35:1  Selective Praise suits Allah, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Maker of the angels as messengers: possessor of wings two at a time, and three at a time, and four at a time — He increases in creation what He thinks proper. Verily, Allah is All-Capable over every thing

35:2  Whatever Allah releases out of (His) mercy for mankind, then there is no one with a power to stop it. And whatever He withholds, then there is no one with a power to release it other than Him. And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise

35:3  O you mankind! Remind (yourselves and others) the Grace of Allah unto you. Is there any Creator other than Allah who provides you provision from towards the sky and the earth? La-ilaha-illa-Huwa. Whither then, you are being turned away in falsehood

35:4  And if they belie you, so indeed the Messengers were belied before you. And to Allah are made to return (all) matters (for final decision)

35:5  O you mankind! Verily, the Promise made by Allah is true. So let not this present life deceive you and let not the chief deceiver (i.e., Iblis) deceive you regarding Allah

35:6  Surely, Satan is an enemy to you, so treat him as an enemy. Truly, what (is a fact is that) he invites his group that they may become out of the dwellers of the blazing Fire

35:7  Those who have disbelieved: for them (awaits) a severe torment; and those who have Believed and performed righteous deeds, for them (awaits) forgiveness and a great reward

35:8  Is he then, to whom the evil of his deeds is made fair-seeming, and he regarded it as good (at par to one who is rightly guided)? So definitely, Allah allows to go astray whom He thinks proper, and guides whom He thinks proper. So your ‘self’ may not cripple herself (remaining) in sorrows (and regrets) over them. Certainly, Allah is All-Knower of what they do and invent

35:9  And it is Allah Who directed the winds, so they lift up the clouds, then We drove that (cloud) to a dead land, then We revived therewith the land after its death. Like this (there will be) the Resurrection

35:10  Whosoever had been desiring honour, then to Allah (Alone) belongs all honour. To Him ascends the Al-Kalimun Tayyib (The Palatable and Desirable Statement) and the righteous deeds lift it up (to an acceptable status). And those people who plot evils — for them is a severe torment. And the plotting of those people — it shall perish

35:11  And Allah did create you (Adam) from dust, then (the offspring) from Nutfah then He made you pairs (male and female). And no female conceives, and nor she delivers, but with His Knowledge. And no aged man is granted a span of life, and nor a deduction is made from his life, but it is in record. [Any human being granted an extra-ordinary long life or an extra-ordinary short life will find the matter written in advance in the Record of events available with Allah]. Surely, this is quite easy for Allah (to do)

35:12  And the two seas do not become equal and identical — this one is sweet, thirst-satisfying, its liquid-state pleasant to drink and swallow; while this (other one is) saltish, bitter and heavy — and from all you eat fresh tender meat and you bring out ornaments that you wear and put on. And you see the ships therein, cleavers (of sea-water) as they sail (through it), so that you may seek of His Bounty, and perchance you may pay thanks (to Allah)

35:13  He merges the night into the day (i.e., the decrease in the hours of the night gets added to the hours of the day), and He merges the day into the night. And He has controlled and regulated the sun and the moon, all (of these heavenly bodies) swiftly move for a term appointed. Such, to you, is Allah, your Nourisher-Sustainer; His is the Dominion . And those whom you invoke (or call upon) besides Him — they do not own even a Qitmir

35:14  If you invoke (or call upon) them, they hear not your call, and if they (ever) heard it, they did not respond to you. And on the Day of Resurrection, they will disown your setting partners (to Allah). And would not inform you (any) like One Who is Most Well Informed

35:15  O you mankind! You people before Allah are those who are in need, while Allah — He is Free of want, Most Worthy of Praise

35:16  If He will think proper He will wipe you out and will come with a new creation

35:17  And that is not hard for Allah

35:18  And a bearer of burdens shall not bear the burden of another one. And if one heavily laden (Nafs or personality) does call another towards (bearing) her load — (there) will not be lifted any thing out of it — even if he happened to be a close relation. Certainly, what (is a fact is that) you warn (only) those who fear (and remain mindful of) their Nourisher-Sustainer (even) unseen, and established Prayers. And whoever purifies, so surely, what (is a fact is that) he purifies in the interest of his own self. And to Allah is the final Returning Place

35:19  And the blind and the seer do not become equal

35:20  and nor different darknesses (in degree), and (similarly) nor the Light (of different categories)

35:21  and nor the shade (of different natures) and nor the (sun’s) heat (of different seasons)

35:22  And do not become equal the (different categories of) living ones, and nor the (different categories of) dead ones. Verily, Allah makes (him) hear whom He thinks proper. And you are not ‘one who makes one hear’ unto that who are in graves

35:23  You are not but (only) a warner

35:24  Verily, We have sent you with Al-Haqq (‘The Truth’ or ‘The Original’), as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner. And (there was) not out of a nation but there did stay, among that, a warner

