In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful.

YA SIN.

I call to witness the Qur´an, custodian of all laws, --

That you are indeed one of those sent

On a path that is straight, --

A revelation from the mighty, ever-merciful (God),

That you may warn a people whose ancestors had never been warned, who are therefore heedless.

The sentence is surely justified against most of them, for they do not believe.

We will certainly put iron collars on their heel´s which will come up to their chins, so that they will not be able to raise their heads.

And We shall raise a barrier in front of them and a barrier behind them, and cover them over so that they will not be able to see.

Whether you warn them or do not warn, it is all the same; they will not believe.

You can only warn him who listens to the warning and fears Ar-Rahman secretly. So give him good news of forgiveness and a generous reward.

It is We indeed who bring back the dead to life, and write down what they send ahead (of their deeds), and traces that they leave behind. We keep an account of all things in a lucid register.

Narrate to them the example of the people of the city when the messengers came to it.

When We sent two of them they called them liars; so We sent a third to strengthen them. "We have been sent to you," they said.

"You are only men like us," they replied; "Ar-Rahman has not sent down any thing. You are speaking only lies."

(The messengers) said: "Our Lord knows that we have been sent to you.

Our duty is to convey the message clearly."

They rejoined: "We feel you augur ill. If you do not desist, we shall stone you to death, and inflict a grievous punishment on you."

(The messengers) said: "The augury is within your own selves. Do you (consider it a bad omen) that you should be warned? You are a people guilty of excess."

Then a man came running from the other side of the city. "O my people," he said, "follow the messengers.

Follow those who do not ask for any recompense of you, and are rightly guided.

Why should I not worship Him who brought me into being, to whom you will be brought back in the end?

Should I take other gods apart from Him, who would neither be able to intercede for me nor save me if Ar-Rahman brings me harm?

In that case I would surely be in clear error.

I believe in your Lord, so listen to me."

(But they stoned him to death.) It was said to him: "Enter Paradise;" and he said: "If only my people knew

How my Lord has forgiven me and made me one of those who are honoured!"

We did not send down any army against his people from heaven, nor did We have to send one.

There was just one blast, and they were extinguished.

Alas for men! No apostle ever came to them but they made fun of him.

Have they not seen how many generations have We destroyed before them who will not return again?

They will all be brought together before Us.

There is a sign in the dead earth for them which We quicken, and produce from it grain which they eat.

We have laid out gardens of dates and grapes upon it, and made springs of water flow,

So that they may eat of its fruit; yet it was not done by their hands. Then why do they not acknowledge thanks?

All glory to Him who created pairs of everything that grows from the earth, and out of themselves, and other things they do not know.

And there is a sign in the night for them. We strip off the day from it and they are left in darkness,

While the sun keeps revolving in its orbit. This is the dispensation of the mighty, all-knowing (God).

We have determined the stations of the moon, so that (after its wanderings) it returns as a dried up inflorescent spike of dates.

Neither can the sun overtake the moon, nor the night outpace the day: Each of them keeps coursing in its orbit.