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QAF (THE LETTER QAF) Total Verses: 45 Revealed At: MAKKA
In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
050.001 Y: Qaf: By the Glorious Qur'an (Thou art Allah's Messenger).
P: Qaf. By the Glorious Qur'an,
S: Qaf. I swear by the glorious Quran (that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah)
050.002 Y: But they wonder that there has come to them a Warner from among themselves. So the Unbelievers say: "This is a wonderful thing!"
P: Nay, but they marvel that a warner of their own hath come unto them; and the disbelievers say: This is a strange thing:
S: Nay! they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, so the unbelievers say: This is a wonderful thing:
050.003 Y: "What! When we die and become dust, (shall we live again?) That is a (sort of) return far (from our understanding)."
P: When we are dead and have become dust (shall we be brought back again)? That would be a far return!
S: What! when we are dead and have become dust? That is afar (from probable) return.
050.004 Y: We already know how much of them the earth takes away: With Us is a record guarding (the full account).
P: We know that which the earth taketh of them, and with Us is a recording Book.
S: We know indeed what the earth diminishes of them, and with Us is a writing that preserves.
050.005 Y: But they deny the Truth when it comes to them: so they are in a confused state.
P: Nay, but they have denied the truth when it came unto them, therefor they are now in troubled case.
S: Nay, they rejected the truth when it came to them, so they are (now) in a state of confusion.
050.006 Y: Do they not look at the sky above them?- How We have made it and adorned it, and there are no flaws in it?
P: Have they not then observed the sky above them, how We have constructed it and beautified it, and how there are no rifts therein?
S: Do they not then look up to heaven above them how We have made it and adorned it and it has no gaps?
050.007 Y: And the earth- We have spread it out, and set thereon mountains standing firm, and produced therein every kind of beautiful growth (in pairs)-
P: And the earth have We spread out, and have flung firm hills therein, and have caused of every lovely kind to grow thereon,
S: And the earth, We have made it plain and cast in it mountains and We have made to grow therein of all beautiful kinds,
050.008 Y: To be observed and commemorated by every devotee turning (to Allah).
P: A vision and a reminder for every penitent slave.
S: To give sight and as a reminder to every servant who turns frequently (to Allah).
050.009 Y: And We send down from the sky rain charted with blessing, and We produce therewith gardens and Grain for harvests;
P: And We send down from the sky blessed water whereby We give growth unto gardens and the grain of crops,
S: And We send down from the cloud water abounding in good, then We cause to grow thereby gardens and the grain that is reaped,
050.010 Y: And tall (and stately) palm-trees, with shoots of fruit-stalks, piled one over another;-
P: And lofty date-palms with ranged clusters,
S: And the tall palm-trees having spadices closely set one above another,
050.011 Y: As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants;- and We give (new) life therewith to land that is dead: Thus will be the Resurrection.
P: Provision (made) for men; and therewith We quicken a dead land. Even so will be the resurrection of the dead.
S: A sustenance for the servants, and We give life thereby to a dead land; thus is the rising.
050.012 Y: Before them was denied (the Hereafter) by the People of Noah, the Companions of the Rass, the Thamud,