Surah Yaseen (يس)

بِسمِ اللهِ الرَّحمٰنِ الرَّحيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

يسٓ1

O THOU human being!

وَ القُرءانِ الحَكيمِ2

Consider this Qur’an full of wisdom:

اِنَّكَ لَمِنَ المُرسَلينَ3

verily, thou art indeed one of God’s message-bearers,

عَليٰ صِراطٍ مُستَقيمٍ4

pursuing a straight way

تَنزيلَ العَزيزِ الرَّحيمِ5

by [virtue of] what is being bestowed from on high by the Almighty, the Dispenser of Grace,

لِتُنذِرَ قَومًا مآ اُنذِرَ ءابآؤُهُم فَهُم غٰفِلونَ6

[bestowed upon thee] so that thou mayest warn people whose forefathers had not been warned, and who therefore are unaware [of the meaning of right and wrong].

لَقَد حَقَّ القَولُ عَليٰٓ اَكثَرِهِم فَهُم لايُؤمِنونَ7

Indeed, the word [of God’s condemnation] is bound to come true against most of them: for they will not believe.

اِنّا جَعَلنا فيٓ اَعناقِهِم اَغلٰلًا فَهِيَ اِلَي الاَذقانِ فَهُم مُقمَحونَ8

Behold, around their necks We have put shackles, reaching up to their chins, so that their heads are forced up;

وَ جَعَلنا مِن بَينِ اَيديهِم سَدًّا وَ مِن خَلفِهِم سَدًّا فَاَغشَينٰهُم فَهُم لايُبصِرونَ9

and We have set a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, and We have enshrouded them in veils so that they cannot see:

وَ سَوآءٌ عَلَيهِم ءَاَنذَرتَهُم اَم لَم تُنذِرهُم لايُؤمِنونَ10

thus, it is all one to them whether thou warnest them or dost not warn them: they will not believe.

اِنَّما تُنذِرُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الذِّكرَ وَ خَشِيَ الرَّحمٰنَ بِالغَيبِ ؗ فَبَشِّرهُ بِمَغفِرَةٍ وَ اَجرٍ كَريمٍ11

Thou canst [truly] warn only him who is willing to take the reminder to heart, and who stands in awe of the Most Gracious although He is beyond the reach of human perception: unto such, then, give the glad tiding of [God’s] forgiveness and of a most excellent reward!

اِنّا نَحنُ نُحيِ المَوتيٰ وَ نَكتُبُ ما قَدَّموا وَ ءاثارَهُمۚ وَ كُلَّ شَيءٍ اَحصَينٰهُ فيٓ اِمامٍ مُبينٍ12

Verily, We shall indeed bring the dead back to life; and We shall record whatever [deeds] they have sent ahead, and the traces [of good and evil] which they have left behind: for of all things do We take account in a record clear.

وَ اضرِب لَهُم مَثَلًا اَصحٰبَ القَريَةِ اِذ جآءَهَا المُرسَلونَ13

AND SET FORTH unto them a parable - [the story of how] the people of a township [behaved] when [Our] message-bearers came unto them.

اِذ اَرسَلنآ اِلَيهِمُ اثنَينِ فَكَذَّبوهُما فَعَزَّزنا بِثالِثٍ فَقالوٓا اِنّآ اِلَيكُم مُرسَلونَ14

Lo! We sent unto them two [apostles], and. they gave the lie to both; and so We strengthened [the two] with a third; and thereupon they said: “Behold, we have been sent unto you [by God]!”

قالوا مآ اَنتُم اِلّا بَشَرٌ مِثلُنا وَ مآ اَنزَلَ الرَّحمٰنُ مِن شَيءٍ‌ اِن اَنتُم اِلّا تَكذِبونَ15

[The others] answered: “You are nothing but mortal men like ourselves; moreover, the Most Gracious has never bestowed aught [of revelation] from on high. You do nothing but lie!”

قالوا رَبُّنا يَعلَمُ اِنّآ اِلَيكُم لَمُرسَلونَ16

Said [the apostles]: “Our Sustainer knows that we have indeed been sent unto you;

وَ ما عَلَينآ اِلَّا البَلٰغُ المُبينُ17

but we are not bound to do more than clearly deliver the message [entrusted to us].”

قالوٓا اِنّا تَطَيَّرنا بِكُمؗ لَئِن لَم تَنتَهوا لَنَرجُمَنَّكُم وَ لَيَمَسَّنَّكُم مِنّا عَذابٌ اَليمٌ18

Said [the others]: “Truly, we augur evil from you! Indeed, if you desist not, we will surely stone you, and grievous suffering is bound to befall you at our hands!”

