Surah 67: The Dominion - Overview
Surah 68: The Pen, Nun - Overview
Surah 69: The Sure Reality - Overview
Surah 70: The Ways of Ascent - Overview
Surah 71: Noah - Overview
Surah 72: The Spirits - Overview

Essential Koran

The Kingdom of Reality [67:1-4] 
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Blessed be He in whose hand is the Kingdom -- He is powerful over everything -- who created death and life, that He might try you which of you is fairest in works; and He is the All-mighty, the All-forgiving -- who created seven heavens one upon another. Thou seest not in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection. Return thy gaze; seest thou any fissure? Then return they gaze again, and again, and thy gaze comes back to thee dazzled, aweary.

The Holy Pen [68:1-6] 
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Nun. By the Pen, and what they inscribe, thou art not, by the blessing of thy Lord, a man possessed. Surely thou shalt have a wage unfailing; surely thou art upon a mighty morality. So thou shalt see, and they will see, which of you is demented.

The Central Vein [69:38-52] 
No! I swear by what you see and by that you do not see, it is the speech of a noble Messenger. It is not the speech of a poet (little do you believe) nor the speech of a soothsayer (little do you remember). A sending down from the Lord of all Being. Had he invented against Us any sayings, We would have seized him by the right hand, then We would surely have cut his life-vein and not one of you could have defended him. Surely it is a Reminder to the godfearing; but We know that some of you will cry lies. Surely it is a sorrow to the unbelievers; yet indeed it is the truth of certainty. Then magnify the Name of thy Lord, the All-mighty.

Stairways of Light [70:1-7] 
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fall for the unbelievers, which none may avert, from God, the Lord of the Stairways. To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years. So be thou patient with a sweet patience; behold, they see it as if far off, but We see it is nigh.

Teachings of the Prophet Noah [71:5-20] 
He said, 'My Lord, I have called my people by night and by day, but my calling has only increased them in flight. And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears, and wrapped them in their garments, and persisted, and waxed very proud. Then indeed I called them openly; then indeed I spoke publicly unto them, and I spoke unto them secretly, and I said, "Ask you forgiveness of your Lord; surely He is ever All-forgiving, and He will loose heaven upon you in torrents and will succor you with wealth and sons, and will appoint for you gardens, and will appoint for you rivers. What ails you, that you look not for majesty in God, seeing He created you by stages? Have you not regarded how God created seven heavens one upon another, and set the moon therein for a light and the sun for a lamp? And God caused you to grow out of the earth, then He shall return you into it, and bring you forth. And God has laid the earth for you as a carpet, that thereof you may thread ways, ravines." '

Destiny [72:25-28] 
Say: 'I do not know whether that which you are promised is nigh, or whether my Lord will appoint for it a space; Knower He of the Unseen, and He discloses not His Unseen to anyone, save only to such a Messenger as He is well-pleased with; then He dispatches before him and behind him watchers, that He may know they have delivered the Messages of their Lord; and He encompasses all that is with them, and He has numbered everything in numbers.'