Az-Zukhruf
الزخرف
The Ornaments of Gold · 89 ayahs
- 1
حمٓ
Ha'. Mim.
- 2
وَٱلْكِتَـٰبِ ٱلْمُبِينِ
By the Clear Book;
- 3
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَـٰهُ قُرْءَٰنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ
verily We have made it an Arabic Qur'an that you may understand.
- 4
وَإِنَّهُۥ فِىٓ أُمِّ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ لَدَيْنَا لَعَلِىٌّ حَكِيمٌ
Indeed it is transcribed in the Original Book with Us; sublime and full of wisdom.
- 5
أَفَنَضْرِبُ عَنكُمُ ٱلذِّكْرَ صَفْحًا أَن كُنتُمْ قَوْمًا مُّسْرِفِينَ
Should We divert this Good Counsel from you because you are a people immersed in extravagance?
- 6
وَكَمْ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن نَّبِىٍّ فِى ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
How many a Prophet did We send to the earlier peoples!
- 7
وَمَا يَأْتِيهِم مِّن نَّبِىٍّ إِلَّا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ
Yet never did a Prophet come to them but they mocked him.
- 8
فَأَهْلَكْنَآ أَشَدَّ مِنْهُم بَطْشًا وَمَضَىٰ مَثَلُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
We utterly destroyed them although they were greater in might than these. The examples of ancient peoples have gone before.
- 9
وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُم مَّنْ خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ لَيَقُولُنَّ خَلَقَهُنَّ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ
Yet if you were to ask them: “Who created the heavens and the earth?” they will certainly say: “The All-Mighty, the All-Knowing has created them.”
- 10
ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ مَهْدًا وَجَعَلَ لَكُمْ فِيهَا سُبُلًا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ
He it is Who made this earth for you a cradle and made in it pathways for you that you may find the way to your destination;