The Night Journey - سورة الإسراء

Exalted
is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram
to al-Masjid al- Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to
show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing.







And
We gave Moses the Scripture and made it a guidance for the
Children of Israel that you not take other than Me as
Disposer of affairs,







O descendants of those We carried [in the ship] with Noah. Indeed, he was a grateful servant.







And
We conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Scripture that,
"You will surely cause corruption on the earth twice, and you
will surely reach [a degree of] great haughtiness.







So
when the [time of] promise came for the first of them, We
sent against you servants of Ours - those of great military
might, and they probed [even] into the homes, and it was a
promise fulfilled.







Then
We gave back to you a return victory over them. And We
reinforced you with wealth and sons and made you more numerous
in manpower







[And
said], "If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if
you do evil, [you do it] to yourselves." Then when the final
promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and
to enter the temple in Jerusalem, as they entered it the
first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with
[total] destruction.







[Then
Allah said], "It is expected, [if you repent], that your Lord
will have mercy upon you. But if you return [to sin], We
will return [to punishment]. And We have made Hell, for the
disbelievers, a prison-bed."







Indeed,
this Qur'an guides to that which is most suitable and gives
good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they
will have a great reward.







And that those who do not believe in the Hereafter - We have prepared for them a painful punishment.







And man supplicates for evil as he supplicates for good, and man is ever hasty.







And
We have made the night and day two signs, and We erased
the sign of the night and made the sign of the day visible
that you may seek bounty from your Lord and may know the
number of years and the account [of time]. And everything We
have set out in detail.







And
[for] every person We have imposed his fate upon his neck,
and We will produce for him on the Day of Resurrection a
record which he will encounter spread open.







[It will be said], "Read your record. Sufficient is yourself against you this Day as accountant."

Whoever
is guided is only guided for [the benefit of] his soul. And
whoever errs only errs against it. And no bearer of burdens
will bear the burden of another. And never would We punish
until We sent a messenger.







And
when We intend to destroy a city, We command its affluent
but they defiantly disobey therein; so the word comes into
effect upon it, and We destroy it with [complete] destruction.







And
how many have We destroyed from the generations after Noah.
And sufficient is your Lord, concerning the sins of His
servants, as Acquainted and Seeing.







Whoever
should desire the immediate - We hasten for him from it
what We will to whom We intend. Then We have made for him
Hell, which he will [enter to] burn, censured and banished.







But
whoever desires the Hereafter and exerts the effort due to
it while he is a believer - it is those whose effort is ever
appreciated [by Allah ].







To
each [category] We extend - to these and to those - from
the gift of your Lord. And never has the gift of your Lord
been restricted.







Look
how We have favored [in provision] some of them over others.
But the Hereafter is greater in degrees [of difference] and
greater in distinction.







Do not make [as equal] with Allah another deity and [thereby] become censured and forsaken.







And
your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and
to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach
old age [while] with you, say not to them [so much as],
"uff," and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word.







And
lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say,
"My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I
was] small."










Your Lord is most knowing
of what is within yourselves. If you should be righteous [in
intention] - then indeed He is ever, to the often returning
[to Him], Forgiving.




And give the relative his right, and [also] the poor and the traveler, and do not spend wastefully.







Indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils, and ever has Satan been to his Lord ungrateful.







And
if you [must] turn away from the needy awaiting mercy from
your Lord which you expect, then speak to them a gentle word.







And
do not make your hand [as] chained to your neck or extend
it completely and [thereby] become blamed and insolvent.







Indeed,
your Lord extends provision for whom He wills and restricts
[it]. Indeed He is ever, concerning His servants, Acquainted and
Seeing.







And
do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide
for them and for you. Indeed, their killing is ever a great
sin.







And do not approach unlawful اللهم اهدنيual intercourse. Indeed, it is ever an immorality and is evil as a way.







And
do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by
right. And whoever is killed unjustly - We have given his
heir authority, but let him not exceed limits in [the matter
of] taking life. Indeed, he has been supported [by the law].







And
do not approach the property of an orphan, except in the
way that is best, until he reaches maturity. And fulfill
[every] commitment. Indeed, the commitment is ever [that about
which one will be] questioned.







And
give full measure when you measure, and weigh with an even
balance. That is the best [way] and best in result.







And
do not pursue that of which you have no knowledge. Indeed,
the hearing, the sight and the heart - about all those [one]
will be questioned.







And
do not walk upon the earth exultantly. Indeed, you will
never tear the earth [apart], and you will never reach the
mountains in height.







All that - its evil is ever, in the sight of your Lord, detested.







That
is from what your Lord has revealed to you, [O Muhammad],
of wisdom. And, [O mankind], do not make [as equal] with Allah
another deity, lest you be thrown into Hell, blamed and
banished.







Then,
has your Lord chosen you for [having] sons and taken from
among the angels daughters? Indeed, you say a grave saying.







And
We have certainly diversified [the contents] in this Qur'an
that mankind may be reminded, but it does not increase the
disbelievers except in aversion.









Say,
[O Muhammad], "If there had been with Him [other] gods, as
they say, then they [each] would have sought to the Owner of
the Throne a way."







Exalted is He and high above what they say by great sublimity.







The
seven heavens and the earth and whatever is in them exalt
Him. And there is not a thing except that it exalts [ Allah ]
by His praise, but you do not understand their [way of]
exalting. Indeed, He is ever Forbearing and Forgiving.







And
when you recite the Qur'an, We put between you and those
who do not believe in the Hereafter a concealed partition.







And
We have placed over their hearts coverings, lest they
understand it, and in their ears deafness. And when you mention
your Lord alone in the Qur'an, they turn back in aversion.







We
are most knowing of how they listen to it when they listen
to you and [of] when they are in private conversation, when
the wrongdoers say, "You follow not but a man affected by
magic."

Look how they strike for you comparisons; but they have strayed, so they cannot [find] a way.







And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"







Say, "Be you stones or iron