| | Aisha Bewley rendition of Surah Ya Sin, Ya-Seen(Ya Sin)
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| 36:1 | | Ya Sin. |
| 36:2 | | By the Wise Qur´an. |
| 36:3 | | Truly you are one of the Messengers |
| 36:4 | | on a Straight Path. |
| 36:5 | | The revelation of the Almighty, the Most Merciful |
| 36:6 | | so that you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned and who are therefore unaware. |
| 36:7 | | The Word has been justly carried out against most of them so they have no iman. |
| 36:8 | | We have put iron collars round their necks reaching up to the chin, so that their heads are forced back. |
| 36:9 | | We have placed a barrier in front of them and a barrier behind them, blindfolding them so that they cannot see. |
| 36:10 | | It makes no difference to them whether you warn them or do not warn them: they will not have iman. |
| 36:11 | | You can only warn those who act on the Reminder and fear the All-Merciful in the Unseen. Give them the good news of forgiveness and a generous reward. |
| 36:12 | | We bring the dead to life and We record what they send ahead and what they leave behind. We have listed everything in a clear register. |
| 36:13 | | Make an example for them of the inhabitants of the city when the Messengers came to it. |
| 36:14 | | When We sent them two and they denied them both, so We reinforced them with a third. They said, ´Truly We have been sent to you as Messengers.´ |
| 36:15 | | They said, ´You are nothing but human beings like ourselves. The All-Merciful has not sent down anything. You are simply lying.´ |
| 36:16 | | They said, ´Our Lord knows we have been sent as Messengers to you. |
| 36:17 | | We are only responsible for clear transmission.´ |
| 36:18 | | They said, ´We see an evil omen in you. If you do not stop we will stone you and you will suffer a painful punishment at our hands.´ |
| 36:19 | | They said, ´Your evil omen is in yourselves. Is it not just that you have been reminded? No, you are an unbridled people!´ |
| 36:20 | | A man came running from the far side of the city, saying, ´My people! follow the Messengers! |
| 36:21 | | Follow those who do not ask you for any wage and who have received guidance. |
| 36:22 | | Why indeed should I not worship Him Who brought me into being, Him to Whom you will be returned? |
| 36:23 | | Am I to take as gods instead of Him those whose intercession, if the All-Merciful desires harm for me, will not help me at all and cannot save me? |
| 36:24 | | In that case I would clearly be misguided. |
| 36:25 | | I have iman in your Lord so listen to me!´ |
| 36:26 | | He was told, ´Enter the Garden!´ He said, ´If my people only knew |
| 36:27 | | how my Lord has forgiven me and placed me among the honoured ones!´ |
| 36:28 | | We did not send down to his people any host from heaven after him nor would We send one down. |
| 36:29 | | It was but one Great Blast and they were extinct. |
| 36:30 | | Alas for My slaves! No Messenger comes to them without their mocking him. |
| 36:31 | | Do they not see how many generations before them We have destroyed and that they will not return to them? |
| 36:32 | | Each and every one will be summoned to Our presence. |
| 36:33 | | A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring to life and from which We bring forth grain of which they eat. |
| 36:34 | | We place in it gardens of dates and grapes, and cause springs to gush out in it, |
| 36:35 | | so they may eat its fruits — they did not do it themselves. So will they not be thankful? |
| 36:36 | | Glory be to Him who created all the pairs: from what the earth produces and from themselves and from things unknown to them. |
| 36:37 | | A Sign for them is the night: We peel the day away from it and there they are in darkness. |
| 36:38 | | And the sun runs to its resting place. That is the decree of the Almighty, the All-Knowing. |
| 36:39 | | And We have decreed set phases for the moon, until it ends up looking like an old palm spathe. |
| 36:40 | | It is not for the sun to overtake the moon nor for the night to outstrip the day; each one is swimming in a sphere. |
| 36:41 | | A Sign for them is that We carried their families in the laden ship. |
| 36:42 | | And We have created for them the like of it in which they sail. |
