بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

اَلرَّحْمٰنُ(1) عَلَّمَ الْقُرْاٰنَ(2) خَلَقَ الْاِنْسَانَ(3) عَلَّمَهُ الْبَیَانَ(4) اَلشَّمْسُ وَ الْقَمَرُ بِحُسْبَانٍ(5) وَّ النَّجْمُ وَ الشَّجَرُ یَسْجُدٰنِ(6) وَ السَّمَآءَ رَفَعَهَا وَ وَضَعَ الْمِیْزَانَ(7) اَلَّا تَطْغَوْا فِی الْمِیْزَانِ(8) وَ اَقِیْمُوا الْوَزْنَ بِالْقِسْطِ وَ لَا تُخْسِرُوا الْمِیْزَانَ(9) وَ الْاَرْضَ وَ ضَعَهَا لِلْاَنَامِ(10) فِیْهَا فَاكِهَةٌ ﭪ–وَّ النَّخْلُ ذَاتُ الْاَكْمَامِ(11) وَ الْحَبُّ ذُو الْعَصْفِ وَ الرَّیْحَانُ(12) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(13) خَلَقَ الْاِنْسَانَ مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ كَالْفَخَّارِ(14) وَ خَلَقَ الْجَآنَّ مِنْ مَّارِجٍ مِّنْ نَّارٍ(15) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(16) رَبُّ الْمَشْرِقَیْنِ وَ رَبُّ الْمَغْرِبَیْنِ(17) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(18) مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَیْنِ یَلْتَقِیٰنِ(19) بَیْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا یَبْغِیٰنِ(20) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(21) یَخْرُ جُ مِنْهُمَا اللُّؤْلُؤُ وَ الْمَرْجَانُ(22) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(23) وَ لَهُ الْجَوَارِ الْمُنْشَــٴٰـتُ فِی الْبَحْرِ كَالْاَعْلَامِ(24) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(25) كُلُّ مَنْ عَلَیْهَا فَانٍ(26) وَّ یَبْقٰى وَجْهُ رَبِّكَ ذُو الْجَلٰلِ وَ الْاِكْرَامِ(27) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(28) یَسْــٴَـلُهٗ مَنْ فِی السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِؕ-كُلَّ یَوْمٍ هُوَ فِیْ شَاْنٍ(29) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(30) سَنَفْرُغُ لَكُمْ اَیُّهَ الثَّقَلٰنِ(31) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(32) یٰمَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَ الْاِنْسِ اِنِ اسْتَطَعْتُمْ اَنْ تَنْفُذُوْا مِنْ اَقْطَارِ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِ فَانْفُذُوْاؕ-لَا تَنْفُذُوْنَ اِلَّا بِسُلْطٰنٍ(33) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(34) یُرْسَلُ عَلَیْكُمَا شُوَاظٌ مِّنْ نَّارٍ ﳔ وَّ نُحَاسٌ فَلَا تَنْتَصِرٰنِ(35) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(36) فَاِذَا انْشَقَّتِ السَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ وَرْدَةً كَالدِّهَانِ(37) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(38) فَیَوْمَىٕذٍ لَّا یُسْــٴَـلُ عَنْ ذَنْۢبِهٖۤ اِنْسٌ وَّ لَا جَآنٌّ(39) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(40) یُعْرَفُ الْمُجْرِمُوْنَ بِسِیْمٰىهُمْ فَیُؤْخَذُ بِالنَّوَاصِیْ وَ الْاَقْدَامِ(41) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(42) هٰذِهٖ جَهَنَّمُ الَّتِیْ یُكَذِّبُ بِهَا الْمُجْرِمُوْنَ(43) یَطُوْفُوْنَ بَیْنَهَا وَ بَیْنَ حَمِیْمٍ اٰنٍ(44) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(45) وَ لِمَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهٖ جَنَّتٰنِ(46) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(47) ذَوَاتَاۤ اَفْنَانٍ(48) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(49) فِیْهِمَا عَیْنٰنِ تَجْرِیٰنِ(50) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(51) فِیْهِمَا مِنْ كُلِّ فَاكِهَةٍ زَوْجٰنِ(52) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(53) مُتَّكِـٕیْنَ عَلٰى فُرُشٍۭ بَطَآىٕنُهَا مِنْ اِسْتَبْرَقٍؕ-وَ جَنَا الْجَنَّتَیْنِ دَانٍ(54) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(55) فِیْهِنَّ قٰصِرٰتُ الطَّرْفِۙ-لَمْ یَطْمِثْهُنَّ اِنْسٌ قَبْلَهُمْ وَ لَا جَآنٌّ(56) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(57) كَاَنَّهُنَّ الْیَاقُوْتُ وَ الْمَرْجَانُ(58) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(59) هَلْ جَزَآءُ الْاِحْسَانِ اِلَّا الْاِحْسَانُ(60) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(61) وَ مِنْ دُوْنِهِمَا جَنَّتٰنِ(62) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(63) مُدْهَآ مَّتٰنِ(64) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(65) فِیْهِمَا عَیْنٰنِ نَضَّاخَتٰنِ(66) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(67) فِیْهِمَا فَاكِهَةٌ وَّ نَخْلٌ وَّ رُمَّانٌ(68) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(69) فِیْهِنَّ خَیْرٰتٌ حِسَانٌ(70) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(71) حُوْرٌ مَّقْصُوْرٰتٌ فِی الْخِیَامِ(72) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(73) لَمْ یَطْمِثْهُنَّ اِنْسٌ قَبْلَهُمْ وَ لَا جَآنٌّ(74) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(75) مُتَّكِـٕیْنَ عَلٰى رَفْرَفٍ خُضْرٍ وَّ عَبْقَرِیٍّ حِسَانٍ(76) فَبِاَیِّ اٰلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبٰنِ(77) تَبٰرَكَ اسْمُ رَبِّكَ ذِی الْجَلٰلِ وَ الْاِكْرَامِ(78)

