Sura 55, Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan) Quran The Final Testament, translated by Rashad Khalifa, Ph.D.

In the Name of God Most Gracious Most Merciful

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Sura 55, Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan), Quran, Khalifa translation

Sura 55, Most Gracious (Al-Rahmaan)

[55:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

[55:1] The Most Gracious.

[55:2] Teacher of the Quran.

[55:3] Creator of the human beings.

[55:4] He taught them how to distinguish.

[55:5] The sun and the moon are perfectly calculated.

[55:6] The stars and the trees prostrate.

[55:7] He constructed the sky and established the law.

[55:8] You shall not transgress the law.

[55:9] You shall establish justice; do not violate the law.

[55:10] He created the earth for all creatures.

[55:11] In it there are fruits, and date palms with their hanging fruit.*
Footnote

[55:12] Also grains and the spices.

[55:13] (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:14] He created the human from aged clay, like the potter's clay.

[55:15] And created the jinns from blazing fire.

[55:16] (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:17] Lord of the two easts and the two wests.

[55:18] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:19] He separates the two seas where they meet.

[55:20] A barrier is placed between them, to prevent them from transgressing.

[55:21] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:22] Out of both of them you get pearls and coral.

[55:23] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:24] He gave you ships that roam the sea like flags.

[55:25] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:26] Everyone on earth perishes.

[55:27] Only the presence of your Lord lasts. Possessor of Majesty and Honor.

[55:28] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:29] Imploring Him is everyone in the heavens and the earth. Every day He is in full control.

[55:30] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:31] We will call you to account, O humans and jinns.

[55:32] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:33] O you jinns and humans, if you can penetrate the outer limits of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and penetrate. You cannot penetrate without authorization.

[55:34] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:35] You get bombarded with projectiles of fire and metal, and you cannot win.

[55:36] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:37] When the sky disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint.

[55:38] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:39] On that day, no human, nor a jinn, will be asked about his sins.

[55:40] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:41] (This is because) the guilty will be recognized by their looks; they will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.

[55:42] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:43] This is Gehenna that the guilty used to deny.

[55:44] They will circulate between it and an intolerable inferno.*
Footnote

[55:45] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:46] For those who reverence the majesty of their Lord, two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).

[55:47] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:48] Full of provisions.

[55:49] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:50] Two springs are in them, flowing.

[55:51] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:52] Of every fruit in them, two kinds.

[55:53] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:54] While relaxing on furnishings lined with satin, the fruits are within reach.

[55:55] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:56] Their beautiful mates were never touched by any human or jinn.

[55:57] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:58] They look like gems and coral.

[55:59] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:60] Is the reward of goodness anything but goodness?

[55:61] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:62] Below them are two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).

[55:63] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:64] Side by side.

[55:65] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:66] In them, wells to be pumped.

[55:67] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:68] In them are fruits, date palms, and pomegranate.

[55:69] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:70] In them are beautiful mates.

[55:71] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:72] Confined in the tents.

[55:73] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:74] No human ever touched them, nor a jinn.

[55:75] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:76] They relax on green carpets, in beautiful surroundings.

[55:77] Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?

[55:78] Most exalted is the name of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor.

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