Surah Al-Israa Recitation, Translation, and Tafseer - The Holy Quran

17:81

وَ قُلْ جَآءَ الْحَقُّ وَ زَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُؕ-اِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوْقًا(۸۱)

And say: "Truth has come and falsehood nullified." Verily falsehood is perishable.

And say: 'The truth has come, and falsehood has vanished away; surely falsehood is ever certain to vanish.'

17:82

وَ نُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْاٰنِ مَا هُوَ شِفَآءٌ وَّ رَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِیْنَۙ-وَ لَا یَزِیْدُ الظّٰلِمِیْنَ اِلَّا خَسَارًا(۸۲)

What We have sent down of the Qur´an is a healing and a grace for the faithful, and adds only loss for the sinners.

And We send down, of the Koran, that which is a healing and a mercy to the believers; and the unbelievers it increases not, except in loss.

17:83

وَ اِذَاۤ اَنْعَمْنَا عَلَى الْاِنْسَانِ اَعْرَضَ وَ نَاٰ بِجَانِبِهٖۚ-وَ اِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ كَانَ یَـٴُـوْسًا (۸۳)

When We are gracious to man he turns away and moves aside; yet when evil befalls him he begins to despair.

And when We bless man, he turns away, and withdraws aside; but when evil visits him, he is in despair.

17:84

قُلْ كُلٌّ یَّعْمَلُ عَلٰى شَاكِلَتِهٖؕ-فَرَبُّكُمْ اَعْلَمُ بِمَنْ هُوَ اَهْدٰى سَبِیْلًا۠(۸۴)

Say: "Each one acts according to his disposition, but your Lord knows well who follow the right path."

Say: 'Every man works according to his own manner; but your Lord knows very well what man is best guided as to the way.'

17:85

وَ یَسْــٴَـلُوْنَكَ عَنِ الرُّوْحِؕ-قُلِ الرُّوْحُ مِنْ اَمْرِ رَبِّیْ وَ مَاۤ اُوْتِیْتُمْ مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ اِلَّا قَلِیْلًا(۸۵)

They ask you about revelation. Say, revelation is by the command of your Lord, and that you have been given but little knowledge.

They will question thee concerning the Spirit. Say: 'The Spirit is of the bidding of my Lord. You have been given of knowledge nothing except a little.'

17:86

وَ لَىٕنْ شِئْنَا لَنَذْهَبَنَّ بِالَّذِیْۤ اَوْحَیْنَاۤ اِلَیْكَ ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُ لَكَ بِهٖ عَلَیْنَا وَكِیْلًاۙ(۸۶)

If We pleased We could take away what We have revealed to you. Then you will not find any one to plead for it with Us,

If We willed, We could take away that We have revealed to thee, then thou wouldst find none thereover to guard thee against Us,

17:87

اِلَّا رَحْمَةً مِّنْ رَّبِّكَؕ-اِنَّ فَضْلَهٗ كَانَ عَلَیْكَ كَبِیْرًا(۸۷)

Unless your Lord have mercy. His blessings on you are great indeed.

excepting by some mercy of thy Lord; surly His favour to thee is great.

17:88

قُلْ لَّىٕنِ اجْتَمَعَتِ الْاِنْسُ وَ الْجِنُّ عَلٰۤى اَنْ یَّاْتُوْا بِمِثْلِ هٰذَا الْقُرْاٰنِ لَا یَاْتُوْنَ بِمِثْلِهٖ وَ لَوْ كَانَ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ ظَهِیْرًا(۸۸)

Say: "Surely if men and jinns get together to produce the like of this (Qur´an), they will not be able to produce the like of it, however they might assist one another.

Say: 'If men and jinn banded together to produce the like of this Koran, they would never produce its like, not though they backed one another.'

17:89

وَ لَقَدْ صَرَّفْنَا لِلنَّاسِ فِیْ هٰذَا الْقُرْاٰنِ مِنْ كُلِّ مَثَلٍ٘-فَاَبٰۤى اَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ اِلَّا كُفُوْرًا(۸۹)

We have given examples of every kind to men in this Qur´an in various ways, and even then most men disdain everything but unbelief,

We have indeed turned about for men in this Koran every manner of similitude; yet most men refuse all but unbelief.

