Surah Yaseen

وَأَنِٱعْبُدُونِىهَٰذَاصِرَٰطٌۭمُّسْتَقِيمٌۭ

and that you should worship Me [alone]? This would have been a straight way!

وَلَقَدْأَضَلَّمِنكُمْجِبِلًّۭاكَثِيرًاأَفَلَمْتَكُونُوا۟تَعْقِلُونَ

And [as for Satan -] he had already led astray a great many of you: could you not, then, use your reason?

هَٰذِهِۦجَهَنَّمُٱلَّتِىكُنتُمْتُوعَدُونَ

“This, then, is the hell of which you were warned again and again:

ٱصْلَوْهَاٱلْيَوْمَبِمَاكُنتُمْتَكْفُرُونَ

endure it today as an outcome of your persistent denial of the truth!”

ٱلْيَوْمَنَخْتِمُعَلَىٰٓأَفْوَٰهِهِمْوَتُكَلِّمُنَآأَيْدِيهِمْوَتَشْهَدُأَرْجُلُهُمبِمَاكَانُوا۟يَكْسِبُونَ

On that Day We shall set a seal on their mouths but their hands will speak unto Us, and their feet will bear witness to whatever they have earned [in life].

وَلَوْنَشَآءُلَطَمَسْنَاعَلَىٰٓأَعْيُنِهِمْفَٱسْتَبَقُوا۟ٱلصِّرَٰطَفَأَنَّىٰيُبْصِرُونَ

NOW HAD IT BEEN Our will [that men should not be able to discern between right and wrong], We could surely have deprived them of their sight, so that they would stray forever from the [right] way: for how could they have had insight [into what is true]?

وَلَوْنَشَآءُلَمَسَخْنَٰهُمْعَلَىٰمَكَانَتِهِمْفَمَاٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟مُضِيًّۭاوَلَايَرْجِعُونَ

And had it been Our will [that they should not be free to choose between right and wrong], We could surely have given them a different nature [and created them as beings rooted] in their places, so that they would not be able to move forward, and could not turn back.]

وَمَننُّعَمِّرْهُنُنَكِّسْهُفِىٱلْخَلْقِأَفَلَايَعْقِلُونَ

But [let them always remember that] if We lengthen a human being’s days, We also cause him to decline in his powers [when he grows old]: will they not, then, use their reason?

وَمَاعَلَّمْنَٰهُٱلشِّعْرَوَمَايَنۢبَغِىلَهُۥٓإِنْهُوَإِلَّاذِكْرٌۭوَقُرْءَانٌۭمُّبِينٌۭ

AND [thus it is:] We have not imparted to this [Prophet the gift of] poetry, nor would [poetry] have suited this [message]: it is but a reminder and a [divine] discourse, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth,

لِّيُنذِرَمَنكَانَحَيًّۭاوَيَحِقَّٱلْقَوْلُعَلَىٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ

to the end that it may warn everyone who is alive [of heart], and that the word [of God] may bear witness against all who deny the truth.

أَوَلَمْيَرَوْا۟أَنَّاخَلَقْنَالَهُممِّمَّاعَمِلَتْأَيْدِينَآأَنْعَٰمًۭافَهُمْلَهَامَٰلِكُونَ

Are they, then, not aware that it is for them that We have created, among all the things which Our hands have wrought, the domestic animals of which they are [now] masters? –

وَذَلَّلْنَٰهَالَهُمْفَمِنْهَارَكُوبُهُمْوَمِنْهَايَأْكُلُونَ

and that We have subjected them to men’s will, so that some of them they may use for riding and of some they may eat,

وَلَهُمْفِيهَامَنَٰفِعُوَمَشَارِبُأَفَلَايَشْكُرُونَ

and may have [yet other] benefits from them, and [milk] to drink? Will they not, then, be grateful? (

وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟مِندُونِٱللَّهِءَالِهَةًۭلَّعَلَّهُمْيُنصَرُونَ

But [nay,] they take to worshipping deities other than God, [hoping] to be succoured [by them, and not knowing that]

لَايَسْتَطِيعُونَنَصْرَهُمْوَهُمْلَهُمْجُندٌۭمُّحْضَرُونَ

they are unable to succour their devotees, even though to them they may [appear to] be hosts drawn up [for succour].

فَلَايَحْزُنكَقَوْلُهُمْإِنَّانَعْلَمُمَايُسِرُّونَوَمَايُعْلِنُونَ

However, be not grieved by the sayings of those [who deny the truth]: verily, We know all that they keep secret as well as all that they bring into the open.

أَوَلَمْيَرَٱلْإِنسَٰنُأَنَّاخَلَقْنَٰهُمِننُّطْفَةٍۢفَإِذَاهُوَخَصِيمٌۭمُّبِينٌۭ

IS MAN, then, not aware that it is We who create him out of a [mere] drop of sperm - whereupon, lo! he shows himself endowed with the power to think and to argue?

وَضَرَبَلَنَامَثَلًۭاوَنَسِىَخَلْقَهُۥقَالَمَنيُحْىِٱلْعِظَٰمَوَهِىَرَمِيمٌۭ

And [now] he [argues about Us, and] thinks of Us in terms of comparison, and is oblivious of how he himself was created! [And so] he says, “Who could give life to bones that have crumbled to dust?”

قُلْيُحْيِيهَاٱلَّذِىٓأَنشَأَهَآأَوَّلَمَرَّةٍۢوَهُوَبِكُلِّخَلْقٍعَلِيمٌ

Say: “He who brought them into being in the first instance will give them life [once again], seeing that He has full knowledge of every act of creation:

ٱلَّذِىجَعَلَلَكُممِّنَٱلشَّجَرِٱلْأَخْضَرِنَارًۭافَإِذَآأَنتُممِّنْهُتُوقِدُونَ

He who produces for you fire out of the green tree, so that, lo! you kindle [your fires] therewith.”