| 36:43 | | If We wished, We could drown them with no one to hear their cry, and then they would not be saved — |
| 36:44 | | except as an act of mercy from Us, to give them enjoyment for a time. |
| 36:45 | | They are told, ´Have taqwa of what is before you and behind you so that hopefully you will have mercy shown to you.´ |
| 36:46 | | Not one of your Lord´s Signs comes to them without their turning away from it. |
| 36:47 | | And when they are told, ´Spend from the provision Allah has given you,´ those who are kafir say to those who have iman, ´Why should we feed someone whom, if He wished, Allah would feed Himself? You are clearly in error.´ |
| 36:48 | | And they say, ´When will this promise come about if you are telling the truth?´ |
| 36:49 | | What are they waiting for but one Great Blast to seize them while they are quibbling? |
| 36:50 | | They will not be able to make a will or return to their families. |
| 36:51 | | The Trumpet will be blown and at once they will be sliding from their graves towards their Lord. |
| 36:52 | | They will say, ´Alas for us! Who has raised us from our resting-place? This is what the All-Merciful promised us. The Messengers were telling the truth.´ |
| 36:53 | | It will be but one Great Blast, and they will all be summoned to Our presence. |
| 36:54 | | Today no self will be wronged in any way. You will only be repaid for what you did. |
| 36:55 | | The Companions of the Garden are busy enjoying themselves today, |
| 36:56 | | they and their wives reclining on couches in the shade. |
| 36:57 | | They will have fruits there and whatever they request. |
| 36:58 | | ´Peace!´ A word from a Merciful Lord. |
| 36:59 | | ´Keep yourselves apart today, you evildoers! |
| 36:60 | | Did I not make a contract with you, tribe of Adam, not to worship Shaytan, who truly is an outright enemy to you, |
| 36:61 | | but to worship Me? That is a straight path. |
| 36:62 | | He has led huge numbers of you into error. Why did you not use your intellect? |
| 36:63 | | This is the Hell that you were promised. |
| 36:64 | | Roast in it today because you were kafirun.´ |
| 36:65 | | Today We seal up their mouths and their hands speak to us, and their feet bear witness to what they have earned. |
| 36:66 | | If We wished, We could put out their eyes. Then, though they might race for the path, how would they see? |
| 36:67 | | If We wished, We could transform them where they stand so they would neither be able to go out nor return. |
| 36:68 | | When We grant long life to people, We return them to their primal state. So will you not use your intellect? |
| 36:69 | | We did not teach him poetry nor would it be right for him. It is simply a reminder and a clear Qur´an |
| 36:70 | | so that you may warn those who are truly alive and so that the Word may be carried out against the kafirun. |
| 36:71 | | Have they not seen how We created for them, by Our own handiwork, livestock which are under their control? |
| 36:72 | | We have made them tame for them and some they ride and some they eat. |
| 36:73 | | And they have other uses for them, and milk to drink. So will they not be thankful? |
| 36:74 | | They have taken gods besides Allah so that perhaps they may be helped. |
| 36:75 | | They cannot help them even though they are an army mobilised in their support. |
| 36:76 | | So do not let their words distress you. We know what they keep secret and what they divulge. |
| 36:77 | | Does not man see that We created him from a drop yet there he is, an open antagonist! |
| 36:78 | | He makes likenesses of Us and forgets his own creation, saying, ´Who will give life to bones when they are decayed?´ |
| 36:79 | | Say ´He who made them in the first place will bring them back to life. He has total knowledge of each created thing; |
| 36:80 | | He Who produces fire for you from green trees so that you use them to light your fires.´ |
| 36:81 | | Does He who created the heavens and earth not have the power to create the same again? Yes indeed! He is the Creator, the All-Knowing. |
| 36:82 | | His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, ´Be!´ and it is. |
| 36:83 | | Glory be to Him Who has the Dominion of all things in His Hand. To Him you will be returned. |