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. The Most Beneficent (Allah)! 2. Has taught (you mankind) the Qur’an (by His Mercy). 3. He created man. 4. He taught him eloquent speech. 5. The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning, etc.). 6. And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both prostrate. 7. And the heaven He has raised high, and He has set up the Balance. 8. In order that you may not transgress (due) balance. 9. And observe the weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient. 10. And the earth He has put for the creatures. 11. Therein are fruits, date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates). 12. And also corn, with (its) leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants. 13. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 14. He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery. 15. And the jinns did He create from a smokeless flame of fire. 16. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 17. (He is) the Lord of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter). 18. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 19. He has let loosed the two seas (the salt water and the sweet) meeting together. 20. Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress. 21. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 22. Out of them both come out pearl and coral. 23. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 24. And His are the ships going and coming in the seas, like mountains. 25. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 26. Whatsoever is on it (the earth) will perish. 27. And the Face of your Lord full of Majesty and Honour will abide forever. 28. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 29. Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He has a matter to bring forth (such as giving honour to some, disgrace to some, life to some, death to some, etc.)! 30. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 31. We shall attend to you, O you two classes (jinns and men)! 32. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 33. O assembly of jinns and men! If you have power to pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, then pass (them)! But you will never be able to pass them, except with authority (from Allah)! 34. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 35. There will be sent against you both, smokeless flames of fire and (molten) brass, and you will not be able to defend yourselves. 36. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 37. Then when the heaven is rent asunder, and it becomes rosy or red like red-oil, or red hide. 38. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 39. So on that Day no question will be asked of man or jinn as to his sin, (because they have already been known from their faces either white or black). 40. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 41. The Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) will be known by their marks (black faces), and they will be seized by their forelocks and their feet. 42. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 43. This is Hell which the Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, sinners, etc.) denied. 44. They will go between it (Hell) and the boiling hot water! 45. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 46. But for him who [the true believer of Islamic Monotheism who performs all the duties ordained by Allah and His Messenger Muhammad , and keeps away (abstain) from all kinds of sin and evil deeds prohibited in Islam and] fears the standing before his Lord, there will be two Gardens (i.e. in Paradise). 47. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 48. With spreading branches; 49. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 50. In them (both) will be two springs flowing (free) 51. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 52. In them (both) will be every kind of fruit in pairs. 53. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 54. Reclining upon the couches lined with silk brocade, and the fruits of the two Gardens will be near at hand. 55. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 56. Wherein both will be those (maidens) restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them. 57. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 58. (In beauty) they are like rubies and coral. 59. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 60. Is there any reward for good other than good? 61. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 62. And besides these two, there are two other Gardens (i.e. in Paradise). 63. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 64. Dark green (in colour). 65. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 66. In them (both) will be two springs gushing forth water. 67. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 68. In them (both) will be fruits, and date- palms and pomegranates. 69. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 70. Therein (gardens) will be fair (wives) good and beautiful; 71. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 72. Houris (beautiful, fair females) restrained in pavilions; 73. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 74. Whom no man or jinn yatmithhunna (has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse) before them. 75. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 76. Reclining on green cushions and rich beautiful mattresses. 77. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinns and men) deny? 78. Blessed be the Name of your Lord (Allah), the Owner of Majesty and Honour.

