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Surah 1: The Opening - Overview
Surah 2: The Heifer - Overview
Surah 3: The Family of Imran - Overview
Surah 4: The Women - Overview
Surah 5: The Repast - Overview
Surah 6: The Cattle - Overview
Essential Koran
The Direct Path [1:1-7]
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the
Compassionate
Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being, the All-merciful, the
All-compassionate, the Master of the Day of Doom. Thee only do we serve; to
Thee alone we pray for succor. Guide us in the straight path, the path of
those whom Thou hast blessed, not of those against whom Thou art wrathful,
nor of those who are astray.
The Original Source [2:1-7]
In
the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Alif Lam Mim. That is the Book, wherein is no doubt, a guidance to the
godfearing who believe in the Unseen, and perform the prayer, and expend of that
We have provided them; who believe in what has been sent down to thee and what
has been sent down before thee, and have faith in the Hereafter; those are upon
guidance from their Lord, those are the ones who prosper. As for the
unbelievers, alike it is to them whether thou hast warned them or hast not
warned them, they do not believe. God has set a seal on their hearts and on
their hearing, and on their eyes is a covering, and there awaits them a mighty
chastisement.
The Mystery of Prophet Adam [2:28-39]
How do you disbelieve in God,
seeing you were dead and He gave you life, then He shall make you dead, then He
shall give you life, then unto Him you shall be returned? It is He who created
for you all that is in the earth, then He lifted Himself to heaven and leveled
them seven heavens; and He has knowledge of everything. And when thy Lord said
to the angels, 'I am setting in the earth a viceroy,' They said, 'What, wilt
Thou set therein one who will do corruption there, and shed blood, while We
proclaim Thy praise and call Thee Holy?" He said, 'Assuredly I know that
you know not.' And He taught Adam the names, all of them; then He presented them
unto the angels and said, 'Now tell Me the names of these, if you speak truly.'
They said, 'Glory be to Thee! We know not save what Thou hast taught us. Surely
Thou art the All-knowing, the All-wise.' He said, 'Did I not tell you I know the
unseen things of the heavens and earth? And I know what things you reveal, and
what you were hiding.' And when We said, to the angels, 'Bow yourselves to
Adam'; so they bowed themselves, save Iblis; he refused, and waxed proud, and so
he became one of the unbelievers. And We said, 'Adam, dwell thou, and thy wife,
in the Garden, and eat thereof easefully where you desire; but draw not nigh
this tree, lest you become evildoers.' Then Satan caused them to slip therefrom
and brought them out of that they were in; and We said, 'Get you all down, each
of you an enemy of each; and in the earth a sojourn shall be yours, and
enjoyment for a time.' Thereafter Adam received certain words from his Lord, and
He turned towards him; truly He turns, and is All-compassionate. We said, 'Get
you down out of it, all together; yet there shall come to you guidance from Me,
and whomsoever follows My guidance, no fear shall be on them, neither shall they
sorrow. As for the unbelievers who cry lies to Our signs, those shall be the
inhabitants of the Fire, therein dwelling forever.'
The Essence of Islam [2:255-257]
God - there is no god but He,
the Living, the Everlasting. Slumber seizes Him not, neither sleep; to Him
belongs all that is in the heavens and the earth. Who is there that shall
intercede with Him save by His leave? He knows what lies before them and what is
after them, and they comprehend not anything of His knowledge save such as He
wills. His Throne comprises the heavens and earth; the preserving of them
oppresses Him not; He is the All-high, the All-glorious. No compulsion is
there in religion. Rectitude has become clear from error. So whosoever
disbelieves in idols and believes in God, has laid hold of the most firm handle,
unbreaking; God is All-hearing, All-knowing. God is the Protector of the
believers; He brings them forth from the shadows into the light. And the
unbelievers -- their protectors are idols, that bring them forth from the light
into the shadows; those are the inhabitants of the Fire, therein dwelling
forever.
Lovers of Love [3:14-18]
Decked out
fair to men is the love of lusts -- women, children, heaped-up heaps of gold and
silver, horses of mark, cattle and tillage. That is the enjoyment of the present
life; but God -- with Him is the fairest resort. Say: 'Shall I tell you of a
better than that?' For those that are godfearing, with their Lord are gardens
underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever, and spouses purified,
and God's good pleasure. And God sees His servants who say, 'Our Lord, we
believe; forgive us our sins, and guard us against the chastisement of the Fire'
-- men who are patient, truthful, obedient, expenders in alms, imploring God's
pardon at the daybreak. God bears witness that there is no god but He, the
All-mighty, the All-wise.
