Surah 49: The Chambers - Overview
Surah 50: Qaf - Overview
Surah 51: The Winds That Scatter - Overview
Surah 52: The Mount - Overview
Surah 53: The Star - Overview
Surah 54: The Moon - Overview

Essential Koran

Newcomers to Islam [49:14-18] 
The Bedouins say, 'We believe.' Say: 'You do not believe; rather say, "We surrender"; for belief has not yet entered your hearts. If you obey God and His Messenger, He will not diminish you anything of your works. God is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.' The believers are those who believe in God and His Messenger, then have not doubted, and have struggled with their possessions and their selves in the way of God; those -- they are the truthful ones. Say: 'What, would you teach God what your religion is, and God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth? And God has knowledge of everything.' They count it as a favor to thee that they have surrendered! Say: 'Do not count your surrendering as a favor to me; nay, but rather God confers favor upon you, in that He has guided you to belief, if it be that you are truthful. God knows the Unseen of the heavens and of the earth; and God sees the things you do.'

Life Blood [50:15-16] 
What, were We wearied by the first creation? No indeed; but they are in uncertainty as to the new creation. We indeed created man; and We know what his soul whispers within him, and We are nearer to him than the jugular vein.

Infinitely More [50:31-35] 
And Paradise shall be brought forward to the godfearing, not afar: "This is that you were promised; it is for every mindful penitent." Whosoever fears the All-merciful in the Unseen, and comes with a penitent heart: 'Enter it in peace! This is the Day of Eternity.' Therein they shall have whatever they will; and with Us there is yet more.

The Spiritual Dimension [51:15-23] 
Surely the godfearing shall be among gardens and fountains taking whatsoever their Lord has given them; they were good-doers before that. Little of the night would they slumber, and in the mornings they would ask for forgiveness; and the beggar and the outcast had a share in their wealth. In the earth are signs for those having sure faith; and in your selves; what, do you not see? And in heaven is your provision, and that you are promised. So by the Lord of heaven and earth, it is as surely true as that you have speech.

Questioning [52:29-43] 
Therefore remind! by thy Lord's blessing thou are not a soothsayer neither possessed. Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty'? Say: 'Await! I shall be awaiting with you.' Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people? Or do they say, 'He has invented it?' Nay, but they do not believe. Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly. Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators? Or did they create the heavens and earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith. Or are thy Lord's treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the registrars? Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority. Or has He daughters, and they sons? Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt? Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down?? Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted. Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate!

The Call and Enlightenment of the Prophet Muhammad [53:1-18] 
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the Star when it plunges, your comrade is not astray, neither errs, nor speaks he out of caprice. This is naught but a revelation revealed, taught him by one terrible in power, very strong; he stood poised, being on the higher horizon, then drew near and suspended hung, two bows'-length away, or nearer, then revealed to his servant that he revealed. His heart lies not of what he saw; what, will you dispute with him what he sees? Indeed, he saw him another time by the Lote-Tree of the Boundary nigh which is the Garden of the Refuge, when there covered the Lote-Tree that which covered; his eye swerved not, nor swept astray. Indeed, he saw one of the greatest signs of his Lord.

Magnificent Presence [54:49-55] 
Surely We have created everything in measure. Our commandment is but one word, as the twinkling of an eye. We have destroyed the likes of you; is there any that will remember? Every thing that they have done is in the Scrolls, and everything, great and small, is inscribed. Surely the godfearing shall dwell amid gardens and a river in a sure abode, in the presence of a King Omnipotent.