17:90

وَ قَالُوْا لَنْ نُّؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتّٰى تَفْجُرَ لَنَا مِنَ الْاَرْضِ یَنْۢبُوْعًاۙ(۹۰)

And say: "We will not believe you until you make a spring of water gush forth from the earth for us;

They say, 'We will not believe thee till thou makest a spring to gush forth from the earth for us,

17:91

اَوْ تَكُوْنَ لَكَ جَنَّةٌ مِّنْ نَّخِیْلٍ وَّ عِنَبٍ فَتُفَجِّرَ الْاَنْهٰرَ خِلٰلَهَا تَفْجِیْرًاۙ(۹۱)

Or, until you acquire an orchard of date-palm trees and grapes, and produce rivers flowing through it;

or till thou possessest a garden of plants and vines, and thou makest rivers to gush forth abundantly all amongst it,

17:92

اَوْ تُسْقِطَ السَّمَآءَ كَمَا زَعَمْتَ عَلَیْنَا كِسَفًا اَوْ تَاْتِیَ بِاللّٰهِ وَ الْمَلٰٓىٕكَةِ قَبِیْلًاۙ(۹۲)

Or, let chunks of sky fall over us, as you assert (you will); or, bring God and the angels as a surety;

or till thou makest heaven to fall, as thou assertest, on us in fragments, or thou bringest God and the angels as a surety,

17:93

اَوْ یَكُوْنَ لَكَ بَیْتٌ مِّنْ زُخْرُفٍ اَوْ تَرْقٰى فِی السَّمَآءِؕ-وَ لَنْ نُّؤْمِنَ لِرُقِیِّكَ حَتّٰى تُنَزِّلَ عَلَیْنَا كِتٰبًا نَّقْرَؤُهٗؕ-قُلْ سُبْحَانَ رَبِّیْ هَلْ كُنْتُ اِلَّا بَشَرًا رَّسُوْلًا۠(۹۳)

Or, you come to possess a house of gold; or ascend to the skies, though we shall not believe in your having ascended till you bring down a book for us which we could read." Say: "Glory to my Lord. I am only man and a messenger."

or till thou possessest a house of gold ornament, or till thou goest up into heaven; and we will not believe thy going up till thou bringest down on us a book that we may read. Say: 'Glory be to my Lord. Am I aught but a mortal, a Messenger?'

17:94

وَ مَا مَنَعَ النَّاسَ اَنْ یُّؤْمِنُوْۤا اِذْ جَآءَهُمُ الْهُدٰۤى اِلَّاۤ اَنْ قَالُوْۤا اَبَعَثَ اللّٰهُ بَشَرًا رَّسُوْلًا(۹۴)

Nothing prevented men from believing when guidance came to them, other than (what) they said: "Has God sent (only) a man as messenger?"

And naught prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them, but that they said, 'Has God sent forth a mortal as Messenger?'

17:95

قُلْ لَّوْ كَانَ فِی الْاَرْضِ مَلٰٓىٕكَةٌ یَّمْشُوْنَ مُطْمَىٕنِّیْنَ لَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَیْهِمْ مِّنَ السَّمَآءِ مَلَكًا رَّسُوْلًا(۹۵)

Say: "If angels had peopled the earth and walked about in peace and quiet, We would surely have sent to them an angel as messenger.

Say: 'Had there been in the earth angels walking. at peace, We would have sent down upon them out of heaven an angel as Messenger.'

17:96

قُلْ كَفٰى بِاللّٰهِ شَهِیْدًۢا بَیْنِیْ وَ بَیْنَكُمْؕ-اِنَّهٗ كَانَ بِعِبَادِهٖ خَبِیْرًۢا بَصِیْرًا(۹۶)

Tell them: "God is sufficient witness between me and you, for He knows His creatures well, and is well-informed."

Say: 'God suffices as a witness between me and you; surely He is aware of and sees His servants.'

17:97

وَ مَنْ یَّهْدِ اللّٰهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِۚ-وَ مَنْ یُّضْلِلْ فَلَنْ تَجِدَ لَهُمْ اَوْلِیَآءَ مِنْ دُوْنِهٖؕ-وَ نَحْشُرُهُمْ یَوْمَ الْقِیٰمَةِ عَلٰى وُجُوْهِهِمْ عُمْیًا وَّ بُكْمًا وَّ صُمًّاؕ-مَاْوٰىهُمْ جَهَنَّمُؕ-كُلَّمَا خَبَتْ زِدْنٰهُمْ سَعِیْرًا(۹۷)

He is guided whom God guides. As for him He allows to go astray, you will not find a protector other than Him. We shall raise them on the Day of Resurrection in their own image, blind and dumb and deaf: Their habitation will be Hell. Every time (its fire) subsides We will intensify its flame.

