45:1  Ha Mim - Allah is Praiseworthy, the Lord of all Honour

45:2  The gradual revelation of this perfect Book proceeds from Allah, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise

45:3  The fact is that there are signs for believers in the heavens and in the earth

45:4  And for the people who have firm faith, there are signs in your own creation and (in) that of all (living) creatures which He spreads abroad

45:5  And in the alternation of night and day and the sustenance that Allah sends down through clouds, whereby He revives the earth after its desolation, and (in) the veering of the winds, there are signs for a people who make use of their understanding

45:6  These are the signs of Allah which We describe to you with precision. In what other announcement will they believe after (they have rejected the word of) Allah and His signs

45:7  Woeful agony awaits every sinful habitual liar

45:8  Who hears the Messages of Allah which are recited to him and then he very proudly persists (in his disbelief) as though he has not heard these (Messages). So give him the tidings of a woeful punishment

45:9  And when he comes to know something of Our messages he holds them as of little importance. It is such people for whom there awaits a disgraceful punishment

45:10  (In addition to this worldly punishment) they have Gehenna before them. The wealth they have acquired shall not avail them, nor shall these (guardians of theirs) whom they have taken for (their) helping friends apart from Allah (be of any help to them). And there awaits them a dreadful punishment

45:11  This (Qur'an) is (true and) a complete guidance. But those who deny the commandment of their Lord shall suffer the scourge of a woeful punishment

45:12  It is Allah Who has made the sea subservient to you so that the ships may sail upon it by His command and so that by means of these ships you may seek His bounty and give (Him) thanks

45:13  And He has made subservient to you all that lies in the heavens and all that lies in the earth. All these (benedictions) are from Him. In all this there are signs for a people who would reflect

45:14  Tell those who believe to let alone those who do not accept the (contesting) days of Allah on which the righteous will be successful in the land and the wicked will suffer disaster in order that He may Himself recompense every people according to their deeds

45:15  He who does good, does it for (the good of) his own soul and he who does evil (the sad consequences of it) shall befall him, (for, after all) you will be brought back to your Lord

45:16  And indeed We gave the Children of Israel the Scripture (of mosaic law) and power of judgment and prophethood, and provided them with good and pure things and exalted them over the contemporary peoples

45:17  And We gave them clear signs regarding this affair (of the advent of this Prophet). And they did not differ (about it) but after true knowledge (in the form of the Qur'an) had come to them, (and this difference was) to spite one another. Behold! your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning all their differences

45:18  Then We (gave you a system of law and) set you on a clear highway regarding this affair. Follow it and do not follow the caprices of those who have no knowledge

45:19  Verily, they can be of no avail to you against (the displeasure of) Allah. Surely, the wrongdoers are helping-friends one of the other, but Allah is the helping-friend of those who have become secure against evil

45:20  Those (teachings of the Qur'an) are a means to grant insight to mankind and a source of complete guidance and a mercy for a people who have firm faith

45:21  Do those who commit evil deeds think that We will treat them like those who believe and (accordingly) do deeds of righteousness so that their lives and deaths be alike? How ill they judge

45:22  Allah has created the heavens and the earth with an eternal purpose to ensure that every soul be recompensed according to his deeds and no one be done injustice to

45:23  Have you considered the case of him who has taken his own low desires for his god and whom Allah has forsaken and adjudged as lost on the basis of (His infinite) knowledge, and whose ears and heart He has sealed and whose eyes He has covered with a veil? Who then will guide him after Allah (has condemned him for his being given to evil ways)? Will you then pay no heed

45:24  They say, `We have only this our present life (to live). We (people of one generation) die and we (people of a new generation from among us) come to life again (here in this very world). It is (the passage of) time alone that deals us death. But they have no real knowledge whatsoever about the matter (- the Hereafter). They merely make conjectures

45:25  And when Our clear messages are recited to them their only contention is that they say, `Bring back our forefathers (alive) if you are true (in your belief in the life after death).

45:26  Say, `(It is) Allah alone Who gives you life then He causes you to die, then He will gather you together on the Day of Resurrection, (the day) about the advent of which there is no doubt. Yet most of the people do not know (this truth).

45:27  The kingdom of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah. At the time when the (promised) Hour shall come to pass the falsifiers (of the truth with vanity) shall be in the loss on that day

45:28  And (at that promised time) you shall see every community fallen on (their) knees. Every community will be summoned to (face) their records (of deeds). (And it shall be said to them,) `This day you shall be recompensed according to your deeds

45:29  `Here is Our (prepared) record. It speaks the truth about you. Indeed, We have been getting all your deeds fully registered and preserved.

45:30  Now as for those who believed and did deeds of righteousness, their Lord will admit them into His mercy. This indeed is a manifest achievement

45:31  But as for those who disbelieved (God will say,) `Is it not that My Messages were recited to you yet you behaved arrogantly and you became those who cut off their ties (with us)

45:32  `And when it was said (to you), "The promise of Allah is of course true and the Hour (of Resurrection) there is no doubt about it," you said, "We do not know what the Hour may be, we have only a faint notion about it and we are, by no means, convinced (of its certainty)".

45:33  And (on that day) the evils (inherent) in their deeds will become apparent to them. They will be caught by that (very destruction) they used to hold in very low estimation

45:34  And it will be said (to them), `This Day We have given you up just as you gave up (the idea) that you will meet this Day of yours. Now, your resort is the Fire and you have no one for a helper

45:35  `This (end of yours) is because you took no account of the commandments of Allah, and the life of this world seduced you.' So that Day they will not be taken out of it nor will they be able to reach even the threshold (of the Divine Presence seeking to make amends and to win His favour)

45:36  All type of perfect and true praise, therefore, belongs to Allah, Lord of the heavens, Lord of the earth and Lord of the worlds

45:37  And all the majesty in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him alone. And He alone is the All-Mighty, the All- Wise