The Prayer of the Prophet Muhammad [3:26-27]
Say: 'O God, Master of
the Kingdom, Thou givest the Kingdom to whom Thou wilt, and seizest the Kingdom
from whom Thou wilt, Thou exaltest whom Thou wilt, and Thou abasest whom Thou
wilt; in Thy hand is the good; Thou art powerful over everything. Thou makest
the night to enter into the day and Thou makest the day to enter into the night,
Thou bringest forth the living from the dead and Thou bringest forth the dead
from the living, and Thou providest whomsoever Thou wilt without reckoning.'
The Life of Jesus as Revealed to Mary [3:45-55]
When the angels said,
'Mary, God gives thee good tidings of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah,
Jesus, son of Mary; high honored shall he be in this world and the next, near
stationed to God. He shall speak to men in the cradle, and of age, and righteous
he shall be.' 'Lord,' said Mary, 'how shall I have a son seeing no mortal has
touched me?' 'Even so,' God said, 'God creates what He will. When He decrees a
thing He does but say to it "Be," and it is. And He will teach him the
Book, the Wisdom, the Torah, the Gospel, to be a Messenger to the Children of
Israel saying, "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. I will
create for you out of clay as the likeness of a bird; then I will breathe into
it, and it will be a bird, by the leave of God. I will inform you too of what
things you eat, and what you treasure up in your houses. Surely in that is a
sign for you, if you are believers. Likewise confirming the truth of the Torah
that is before me, and to make lawful to you certain things that before were
forbidden unto you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so fear you
God, and obey you me. Surely God is my Lord and your Lord; so serve Him. This is
a straight path",' And when Jesus perceived their unbelief, he said, 'Who
will be my helpers unto God?' The Apostles said, 'We will be helpers of God; we
believe in God; witness thou our submission. Lord, we believe in that Thou hast
sent down, and we follow the Messenger. Inscribe us therefore with those who
bear witness.' And they devised, and God devised, and God is the best of
devisers. When God said, 'Jesus, I will take thee to Me and will raise thee to
Me, and I will purify thee of those who believe not. I will set thy followers
above the unbelievers till the Resurrection Day. Then unto Me shall you return,
and I will decide between you, as to what you were at variance on.
The Path of the Prophet Abraham [4:116-125]
God forgives not that aught should be with Him associated; less than that He
forgives to whomsoever He will. Whoso associates with God anything, has gone
astray into far error. In stead of Him, they pray not except to female beings;
they pray not except to a rebel Satan accursed by God. He said, 'Assuredly I
will take unto myself a portion appointed of Thy servants, and I will lead them
astray, and fill them with fancies, and I will command them and they will cut
off the cattle's ears; I will command them and they will alter God's creation.'
Whoso takes Satan to him for a friend, instead of God, has surely suffered a
manifest loss. He promises them and fills them with fancies, but there is
nothing Satan promises them except delusion. Such men -- their refuge shall be
Gehenna, and they shall find no asylum from it. But those that believe, and do
deeds of righteousness, them We shall admit to gardens underneath which rivers
flow, therein dwelling for ever and ever; God's promise in truth; and who is
truer in speech than God? It is not your fancies nor the fancies of the People
of the Book. Whosoever does evil shall be recompensed for it, and will not find
for him, apart from God, a friend or helper. And whosoever does deeds of
righteousness, be it male or female, believing -- they shall enter Paradise, and
not be wronged a single date-spot. And who is there that has a fairer religion
than he who submits his will to God being a good-doer, and who follows the creed
of Abraham, a man of pure faith? And God took Abraham for a friend.
The Commitment to Justice [4:131-135]
To God belongs all that is in
the heavens and in the earth. We have charged those who were given the Book
before you, and you, 'Fear God.' If you disbelieve, to God belongs all that is
in the heavens and in the earth; God suffices for a guardian. If He will, He can
put you away, O men, and bring others; surely God is powerful over that. Whoso
desires the reward of this world and of the world to come; God is All-hearing,
All-seeing. O believers, be you securers of justice, witnesses for God, even
though it be against yourselves, or your parents and kinsmen, whether the man be
rich or poor; God stands closest to either. Then follow not caprice, so as to
swerve, for if you twist or turn, God is aware of the things you do.
The Prophethood of Muhammad [4:163-166]
We have revealed to thee as We
revealed to Noah, and the Prophets after him, and We revealed to Abraham,
Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, Jesus and Job, Jonah and Aaron and
Solomon, and We gave to David the Psalms, and Messengers We have already told
thee of before, and Messengers We have not told thee of; and unto Moses God
spoke directly -- Messengers bearing good tidings, and warning so that mankind
might have no argument against God, after the Messengers; God is All-mighty,
All-wise. But God bears witness to that He has sent down to thee; He has sent it
down with His knowledge; and the angels also bear witness; and God suffices for
a witness.
