Surah Fatir

Surah Fatir

(Sole Originator)
Chapter 35
It is 45 Verses 5 Units (Ruku’): Revealed at Makkah
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
1. All praise is due to Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, Who made the Angels Messengers with wings, two, and three, and four; He increases in creation what He wills; surely Allah is Able to do all things.
2. Whatever Allah grants to the people of (His) Mercy, none can withhold it, and what He withholds then there is none to grant it thereafter; and He is the All-Mighty, the Truly Wise.
3. O people! Remember the Favor of Allah upon you; is there any creator
other than Allah who gives you sustenance from the sky and the earth? There is no god (worthy of worship) except Him; how are you then turned away (from the Truth)?
4. And if they deny you (O Prophet Muhammad), so were Messengers
denied before you, and to Allah (God) return all matters (for decision).
5. O people! Surely the Promise of Allah is (always) true, therefore let
not the life of this world deceive you, and let not the chief deceiver (Satan)
deceive you about Allah.
6. Surely Satan is your enemy, so take him as an enemy; he only invites his party to be among the inmates of the Hellfire.
7. (As for) those who disbelieve (in Allah and His Messengers), they will have a severe Torment, and (as for) those who believe and do righteous deeds, they will have Forgiveness and a great reward (Paradise).
8. Is he, to whom the evil of his deeds is made fair seeming to him, so much so that he considers them good (equal to one who is rightly guided)? For surely Allah (justly) leaves astray whom He wills, and guides (as a Mercy from Him) whom He wills, so let not yourself waste away in sorrowing over them; surely Allah is All-Aware of what they do.
9. And Allah is He Who sends the winds so they raise the clouds, then We drive them on to a dead land, and therewith We give life to the earth after its death; such is the Resurrection.
10. Whoever desires honor, then to Allah (alone) belongs all honor, power, and glory. To Him ascend the good words; and the righteous deeds uplift them, and (as for) those who plot evil deeds, they will have a severe Torment; and (as for) their plot, it will perish.
11. And Allah created you from dust, then out of a drop of sperm, then He made you in pairs; and no female bears, nor does she bring forth, except with His Knowledge; and no aged man has his life lengthened, nor is anything diminished of one’s life, but it is all in a Register. Surely this is easy for Allah.
12. And the two seas are not alike: One is fresh and sweet, good to drink; and the other salty and bitter; yet from each of them you eat fresh tender meat (fish) and bring forth ornaments which you wear; and you see the ships cleave through it, that you may seek of His bounty, and that you may be grateful.
13. He causes the night to enter the day, and He causes the day to enter in upon the night, and He has made the sun and the moon subservient to you; each one follows its course to an appointed time (set by Him); this is Allah, your (real) Lord (Creator, Sustainer, and Ruler), His is the (True) Sovereignty; and those whom you call upon besides Him do not control (even) the husk of a date stone (i.e., they have no power at all).
14. If you call on them they will not hear your call, and even if they could hear they will not answer you; and on the Day of Resurrection (and Judgment) they will deny your associating them (with Allah); and none can inform you like the One Who is Aware (Allah).
15. O people! It is you who stand in need of Allah (God), but Allah, He is the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.
16. If He wills, He can do away with you, and bring about a new creation.
17. And this is not hard for Allah.
18. And no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another, (from the Justice of Allah is that He will not count others who are innocent, as guilty for the sins of their fathers through ‘ancestral’ or ‘original’ sin), and if one weighed down by his load should call for (another to carry) his burden (of sins), nothing of it will be carried, even though he be a close relative. You warn only those who stand in Awe of their (True) Lord (Allah) though unseen (beyond their perception) and perform the prayer perfectly (at their prescribed times); and whoever purifies himself, he purifies himself only for (the good of) himself; and to Allah (God) is the final return (of all).
19. And the blind and the seeing are not alike,
20. Nor the darknesses and the light,
21. Nor the shade and the heat,
22. Neither are the living and the dead alike. Surely Allah makes whom He wills hear, but you cannot make hear those who are in the graves.
23. You are only a warner.
24. Surely We have sent you (O Prophet Muhammad) with the Truth as a bearer of good news (of eternal Bliss for whoever believes and does righteous work) and a warner (of Chastisement for whoever associates any partner with Allah and works evil); and there never was a people but a warner had passed among them.
25. And if they deny you (O Prophet Muhammad), then those before them also denied; their Messengers came to them with clear Proofs, and with written Ordinances, and with the enlightening Scripture.

