Surah 54 of 114 · Makki · 55 ayat
Al-Qamar القمر
The Moon
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٱقْتَرَبَتِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ وَٱنشَقَّ ٱلْقَمَرُ
PickthallThe hour drew nigh and the moon was rent in twain.
Yusuf AliThe Hour (of Judgment) is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder.
The agreed readingThe Hour has drawn near, and the moon has split. Both traditions carry the splitting as a sign given at the Prophet's hand and seen by those present, and the sura opens on it: the Hour named first, and then a thing that had just happened in front of them.
وَإِن يَرَوْا۟ ءَايَةً يُعْرِضُوا۟ وَيَقُولُوا۟ سِحْرٌ مُّسْتَمِرٌّ
PickthallAnd if they behold a portent they turn away and say: Prolonged illusion.
Yusuf AliBut if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is (but) transient magic."
The agreed readingAnd if they see a sign they turn away and say: sorcery, and a lasting one. The commentaries gloss the word that follows as firm and continuing, so the charge is not that the sign was slight but that it was a strong working of the same kind they already refused.
وَكَذَّبُوا۟ وَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَهْوَآءَهُمْ وَكُلُّ أَمْرٍ مُّسْتَقِرٌّ
PickthallThey denied (the Truth) and followed their own lusts. Yet everything will come to a decision
Yusuf AliThey reject (the warning) and follow their (own) lusts but every matter has its appointed time.
The agreed readingAnd they denied, and followed their own desires. But every matter comes to rest where it belongs. The commentaries take the last phrase as covering good and evil alike: nothing stays unsettled, and each thing ends with the people it belongs to.
وَلَقَدْ جَآءَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَنۢبَآءِ مَا فِيهِ مُزْدَجَرٌ
PickthallAnd surely there hath come unto them news whereof the purport should deter,
Yusuf AliThere have already come to them Recitals wherein there is (enough) to check (them),
The agreed readingAnd there has already come to them, of the accounts, what carries enough to hold a man back - the reports of the peoples destroyed before them for denying their messengers.
حِكْمَةٌۢ بَٰلِغَةٌ فَمَا تُغْنِ ٱلنُّذُرُ
PickthallEffective wisdom; but warnings avail not.
Yusuf AliMature wisdom;- but (the preaching of) Warners profits them not.
The agreed readingWisdom brought to its full reach. But the warnings avail nothing. The commentaries gloss the first phrase as wisdom complete, with no flaw left in it, and the failure is not in the warning but in the hearing of it.
فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ يَوْمَ يَدْعُ ٱلدَّاعِ إِلَىٰ شَىْءٍ نُّكُرٍ
PickthallSo withdraw from them (O Muhammad) on the day when the Summoner summoneth unto a painful thing.
Yusuf AliTherefore, (O Prophet,) turn away from them. The Day that the Caller will call (them) to a terrible affair,
The agreed readingSo turn away from them. On the day the Caller calls to a thing not known - something the souls of men recoil from because they have met nothing like it before.
خُشَّعًا أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ كَأَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌ مُّنتَشِرٌ
PickthallWith downcast eyes, they come forth from the graves as they were locusts spread abroad,
Yusuf AliThey will come forth,- their eyes humbled - from (their) graves, (torpid) like locusts scattered abroad,
The agreed readingTheir eyes lowered, they come out of the graves like locusts spread abroad. The commentaries take the likeness in three ways at once: their number, the way they move in waves, and their scattering over the ground.
مُّهْطِعِينَ إِلَى ٱلدَّاعِ يَقُولُ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ هَٰذَا يَوْمٌ عَسِرٌ
PickthallHastening toward the summoner; the disbelievers say: This is a hard day.
Yusuf AliHastening, with eyes transfixed, towards the Caller!- "Hard is this Day!", the Unbelievers will say.
The agreed readingHurrying with their necks stretched towards the Caller. Those who refuse say: this is a hard day.
كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ فَكَذَّبُوا۟ عَبْدَنَا وَقَالُوا۟ مَجْنُونٌ وَٱزْدُجِرَ
PickthallThe folk of Noah denied before them, yea, they denied Our slave and said: A madman; and he was repulsed.
Yusuf AliBefore them the People of Noah rejected (their messenger): they rejected Our servant, and said, "Here is one possessed!", and he was driven out.
The agreed readingThe people of Noah denied before them. They denied Our servant and said: a madman - and he was driven off. The commentaries gloss the last word as being rebuked and harried, and one tradition adds that they meant to stone him.
