1. All praise be to Allāh¹, Who has revealed the Book 'Qur’an' to His servant and has not made therein any crookedness².
1. It is a glorification of Allāh, God Almighty, for all His favours, both hidden and perceived, as well as those which relate to religious and worldly matters. The greatest of all these favors ever is revealing the Qur’an to God’s most honorable servant, the Prophet Muhammad.
2. From the truth or the straight path, but made it a flawless guide for all mankind and jinn.
2. Rightly directing, to warn of a severe torment from Him, and give good news to the believers who do righteous deeds that they shall have a goodly Reward 'Paradise',
4. And to warn those who say: Allāh 'God' has taken to Himself a son'³.
3. Such as the Christians who claim that Jesus is the son of God, and the pagans who claim that angels are God’s daughters. But having a child entails partaking in Godship, the need for a wife to fulfill emotional and bodily functions with her, are likeness to His creation who stand in need of offspring.
5. They have no 'Divine' Knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. What a grave word it is that comes out of their mouths. They say nothing but vicious blasphemy and lie.
7. We have made whatever is on earth as an adornment for it, so that We may test them as to which of them is best in conduct and deed⁴.
4. Life is a test and the world is a place of great trial. Muhammad, the Messenger of God (ﷺ) said: “Life is alluringly lush and green. And Allāh has instate you as successors in it and will see how you fare. So beware of the worldly life and beware of the temptation of women.”
10. When the (faithful) youths sought refuge in the cave⁷, they said: "Lord 'Allāh', grant us Mercy from You, and provide for us a right course in our affair⁸".
7. Fleeing from their disbelieving people.
8. They asked Allāh for a means of which the end is firmness on the path to the Truth, Islam, being spared from the idolaters, gaining useful knowledge and acting upon it, so that their religious and worldly affairs would be on the right side.
11. So We drew (a veil) over their ears⁹ (and caused them to sleep) in the cave for a number of years.
9. Their ears are specifically mentioned because the sense of hearing above and beyond any other sense is the one that spoils sleep most. If done in perfect circumstances, rarely is sleep disturbed by a cause other than noise.
12. Then We raised them up (from that sleep)¹⁰ so that We might show which of the two parties was best able to calculate the time for which they stayed (in the Cave, sleeping).
13. We relate to you 'Muhammad' their story in truth. They were 'faithful' youths who believed in their Lord 'Allāh alone' and We increased them in guidance.
14. We strengthened their hearts with patience, when they stood up¹¹ and said: "Allāh) Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth; never will we call upon besides Him any god, for then indeed we would have uttered an enormity in disbelief."
11. Before their king, who had commanded them to worship false gods.
15. These our people have taken 'false' gods besides 'Allāh'. Why do they not produce any clear authority in their support? Who is then more unjust than he who invents a lie against Allāh?
16. 'The youths said to one another': When you have abandoned them and what they worship other than Allāh, then betake yourselves to the cave for refuge; your Lord 'Allāh' will extend to you largely of His mercy, and provide for you an easy course in your affair.
17. 'Had you been there' you might have seen the sun, when it rose, declining from their cave towards the right, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they were in a wide space thereof¹². This is of the Signs of Allāh. He whom Allāh guides, he is rightly guided, and he whom He leaves astray you shall not find for him any protecting guide to lead (him to the right way of Islam).
12. As such they would get all the air and ventilation they needed to sustain.
18. You would have thought them awake while they were asleep, and We turned them on their right and on their left sides¹³, while their dog lay outstretching its forelegs at the entrance. Had you looked at them you would certainly have turned back from them in flight, and you would have been filled with fear of them.
13. It is a common medical practice nowadays to turn bed-ridden patients on their sides every few hours so that they do not get bedsores resulting from prolonged pressure on the skin.
19. Thus We awakened them that they might question each other. A speaker among them said: "How long have you remained?" They said: "We have remained (perhaps) a day or part of a day." (Then others among them) said: "Your Lord 'Allāh' knows best how long you have remained." Now send one of you with this silver (coin) of yours to the city, then let him see which of them has the best food, so let him bring you provision from it, and let him behave with gentleness, and let no one be aware of you.
20. For if they come to know about you, they would stone you to death or force you back to their faith (and way of life), and then you will never succeed and prosper.