قالوا طآئِرُكُم مَعَكُم ؗ اَئِن ذُكِّرتُم ؗ بَل اَنتُم قَومٌ مُسرِفونَ19

[The apostles] replied: “Your destiny, good or evil, is [bound up] with yourselves! [Does it seem evil to you] if you are told to take [the truth] to heart? Nay, but you are people who have wasted their own selves!”

وَ جآءَ مِن اَقصَا المَدينَةِ رَجُلٌ يَسعيٰ قالَ يٰقَومِ اتَّبِعُوا المُرسَلينَ20

At that, a man came running from the farthest end of the city, [and] exclaimed: “O my people! Follow these message-bearers!

اؚتَّبِعوا مَن لايَسئئَلُكُم اَجرًا وَ هُم مُهتَدونَ21

Follow those who ask no reward of you, and themselves are rightly guided!

وَ مالِيَ لآ اَعبُدُ الَّذي فَطَرَني وَ اِلَيهِ تُرجَعونَ22

“[As for me,] why should I not worship Him who has brought me into being, and to whom you all will be brought back?

ءَاَتَّخِذُ مِن دونِهٖٓ ءالِهَةً اِن يُرِدنِ الرَّحمٰنُ بِضُرٍّ لاتُغنِ عَنّي شَفاعَتُهُم شَيئئًا وَ لايُنقِذونِ23

Should I take to worshipping [other] deities beside Him? [But then,] if the Most Gracious should will that harm befall me, their intercession could not in the least avail me, nor could they save me:

اِنّيٓ اِذًا لَفي ضَلٰلٍ مُبينٍ24

and so, behold, I would have indeed, most obviously, lost myself in error!

اِنّيٓ ءامَنتُ بِرَبِّكُم فَاسمَعونِ25

“Verily, [O my people,] in the Sustainer of you all have I come to believe: listen, then, to me!”

قيلَ ادخُلِ الجَنَّةَ ؗ قالَ يٰلَيتَ قَومي يَعلَمونَ ۙ26

[And] he was told, “[Thou shalt] enter paradise!” - [whereupon] he exclaimed: “Would that my people knew

بِما غَفَرَلي رَبّي وَ جَعَلَني مِنَ المُكرَمينَ27

how my Sustainer has forgiven me [the sins of my past], and has placed me among the honoured ones!”

وَمآ اَنزَلنا عَليٰ قَومِهٖ مِن بَعدِهٖ مِن جُندٍ مِنَ السَّمآءِ وَ ما كُنّا مُنزِلينَ28

And after that, no host out of heaven did We send down against his people, nor did We need to send down any:

اِن كانَت اِلّا صَيحَةً واحِدَةً فَاِذا هُم خٰ‍مِدونَ29

nothing was [needed] but one single blast [of Our punishment] - and lo! they became as still and silent as ashes.

يٰ‍حَسرَةً عَلَي العِبادِۚ ما يَأتيهِم مِن رَسولٍ اِلّا كانوا بِهٖ يَستَهزِءونَ30

OH, THE REGRETS that [most] human beings will have to bear! Never has an apostle come to them without their deriding him!

اَلَم يَرَواكَم اَهلَكنا قَبلَهُم مِنَ القُرونِ اَنَّهُم اِلَيهِم لايَرجِعونَ31

Are they not aware of how many a generation We have destroyed before their time, [and] that those [that have perished] will never return to them,

وَ اِن كُلٌّ لَمّا جَميعٌ لَدَينا مُحضَرونَ32

and [that] all of them, all together, will [in the end] before Us be arraigned?

وَ ءايَةٌ لَهُمُ الاَرضُ المَيتَةُ اَحيَينٰها وَ اَخرَجنا مِنها حَبًّا فَمِنهُ يَأكُلونَ33

And [yet,] they have a sign [of Our power to create and to resurrect] in the lifeless earth which We make alive, and out of which We bring forth grain, whereof they may eat;

وَ جَعَلنا فيها جَنّٰتٍ مِن نَخيلٍ وَ اَعنابٍ وَ فَجَّرنا فيها مِنَ العُيونِ34

and [how] We make gardens of date-palms and vines [grow] thereon, and cause springs to gush [forth] within it,

لِيَأكُلوا مِن ثَمَرِهٖ وَ ما عَمِلَتهُ اَيديهِمۚ اَفَلا يَشكُرونَ35

so that they may eat of the fruit thereof, though it was not their hands that made it. Will they not, then, be grateful?

