Audio: Al-Hijr – The Rock (GOD Version)
Length: 8 mins, 51 secs
In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
15:1. Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the Verses of the Book; a Quran that makes things clear.
15:2. Perhaps those who disbelieve will wish they had been Muslims.
15:3. Leave them to eat, and enjoy, and be lulled by hope. They will find out.
15:4. We have never destroyed a town unless it had a set time.
15:5. No nation can bring its time forward, nor can they delay it.
15:6. And they said, “O you who received the message, you are insane.”
15:7. Why do you not bring us the angels, if you are truthful?”
15:8. We do not send the angels down except with reason, and they will not be held back.
15:9. Surely We revealed the Message, and We will surely preserve it.
15:10. We sent others before you, to the former communities.
15:11. But no messenger came to them, but they ridiculed him.
15:12. Thus We slip it into the hearts of the guilty.
15:13. They do not believe in it, though the ways of the ancients have passed away.
15:14. Even if We opened for them a gateway into the sky, and they began to ascend through it.
15:15. They would still say, “Our eyes are hallucinating; in fact, we are people bewitched.”
15:16. We placed constellations in the sky, and made them beautiful to the beholders.
15:17. And We guarded them from every outcast devil.
15:18. Except one who steals a hearing, and is followed by a visible projectile.
15:19. We spread the earth, and placed stabilizers in it, and in it We grew all things in proper measure.
15:20. And in it We created livelihoods for you, and for those for whom you are not the providers.
15:21. There is not a thing but with Us are its stores, and We send it down only in precise measure.
15:22. We send the fertilizing winds; and send down water from the sky, and give it to you to drink, and you are not the ones who store it.
15:23. It is We who give life and cause death, and We are the Inheritors.
15:24. And We know those of you who go forward, and We know those who lag behind.
15:25. It is your Lord who will gather them together. He is the Wise, the Knowing.
15:26. We created the human being from clay, from molded mud.
15:27. And the jinn We created before, from piercing fire.
15:28. Your Lord said to the angels, “I am creating a human being from clay, from molded mud.”
15:29. “When I have formed him, and breathed into him of My spirit, fall down prostrating before him.”
15:30. So the angels prostrated themselves, all together.
15:31. Except for Satan. He refused to be among those who prostrated themselves.
15:32. He said, “O Satan, what kept you from being among those who prostrated themselves?”
15:33. He said, “I am not about to prostrate myself before a human being, whom You created from clay, from molded mud.”
15:34. He said, “Then get out of here, for you are an outcast”.
15:35. “And the curse will be upon you until the Day of Judgment.”
15:36. He said, “My Lord, reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected.”
15:37. He said, “You are of those reprieved.”
15:38. “Until the Day of the time appointed.”
15:39. He said, “My Lord, since You have lured me away, I will glamorize for them on earth, and I will lure them all away.”
15:40. “Except for Your sincere servants among them.”
15:41. He said, “This is a right way with Me.”
15:42. “Over My servants you have no authority, except for the sinners who follow you.”
15:43. And Hell is the meeting-place for them all.
15:44. “It has seven doors; for each door is an assigned class.”
15:45. But the righteous will be in gardens with springs.
15:46. “Enter it in peace and security.”
15:47. And We will remove all ill-feelings from their hearts—brothers and sisters, on couches facing one another.
15:48. No fatigue will ever touch them therein, nor will they be asked to leave it.
15:49. Inform My servants that I am the Forgiver, the Merciful.
15:50. And that My punishment is the painful punishment.
15:51. And inform them of the guests of Abraham.
15:52. When they entered upon him, and said, “Peace.” He said, “We are wary of you.”
15:53. They said, “Do not fear; we bring you good news of a boy endowed with knowledge.”
15:54. He said, “Do you bring me good news, when old age has overtaken me? What good news do you bring?”
15:55. They said, “We bring you good news in truth, so do not despair.”
15:56. He said, “And who despairs of his Lord’s mercy but the lost?”
15:57. He said, “So what is your business, O envoys?”
15:58. They said, “We were sent to a sinful people.”
15:59. “Except for the family of Lot; we will save them all.”
15:60. “Except for his wife.” We have determined that she will be of those who lag behind.
15:61. And when the envoys came to the family of Lot.
15:62. He said, “You are a people unknown to me.”
15:63. They said, “We bring you what they have doubts about.”
15:64. “We bring you the truth, and we are truthful.”
15:65. “Travel with your family at the dead of the night, and follow up behind them, and let none of you look back, and proceed as commanded.”
15:66. And We informed him of Our decree: the last remnant of these will be uprooted by early morning.
15:67. And the people of the town came joyfully.
15:68. He said, “These are my guests, so do not embarrass me.”
15:69. “And fear God, and do not disgrace me.”
15:70. They said, “Did we not forbid you from strangers?”
15:71. He said, “These are my daughters, if you must.”
15:72. By your life, they were blundering in their drunkenness.
15:73. So the Blast struck them at sunrise.
15:74. And We turned it upside down, and rained down upon them stones of baked clay.
15:75. Surely in that are lessons for those who read signs.
15:76. And it is on an existing road.
15:77. Surely in that is a sign for the believers.
15:78. The people of the Woods were also wrongdoers.
15:79. So We took revenge upon them. Both are clearly documented.
15:80. The people of the Rock also rejected the messengers.
15:81. We gave them Our revelations, but they turned away from them.
15:82. They used to carve homes in the mountains, feeling secure.
15:83. But the Blast struck them in the morning.
15:84. All they had acquired was of no avail to them.
15:85. We did not create the heavens and the earth, and what lies between them, except with truth. The Hour is coming, so forgive with gracious forgiveness.
15:86. Your Lord is the All-Knowing Creator.
15:87. We have given you seven of the pairs, and the Grand Quran.
15:88. Do not extend your eyes towards what We have bestowed on some couples of them to enjoy, and do not grieve over them, and lower your wing to the believers.
15:89. And say, “I am the clear warner.”
15:90. Just as We sent down to the separatists.
15:91. Those who made the Quran obsolete.
15:92. By your Lord, we will question them all.
15:93. About what they used to do.
15:94. So proclaim openly what you are commanded, and turn away from the polytheists.
15:95. We are enough for you against the mockers.
15:96. Those who set up another god with God. They will come to know.
15:97. We are aware that your heart is strained by what they say.
15:98. So glorify the praise of your Lord, and be among those who bow down.
15:99. And worship your Lord in order to attain certainty.