# The Holy Qur'an (Maulana Muhammad Ali)/50. Qaf
#### 50. Qaf

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
$^1$ Almighty (God)! By the glorious Qur'an!
$^2$ Nay, they wonder that a warner has come to them from among themselves; so the disbelievers say: This is a wonderful thing
$^3$ When we die and become dust that is a far return.
$^4$ We know indeed what the earth diminishes of them and with Us is a book that preserves.
$^5$ Nay, they reject the Truth when it comes to them, so they are in a state of confusion.
$^6$ Do they not look at the sky above them? -- how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps.
$^7$ And the earth, We have spread it out, and cast therein mountains, and We have made to grow therein of every beautiful kind --
$^8$ To give sight and as a reminder to every servant who turns (to Allah).
$^9$ And We send down from the clouds water abounding in good, then We cause to grow thereby gardens and the grain that is reaped,
$^{10}$ And the tall palm-trees having flower spikes piled one above another --
$^{11}$ A sustenance for the servants, and We give life thereby to a dead land. Thus is the rising.
$^{12}$ Before them the people of Noah rejected (the Truth) and (so did) the dwellers of al-Rass and Thamud
$^{13}$ And 'Ad and Pharaoh and Lot's brethren,
$^{14}$ And the dwellers of the grove and the people of Tubba'. They all rejected the messengers, so My threat came to pass.
$^{15}$ Were We then fatigued with the first creation? Yet they are in doubt about a new creation.
$^{16}$ And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him -- and We are nearer to him than his life-vein.
$^{17}$ When the two receivers receive, sitting on the right and on the left,
$^{18}$ He utters not a word but there is by him a watcher at hand.
$^{19}$ And the stupor of death comes in truth; that is what thou wouldst shun.
$^{20}$ And the trumpet is blown. That is the day of threatening.
$^{21}$ And every soul comes, with it a driver and a witness.
$^{22}$ Thou wast indeed heedless of this, but now We have removed from thee thy veil, so thy sight is sharp this day.
$^{23}$ And his companion will say: This is what is ready with me.
$^{24}$ Cast into hell every ungrateful, rebellious one,
$^{25}$ Forbidder of good, exceeder of limits, doubter,
$^{26}$ Who sets up another god with Allah, so cast him into severe chastisement.
$^{27}$ His companion will say: Our Lord, I did not cause him to rebel but he himself went far in error.
$^{28}$ He will say: Dispute not in My presence, and indeed I gave you warning beforehand.
$^{29}$ My sentence cannot be changed, nor am I in the least unjust to the servants.
$^{30}$ On the day when We say to hell: Art thou filled up? And it will say: Are there any more?
$^{31}$ And the Garden is brought near for those who guard against evil -- (it is) not disrant.
$^{32}$ This is what you are promised -- for every one turning (to Allah), keeping (the limits) --
$^{33}$ Who fears the Beneficent in secret, and comes with a penitent heart:
$^{34}$ Enter it in peace. That is the day of abiding.
$^{35}$ For them therein is all they wish, and with Us is yet more.
$^{36}$ And how many a generation We destroyed before them who were mightier in prowess than they! so they went about in the lands. Is there a place of refuge?
$^{37}$ Surely there is a reminder in this for him who has a heart or he gives ear and is a witness.
$^{38}$ And certainly We created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and no fatigue touched Us.
$^{39}$ So bear with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before the rising of the sun and before the setting.
$^{40}$ And glorify Him in the night and after prostration.
$^{41}$ And listen on the day when the crier cries from a near place --
$^{42}$ The day when they hear the cry in truth. That is the day of coming forth.
$^{43}$ Surely We give life and cause to die, and to Us is the eventual coming --
$^{44}$ The day when the earth cleaves asunder from them, hastening forth. That is a gathering easy to Us.
$^{45}$ We know best what they say, and thou art not one to compel them. So remind by means of the Qur'an him who fears My threat.