سُبحٰنَ الَّذي خَلَقَ الاَزواجَ كُلَّها مِمّا تُنبِتُ الاَرضُ وَ مِن اَنفُسِهِم وَ مِمّا لايَعلَمونَ36

Limitless in His glory is He who has created opposites in whatever the earth produces, and in men’s own selves, and in that of which [as yet] they have no knowledge.

وَ ءايَةٌ لَهُمُ الَّيلُ نَسلَخُ مِنهُ النَّهارَ فَاِذا هُم مُظلِمونَ37

And [of Our sway over all that exists] they have a sign in the night: We withdraw from it the [light of] day - and lo! they are in darkness.

وَ الشَّمسُ تَجري لِمُستَقَرٍّ لَها ؗ ذٰلِكَ تَقديرُ العَزيزِ العَليمِ38

And [they have a sign in] the sun: it runs in an orbit of its own [and] that is laid down by the will of the Almighty, the All-Knowing;

وَ القَمَرَ قَدَّرنٰهُ مَنازِلَ حَتّيٰ عادَ كَالعُرجونِ القَديمِ39

and [in] the moon, for which We have determined phases [which it must traverse] till it becomes like an old date-stalk, dried-up and curved:

لَاالشَّمسُ يَنبَغي لَهآ اَن تُدرِكَ القَمَرَ وَ لَاالَّيلُ سابِقُ النَّهارِ ؗ وَ كُلٌّ في فَلَكٍ يَسبَحونَ40

[and] neither may the sun overtake the moon, nor can the night usurp the time of day, since all of them float through space [in accordance with Our laws].

وَ ءايَةٌ لَهُم اَنّا حَمَلنا ذُرِّيَّتَهُم فِي الفُلكِ المَشحونِ41

And [it ought to be] a sign for them that We bear their offspring [over the seas] in laden ships,

وَ خَلَقنا لَهُم مِن مِثلِهٖ ما يَركَبونَ42

and [that] We create for them things of a similar kind, on which they may embark [in their travels];

وَ اِن نَشَأ نُغرِقهُم فَلا صَريخَ لَهُم وَ لا هُم يُنقَذونَ43

and [that,] if such be Our will, We may cause them to drown, with none to respond to their cry for help: and [then] they cannot be saved,

اِلّا رَحمَةً مِنّا وَ مَتاعًا اِليٰ حينٍ44

unless it be by an act of mercy from Us and a grant of life for a [further span of] time.

وَ اِذا قيلَ لَهُمُ اتَّقوا ما بَينَ اَيديكُم وَ ما خَلفَكُم لَعَلَّكُم تُرحَمونَ45

And [yet,] when they are told, “Beware of [God’s insight into] all that lies open before you and all that is hidden from you, so that you might be graced with His mercy,” [most men choose to remain deaf;]

وَ ما تَأتيهِم مِن ءايَةٍ مِن ءايٰتِ رَبِّهِم اِلّا كانوا عَنها مُعرِضينَ46

and no message of their Sustainer s messages ever reaches them without their turning away from it.

وَ اِذا قيلَ لَهُم اَنفِقوا مِمّا رَزَقَكُمُ اللهُ قالَ الَّذينَ كَفَروا لِلَّذينَ ءامَنوٓا اَنُطعِمُ مَن لَو يَشآءُ اللهُ اَطعَمَهٓۥ اِن اَنتُم اِلّا في ضَلٰلٍ مُبينٍ47

Thus, when they are told, “Spend on others out of what God has provided for you as sustenance,” those who are bent on denying the truth say unto those who believe, “Shall we feed anyone whom, if [your] God had so willed, He could have fed [Himself]? Clearly, you are but lost in error!”

وَ يَقولونَ مَتيٰ هٰذَا الوَعدُ اِن كُنتُم صٰدِقينَ48

And they add, “When is this promise [of resurrection] to be fulfilled? [Answer this] if you are men of truth!”

ما يَنظُرونَ اِلّا صَيحَةً واحِدَةً تَأخُذُهُم وَهُم يَخِصِّمونَ49

[And they are unaware that] nothing awaits them beyond a single blast [of God’s punishment], which will overtake them while they are still arguing - [against resurrection]:

فَلا يَستَطيعونَ تَوصِيَةً وَ لآ اِليٰٓ اَهلِهِم يَرجِعونَ50

and so [sudden will be their end that] no testament will they be able to make, - nor to their own people will they return!

