[59:21]
If We had sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and coming apart from fear of Allah . And these examples We present to the people that perhaps they will give thought.
[59:22]
He is Allah , other than whom there is no deity, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed. He is the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
[59:23]
He is Allah , other than whom there is no deity, the Sovereign, the Pure, the Perfection, the Bestower of Faith, the Overseer, the Exalted in Might, the Compeller, the Superior. Exalted is Allah above whatever they associate with Him.
[59:24]
He is Allah , the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner; to Him belong the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth is exalting Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

[67:1]
Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent -
[67:2]
[He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving -
[67:3]
[And] who created seven heavens in layers. You do not see in the creation of the Most Merciful any inconsistency. So return [your] vision [to the sky]; do you see any breaks?
[67:4]
Then return [your] vision twice again. [Your] vision will return to you humbled while it is fatigued.

[18:1]
[All] praise is [due] to Allah , who has sent down upon His Servant the Book and has not made therein any deviance.
[18:2]
[He has made it] straight, to warn of severe punishment from Him and to give good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a good reward

[18:3]
In which they will remain forever
[18:4]
And to warn those who say, " Allah has taken a son."
[18:5]
They have no knowledge of it, nor had their fathers. Grave is the word that comes out of their mouths; they speak not except a lie.

[18:29]
And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve." Indeed, We have prepared for the wrongdoers a fire whose walls will surround them. And if they call for relief, they will be relieved with water like murky oil, which scalds [their] faces. Wretched is the drink, and evil is the resting place.
[18:30]
Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of any who did well in deeds.
[18:31]
Those will have gardens of perpetual residence; beneath them rivers will flow. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and will wear green garments of fine silk and brocade, reclining therein on adorned couches. Excellent is the reward, and good is the resting place.

[32:1]
Alif, Lam, Meem.
[32:2]
[This is] the revelation of the Book about which there is no doubt from the Lord of the worlds.
[32:3]
Or do they say, "He invented it"? Rather, it is the truth from your Lord, [O Muhammad], that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you [so] perhaps they will be guided.
[32:4]
It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days; then He established Himself above the Throne. You have not besides Him any protector or any intercessor; so will you not be reminded?
[32:5]
He arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand years of those which you count.
[32:6]
That is the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, the Exalted in Might, the Merciful,

[3:189]
And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is over all things competent.
[3:190]
Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding.
[3:191]
Who remember Allah while standing or sitting or [lying] on their sides and give thought to the creation of the heavens and the earth, [saying], "Our Lord, You did not create this aimlessly; exalted are You [above such a thing]; then protect us from the punishment of the Fire.
[3:192]
Our Lord, indeed whoever You admit to the Fire - You have disgraced him, and for the wrongdoers there are no helpers.
[3:193]
Our Lord, indeed we have heard a caller calling to faith, [saying], 'Believe in your Lord,' and we have believed. Our Lord, so forgive us our sins and remove from us our misdeeds and cause us to die with the righteous.
[3:194]
Our Lord, and grant us what You promised us through Your messengers and do not disgrace us on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed, You do not fail in [Your] promise."

[19:16]
AND CALL to mind, through this divine writ, Mary. Lo! She withdrew from her family to an eastern place

[19:17]
and kept herself in seclusion from them, whereupon We sent unto her Our angel of revelation, who appeared to her in the shape of a well-made human being.

[19:18]
She exclaimed: "Verily, I seek refuge from thee with the Most Gracious! [Approach me not] if thou art conscious of Him!"

[19:19]
[The angel] answered: "I am but a messenger of thy Sustainer, [who says,] ‘I shall bestow upon thee the gift of a son endowed with purity.’"

[19:20]
Said she: "How can I have a son when no man has ever touched me? – for never have I been a loose woman!"

[19:21]
[The angel] answered: "Thus it is; [but] thy Sustainer says, ‘This is easy for Me; and [thou shalt have a son,] so that We might make him a symbol unto mankind and an act of grace from Us.’"
And it was a thing decreed [by God]:

[19:22]
and in time she conceived him, and then she withdrew with him to a far-off place.

[19:23]
And [when] the throes of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree, she exclaimed: "Oh, would that I had died ere this, and had become a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"

[19:24]
Thereupon [a voice] called out to her from beneath that [palm-tree]: "Grieve not! Thy Sustainer has provided a rivulet [running] beneath thee;

[19:25]
and shake the trunk of the palm-tree towards thee: it will drop fresh, ripe dates upon thee.

[19:26]
Eat, then, and drink, and let thine eye be gladdened! And if thou shouldst see any human being, convey this unto him: ‘Behold, abstinence from speech have I vowed unto the Most Gracious; hence, I may not speak today to any mortal.’"

[19:27]
And in time she returned to her people, carrying the child with her.
They said: "O Mary! Thou hast indeed done an amazing thing!

[19:28]
O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man, nor was thy mother a loose woman!"

[19:29]
Thereupon she pointed to him.
They exclaimed: "How can we talk to one who [as yet] is a little boy in the cradle?"

[19:30]
[But] he said: "Behold, I am a servant of God. He has vouchsafed unto me revelation and made me a prophet,

[19:31]
and made me blessed wherever I may be; and He has enjoined upon me prayer and charity as long as I live,

[19:32]
and [has endowed me with] piety towards my mother; and He has not made me haughty or bereft of grace.

[19:33]
"Hence, peace was upon me on the day when I was born, and [will be upon me] on the day of my death, and on the day when I shall be raised to life [again]!"

[19:34]
SUCH WAS, in the words of truth, Jesus the son of Mary, about whose nature they so deeply disagree.

[19:35]
It is not conceivable that God should have taken unto Himself a son: limitless is He in His glory! When He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it "Be" – and it is!

[19:36]
And [thus it was that Jesus always said]: "Verily, God is my Sustainer as well as your Sustainer; so worship [none but] Him: this [alone] is a straight way."



Translated by Muhammad Asad