26. Then I (Allah) seized those who disbelieved (in the Truth), so how (terrible) was My Reproach.
27. Do you not see that Allah sends down water from the sky then We bring forth therewith fruits of various colors; and in the mountains are streaks, white and red, of various colors, and (others) intensely black?
28. And of people and beasts and cattle; likewise, of varying colors. Only those of His servants who possess (right) knowledge are the ones who stand (truly) in Awe (and Reverence) of Allah (i.e., are God-fearing); surely Allah (God) is All-Mighty, Most Forgiving.
29. Surely those who recite the Scripture of Allah (the Qur’an) and perform the prayer perfectly (at their prescribed times) and spend (in charity) out of what We have given them secretly and openly, (they) hope for a bargain that will never cease (i.e., eternal Paradise by Allah’s grace and as a result of the good deeds they earned during their lives).
30. That He (Allah) may recompense them fully their rewards and give them more out of His Bounty; surely He is Forgiving, Appreciative.
31. And that which We have revealed to you (O Prophet Muhammad) of the Scripture (the Qur’an), that is the Truth confirming that which is before it (the Torah, the Gospel, the Psalms, among others); most surely, Allah is All-Aware, Ever Seeing of His slaves (of mankind and jinn).
32. Then We caused to inherit the Scripture (the Qur’an) those whom We chose from among Our slaves (of mankind and jinn); and of them is he who is unjust to himself (who mixes good deeds with evil ones), and of them is he who steers a middle course (who fulfills the minimum requirements and avoids the forbidden acts), and of them is he who excels through good deeds by the Permission of Allah. This is the Great Bounty.
33. Gardens of Eden, they will enter therein; they will be made to wear therein bracelets of gold and pearls, and their dress therein will be silk.
34. And they will say: (All) praise is due to Allah, Who has removed from us (all) grief; most surely our Lord (Allah) is Forgiving, Appreciative,
35. Who out of His Bounty has made us settle in a Home (Paradise) that will last forever; toil will not touch us therein, nor will fatigue therein afflict us.
36. And (as for) those who disbelieve (in the Truth), for them is the Fire of Hell; where they will neither be finished off by death, nor will the Torment thereof be lightened for them; thus do We recompense every ungrateful one (disbeliever).
37. And they will cry therein for help (saying): (O Allah) our Lord! Take us out (to return to the previous world), we shall do righteous deeds other than those which we used to do. (Allah will reply): Did We not grant you a life long enough, so that whosoever would receive admonition could receive it? And there came to you the warner; therefore taste (the Punishment and result of your evil deeds); for the workers of iniquity (who associated others with Allah, or disbelieved in Him, or denied His Messengers or the Last Day and died as such without repentance), there is no helper (nor intercessor for them).
38. Surely Allah is the Knower of what is unseen in the heavens and the earth; surely He has full Knowledge of what is in the chests (of mankind).
39. He it is Who made you successors in the earth; therefore whoever disbelieves (in the Truth), his disbelief is against himself; and their disbelief does not increase the disbelievers with their (True) Lord (Allah) anything except Hatred; and their disbelief does not increase the disbelievers in anything except loss.
40. Say: Have you considered your associates (such as Jesus Christ, the Prophets, the Holy Spirit, the Angels, the mother Mary, saints, jinn, statues, etc.) which you call uponbesides Allah? Show me what part of the earth they have created, or have they any share in the heavens; or, have We given them (these lawbreakers) a Scripture so that they follow a clear Proof from it? No, rather the workers of iniquity (the polytheists, disbelievers, atheists) promise one another nothing but delusion.
41. Surely Allah upholds the heavens and the earth lest they move away from their places; and if they were to move away from their places, there is none who can uphold them after Him; surely He is Forbearing, Forgiving.
42. And they swore by Allah their most binding oaths, that if there came to them a warner they would be better guided than any of the (previous) nations; but when there came to them a warner (the Prophet Muhammad) it did not increase them except in aversion,
43. (Because of their) behaving arrogantly in the earth and plotting evil; and the evil plot will not encompass any except its authors. Then should they wait for anything except the way of the former people? For you shall not find any change in the Way of Allah; and you shall not find any alteration in the Way of Allah.
44. Have they not traveled in the land and seen what was the end of those before them while they were stronger than these in power? And Allah is not such that anything in the heavens or in the earth escapes Him; surely He is All-Knowing, Most Powerful.
45. And if Allah were to seize the people for what they earn (of sins), He would not leave on the back of it (the earth) any living creature, but He grants them respite til an appointed term; so when their term comes, then surely Allah is Ever Seeing of His subjects (of mankind and jinn).