21. Thus We made their case known to the people, that they might know that Allah’s Promise is (unfailingly) true, and that as for the Hour (of Doom), there is no doubt about it. That when they (the people of the city) disputed among themselves as to their affair and said: "Erect a building in their memory - their Lord 'Allāh' knows best about them." Those who prevailed over their affair said: "We shall certainly build a place of worship over them14."
14. One of the wives of the Prophet told him that in Abyssinia she saw a church full of images. The Prophet Muhammad said: “When a righteous man or saint among them dies they build a place of worship over his grave and set up images. They are the worst of all creatures before God. They combined the two evils; worshipping to the graves and making graven images.”
The Prophet Muhammad said: "Beware, those who preceded before you, used to make their Prophets’ graves into places of worship. Beware, don’t take any graves as places o f worship. I forbid you to do so.”
22. (Some) say: "(They were) three, the fourth of them being their dog;" and 'others' say: "Five, the sixth of them being their dog," making conjectures at what is unknown. And 'yet others' say: "Seven, and the eighth of them is their dog." Say: "My Lord 'Allāh' knows best their number, no one knows them except a few; so debate not 'about their number' except with the clear proof 'which We have revealed to you'. And do not consult any of them 'of the followers of the past Scripture' about the people of the cave 'the seven sleepers of Ephesus'."
24. Except 'with the saying': "If Allāh wills15." Remember your Lord when you forget and say: "Maybe 'Allâh' my Lord will guide me to a nearer way to what is right than this."
15. As soon as one remembers not saying inshā’ Allah - if God wills - concerning doing something in the future, he should say it. Also when one forgets something, he should mention Allāh so as to remember things.
26. Say: "Allāh knows best how long they remained. To Him 'alone' is 'the Knowledge of' the unseen of the heavens and the earth. How clear His sight is and how clear His hearing.There is no guardian 'Protector, Savior' for them besides Him, and He does not make any one to be His associate in His Judgment."
27. Recite what has been revealed to you 'Muhammad' of the Book of your Lord 'the Qur’an', there is none who can change His Words; and you will never find any refuge other than Him.
28. Keep yourself patiently with those who call on their Lord 'Allāh alone' morning and evening, seeking His face, and let not your eyes overlook them, desiring the adornment of the life of this world. Do not follow him whose heart We have made heedless of Our Remembrance, and who follows his lowly desires, and whose attitude is transgression against what is right 'and just'.
29. Say: "The Truth is from your Lord 'Allāh', so let him who wills believe, and let him who wills disbelieve." We have prepared for the workers of iniqiuty a Fire, whose walls will surround them. And if they cry for water, they will be given water like molten brass which will scald their faces. Wretched is the drink, and miserable is the resting-place.
31. Those will have Gardens of Eden, under which rivers flow, they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and will wear green robes of fine silk and brocade, reclining therein on raised couches. What an Excellent reward, and what a pleasant resting place.
32. And present to them an example of two men; We gave to one of them two gardens of grape vines, and We surrounded them both with date-palms, and We placed between them a field of crops.
33. Both these gardens brought forth fruits, to their fullest capacity and failed not anything thereof, and We caused a river to gush forth in their midst,
37. His fellow said to him while conversing with him: "Do you deny 'Allāh' Who created you from dust, then from a drop of sperm, then made you a perfect man?"
39. If only you had said, when you entered your garden, "Whatever Allāh wills 'will come to pass'18, there is no power except with Allāh?19. Even though you see me less than you in wealth and children,
18. Once a man came to the Prophet and said, “With the Will of Allāh and (also) with your will”, he (the Prophet) then said, “Have you made me an associate with Allāh? Rather it is what Allāh Alone wills.”
19. Muhammad, God's Mlmessenger (ﷺ) said: “Shall I not teach you a word which is one of the treasures of Paradise? It is to say 'lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata illā billāh' (i.e., there is no ability or power except through Allāh).
40. Yet it maybe that 'Allāh' my Lord will give me what is better than your garden, and send down upon your garden a thunderbolt from the sky, turning it to a barren wasteland.
42. And his fruits were encircled (with ruin)20; so he began to wring his hands for what he had spent on it, while it had collapsed on its trellises, and said: "Woe to me. Would that I had not associated anyone with my Lord."
20. One should not be swayed away from the reason for existence by the adornment of life; all of it will be gone one day.
45. And present to them the example of the life of this world, it is like water which We send down from the sky, so the plants of the earth mingles with it, then it becomes dry grass broken into pieces which the winds scatter. Allāh is All-Able of ˹doing˺ all things.