35:25  And if they belie you, so, surely belied those (also who went) before them. Their Messengers came to them with Al-Bayyinat, and with Az-Zubur and with Al-Kitab-ul-Monir (‘The Light Emitting Book’)

35:26  Then I seized them who disbelieved, so how terrible became the final result of My denial

35:27  Have not you seen that Allah sent down from towards the sky, water? Then We brought forth therewith fruits — their colours (are) of different variety. And of the mountains are tracts (or streaks) white and red — their shades (are) different, and also intensely dark, black ones

35:28  And of humans, and ad-dawab and cattle — their colours (are) different (created) similarly. Surely, what (is a fact is that) the erudite (very learned ones) out of His Ibad fear (and remain conscious and mindful of) Allah. Verily, Allah is All-Mighty, Oft-Forgiving

35:29  Verily, those who read, study and adopt Kitabullah (Book of Allah) and they established As-Salat, and spent out of what We gave them as provision, secretly and openly, hope for a commerce (or trade and business) that never perishes

35:30  that He may pay them their wages in full and (even) increase for them out of His bounty. Certainly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Ready to appreciate

35:31  And what We have inspired you in the form of Al-Kitab, it is Al-Haqq — being one that confirms or rebrings that which is between its two hands (i.e., which is already available with the people before you). Verily, Allah is indeed All-Aware, All-Seer of His Ibad

35:32  Then We made inheritors of Al-Kitab, those whom We chose out of Our Ibad. So of them (is that) who is a transgressor against his own self, and of them (is that) who adopts a middle course, and of them (is that) who is foremost in good deeds under permission of Allah. That — that (indeed is) the supreme grace

35:33  Gardens of Eternity, they will enter therein, they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and (they would use) pearls, and their garment therein will be silk

35:34  And they said: “Selective Praise suits Allah, Who has removed from us (all) grief. Verily, our Nourisher-Sustainer is indeed Oft-Forgiving, Most Ready to appreciate

35:35  That Who settled us in an ever-lasting home out of His Grace; toil will touch us not therein, and nor will touch us therein any weariness .

35:36  And those who have disbelieved — for them will be the Fire of Hell. (The punishment) shall not be made complete unto them that they may die; and nor shall be made light unto them out of its punishment. Thus We shall reward all the extreme disbelievers

35:37  And they — they will be carried therein : "Our Nourisher-Sustainer! Bring us out, we shall perform righteous deeds quite different from what we used to do.” (Allah will remark): "And did We not give you lives long enough, so that, may receive admonition therein who came in contact with admonition. And the warner came to you (but you paid no heed.) So taste (the end result of your deeds)." So, there is not for the transgressors, out of a helper

35:38  Verily, Allah is the Knower of the unseen of the heavens and the earth. Surely, He is All-Knower of the contents of the chests

35:39  He it is Who made you successors (generations after generations) in the earth. So whosoever disbelieved, on him will be (the bad effect of) his disbelief. And the disbelief of the disbelievers will not add (anything) before their Nourisher-Sustainer, except anger. And the disbelief of the disbelievers will not add (any thing) except loss

35:40  Say: “Have you (ever) pondered over your (so-called) partner-gods whom you invoke besides Allah? Show me what have they created of the earth, or have they any share in (the dominion of) the heavens." Or have We given them a Book so they are on a clear stand therefrom? Nay, the transgressors do not promise — some of them to some (others) except delusions

35:41  Verily, Allah holds the heavens and the earth, otherwise the two go into disbalance. And if indeed the two went into disbalance — did not control these two, any one besides Him. Surely, He is Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving

35:42  And people swore by Allah their most binding oaths (that) surely if a warner came to them they will indeed become more guided than any of the (previous or contemporary) communities. Yet when came to them a warner, it increased them not but ‘running away’ (from the Truth)

35:43  (showing) arrogance in the land and an evil plotting. And does not engulf the evil plot except its own people, (i.e., the planners themselves become a victim of the evil-plot). So what do they wait except the Sunnah (way of dealing with) the previous people. So you never find regarding the Sunnah of Allah any change. And you never find for the Sunnah of Allah, any Tahveel (reverting back to something initially practiced, then suspended or rejected)

35:44  Have they then not travelled through the earth, so they may see what was the final-end of those (who went) before them, and they were superior than them in power? And Allah is not (such) that may frustrate Him anything in the heavens and or in the earth. Verily, He is All-Knowing, All-Capable

35:45  And if Allah gets hold of mankind for that which they earned, He did not leave on its (i.e., the earth’s) surface out of (any) living, moving creature. But He gives them respite for a term appointed. So when their (appointed) term approached, then verily, Allah became All-Seer for His Ibad