| 15:69 | | Have fear of Allah and do not put me to shame." |
| 15:70 | | They said: "Have we not forbidden you to plead for the rest of the world?" |
| 15:71 | | He said: "Here are my daughters, if you must act." |
| 15:72 | | By your life, O Prophet Muhammad, they were madly blundering in their intoxication of lust! |
| 15:73 | | So the mighty blast overtook them at sunrise. |
| 15:74 | | Thus We turned the town upside down and rained down on them brimstones of baked clay. |
| 15:75 | | Surely there are major lessons in this for those who investigate, |
| 15:76 | | and this smitten town still lies right on the permanent highway on which the unbelievers travel during their business trips. |
| 15:77 | | Indeed there is a sign in this for the true believers. |
| 15:78 | | The people of Al- Aikah (the nation of Prophet Shu’aib) were also wrongdoers. |
| 15:79 | | So We inflicted retribution on them. The ruined towns of these two nations are lying on an open road. |
| 15:80 | | The people of Hijr also denied their Messenger. |
| 15:81 | | We gave them Our signs, but they ignored them. |
| 15:82 | | They hewed their homes in the mountains for safety. |
| 15:83 | | But the mighty blast seized them one morning, and all their labor of building their homes through carving the rocks did not avail them. |
| 15:84 | | We have not created the Heavens and the Earth, and all that lies between them but to manifest the Truth. |
| 15:85 | | The Hour of Doom is sure to come, so overlook their misbehavior in a gracious manner. |
| 15:86 | | Surely your Lord is the All-Knowing Creator. |
| 15:87 | | We have given you the Seven Verses that are worthy of recitation over and over again (Surah Al-Fatiha) and the Glorious Qur'an. |
| 15:88 | | Do not look at the worldly wealth which We have given to different people among them, nor grieve at their condition. Leave them alone, attend to the believers in kindness, |
| 15:89 | | and tell the unbelievers: "Surely I am only a plain Warner." |
| 15:90 | | This warning is like the warning which We sent down to the schismatics, |
| 15:91 | | the one who divided their Qur’an into separate parts, believing in some and denying others. |
| 15:92 | | So by your Lord! We will question them all |
| 15:93 | | about their doings. |
| 15:94 | | Therefore, proclaim publicly what you are commanded and turn away from the pagans. |
| 15:95 | | Surely We Ourself will suffice you against the scoffers; |
| 15:96 | | those who place other deities alongside Allah, will soon come to know their folly. |
| 15:97 | | We know that your heart is distressed by what they say against you. |
| 15:98 | | The cure of your heart’s distress is that you should celebrate the praises of your Lord and be of those who prostrate themselves before Him, |
| 15:99 | | and worship your Lord until there comes to you which is certain (death). |