46. Wealth and children are the adornment of the life of this world. But the ever-lasting good deeds are far better with your Lord 'Allāh' in reward, and better in hope21.
21. Referring to all the deeds which please Allāh, God Almighty; be they the five daily Prayers, or the words of Remembrance of Allāh, because, unlike the transient adornment of life, they are ‘everlasting’ for their doers, and ‘good’ because they are carried out in a manner that pleases Allāh. Muhammed, God's messenger (ﷺ), said: “To say: Subḥānallāh (Glory be to Allāh), al-ḥamdu lillāh (all gratitude be to Allāh), lā Ilāha illal lāh (there is no god but Allāh) and Allāhu Akbar (Allāh is the Greatest) are among the everlasting good deeds.”
47. 'Beware of' the Day We will remove the mountains and you will see the earth as a leveled plain and We gather them all, not leaving a single one of them behind.
48. They will be presented before your Lord 'Allāh' in rows, ˹and the disbelievers will be told,˺ : "You have certainly come to Us as We created you at first22. But, you claimed that We would never appoint for you a time (for the fulfillment of this Promise)."
49. The record 'of deeds' will be laid 'open before them', then you will see the wicked fearing from what is therein, and they will cry: "Ah, Woe to us. What a record is this! It leaves out nothing 'of our sins' minor or major, but numbers them all." And they will find whatever they did present 'therein'. Your Lord 'Allāh' is not unjust to anyone.
50. And 'mention' when We said to the angels: "Prostrate to Adam." So they all prostrated except Iblees, he was of the jinn, but he disobeyed the Command of his Lord. Would you then take him and his offspring for your masters23 rather than Me, even though they are your enemies? Evil is the exchange for the unjust24.
23. Demons could possess their idols and communicate through them; they also used to seek refuge from the evil of the jinn by appraising them and slaughtering sacrifices for them.
24. Satan along with his fellow demons continues to lead people astray from the right Path of Islam.
51. I 'Allāh' did not make them 'Satan and his associates' witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor to the creation of their own selves; nor could I take the misguiders for helpers25.
25. Allāh, the source of true guidance, would not take false deities, who are the main cause of misguidance, as helpers.
52. 'Mention Muhammad' the Day when Allāh will say: "Call on those idols whom you worshiped besides Me." So they will call their idols 'for help', but they will not answer them26; and We shall put between them a destructive barrier.
26. The false deities they took besides Allāh will let them down when they need them most on Judgment Day.
54. We have certainly varied in this Qur’an every kind of example for mankind27. But man is ever more quarrelsome than anything28.
27. So that people may become mindful of God and be rightly guided.
28. Humans always defend their position instead of yielding to the truth. It pertains to disbelievers more than anyone else.
55. And nothing prevents people from believing when the guidance has come to them, and from asking forgiveness from their Lord 'Allāh', except that what happened to the ancients29 should befall them, or that the torment should come face-to-face to them.
56. We do not send Messengers but as givers of good news and warners30. But the deniers argue in falsehood that they may render null thereby the Truth, and they take My revelations and that with which they are warned as mockery.
30. The Prophet Muhammad said: "If anyone testifies that Lâ ilâha illallâh (none has the right to be worshipped but Allāh Alone) Who has no partners, and that Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger, and that Jesus is God's servant and His Messenger and His Word ("Be", and he was) which He bestowed on Mary and a spirit created by Allāh, and that Paradise is real, and Hell is real, Allāh will admit him into Paradise with the deeds which he had done even if those deeds were few."
57. Who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the Verses of his Lord 'Allāh', then he turns away from them and forgets what his two hands have sent forth (of sins)? We have placed veils over their hearts lest they understand it and deafness in their ears. And if you invite them to the 'right' guidance, they will never be guided.
58. Your Lord 'Allāh' is All-Forgiving, Full of Mercy. Were He to seize men for what they earn (of sins), He would certainly have hastened the torment for them; but for them there is an appointed time, from which they will find no refuge.
59. These towns 'the population of ‘Aad, Thamud, etc.' We destroyed them when they persistently did iniquity, and We have set a time for their destruction.
60. And 'mention'31 when Moses said to his young attendant 'Joshua': "I will not cease 'traveling' until I reach the junction of the two seas32 or until I go on for years."
