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Luqmān
سُورَةُ لقمان
About this chapter
This surah is named Sūrat Luqmān due to the occurrence of this name in it and because it contains the discussion of Luqmān and his wise counsels. It does not have any other name, and it is the only surah that talks about this wise man. It consists of thirty-four verses (excluding the basmalah) and is of Meccan provenance as attested by its contents.
The introduction sets out when the chapter came and what it addresses; the merits gather what the narrations say of reading it. Both are written as units of the tafsir, with their own footnotes.
The verses
Each with the first line of its translation
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- 1 Alif, lām, mīm.
- 2 Those are the signs of the wise book.
- 3 A guidance and mercy for the virtuous.
- 4 Those who maintain the prayer, and pay the zakāh, and are certain of the hereafter.
- 5 Those are on their Lord’s guidance, and those it is who are the successful.
- 6 Among the people is he who buys diversionary talk that he may lead [people] astray from Allah’s way without any knowledge, and that he may…
- 7 And when Our signs are recited to him he turns away disdainfully as if he had not heard them [at all], as if there were a deafness in his…
- 8 As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds, for them will be gardens of bliss.
- 9 To remain in them [forever] – a true promise of Allah, and He is the all-mighty, the all-wise.
- 10 He created the heavens without any pillars that you see, and cast firm mountains in the earth lest it should shake with you, and He has…
- 11 This is the creation of Allah. Now show Me what others besides Him have created. Rather, the wrongdoers are in manifest error!
- 12 Certainly We gave Luqmān wisdom, saying: ‘Give thanks to Allah; and whoever gives thanks, gives thanks only for his own sake. And whoever…
- 13 And when Luqmān said to his son, as he advised him: ‘O my son! Do not ascribe any partners to Allah. Polytheism is indeed a great…
- 14 We have enjoined man concerning his parents: his mother carried him through weakness upon weakness, and his weaning takes two years. Give…
- 15 But if they strive to make you ascribe a partner to Me about which you have no knowledge, then do not obey them. Keep their company…
- 16 ‘O my son! Even if it should be the weight of a mustard seed, and [even though] it should be in a rock, or in the heavens, or in the earth…
- 17 O my son! Establish the prayer and bid what is right and forbid what is wrong, and be patient through whatever may visit you. That is…
- 18 Do not turn your cheek disdainfully from the people, and do not walk exultantly on the earth. Indeed, Allah does not like any swaggering…
- 19 Walk at a moderate pace, and lower your voice. Indeed, the ungainliest of voices is the donkey’s voice.’
- 20 Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you whatever there is in the heavens and whatever there is in the earth and He has lavished upon…
- 21 When they are told: ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say: ‘We will rather follow what we found our fathers following.’ What! Even if…
- 22 Whoever submits his face to Allah while he is virtuous, has certainly held fast to the firmest handle, and with Allah lies the outcome of…
- 23 Whoever disbelieves, let their disbelief not grieve you [O Muhammad]. To Us will be their return, and We will inform them about what they…
- 24 We give them enjoyment for a short time, then We will force them toward a harsh punishment.
- 25 If you ask them: ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they will surely say: ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘All praise belongs to Allah!’ Yet most of…
- 26 To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Indeed, Allah is the all-sufficient, the all-laudable.
- 27 If all the trees on the earth were pens, and the sea replenished with seven more seas [were ink], the words of Allah would not be spent.…
- 28 Your creation and your resurrection are not but as of a single soul. Indeed, Allah is all-hearing, all-seeing.
- 29 Have you not regarded that Allah makes the night pass into the day and makes the day pass into the night; and He has disposed the sun and…
- 30 That is because Allah is the truth, and whatever they invoke besides Him is falsehood, and because Allah is the all-exalted, the all-great.
- 31 Have you not regarded that the ships sail at sea by Allah’s blessings, that He may show you some of His signs? There are indeed signs in…
- 32 When waves cover them like awnings, they invoke Allah, putting exclusive faith in Him. But when He delivers them towards land, [only] some…
- 33 O mankind! Be wary of your Lord and fear the day when a father shall not atone for his child, nor the child shall atone for its father in…
- 34 Indeed the knowledge of the hour is with Allah. He sends down the rain, and He knows what is in the wombs. No soul knows what it will earn…
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