الٓمّٓصٓ

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Alif, Lām, Mīm, Sād.

(This is) a book sent down to you. Therefore, your heart must not be straitened because of it. (It is revealed to you) so that you may warn through it, and it may be an advice for the believers.

(O humankind,) follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and do not follow any masters other than Him. Little you heed to advice!

How many a town We have destroyed! Our punishment came upon them at night or when they were having a nap at midday.

So, when Our punishment came upon them, they could say nothing but cry, “We were wrongdoers indeed.”

So, We shall ask those to whom the messengers were sent, and We shall ask the messengers (how they conveyed the message).

Then, having full knowledge, We shall tell them the whole story, as We were never far from them.

The Weighing (of deeds) on that day is definite. As for those whose scales are heavy, they will be the successful ones.

But those whose scales are light, they are the ones who have brought loss to themselves, because they did not do justice to Our verses.

We established you on earth, and created in it means of living for you. Little you appreciate.

We created you, then gave you a shape, then We said to the angels, “Prostrate yourselves before ’Ādam.” So, they all prostrated themselves, except Iblīs (Satan). He did not join those who fell prostrate.

Allah said, “What has prevented you from prostrating when I ordered you?” He said, “I am better than him. You have created me of fire, and created him of clay.”

He said, “Then, get you down from here, it is not for you to show arrogance here. So, get out. You are one of the degraded.

He said, “Then give me respite until a day when all will be resurrected.

He (Allah) said, “You are granted respite’’.

He said, “Now that You have led me astray, I will certainly sit for them (in ambush) on Your straight path.

Then I will come upon them from their front side and from their behind, and from their right and from their left. You will not find most of them grateful.

He (Allah) said, “Get out of here, condemned, rejected. Indeed, whosoever will follow you from among them, I will fill Hell with all of you together.

O ’Ādam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise, and eat from wherever you like, but do not go near this tree, otherwise you shall join the transgressors.”

Then Satan whispered to them, so that he might expose to them their shame that was hidden from them; and said, “Your Lord has not prohibited this tree for you, but to avoid your becoming angels or your becoming eternal.”

He swore an oath, “I am one of your well-wishers.”

Thus, he cast both of them down by deception. When they tasted (the fruit of) the tree, their shame was exposed to them, and they began to patch together some leaves of Paradise upon themselves, and their Lord called them, “Did I not forbid you from that tree? Did I not tell you that Satan is your declared enemy?”

They said, “Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves, and if You do not forgive us and do not bless us with mercy, we shall, indeed, be among the losers.

He said, “Go down, some of you enemies of some; and for you on the earth there will be a dwelling place and enjoyment for a time.”

(Further) He said, “There you shall live and there you shall die, and from there you shall be raised again.”

O children of ’Ādam, We have sent down to you the dress that covers your shame and provides adornment. As for the dress of Taqwā (piety), that is the best. That is one of the signs of Allah, so that they may learn a lesson.