31. Muhammed, God's Messenger, (ﷺ) tells one story of Moses (عليه السلام) as he stood delivering a speech to the Children of Israel. One of them asked him if he knew anyone more knowledgeable than he was and he replied in the negative. Then God revealed to him that His servant, al-Khiḍr, was of greater knowledge than himself. Moses then asked God about a way of meeting him and he was told to seek him out where the fish come to life and swim into the sea.
32. The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez.
62. When they had gone further, 'Moses' said to his young attendant 'Joshua': "Bring to us our morning meal, we have encountered in this travel33 much fatigue."
33. There are six forms of chivalry. Three of them are for when you are at home and three others are for when you are travelling. The three for when you are at home are: reciting the Qur’an, regularly attending the congregational prayer and promoting God's Mosques and making friends for the sake of God. The three for when you are travelling are: to give to others from your own travel provisions, being good-tempered and joking regarding things other than acts of disobedience.
63. 'Joshua' said: "Did you see when we betook ourselves to the rock for a rest, then I forgot the fish, and nothing made me forget to mention it except Satan34 - and it took its course into the sea amazingly.
34. Satan was eager to make him forget about this amazing incident knowing that the meeting of these two pious highly-knowledgeable servants, that is Moses and Al-Khidr, would result in yet greater knowledge.
66. Moses said to him: "May I follow you35, on condition that you should teach me of the right Knowledge from what you have been taught?"
35. Moses here gives a valuable lesson of showing humbleness to those who have greater knowledge than one’s self. He sought permission to be a follower of Al-Khiḍr’s and asked him to teach him.
71. So they went on 'their way' until when they embarked on a boat 'to cross the river', he made a hole in it. 'Moses' said: "Have you made a hole in it to drown its people? You have done a grievous thing."
73. 'Moses' said: "Blame me not for what I forgot36, and do not be hard on me."
36. Muhammad, God's Messenger said: "The first excuse given by Moses, was that he had forgotten, while they were in the ship. Then a sparrow came and sat over the edge of the ship and dipped its beak once in the sea. Al-Khidr said to Moses, "My knowledge and your knowledge, compared to Allâh’s Knowledge is like what this sparrow has taken out of the sea."
74. So they went on till, when they met a boy, he killed him37. (Moses) said: "Have you killed an innocent person who had killed none? You have done an evil thing."
37. Even though the parents were believers, the son was to become a disbeliever, and it was feared that he would make them fall into disbelief out of their love for him.
77. So they went on, until when they came upon some villagers, they asked them for food, but they refused to entertain them as guests. They then found a wall therein which was on the point of falling down, so he put it into a right state38. 'Moses' said: "If you had wished, you could have taken payment for it."
38. Allāh has filled man with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship. David built houses for himself and he prepared a place for the ark of Allāh and pitched a tent for it. Allāh made also pliable for him iron. Zakariyya was a carpenter. This also states the virtue of Zakariyya peace be upon him for he would eat through earning a livelihood which Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) termed as ‘the best thing a man can eat. Jesus was labourer. Or one who works with his hands. prophets Moses and Muhammad worked as shepherds. We read from this verse also that Al-Khidr found a wall which was on the point of falling down, so he put it into a right state.
In every profession you choose to work you must be skillful or you cannot excel in life.
78. 'Al-Khidr' said: "This is the parting between me and you; now I will inform you of the interpretation of that with which you could not have patience.
79. As for the boat, it belonged to 'some' poor men who worked at sea, and I wished that I should damage it, as there was after them a king, who was taking every 'good' boat by force.
82. As for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them, and their father was a righteous man. So your Lord desired that they should attain their maturity, and take out their treasure, a Mercy from 'Allāh' your Lord, and I did not do it of my own accord. This is the interpretation of that with which you could not have patience."
84. Indeed, We established him in the Land38 and granted him means of access to everything39.
38. From Persia to the Black Sea on one side, and from Asian Turkey to Afghanistan and Baluchistan on the other.
39. He was endowed with all means necessary to achieve his endeavors; soldiers, weaponry, know-how, and the fear he struck in the hearts of enemies, etc.
86. Until when he reached the place where the sun set, he found it setting in a muddy spring (a dark, murky water), and found by it a people 'given to every kind of wrongdoing'. 'Allāh' said: "O Zulqarnain, either give them a chastisement or treat them with goodness."
87. He said: "As to him who does iniquity 'idolatry', we shall chastise him, then he will be returned to his Lord 'Allāh', and He will chastise him with an exemplary Chastisement "in Hellfire'."
