Surah ar-Ra`d (The Thunder) - The Wise Quran Translation

13:1  Alif.Lam.Mim.Ra. Those are the signs of the book, and that which has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth, but most of mankind do not believe.

13:2  God is the one who raised the heavens without columns which you see; then He settled on the throne; and He subjected the sun and the moon, each running to a named term; He governs the affair; He explains the signs in detail, perhaps you will be sure of the meeting of your Lord.

13:3  And He is the one who stretched out the earth and placed firm mountains and rivers in it, and of all the fruits He made two kinds in it; He covers the night with the day; indeed, in that surely are signs for people who think.

13:4  And in the earth are adjacent sections, and gardens of grapes and corn and palms growing together and not growing together; it is watered with one water, and We gave preference to some of them over some in the fruit; indeed, in that surely are signs for people who are intelligent.

13:5  And if you wonder, then wonderful is their speech: 'When we are dust? Will we indeed, surely be in a new creation?' Those are the ones who disbelieved in their Lord, and those, the fetters will be in their necks, and those are the fellows of the fire, they will dwell forever in it.

13:6  And they ask you to hasten with the evil before the good; and certainly, the similitudes have passed away before them. And indeed, your Lord is surely a possessor of forgiveness for mankind upon their wrongdoing; and indeed, your Lord is surely the severe in punishment.

13:7  And those who disbelieved say, ‘If only a sign has been sent down to him from his Lord.' You are only a warner and for every people a guide.

13:8  God knows what each female bears and what the wombs decrease and what they increase; and everything with Him is in measure.

13:9  The knower of the unseen and the seen, the Great, the Exalted.

13:10  Equal among you is one who concealed the speech and one who publicized it, and one who he is hidden in the night and conspicuous during the day.

13:11  For him are successives before him and behind him, they guard him of the command of God; indeed God does not change what is for people until they change what is in their souls. And when God desires evil for people, then there is no averting it, and there is no patron for them besides Him.

13:12  He is the one who shows you the lightning, fear and hope; and He makes the heavy clouds rise.

13:13  And the thunder glorifies with His praise, and the angels from fearing Him. And He sends the thunderbolts, then He hits whom He wills with it. And they argue concerning God. And He is the strong in plot.

13:14  For Him is the call of truth and those who they call on besides Him do not respond to them with a thing except like one who stretches out his hands to the water that it may reach his mouth, and it will not reach it. And the call of the disbelievers is not except in error.

13:15  And to God prostrates whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly and unwillingly, and their shadows in the early morning and the evening.

13:16  Say, 'Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?' Say, 'God.' Say, 'So have you taken patrons besides Him? They do not control profit nor harm for themselves.' Say, 'Is the blind and the seeing equal? Or are the darknesses and the light equal?’ Or have they made partners for God who created like His creation, so the creation was similar to them? Say, 'God is the creator of everything, and He is the One, the Subduer.'

13:17  He sent down water from the heaven, then valleys flowed by their measure, then the torrent carried an increasing foam; and from what they kindle upon in the fire seeking ornaments or utensils is a foam like it. Thus God strikes the truth and the falsehood. Then as for the foam, then it is goes away uselessly, and as for what profits mankind, then it stays in the earth. Thus God strikes the similitudes.

13:18  For those who responded to their Lord is the best. And those who did not respond to Him, if that for them is what is in the earth altogether and the like of it with it, they would surely ransom themselves with it; those, for them is the evil of the reckoning and their refuge is hell and evil is the bed.

13:19  So is one who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth like one who he is blind? Only possessors of understanding remember.

13:20  Those who fulfil the covenant of God and do not break the covenant,

13:21  And those who join what God has commanded to be joined, and fear their Lord and fear the evil of the reckoning,

13:22  And those who were patient seeking the face of their Lord, and were steadfast in the prayer, and spent of what We provided them in secret and in public, and avert the evil with the good. Those, for them is the consequence of the home.

13:23  Gardens of Eden, they will enter them and whoever was righteous among their fathers, and their wives and their offspring; and the angels will enter upon them from every gate,

13:24  Peace be on you because you were patient; so excellent is the consequence of the home.

13:25  And those who break the covenant of God after his covenant and cut what God has commanded to be joined and do evil in the earth, those, for them is the curse and for them is the evil of the home.

13:26  God extends the provision to whom He wills and He straitens; and they rejoice in the worldly life, and the worldly life, concerning the hereafter, is not except a provision.

13:27  And those who disbelieved say, 'If only a sign has been sent down to him from his Lord.' Say, 'Indeed, God causes whom He wills to go astray and He guides to Him whoever has repented.'

13:28  Those who believed and their hearts are at ease with the remembrance of God. Lo, with the remembrance of God are the hearts at ease.

13:29  Those who believed and did the good works, blessedness for them and a good place of return.

13:30  Thus We have sent you concerning a nation, certainly, nations have passed away before it, that you may recite what We have inspired to you to them. And they disbelieve in the Merciful. Say, 'He is my Lord, there is no god but He; on Him I have relied and to Him is my repentance.'

13:31  Even if that is a Quran by which the mountains were set in motion, or by which the earth were cut up, or by which the dead had spoken. Nay, for God is the command altogether. So did those who believed not despair that, ‘Had God willed surely He would have guided mankind altogether.’? And those who disbelieved, a sudden calamity will not cease to befall them for what they did, or it will alight close by their homes until the promise of God comes; indeed, God will not break the promise.

13:32  And surely, certainly messengers before you were mocked, then I gave respite to those who disbelieved; then I seized them, then how was My punishment?

13:33  So is one who He is standing over every soul for what it has earned? And they made partners for God. Say, 'Name them. Or will you inform Him of what He does not know in the earth? Or of apparent of the speech?' Nay, their plot has been beautified for those who disbelieved, and they have been hindered from the way. And whoever God causes to go astray, then there is no guide for him.

13:34  For them is punishment in the worldly life; and surely the punishment of the hereafter is harder. And there is no guardian for them from God.

13:35  The similitude of the garden which those who fear have been promised: beneath it the rivers flow, its fruit is perpetual and its shade. That is the consequence of those who feared; and the consequence of the disbelievers is the fire.

13:36  And those to whom We gave the book rejoice in what has been sent down to you; and among the parties is he who denies some of it. Say, 'I have only been commanded to serve God and not associate partners with Him; to Him I call and to Him is my place of return.'

13:37  And thus We have sent it down, an Arabic judgment, and surely if you follow their lusts after what came to you of the knowledge, there is no patron nor guardian for you from God.

13:38  And surely, certainly We sent messengers before you, and We made wives and offspring for them; and it was not for a messenger to come with a sign except with the permission of God; for every term a book.

13:39  God blots out what He wills and He confirms; and with Him is the mother of the book.

13:40  Even if We definitely show you some of that which We promise them or We definitely cause you to die, so only upon you is the communication and upon Us is the reckoning.

13:41  And did they not see that We, We come to the earth reducing it of its borders? And God judges, there is no reviser for His judgment; and He is the swift in reckoning.

13:42  And certainly those who were before them plotted; so for God is the plot altogether. He knows what each soul earns; and soon the disbelievers will know for who the consequence of the home is.

13:43  And those who disbelieved say, 'You are not a messenger.' Say, 'God has sufficed for a witness between me and you, and one who with him is the knowledge of the book.'