Ablution [5:6-7]
O believers, when
you stand up to pray wash your faces, and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe
your heads, and your feet up to the ankles. If you are defiled, purify
yourselves; but if you are sick or on a journey, or if any of you comes from the
privy, or you have touched women, and you can find no water, then have recourse
to wholesome dust and wipe your faces and your hands with it. God does not
desire to make any impediment for you; but He desires to purify you, and that He
may complete His blessing upon you; haply you will be thankful. And remember
God's blessing upon you, and His compact which He made with you when you said,
'We have heard and we obey.' And fear you God; surely God knows the thoughts in
the breasts.
Torah, Gospel and Koran [5:46-49]
And We sent, following in their
footsteps, Jesus son of Mary, confirming the Torah before him; and We gave to
him the Gospel, wherein is guidance and light, and confirming the Torah before
it, as a guidance and an admonition unto the godfearing. So let the People of
the Gospel judge according to what God has sent down therein. Whosoever judges
not according to what God has sent down -- they are the ungodly. And We have
sent down to thee the Book with the truth, confirming the Book that was before
it, and assuring it. So judge between them according to what God has sent down,
and do not follow their caprices, to forsake the truth that has come to thee. To
every one of you We have appointed a right way and an open road. If God had
willed, He would have made you one nation; but that He may try you in what has
come to you. So be you forward in good works; unto God shall you return all
together; and He will tell you of that whereon you were at variance. And judge
between them according to what God has sent down, and do not follow their
caprices, and beware of them lest they tempt thee away from any of what God has
sent down to thee. But if they turn their backs, know that God desires only to
smite them for some sin they have committed; surely, many men are ungodly.
Christians [5:82-85]
Thou wilt surely find the most hostile of
men to the believers are the Jews and the idolaters; and thou wilt surely find
the nearest of them in love to the believers are those who say 'We are
Christians'; that, because some of them are priests and monks, and they wax not
proud, and when they hear what has been sent down to the Messenger, thou seest
their eyes overflow with tears because of the truth they recognize. They say,
'Our Lord, we believe, so do Thou write us down among the witnesses. Why should
we not believe in God and the truth that has come to us, and be eager that our
Lord should admit us with the righteous people?' And God rewards them for what
they say with gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever;
that is the recompense of the good-doers.
Miracles [6:1-9]
In the Name of
God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Praise belongs to God who created the heavens and the earth and appointed the
shadows and light; then the unbelievers ascribe equals to their Lord. It is He
who created you of clay, then determined a term and a term is stated with Him;
yet thereafter you doubt. He is God in the heavens and the earth; He knows your
secrets, and what you publish, and He knows what you are earning. Not a sign of
their Lord comes to them , but they turn away from it. They cried lies to the
truth when it came to them, but there shall come to them news of that they were
mocking. Have they not regarded how We destroyed before them many a generation
We established in the earth, as We never established you, and how We loosed
heaven upon them in torrents, and made the rivers to flow beneath them? Then we
destroyed them because of their sins, and raised up after them another
generation. Had We sent down on thee a Book on parchment and so they touched it
with their hands, yet the unbelievers would have said, 'This is naught but
manifest sorcery.' 'Why has an angel not been sent down on him?' they say; yet
had We sent down an angel, the matter would have been determined, and then no
respite would be given them. And had We made him an angel, yet assuredly We
would have made him a man, and confused for them the thing which they themselves
are confusing.
The Sorrow of the Prophet Muhammad [6:33-34]
We know indeed that it
grieves thee the things they say; yet it is not thee they cry lies to, but the
evildoers -- it is the signs of God that they deny. Messengers indeed were cried
lies to before thee, yet they endured patiently that they were cried lies to,
and were hurt, until Our help came unto them. No man can change the words of
God; and there has already come to thee some tiding of the Envoys.
The Humility of the Prophet Muhammad [6:48-50]
We do not send the
Envoys, except good tidings to bear, and warning; whoever believes and makes
amends -- no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow. But those who cry
lies to Our signs, them the chastisement shall visit, for that they were
ungodly. Say: 'I do not say to you, "I possess the treasuries of God";
I know not the Unseen. And I say not to you, "I am an angel"; I only
follow what is revealed to me.' Say: 'Are the blind and the seeing man equal?
Will you not reflect?'
Divine Judgment [6:59-62]
With Him are the keys of the Unseen; none
knows them but He. He knows what is in land and sea; not a leaf falls, but He
knows it. Not a grain in the earth's shadows, not a thing, fresh or withered,
but it is in a Book Manifest. It is He who recalls you by night, and He knows
what you work by day; then He raises you up therein, that a stated term may be
determined; then unto Him shall you return, then He will tell you of what you
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