88. But as for him who believes and does 'what is' right 'and just', he will have a goodly reward 'of Paradise' and we shall speak to him an easy word of our command.
94. They said: "O Zulqarnain, Gog and Magog make corruption in the land42. Shall we then pay you a tribute in order that you may erect a barrier between us and them."
42. Gog and Magog are two tribes from among the sons of Adam coming from the uttermost part of the North of Palestine. They have wide faces and small eyes. They used to spread mischief on earth, so Allāh gave Dhu’l-Qarnayn the power to build a barrier to detain them. They will keep on digging at it until Allāh gives them permission to come out at the end of time, after Jesus (peace be upon him) has killed the Antichrist. Gog and Magog will emerge in huge numbers and will drink up the lake of Tiberias (in Palestine). They will spread mischief on earth and no one will be able to resist them. Jesus (peace be upon him) and the believers with him will take refuge in Mount Tur until Allāh destroys Gog and Magog by sending worms that will eat their necks. Then Allāh will send rain to wash away their bodies into the sea and cleanse the earth of their stench.
95. He said: "That in which 'Allāh' my Lord has established me is better 'than your tribute', so help me only with manpower, I will make between you and them a dam."
96. Bring me blocks of iron; until when he had filled up the space between the two mountain sides, he said: "Blow", until when he had made it as fire, he said: "Bring me molten brass which I may pour over it."
98. 'Zulqarnain' said: "This is a Mercy from 'Allāh' my Lord, but when the Promise of my Lord comes to pass He will make it level with the ground. For the Promise of my Lord is ever true."
102. Do then those who deny 'the Truth' think that they can take any of My servants for guardians 'protectors, saviors' instead of Me? We have prepared Hell as a dwelling place for the deniers.
104. 'They are' those whose labor has gone astray in 'pursuit of no more than' this worldly life, and they think that they are doing good by their work.
105. These are the ones who deny the revelations of their Lord 'Allāh' and His Meeting, so their deeds are in vain44, and We shall not assign any weight 'value' for them on the Day of Resurrection.
44. For the acceptance of the righteous deeds it is stipulated that the following two basic conditions must be fulfilled: (a) The intentions while doing such deeds must be totally for Allah’s ’s sake only without any show-off or to gain praise or fame. (b) Such a deed must be performed in accordance with the Sunnah of Allah’s Messenger Muhammad bin ‘Abdullâh, the last of the Prophets and the Messengers.
Muhammad, God's Messenger said: "If somebody innovates something which is not present in our religion (of Islâmic Monotheism), then that thing will be rejected."
He also said: "Whoever performs a 'good' deed which we have not ordered anyone to do 'or is not in accord with our religion of Islâmic Monotheism', then that deed will be rejected and will not be accepted."
106. That is their recompense, Gehinnom 'Hell', as they denied 'the Truth' and took My revelations and messengers as mockery45.
45. The deniers have to choose the path they take for themselves. Having received knowledge in great detail of both the path of Doom and that of pleasure as depicted in this Chapter as well as throughout the Qur’an so that they might open up their hearts to the Call of Faith, Islam.
109. Say: "If the sea were ink for the words of 'Allāh' my Lord46, the sea would surely be consumed before the words of my Lord are exhausted, though We were to bring the like of that 'sea' in supplement."
46. I.e., His unlimited Knowledge, or words describing His attributes and His grandeur.
110. Say 'Muhammad': "I am only a mortal man like you47; but it has been revealed to me that your God is only One God 'Allāh'. So whoever hopes to meet his Lord, should do righteous deeds, and not associate anyone in the worship of his Lord 'Allāh' 48.
47. They are to realize that Muhammad, the Noble Messenger of God (ﷺ) is no more than a mere human like any other who knows nothing of the knowledge of the Unseen except what Allāh reveals to him, so that they need not expect more from him than what is Divinely revealed. The most prominent piece of knowledge of what is revealed to him, is that God is One and Only. So that they should associate none with Him in worship as partners.
48. Muhammad, God's Messenger reported that Allāh said: “I am most independent and free from needing partners. Whoever performs a good deed while associating partners with Me, I will leave him and his setting up of associates to Me.”
A companion of the Prophet said: Muhammad, the Messenger of God (ﷺ) came out to us when we were discussing the False Christ and said: ‘Shall I not tell you of that which I fear more for you than the False Christ?’ We said: ‘Yes.’ He said: ‘Hidden polytheism, when a man stands to pray and makes it look good because he sees a man looking at him.’”
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