فَدَعَا رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنِّى مَغْلُوبٌ فَٱنتَصِرْ
PickthallSo he cried unto his Lord, saying: I am vanquished, so give help.
Yusuf AliThen he called on his Lord: "I am one overcome: do Thou then help (me)!"
The agreed readingSo he called on his Lord: I am overcome, so help me. The commentaries place this at the end of a long calling, after he had given up hope of them.
فَفَتَحْنَآ أَبْوَٰبَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَآءٍ مُّنْهَمِرٍ
PickthallThen opened We the gates of heaven with pouring water
Yusuf AliSo We opened the gates of heaven, with water pouring forth.
The agreed readingSo We opened the gates of the sky with water pouring down - poured out hard and without stopping, as the commentaries gloss the word.
وَفَجَّرْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ عُيُونًا فَٱلْتَقَى ٱلْمَآءُ عَلَىٰٓ أَمْرٍ قَدْ قُدِرَ
PickthallAnd caused the earth to gush forth springs, so that the waters met for a predestined purpose.
Yusuf AliAnd We caused the earth to gush forth with springs, so the waters met (and rose) to the extent decreed.
The agreed readingAnd We made the earth burst open with springs, and the waters met for a matter already decreed. The commentaries name the two waters plainly - the water of the sky and the water of the earth - and the matter decreed as the drowning that had been settled long before.
وَحَمَلْنَٰهُ عَلَىٰ ذَاتِ أَلْوَٰحٍ وَدُسُرٍ
PickthallAnd We carried him upon a thing of planks and nails,
Yusuf AliBut We bore him on an (Ark) made of broad planks and caulked with palm-fibre:
The agreed readingAnd We carried him on a thing of planks and nails. The commentaries gloss the second word as what the planks are bound with, the nails that hold a ship together.
تَجْرِى بِأَعْيُنِنَا جَزَآءً لِّمَن كَانَ كُفِرَ
PickthallThat ran (upon the waters) in Our sight, as a reward for him who was rejected.
Yusuf AliShe floats under our eyes (and care): a recompense to one who had been rejected (with scorn)!
The agreed readingRunning before Our eyes - kept and watched over, as the commentaries gloss it - as a repayment for the one who had been rejected.
وَلَقَد تَّرَكْنَٰهَآ ءَايَةً فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
PickthallAnd verily We left it as a token; but is there any that remembereth?
Yusuf AliAnd We have left this as a Sign (for all time): then is there any that will receive admonition?
The agreed readingAnd We left it as a sign. So is there anyone who will take heed? The commentaries say what was left: the account of it, which spread and stayed, so that the sign outlived the flood itself.
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
PickthallThen see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings!
Yusuf AliBut how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning?
The agreed readingSo how were My punishment and My warnings? The question is put to bring the hearer to admit what he already knows - that the punishment fell exactly where the warning had said it would.
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
PickthallAnd in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
Yusuf AliAnd We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
The agreed readingAnd We have made the Qur'an easy for remembrance. So is there anyone who will take heed? The commentaries gloss the ease in two ways together: easy to hold in the memory, and made ready to be taken to heart.
كَذَّبَتْ عَادٌ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
Pickthall(The tribe of) A'ad rejected warnings. Then how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings.
Yusuf AliThe 'Ad (people) (too) rejected (Truth): then how terrible was My Penalty and My Warning?
The agreed readingAd denied. So how were My punishment and My warnings? The commentaries name the prophet they turned from as Hud, and the line that follows sets out exactly what came down on them.
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا فِى يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ مُّسْتَمِرٍّ
PickthallLo! We let loose on them a raging wind on a day of constant calamity,
Yusuf AliFor We sent against them a furious wind, on a Day of violent Disaster,
The agreed readingWe sent against them a screaming wind, on a day of unrelieved misfortune. The commentaries gloss the wind by its sound and its violence together, and the day by a misfortune that did not let up.
تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ مُّنقَعِرٍ
PickthallSweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees.
Yusuf AliPlucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).
The agreed readingTearing men away as though they were the uprooted trunks of palm trees - pulled out of the hollows they had dug themselves into.
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
PickthallThen see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings!
Yusuf AliYea, how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning!
The agreed readingSo how were My punishment and My warnings? The question falls after the account and not before it, so that a hearer answers it out of what he has just been told rather than out of anything he is asked to take on trust.
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
PickthallAnd in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
Yusuf AliBut We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
The agreed readingAnd We have made the Qur'an easy for remembrance. So is there anyone who will take heed?
كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِٱلنُّذُرِ
Pickthall(The tribe of) Thamud rejected warnings
Yusuf AliThe Thamud (also) rejected (their) Warners.
The agreed readingThamud denied the warnings - the things their prophet had warned them of if they would not believe him and follow him.
فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَبَشَرًا مِّنَّا وَٰحِدًا نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذًا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍ وَسُعُرٍ
PickthallFor they said; Is it a mortal man, alone among us, that we are to follow? Then indeed we should fall into error and madness.
Yusuf AliFor they said: "What! a man! a Solitary one from among ourselves! shall we follow such a one? Truly should we then be straying in mind, and mad!
The agreed readingAnd they said: a man, one of us, alone - are we to follow him? Then we would be in error and madness. The word they used is their own, and the commentaries gloss it here as madness; it returns later in the sura in another sense entirely.
أَءُلْقِىَ ٱلذِّكْرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنۢ بَيْنِنَا بَلْ هُوَ كَذَّابٌ أَشِرٌ
PickthallHath the remembrance been given unto him alone among us? Nay, but he is a rash liar.
Yusuf Ali"Is it that the Message is sent to him, of all people amongst us? Nay, he is a liar, an insolent one!"
The agreed readingHas the remembrance been thrown to him out of all of us? No - he is a brazen liar. The objection is not to the message but to the messenger being one of themselves and no more than one.
سَيَعْلَمُونَ غَدًا مَّنِ ٱلْكَذَّابُ ٱلْأَشِرُ
Pickthall(Unto their warner it was said): To-morrow they will know who is the rash liar.
Yusuf AliAh! they will know on the morrow, which is the liar, the insolent one!
The agreed readingTomorrow they will know who the brazen liar is. The commentaries read it as the answer given to their prophet, and as a warning of what was already close.
إِنَّا مُرْسِلُوا۟ ٱلنَّاقَةِ فِتْنَةً لَّهُمْ فَٱرْتَقِبْهُمْ وَٱصْطَبِرْ
PickthallLo! We are sending the she-camel as a test for them; so watch them and have patience;
Yusuf AliFor We will send the she-camel by way of trial for them. So watch them, (O Salih), and possess thyself in patience!
The agreed readingWe are sending the she-camel as a trial for them - a test, the commentaries gloss, brought out to them as they had asked. So watch them, and be patient.
وَنَبِّئْهُمْ أَنَّ ٱلْمَآءَ قِسْمَةٌۢ بَيْنَهُمْ كُلُّ شِرْبٍ مُّحْتَضَرٌ
PickthallAnd inform them that the water is to be shared between (her and) them. Every drinking will be witnessed.
Yusuf AliAnd tell them that the water is to be divided between them: Each one's right to drink being brought forward (by suitable turns).
The agreed readingAnd tell them the water is divided between them: each share of it comes when its turn comes. The commentaries set it out plainly - a day for them and a day for her, and each drinking attended in its place.
فَنَادَوْا۟ صَاحِبَهُمْ فَتَعَاطَىٰ فَعَقَرَ
PickthallBut they call their comrade and he took and hamstrung (her).
Yusuf AliBut they called to their companion, and he took a sword in hand, and hamstrung (her).
The agreed readingBut they called their companion, and he took up the sword and hamstrung her - acting for all of them, and with their agreement.
فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
PickthallThen see how (dreadful) was My punishment after My warnings!
Yusuf AliAh! how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning!
The agreed readingSo how were My punishment and My warnings? The same question is put a second time, now of Thamud, and as before the answer is given in the line that comes straight after it.
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةً وَٰحِدَةً فَكَانُوا۟ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ
PickthallLo! We sent upon them one Shout, and they became as the dry twigs (rejected by) the builder of a cattle-fold.
Yusuf AliFor We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle.
The agreed readingWe sent against them a single Shout, and they became like the dry stubble of a man who builds a pen. The commentaries explain the likeness: the broken thorn and brushwood a herdsman gathers to fence his flock, trampled and crumbled to nothing.
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
PickthallAnd in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
Yusuf AliAnd We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
The agreed readingAnd We have made the Qur'an easy for remembrance. So is there anyone who will take heed?
كَذَّبَتْ قَوْمُ لُوطٍۭ بِٱلنُّذُرِ
PickthallThe folk of Lot rejected warnings.
Yusuf AliThe people of Lut rejected (his) warning.
The agreed readingThe people of Lot denied the warnings. The commentaries gloss the word here in two ways that come to one thing: the things they were warned of, and the messengers who brought the warning on his tongue.
إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حَاصِبًا إِلَّآ ءَالَ لُوطٍ نَّجَّيْنَٰهُم بِسَحَرٍ
PickthallLo! We sent a storm of stones upon them (all) save the family of Lot, whom We rescued in the last watch of the night,
Yusuf AliWe sent against them a violent Tornado with showers of stones, (which destroyed them), except Lut's household: them We delivered by early Dawn,-
The agreed readingWe sent against them a storm of stones - all but the family of Lot, whom We saved in the last watch of the night, before the dawn came.
نِّعْمَةً مِّنْ عِندِنَا كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى مَن شَكَرَ
PickthallAs grace from Us. Thus We reward him who giveth thanks.
Yusuf AliAs a Grace from Us: thus do We reward those who give thanks.
The agreed readingAs a favour from Us. So do We repay whoever gives thanks. The commentaries read the thanks as belief and obedience, not words alone.
وَلَقَدْ أَنذَرَهُم بَطْشَتَنَا فَتَمَارَوْا۟ بِٱلنُّذُرِ
PickthallAnd he indeed had warned them of Our blow, but they did doubt the warnings.
Yusuf AliAnd (Lut) did warn them of Our Punishment, but they disputed about the Warning.
The agreed readingAnd he had warned them of Our seizing them, but they disputed the warnings and would not have them.
وَلَقَدْ رَٰوَدُوهُ عَن ضَيْفِهِۦ فَطَمَسْنَآ أَعْيُنَهُمْ فَذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
PickthallThey even asked of him his guests for an ill purpose. Then We blinded their eyes (and said): Taste now My punishment after My warnings!
Yusuf AliAnd they even sought to snatch away his guests from him, but We blinded their eyes. (They heard:) "Now taste ye My Wrath and My Warning."
The agreed readingAnd they demanded his guests of him, so We blotted out their eyes. Then taste My punishment and My warnings. The commentaries note that the guests were angels, though those who came for them did not know it.
وَلَقَدْ صَبَّحَهُم بُكْرَةً عَذَابٌ مُّسْتَقِرٌّ
PickthallAnd in truth the punishment decreed befell them early in the morning.
Yusuf AliEarly on the morrow an abiding Punishment seized them:
The agreed readingAnd in the early morning a settled punishment came upon them - settled, the commentaries gloss, because it runs on and joins the punishment of the world to come.
فَذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ
PickthallNow taste My punishment after My warnings!
Yusuf Ali"So taste ye My Wrath and My Warning."
The agreed readingSo taste My punishment and My warnings. The commentaries account for the repeating: the first came with the blotting out of their eyes, the second with the overturning of the towns, and each fresh punishment brings its own rebuke with it.
وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
PickthallAnd in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
Yusuf AliAnd We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
The agreed readingAnd We have made the Qur'an easy for remembrance. So is there anyone who will take heed? The commentaries explain why the line returns after every account: each denial of a messenger brought the same end, and each telling is meant to wake the hearer again before he grows used to it.
وَلَقَدْ جَآءَ ءَالَ فِرْعَوْنَ ٱلنُّذُرُ
PickthallAnd warnings came in truth unto the house of Pharaoh
Yusuf AliTo the People of Pharaoh, too, aforetime, came Warners (from Allah).
The agreed readingAnd the warnings came to the house of Pharaoh, on the tongues of Moses and Aaron, and they did not believe.
كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا كُلِّهَا فَأَخَذْنَٰهُمْ أَخْذَ عَزِيزٍ مُّقْتَدِرٍ
PickthallWho denied Our revelations, every one. Therefore We grasped them with the grasp of the Mighty, the Powerful.
Yusuf AliThe (people) rejected all Our Signs; but We seized them with such Penalty (as comes) from One Exalted in Power, able to carry out His Will.
The agreed readingThey denied Our signs, all of them, so We seized them with the seizing of One mighty and able - able in a way nothing can escape or make powerless.
أَكُفَّارُكُمْ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكُمْ أَمْ لَكُم بَرَآءَةٌ فِى ٱلزُّبُرِ
PickthallAre your disbelievers better than those, or have ye some immunity in the scriptures?
Yusuf AliAre your Unbelievers, (O Quraish), better than they? Or have ye an immunity in the Sacred Books?
The agreed readingAre those of you who refuse better than those others? Or do you have an exemption written for you in the books? The commentaries put the question at its sharpest: those peoples were not excused, and nothing has been set down that would excuse these.
أَمْ يَقُولُونَ نَحْنُ جَمِيعٌ مُّنتَصِرٌ
PickthallOr say they: We are a host victorious?