وَ نُفِخَ فِي الصّورِ فَاِذا هُم مِنَ الاَجداثِ اِليٰ رَبِّهِم يَنسِلونَ51

And [then] the trumpet [of resurrection] will be blown - and lo! out of their graves towards their Sustainer will they all rush forth!

قالوا يٰوَيلَنا مَن بَعَثَنا مِن مَرقَدِنا هٰذاۜـ ۚ ما وَعَدَ الرَّحمٰنُ وَ صَدَقَ المُرسَلونَ52

They will say: “Oh, woe unto us! Who has roused us from our sleep [of death]?” [Whereupon they will be told:] “This is what the Most Gracious has promised! And His message-bearers spoke the truth!”

اِن كانَت اِلّا صَيحَةً واحِدَةً فَاِذا هُم جَميعٌ لَدَينا مُحضَرونَ53

Nothing will there have been but one single blast - and lo! before Us will all of them be arraigned [and be told]:

فَاليَومَ لاتُظلَمُ نَفسٌ شَيئئًا وَ لاتُجزَونَ اِلّا ما كُنتُم تَعمَلونَ54

“Today, then, no human being shall be wronged in the least, nor shalt you be requited for aught but what you were doing [on earth].

اِنَّ اَصحٰبَ الجَنَّةِ اليَومَ في شُغُلٍ فٰكِهونَ55

“Behold, those who are destined for paradise shall today have joy in whatever they do:

هُم وَ اَزواجُهُم في ظِلٰلٍ عَلَي الاَرآئِكِ مُتَّكِئئونَ56

in happiness will they and their spouses on couches recline;

لَهُم فيها فاكِهَةٌ وَ لَهُم ما يَدَّعونَ57

[only] delight will there be for them, and theirs shall be all that they could ask for:

سَلٰمٌ قَولًا مِن رَبٍّ رَحيمٍ58

peace and fulfillment through the word of a Sustainer who dispenses all grace.

وَ امتازُوا اليَومَ اَيُّهَا المُجرِمونَ59

“But stand aside today, O you who were lost in sin!

اَلَم اَعهَد اِلَيكُم يٰبَنيٓ ءادَمَ اَن لاتَعبُدُوا الشَّيطٰنَ ؗ اِنَّهۥ لَكُم عَدُوٌّ مُبينٌ60

Did I not enjoin on you, O you children of Adam, that you should not worship Satan – since, verily, he is your open foe

وَ اَنِ اعبُدوني ؗ هٰذا صِراطٌ مُستَقيمٌ61

and that you should worship Me [alone]? This would have been a straight way!

وَ لَقَد اَضَلَّ مِنكُم جِبِلًّا كَثيرًاۚ اَفَلَم تَكونوا تَعقِلونَ62

And [as for Satan -] he had already led astray a great many of you: could you not, then, use your reason?

هٰذِهٖ جَهَنَّمُ الَّ‍تي كُنتُم توعَدونَ63

“This, then, is the hell of which you were warned again and again:

اؚصلَوهَا اليَومَ بِما كُنتُم تَكفُرونَ64

endure it today as an outcome of your persistent denial of the truth!”

اؘليَومَ نَختِمُ عَليٰٓ اَفواهِهِم وَ تُكَلِّمُنآ اَيديهِم وَ تَشهَدُ اَرجُلُهُم بِما كانوا يَكسِبونَ65

On that Day We shall set a seal on their mouths but their hands will speak unto Us, and their feet will bear witness to whatever they have earned [in life].

وَ لَو نَشآءُ لَطَمَسنا عَليٰٓ اَعيُنِهِم فَاستَبَقُوا الصِّراطَ فَاَنّيٰ يُبصِرونَ66

NOW HAD IT BEEN Our will [that men should not be able to discern between right and wrong], We could surely have deprived them of their sight, so that they would stray forever from the [right] way: for how could they have had insight [into what is true]?

وَ لَو نَشآءُ لَمَسَخنٰهُم عَليٰ مَكانَتِهِم فَمَا استَطاعوا مُضِيًّا وَ لايَرجِعونَ67

And had it been Our will [that they should not be free to choose between right and wrong], We could surely have given them a different nature [and created them as beings rooted] in their places, so that they would not be able to move forward, and could not turn back.]

