Surah Yaseen

ٱتَّبِعُوا۟مَنلَّايَسْـَٔلُكُمْأَجْرًۭاوَهُممُّهْتَدُونَ

Follow those who ask no reward of you, and themselves are rightly guided!

وَمَالِىَلَآأَعْبُدُٱلَّذِىفَطَرَنِىوَإِلَيْهِتُرْجَعُونَ

“[As for me,] why should I not worship Him who has brought me into being, and to whom you all will be brought back?

ءَأَتَّخِذُمِندُونِهِۦٓءَالِهَةًإِنيُرِدْنِٱلرَّحْمَٰنُبِضُرٍّۢلَّاتُغْنِعَنِّىشَفَٰعَتُهُمْشَيْـًۭٔاوَلَايُنقِذُونِ

Should I take to worship­ping [other] deities beside Him? [But then,] if the Most Gracious should will that harm befall me, their intercession could not in the least avail me, nor could they save me:

إِنِّىٓإِذًۭالَّفِىضَلَٰلٍۢمُّبِينٍ

and so, behold, I would have indeed, most obviously, lost myself in error!

إِنِّىٓءَامَنتُبِرَبِّكُمْفَٱسْمَعُونِ

“Verily, [O my people,] in the Sustainer of you all have I come to believe: listen, then, to me!”

قِيلَٱدْخُلِٱلْجَنَّةَقَالَيَٰلَيْتَقَوْمِىيَعْلَمُونَ

[And] he was told, “[Thou shalt] enter paradise!” - [whereupon] he exclaimed: “Would that my people knew

بِمَاغَفَرَلِىرَبِّىوَجَعَلَنِىمِنَٱلْمُكْرَمِينَ

how my Sustainer has forgiven me [the sins of my past], and has placed me among the honoured ones!”

وَمَآأَنزَلْنَاعَلَىٰقَوْمِهِۦمِنۢبَعْدِهِۦمِنجُندٍۢمِّنَٱلسَّمَآءِوَمَاكُنَّامُنزِلِينَ

And after that, no host out of heaven did We send down against his people, nor did We need to send down any:

إِنكَانَتْإِلَّاصَيْحَةًۭوَٰحِدَةًۭفَإِذَاهُمْخَٰمِدُونَ

nothing was [needed] but one single blast [of Our punishment] - and lo! they became as still and silent as ashes.

يَٰحَسْرَةًعَلَىٱلْعِبَادِمَايَأْتِيهِممِّنرَّسُولٍإِلَّاكَانُوا۟بِهِۦيَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

OH, THE REGRETS that [most] human beings will have to bear! Never has an apostle come to them without their deriding him!

أَلَمْيَرَوْا۟كَمْأَهْلَكْنَاقَبْلَهُممِّنَٱلْقُرُونِأَنَّهُمْإِلَيْهِمْلَايَرْجِعُونَ

Are they not aware of how many a generation We have destroyed before their time, [and] that those [that have perished] will never return to them,

وَإِنكُلٌّۭلَّمَّاجَمِيعٌۭلَّدَيْنَامُحْضَرُونَ

and [that] all of them, all together, will [in the end] before Us be arraigned?

وَءَايَةٌۭلَّهُمُٱلْأَرْضُٱلْمَيْتَةُأَحْيَيْنَٰهَاوَأَخْرَجْنَامِنْهَاحَبًّۭافَمِنْهُيَأْكُلُونَ

And [yet,] they have a sign [of Our power to create and to resurrect] in the lifeless earth which We make alive, and out of which We bring forth grain, whereof they may eat;

وَجَعَلْنَافِيهَاجَنَّٰتٍۢمِّننَّخِيلٍۢوَأَعْنَٰبٍۢوَفَجَّرْنَافِيهَامِنَٱلْعُيُونِ

and [how] We make gardens of date-palms and vines [grow] thereon, and cause springs to gush [forth] within it,

لِيَأْكُلُوا۟مِنثَمَرِهِۦوَمَاعَمِلَتْهُأَيْدِيهِمْأَفَلَايَشْكُرُونَ

so that they may eat of the fruit thereof, though it was not their hands that made it. Will they not, then, be grateful?

سُبْحَٰنَٱلَّذِىخَلَقَٱلْأَزْوَٰجَكُلَّهَامِمَّاتُنۢبِتُٱلْأَرْضُوَمِنْأَنفُسِهِمْوَمِمَّالَايَعْلَمُونَ

Limitless in His glory is He who has created opposites in whatever the earth produces, and in men’s own selves, and in that of which [as yet] they have no knowledge.

وَءَايَةٌۭلَّهُمُٱلَّيْلُنَسْلَخُمِنْهُٱلنَّهَارَفَإِذَاهُممُّظْلِمُونَ

And [of Our sway over all that exists] they have a sign in the night: We withdraw from it the [light of] day - and lo! they are in darkness.

وَٱلشَّمْسُتَجْرِىلِمُسْتَقَرٍّۢلَّهَاذَٰلِكَتَقْدِيرُٱلْعَزِيزِٱلْعَلِيمِ

And [they have a sign in] the sun: it runs in an orbit of its own [and] that is laid down by the will of the Almighty, the All-Knowing;

وَٱلْقَمَرَقَدَّرْنَٰهُمَنَازِلَحَتَّىٰعَادَكَٱلْعُرْجُونِٱلْقَدِيمِ

and [in] the moon, for which We have determined phases [which it must traverse] till it becomes like an old date-stalk, dried-up and curved:

لَاٱلشَّمْسُيَنۢبَغِىلَهَآأَنتُدْرِكَٱلْقَمَرَوَلَاٱلَّيْلُسَابِقُٱلنَّهَارِوَكُلٌّۭفِىفَلَكٍۢيَسْبَحُونَ

[and] neither may the sun overtake the moon, nor can the night usurp the time of day, since all of them float through space [in accordance with Our laws].