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Al-Mulk · Sovereignty
سُورَةُ الملك
About this chapter
Sūrat al-Mulk is the sixty-seventh chapter of the Quran. It was revealed in Mecca, and consists of thirty verses. It is apparently the seventy-seventh chapter that was revealed, after Sūrat al-Ṭūr (52) and before Sūrat al-Ḥāqqah (69). Its name is obtained from the first verse, which talks about God’s kingdom and sovereignty (al-mulk).
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
Verses you have read are marked; the one you are on is shaded
- 1 Blessed is He in whose hand is all kingdom, and He is powerful over all things.
- 2 He, who created death and life that He may test you [to see] which of you is best in conduct. And He is the all-mighty, the all-forgiving.
- 3–4 He, who created seven heavens in harmony. You do not see any discordance in the creation of the All-Beneficent. Look again! Do you see any…
- 5 We have certainly adorned the lowest heaven with lamps, and made them missiles against the devils, and We have prepared for them the…
- 6 For those who defy their Lord is the punishment of hell, and it is an evil destination.
- 7–8 When they are thrown in it, they hear it blaring, as it seethes,
- 9 They will say: ‘Yes, a warner did come to us, but we impugned [him] and said: “Allah did not send down anything; you are only in great…
- 10 And they will say: ‘Had we listened or applied reason, we would not have been among inmates of the blaze.’
- 11 Thus they will admit their sin. So away with the inmates of the blaze!
- 12 Indeed for those who fear their Lord unseen there will be forgiveness and a great reward.
- 13 Speak secretly, or do so loudly, indeed He knows well what is in the breasts.
- 14 Would He who has created not know? And He is the all-subtle, the all-aware.
- 15 It is He who made the earth tractable for you; so walk on its flanks and eat of His provision, and towards Him is the resurrection.
- 16 Are you secure that He who is in the sky will not make the earth swallow you while it quakes?
- 17 Are you secure that He who is in the sky will not unleash upon you a rain of stones? Soon you will know how My warning has been!
- 18 Certainly those who were before them had denied; but then how was My rebuttal!
- 19 Have they not regarded the birds above them spreading and closing their wings? No one sustains them except the All-Beneficent. Indeed He…
- 20 Who is it that is your host who may help you, besides the All-Beneficent? The faithless only dwell in delusion.
- 21 Who is it that may provide for you if He withholds His provision? Rather, they persist in defiance and aversion.
- 22 Is he who walks prone on his face better guided, or he who walks upright on a straight path?
- 23 Say: ‘It is He who created you, and made for you hearing, eyesight, and hearts. Little do you thank.’
- 24 Say: ‘It is He who created you on the earth, and toward Him you will be mustered.’
- 25–27 They say: ‘When will this promise be fulfilled, should you be truthful?’
- 28–29 Say: ‘Tell me, whether Allah destroys me and those with me, or He has mercy on us, who will shelter the faithless from a painful…
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