وَ مَن نُعَمِّرهُ نُنَكِّسهُ فِي الخَلقِۚ اَفَلا يَعقِلونَ68

But [let them always remember that] if We lengthen a human being’s days, We also cause him to decline in his powers [when he grows old]: will they not, then, use their reason?

وَ ما عَلَّمنٰهُ الشِّعرَ وَ ما يَنبَغي لَهٓۥ ؗ اِن هُوَاِلّا ذِكرٌ وَ قُرءانٌ مُبينٌ69

AND [thus it is:] We have not imparted to this [Prophet the gift of] poetry, nor would [poetry] have suited this [message]: it is but a reminder and a [divine] discourse, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth,

لِيُنذِرَ مَن كانَ حَيًّا وَ يَحِقَّ القَولُ عَلَي الكٰفِرينَ70

to the end that it may warn everyone who is alive [of heart], and that the word [of God] may bear witness against all who deny the truth.

اَوَلَم يَرَوا اَنّا خَلَقنا لَهُم مِمّا عَمِلَت اَيدينآ اَنعامًا فَهُم لَها مٰلِكونَ71

Are they, then, not aware that it is for them that We have created, among all the things which Our hands have wrought, the domestic animals of which they are [now] masters? –

وَ ذَلَّلنٰها لَهُم فَمِنها رَكوبُهُم وَ مِنها يَأكُلونَ72

and that We have subjected them to men’s will, so that some of them they may use for riding and of some they may eat,

وَ لَهُم فيها مَنافِعُ وَ مَشارِبُۚ اَفَلا يَشكُرونَ73

and may have [yet other] benefits from them, and [milk] to drink? Will they not, then, be grateful? (

وَ اتَّخَذوا مِن دونِ اللهِ ءالِهَةً لَعَلَّهُم يُنصَرونَ74

But [nay,] they take to worshipping deities other than God, [hoping] to be succoured [by them, and not knowing that]

لايَستَطيعونَ نَصرَهُم وَ هُم لَهُم جُندٌ مُحضَرونَ75

they are unable to succour their devotees, even though to them they may [appear to] be hosts drawn up [for succour].

فَلا يَحزُنكَ قَولُهُم ۘ اِنّا نَعلَمُ ما يُسِرّونَ وَ ما يُعلِنونَ76

However, be not grieved by the sayings of those [who deny the truth]: verily, We know all that they keep secret as well as all that they bring into the open.

اَوَلَم يَرَ الاِنسانُ اَنّا خَلَقنٰهُ مِن نُطفَةٍ فَاِذا هُوَخَصيمٌ مُبينٌ77

IS MAN, then, not aware that it is We who create him out of a [mere] drop of sperm - whereupon, lo! he shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue?

وَ ضَرَبَ لَنا مَثَلًا وَ نَسِيَ خَلقَهۥۚ قالَ مَن يُحيِ العِظامَ وَ هِيَ رَميمٌ78

And [now] he [argues about Us, and] thinks of Us in terms of comparison, and is oblivious of how he himself was created! [And so] he says, “Who could give life to bones that have crumbled to dust?”

قُل يُحييهَا الَّذيٓ اَنشَاَهآ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ؗ وَ هُوَبِكُلِّ خَلقٍ عَليمٌ79

Say: “He who brought them into being in the first instance will give them life [once again], seeing that He has full knowledge of every act of creation:

اؘلَّذي جَعَلَ لَكُم مِنَ الشَّجَرِ الاَخضَرِ نارًا فَاِذآ اَنتُم مِنهُ توقِدونَ80

He who produces for you fire out of the green tree, so that, lo! you kindle [your fires] therewith.”

اَوَلَيسَ الَّذي خَلَقَ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الاَرضَ بِقٰدِرٍ عَليٰٓ اَن يَخلُقَ مِثلَهُمۚ بَليٰ ؗ وَ هُوَ الخَلّٰقُ العَليمُ81

Is, then, He who has created the heavens and the earth not able to create [anew] the like of those [who have died]? Yea, indeed - for He alone is the all-knowing Creator:

اِنَّمآ اَمرُهٓۥ اِذآ اَرادَ شَيئئًا اَن يَقولَ لَهۥ كُن فَيَكونُ82

His Being alone is such that when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it, “Be” — and it is.

فَسُبحٰنَ الَّذي بِيَدِهٖ مَلَكوتُ كُلِّ شَيءٍ وَ اِلَيهِ تُرجَعونَ83

Limitless, then, in His glory is He in whose hand rests the mighty dominion over all things; and unto Him you all will be brought back!

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