Summary:

Surah Ar-Rahman is the 55th chapter of the Quran, known for its poetic beauty, repetition of the verse “So which of the favors of your Lord will you deny?”, and profound descriptions of Allah’s blessings, creation, and the afterlife. Below is a comprehensive breakdown of the Surah, verse by verse. Verses 1-4: The Merciful and the Gift of the Quran Allah’s Mercy and the Quran: The Surah opens with a powerful reminder of Allah’s attribute as “Ar-Rahman” (The Most Merciful). His mercy is evident in the revelation of the Quran, which serves as a guidance for humanity. Creation of Humanity: Allah created human beings and granted them the ability to articulate thoughts through speech, a unique blessing that distinguishes them from other creatures. Verses 5-13: The Order in Creation The Sun, Moon, and Stars: Allah speaks of His magnificent creation—the sun and moon, which move according to precise calculations, and the stars, which submit to His command. Balance in the Universe: Everything in the universe, from the heavens to the earth, is in perfect balance. Allah commands mankind to uphold justice and avoid disturbing this balance in their dealings. Fruits, Date-palms, and Gardens: Allah highlights His blessings through the growth of fruits, date-palms, and gardens, providing sustenance and beauty. The Refrain: “So which of the favors of your Lord will you deny?” This refrain, which appears 31 times throughout the Surah, challenges humanity and the jinn to acknowledge and appreciate Allah’s countless favors. Verses 14-16: The Creation of Humans and Jinn Humans and Jinn: Allah created man from clay, and the jinn from a smokeless flame of fire. Despite their differences, both are equally responsible for recognizing Allah’s blessings. Verses 17-25: The Marvels of Nature The Two Easts and Two Wests: Allah controls the directions of the sun’s rising and setting, reminding of His dominion over all things. The Seas: Allah mentions the meeting of two seas, separated by an unseen barrier, and describes the treasures found in the oceans—pearls and corals. Verses 26-30: The Inevitable End Everything Will Perish: Everything in creation is temporary and will perish, except Allah, the Lord of majesty and honor. All of creation is dependent on Him. Constant Action of Allah: Every moment, Allah is involved in His creation, governing it and manifesting His will. Verses 31-45: The Fate of the Wicked The Accountability: Both humans and jinn will be asked about their actions on the Day of Judgment. Description of Hellfire: Allah describes the terrifying punishment for the wicked in Hell: a blazing fire, boiling water, and the intense heat of molten brass. The wrongdoers will be seized and dragged into Hell, a dire warning for those who deny Allah’s signs. Verses 46-78: The Reward of the Righteous Two Gardens for the Righteous: Those who fear their Lord will be rewarded with two lush gardens in Paradise, a stark contrast to the punishment of the wicked. The Bounties of Paradise: These gardens will contain beautiful, flowing rivers, fruits of every kind, comfortable dwellings, and righteous spouses. Believers will recline on couches of green silk and brocade, enjoying the peace and blessings of their eternal abode. The Higher and Lower Levels of Paradise: There are descriptions of even more gardens, where the rewards are abundant and pure. Praise for Allah: The Surah closes with a final declaration of Allah’s majesty, emphasizing that He is “blessed” and “possesses majesty and honor.”