Whomsoever God guides, he is rightly guided; and whom He leads astray -- thou wilt not find for them protectors, apart from Him. And We shall muster them on the Resurrection Day upon their faces, blind, dumb, deaf; their refuge shall be Gehenna, and whensoever it abates We shall increase for them the Blaze.

17:98

ذٰلِكَ جَزَآؤُهُمْ بِاَنَّهُمْ كَفَرُوْا بِاٰیٰتِنَا وَ قَالُوْۤا ءَاِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَّ رُفَاتًا ءَاِنَّا لَمَبْعُوْثُوْنَ خَلْقًا جَدِیْدًا(۹۸)

This will be their retribution for having denied Our signs and said: "Once we are turned to bones and bits, can we be raised as a new creation?"

That is their recompense because they disbelieved in Our signs and said, 'What, when we are bones and broken bits, shall we really be raised up again in a new creation?'

17:99

اَوَ لَمْ یَرَوْا اَنَّ اللّٰهَ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضَ قَادِرٌ عَلٰۤى اَنْ یَّخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُمْ وَ جَعَلَ لَهُمْ اَجَلًا لَّا رَیْبَ فِیْهِؕ-فَاَبَى الظّٰلِمُوْنَ اِلَّا كُفُوْرًا(۹۹)

Do they not perceive that God, who created the heavens and the earth, has the power to create the like of them? There is no doubt that. He has fixed a term for them. Even then the wicked disdain everything but unbelief.

Have they not seen that God, who created the heavens and earth, is powerful to create the like of them? He has appointed for them a term, no doubt of it; yet the unbelievers refuse all but unbelief.

17:100

قُلْ لَّوْ اَنْتُمْ تَمْلِكُوْنَ خَزَآىٕنَ رَحْمَةِ رَبِّیْۤ اِذًا لَّاَمْسَكْتُمْ خَشْیَةَ الْاِنْفَاقِؕ-وَ كَانَ الْاِنْسَانُ قَتُوْرًا۠(۱۰۰)

Say: "Even if you owned the stores of the mercy of my Lord, you would have held them back for fear of spending them, for man is niggardly."

Say: 'If you possessed the treasuries of my Lord's mercy, yet would you hold back for fear of expending; and man is ever niggardly.'

17:101

وَ لَقَدْ اٰتَیْنَا مُوْسٰى تِسْعَ اٰیٰتٍۭ بَیِّنٰتٍ فَسْــٴَـلْ بَنِیْۤ اِسْرَآءِیْلَ اِذْ جَآءَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهٗ فِرْعَوْنُ اِنِّیْ لَاَظُنُّكَ یٰمُوْسٰى مَسْحُوْرًا(۱۰۱)

We gave Moses nine clear signs; so ask the children of Israel. When (Moses) came to them the Pharaoh said: "I think, O Moses, you have been deluded."

And We gave Moses nine signs, clear signs. Ask the Children of Israel when he came to them, and Pharaoh said to him, 'Moses, I think thou art bewitched.'

17:102

قَالَ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَاۤ اَنْزَلَ هٰۤؤُلَآءِ اِلَّا رَبُّ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِ بَصَآىٕرَۚ-وَ اِنِّیْ لَاَظُنُّكَ یٰفِرْعَوْنُ مَثْبُوْرًا(۱۰۲)

He replied: "You know that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has sent these (signs) as cogent proof. I truly think, O Pharaoh, your days are done."

He said, 'Indeed thou knowest that none sent these down, except the Lord of the heavens and earth, as clear proofs; and, Pharaoh, I think thou art accursed.'

17:103

فَاَرَادَ اَنْ یَّسْتَفِزَّهُمْ مِّنَ الْاَرْضِ فَاَغْرَقْنٰهُ وَ مَنْ مَّعَهٗ جَمِیْعًاۙ(۱۰۳)

Then he sought to turn them out of the land, but We drowned him and all his followers.

He desired to startle them from the land; and We drowned him and those with him, all together.

