when We ordain something it happens at once, in the blink of an eye

We have destroyed the likes of you in the past. Will anyone take heed

Everything they do is noted in their records

every action, great or small, is recorded

The righteous will live securely among Gardens and rivers

secure in the presence of an all-powerful Sovereign

It is the Lord of Mercy

who taught the Quran

He created man

and taught him to communicate

The sun and the moon follow their calculated courses

the plants and the trees submit to His designs

He has raised up the sky. He has set the balance

so that you may not exceed in the balance

weigh with justice and do not fall short in the balance

He set down the Earth for His creatures

with its fruits, its palm trees with sheathed clusters

its husked grain, its fragrant plants

Which, then, of your Lord’s blessings do you both deny

He created mankind out of dried clay, like pottery

the jinn out of smokeless fire

Which, then, of your Lord’s blessings do you both deny