Yusuf AliOr do they say: "We acting together can defend ourselves"?
The agreed readingOr do they say: we are a company that will not be overcome? Both traditions attach the boast to a gathering of Quraysh who had agreed among themselves to make an end of the Prophet.
سَيُهْزَمُ ٱلْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّونَ ٱلدُّبُرَ
PickthallThe hosts will all be routed and will turn and flee.
Yusuf AliSoon will their multitude be put to flight, and they will show their backs.
The agreed readingThe company will be routed, and they will turn their backs. Both traditions attach this to the day of Badr, where the boast was made and then broken.
بَلِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَٱلسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَىٰ وَأَمَرُّ
PickthallNay, but the Hour (of doom) is their appointed tryst, and the Hour will be more wretched and more bitter (than their earthly failure).
Yusuf AliNay, the Hour (of Judgment) is the time promised them (for their full recompense): And that Hour will be most grievous and most bitter.
The agreed readingNo - the Hour is their appointed time, and the Hour is a greater calamity and more bitter. The commentaries set the two punishments side by side: what reaches them here is only the front of it.
إِنَّ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍ وَسُعُرٍ
PickthallLo! the guilty are in error and madness.
Yusuf AliTruly those in sin are the ones straying in mind, and mad.
The agreed readingThe guilty are in error and in blazing fires. Here the second word carries the fire, not the madness it meant when they used it of their prophet - one word, two senses, and the commentaries keep them apart.
يَوْمَ يُسْحَبُونَ فِى ٱلنَّارِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ ذُوقُوا۟ مَسَّ سَقَرَ
PickthallOn the day when they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces (it is said unto them): Feel the touch of hell.
Yusuf AliThe Day they will be dragged through the Fire on their faces, (they will hear:) "Taste ye the touch of Hell!"
The agreed readingOn the day they are dragged into the Fire on their faces: taste the touch of Saqar - one of the names of the Fire, as the commentaries gloss it.
إِنَّا كُلَّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقْنَٰهُ بِقَدَرٍ
PickthallLo! We have created every thing by measure.
Yusuf AliVerily, all things have We created in proportion and measure.
The agreed readingWe have created everything by a measure. Nothing was made loosely or left to fall out as it might.
وَمَآ أَمْرُنَآ إِلَّا وَٰحِدَةٌ كَلَمْحٍۭ بِٱلْبَصَرِ
PickthallAnd Our commandment is but one (commandment), as the twinkling of an eye.
Yusuf AliAnd Our Command is but a single (Act),- like the twinkling of an eye.
The agreed readingAnd Our command is only one word, like the blink of an eye. The commentaries name the word: it is Be, and the thing is - and the likeness is for the speed and the ease of it together.
وَلَقَدْ أَهْلَكْنَآ أَشْيَاعَكُمْ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ
PickthallAnd verily We have destroyed your fellows; but is there any that remembereth?
Yusuf AliAnd (oft) in the past, have We destroyed gangs like unto you: then is there any that will receive admonition?
The agreed readingAnd We have destroyed those like you before. So is there anyone who will take heed? The commentaries gloss the word as those who matched them in refusing, among the peoples that have gone.
وَكُلُّ شَىْءٍ فَعَلُوهُ فِى ٱلزُّبُرِ
PickthallAnd every thing they did is in the scriptures,
Yusuf AliAll that they do is noted in (their) Books (of Deeds):
The agreed readingAnd everything they did is in the books - written down, the commentaries say, in the records the angels keep.
وَكُلُّ صَغِيرٍ وَكَبِيرٍ مُّسْتَطَرٌ
PickthallAnd every small and great thing is recorded.
Yusuf AliEvery matter, small and great, is on record.
The agreed readingAnd everything small and great is set down in writing, with nothing too slight to be entered.
إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍ وَنَهَرٍ
PickthallLo! the righteous will dwell among gardens and rivers,
Yusuf AliAs to the Righteous, they will be in the midst of Gardens and Rivers,
The agreed readingThose who guard themselves are in gardens and among rivers. The commentaries gloss the gardens as orchards, and read the single river as standing for the kind rather than the number, since they drink from its waters.
فِى مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ عِندَ مَلِيكٍ مُّقْتَدِرٍۭ
PickthallFirmly established in the favour of a Mighty King.
Yusuf AliIn an Assembly of Truth, in the Presence of a Sovereign Omnipotent.
The agreed readingIn a seat of truth, with a Sovereign who is able. The commentaries gloss the seat as a place where nothing idle is said and nothing that brings sin - the opposite, they note, of the gatherings of this world.