17:104

وَّ قُلْنَا مِنْۢ بَعْدِهٖ لِبَنِیْۤ اِسْرَآءِیْلَ اسْكُنُوا الْاَرْضَ فَاِذَا جَآءَ وَعْدُ الْاٰخِرَةِ جِئْنَا بِكُمْ لَفِیْفًاؕ(۱۰۴)

After this We told the children of Israel: "Dwell in the land. When the promise of reckoning comes, We shall bring you together from a motley crowd.

And We said to the Children of Israel after him, 'Dwell in the land; and when the promise of the world to come comes to pass, We shall bring you a rabble.'

17:105

وَ بِالْحَقِّ اَنْزَلْنٰهُ وَ بِالْحَقِّ نَزَلَؕ-وَ مَاۤ اَرْسَلْنٰكَ اِلَّا مُبَشِّرًا وَّ نَذِیْرًاۘ(۱۰۵)

We have sent it down with truth, and with truth has (the Qur´an) come down. And We have sent you only to give good news and to warn.

With the truth We have sent it down, and with the truth it has come down; and We have sent thee not, except good tidings to bear, and warning;

17:106

وَ قُرْاٰنًا فَرَقْنٰهُ لِتَقْرَاَهٗ عَلَى النَّاسِ عَلٰى مُكْثٍ وَّ نَزَّلْنٰهُ تَنْزِیْلًا(۱۰۶)

We have divided the Qur´an into parts that you may recite it to men slowly, with deliberation. That is why We sent it down by degrees.

and a Koran We have divided, for thee to recite it to mankind at intervals, and We have sent it down successively.

17:107

قُلْ اٰمِنُوْا بِهٖۤ اَوْ لَا تُؤْمِنُوْاؕ-اِنَّ الَّذِیْنَ اُوْتُوا الْعِلْمَ مِنْ قَبْلِهٖۤ اِذَا یُتْلٰى عَلَیْهِمْ یَخِرُّوْنَ لِلْاَذْقَانِ سُجَّدًاۙ(۱۰۷)

Say: "Believe in it or do not believe: Those who were given knowledge before it bow in adoration when it is read out to them,

Say: 'Believe in it, or believe not; those who were given the knowledge before it when it is recited to them, fall down upon their faces prostrating,

17:108

وَّ یَقُوْلُوْنَ سُبْحٰنَ رَبِّنَاۤ اِنْ كَانَ وَعْدُ رَبِّنَا لَمَفْعُوْلًا(۱۰۸)

And say: "Glory be to our Lord. The promise of our Lord has indeed been fulfilled."

and say, "Glory be to our Lord! Our Lord's promise is performed."

17:109

وَ یَخِرُّوْنَ لِلْاَذْقَانِ یَبْكُوْنَ وَ یَزِیْدُهُمْ خُشُوْعًا۩(۱۰۹)

And weeping they kneel down, and this increases their humility.

And they fall down upon their faces weeping; and it increases them in humility.'

17:110

قُلِ ادْعُوا اللّٰهَ اَوِ ادْعُوا الرَّحْمٰنَؕ-اَیًّا مَّا تَدْعُوْا فَلَهُ الْاَسْمَآءُ الْحُسْنٰىۚ-وَ لَا تَجْهَرْ بِصَلَاتِكَ وَ لَا تُخَافِتْ بِهَا وَ ابْتَغِ بَیْنَ ذٰلِكَ سَبِیْلًا(۱۱۰)

Say: "Call Him Allah or call Him Ar-Rahman; whatever the name you call Him by, all His names are beautiful." Do not say your prayers too loudly or in too low a voice, but follow a middle coarse.

Say: 'Call upon God, or call upon the Merciful; whichsoever you call upon, to Him belong the Names Most Beautiful.' And be thou not loud in thy prayer, nor hushed therein, but seek thou for a way between that.

17:111

وَ قُلِ الْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ الَّذِیْ لَمْ یَتَّخِذْ وَلَدًا وَّ لَمْ یَكُنْ لَّهٗ شَرِیْكٌ فِی الْمُلْكِ وَ لَمْ یَكُنْ لَّهٗ وَلِیٌّ مِّنَ الذُّلِّ وَ كَبِّرْهُ تَكْبِیْرًا۠(۱۱۱)

And say: "All praise be to God who has neither begotten a son nor has a partner in His kingdom; nor has He need of any one to protect Him from ignominy. So extol Him by extolling His majesty."

And say: 'Praise belongs to God, who has not taken to Him a son, and who has not any associate in the Kingdom, nor any protector out of humbleness.' And magnify Him with repeated magnificats.