# The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/36. Ya Sin
#### 36. Ya Sin

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
$^1$ O man,
$^2$ By the Qur'an, full of wisdom!
$^3$ Surely thou art one of the messengers,
$^4$ On a right way.
$^5$ A revelation of the Mighty, the Merciful,
$^6$ That thou mayest warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are heedless.
$^7$ The word has indeed proved true of most of them, so they believe not,
$^8$ Surely We have placed on their necks chains reaching up to the chins, so they have their heads raised aloft.
$^9$ And We have set a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, thus We have covered them, so that they see not.
$^{10}$ And it is alike to them whether thou warn them or warn them nor -- they believe not.
$^{11}$ Thou canst warn him only who follows the Reminder and fears the Beneficent in secret; so give him good news of forgiveness and a generous reward.
$^{12}$ Surely We give life to the dead, and We write down that which they send before and their footprints, and We record everything in a clear writing.
$^{13}$ And set out to them a parable of the people of the town when apostles came to it.
$^{14}$ When We sent to them two, they rejected them both; then We strengthened (them) with a third, so they said: Surely we are sent to you.
$^{15}$ They said: You are only mortals like ourselves, nor has the Beneficent revealed anything -- you only lie.
$^{16}$ They said: Our Lord knows that we are surely sent to you.
$^{17}$ And our duty is only a clear deliverance (of the message).
$^{18}$ They said: Surely we augur evil from you. If you desist not, we will surely stone you, and a painful chastisement from us will certainly afflict you.
$^{19}$ They said: Your evil fortune is with you. What! If you are reminded! Nay, you are an extravagant people.
$^{20}$ And from the remote part of the city there came a man running. He said: O my people, follow the apostles.
$^{21}$ Follow him who asks of you no reward, and they are on the right course.
$^{22}$ And what reason have I that I should not serve Him Who created me and to Whom you will be brought back.
$^{23}$ Shall I take besides Him gods whose intercession, if the Beneficent should desire to afflict me with harm, will avail me naught, not can they deliver me?
$^{24}$ Then I shall surely be in clear error.
$^{25}$ Surely I believe in your Lord, so hear me.
$^{26}$ It was said: Enter the Garden. He said: Would that my people knew,
$^{27}$ How my Lord has forgiven me and made me of the honoured ones!
$^{28}$ And We sent not down upon his people after him any host from heaven, nor do We ever send.
$^{29}$ It was naught but a single cry, and lo! they were still.
$^{30}$ Alas for the servants! Never does a messenger come to them but they mock him.
$^{31}$ See they not how many generations We destroyed before them, that they return not to them?
$^{32}$ And all -- surely all -- will be brought before Us.
$^{33}$ And a sign to them is the dead earth: We give life to it and bring forth from it grain so they eat of it.
$^{34}$ And We make therein gardens of date-palms and grapes and We make springs to flow forth therein,
$^{35}$ That they may eat of the fruit thereof, and their hands made it not. Will they not then give thanks?
$^{36}$ Glory be to Him Who created pairs of all things, of what the earth grows, and of their kind and of what they know not!
$^{37}$ And a sign to them is the night: We draw forth from it the day, then lo! they are in darkness;
$^{38}$ And the sun moves on to its destination. That is the ordinance of the Mighty, the Knower.
$^{39}$ And the moon, We have ordained for it stages till it becomes again as an old dry palm-branch.
$^{40}$ Neither is it for the sun to overtake the moon, nor can the night outstrip the day. And all float on in an orbit.
$^{41}$ And a sign to them is that We bear their offspring in the laden ship,
$^{42}$ And We have created for them the like thereof, whereon they ride.
$^{43}$ And if We please, We may drown them, then there is no succour for them, nor can they be rescued --
$^{44}$ But by mercy from Us and for enjoyment till a time.
$^{45}$ And when it is said to them Guard against that which is before you and that which is behind you, that mercy may be shown to you.
$^{46}$ And there comes to them no message of the messages of their Lord but they turn away from it.
$^{47}$ And when it is said to them: Spend out of that which Allah has given you, those who disbelieve say to those who believe: Shall we feed him whom, if Allah please, He could feed? You are in naught but clear error.
$^{48}$ And they say: When will this promise come to pass, if you are truthful?
$^{49}$ They await but a single cry, which will overtake them while they contend.
$^{50}$ So they will not be able to make a bequest, nor will they return to their families.
$^{51}$ And the trumpet is blown, when lo! from their graves they will hasten on to their Lord.
$^{52}$ They will say: O woe to us Who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? This is what the Beneficent promised and the messengers told the truth.
$^{53}$ It is but a single cry, when lo! they are all brought before Us.
$^{54}$ So this day no soul is wronged in aught and you are not rewarded aught but for what you did.
$^{55}$ Surely the owners of the Garden are on that day in a happy occupation.
$^{56}$ They and their wives are in shades, reclining on raised couches.
$^{57}$ They have fruits therein, and they have whatever they desire.
$^{58}$ Peace! A word from a Merciful Lord.
$^{59}$ And withdraw to-day, O guilty ones!
$^{60}$ Did I not charge you, O children of Adam, that you serve not the devil? Surely he is your open enemy.
$^{61}$ And that you serve Me. This is the right way.
$^{62}$ And certainly he led astray numerous people from among you. Could you not then understand?
$^{63}$ This is the hell which you were promised.
$^{64}$ Enter it this day because you disbelieved.
$^{65}$ That day We shall seal their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will bear witness as to what they earned.
$^{66}$ And if We pleased, We would put out their eyes, then they would strive to get first to the way, but how should they see?
$^{67}$ And if We pleased, We would transform them in their place, then they would not be able to go on, or turn back.
$^{68}$ And whomsoever We cause to live long, We reduce to an abject state in creation. Do they not understand?
$^{69}$ And We have not taught him poetry, nor is it meet for him. This is naught but a Reminder and a plain Qur'an,
$^{70}$ To warn him who would have life, and (that) the word may prove true against the disbelievers.
$^{71}$ See they not that We have created cattle for them, out of what Our hands have wrought, so they are their masters?
$^{72}$ And We have subjected them to them, so some of them they ride, and some they eat.
$^{73}$ And therein they have advantages and drinks. Will they not then give thanks?
$^{74}$ And they take gods besides Allah that they may be helped.
$^{75}$ They are not able to help them, and they are a host brought up before them.
$^{76}$ So let not their speech grieve thee. Surely We know what they do in secret and what they do openly.
$^{77}$ Does not man see that We have created him from the small life germ? Then lo! he is an open disputant.
$^{78}$ And he strikes our a likeness for Us and forgets his own creation. Says he: Who will give life to the bones, when they are rotten?
$^{79}$ Say He will give life to them, Who brought them into existence at first, and He is Knower of all creation,
$^{80}$ Who produced fire for you out of the green tree, so that with it you kindle.
$^{81}$ Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yea! And He is the Creator (of all), the Knower.
$^{82}$ His command, when He intends anything, is only to say to it, Be, and it is.
$^{83}$ So glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things and to Him you will be returned.