Chapter 55
Surah Ar-Rahman
The Merciful

In The Name Of Allah

The Most Gracious

The Most Merciful


1. The Most Merciful!

2. Taught the Qur'an.

3. Created man.

4. Taught eloquence.

5. The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses calculated.

6. The stars and the trees both surrender.

7. Heaven He has raised high, and He has set up the Balance.

8. In order that you may not transgress the balance.

9. And observe the weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient.

10. And the earth He has made for the creatures.

11. Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates).

12. And also corn, with leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants.

13. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

14. He created man from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.

15. And the jinn He did create from a smokeless flame of fire.

16. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

17. The Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests.

18. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

19. He has let loose the two seas (the salt water and the sweet) meeting together.

20. Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress.

21. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

22. Out of them both come out pearl and coral.

23. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

24. And His are the ships going and coming in the seas, like mountains.

25. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

26. Whatsoever is on it (the earth) will perish.

27. And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will remain forever.

28. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

29. Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth begs of Him. Every day He decrees matters!

30. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

31. We shall attend to you, O you two classes (jinn and men)!

32. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

33. O assembly of jinn and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, then pass! But you will never be able to pass them, except with authority (from Allah)!

34. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

35. There will be sent against you both, smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass, and you will not be able to defend yourselves.

36. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

37. Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy red like red-oil.

38. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

39. So on that Day no question will be asked of man or jinn as to his sin.

40. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

41. The wicked will be known by their marks, and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet.

42. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

43. This is Hell which the sinful denied.

44. They will go between it and the boiling hot water!

45. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

46. For those who fear [the time when they will] stand before their Lord there are two gardens.

47. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

48. With spreading branches;

49. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

50. In them (both) will be two springs flowing free.

51. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

52. In them (both) will be every kind of fruit in pairs.

53. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

54. Reclining upon the couches lined with silk brocade, and the fruits of the two Gardens will be near at hand.

55. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

56. Wherein both will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn has touched before them.

57. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

58. (In beauty) they are like rubies and coral.

59. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

60. Is there any reward for good other than good?

61. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

62. And besides these two, there are two other Gardens.

63. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

64. Dark green.

65. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

66. In them (both) will be two springs gushing forth water.

67. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

68. In them (both) will be fruits, and date-palms and pomegranates.

69. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

70. Therein (gardens) will be fair (wives) good and beautiful;

71. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

72. Houris (beautiful, fair females) restrained in pavilions;

73. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

74. Whom no man or jinn has touched them before them.

75. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

76. Reclining on green cushions and rich beautiful bed-spreads.

77. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

78. Blessed be the Name of your Lord (Allah), the Owner of Majesty and Honour.