17:1Glory to Him who journeyed His servant by night, from the Sacred Mosque, to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him of Our wonders. He is the Listener, the Beholder.

17:2And We gave Moses the Scripture, and made it a guide for the Children of Israel: Take none for protector other than Me.

17:3The descendants of those We carried with Noah. He was an appreciative servant.

17:4And We conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Scripture: You will commit evil on earth twice, and you will rise to a great height.

17:5When the first of the two promises came true, We sent against you servants of Ours, possessing great might, and they ransacked your homes. It was a promise fulfilled.

17:6Then We gave you back your turn against them, and supplied you with wealth and children, and made you more numerous.

17:7If you work righteousness, you work righteousness for yourselves; and if you commit evil, you do so against yourselves. Then, when the second promise comes true, they will make your faces filled with sorrow, and enter the Temple as they entered it the first time, and utterly destroy all that falls into their power.

17:8Perhaps your Lord will have mercy on you. But if you revert, We will revert. We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.

17:10And those who do not believe in the Hereafter—We have prepared for them a painful punishment.

17:12We have made the night and the day two wonders. We erased the wonder of the night, and made the wonder of the day revealing, that you may seek bounty from your Lord, and know the number of years, and the calculation. We have explained all things in detail.

17:13For every person We have attached his fate to his neck. And on the Day of Resurrection, We will bring out for him a book which he will find spread open.

17:15Whoever is guided—is guided for his own good. And whoever goes astray—goes astray to his detriment. No burdened soul carries the burdens of another, nor do We ever punish until We have sent a messenger.

17:16When We decide to destroy a town, We command its affluent ones, they transgress in it, so the word becomes justified against it, and We destroy it completely.

17:17How many generations have We destroyed after Noah? Your Lord is sufficient as Knower and Beholder of the sins of his servants.

17:18Whoever desires the fleeting life, We expedite for him what We decide to give him, to whomever We desire. Then We consign him to Hell, where he will roast, condemned and defeated.

17:20To all—these and those—We extend from the gifts of your Lord. The gifts of your Lord are not restricted.

17:21See how We have favored some of them over others; yet the Hereafter is greater in ranks, and greater in favors.

17:24And lower to them the wing of humility, out of mercy, and say, “My Lord, have mercy on them, as they raised me when I was a child.”

17:31And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them, and for you. Killing them is a grave sin.

17:33And do not kill the soul which God has made sacred, except in the course of justice. If someone is killed unjustly, We have given his next of kin certain authority. But he should not be excessive in killing, for he will be supported.

17:35And give full measure when you measure, and weigh with accurate scales. That is fair, and the best determination.

17:41We have explained in this Quran in various ways, that they may remember, but it only adds to their rebellion.

17:42Say, “If there were other gods with Him, as they say, they would have sought a way to the Lord of the Throne.”

17:45When you read the Quran, We place between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter an invisible barrier.

17:46And We drape veils over their hearts, preventing them from understanding it, and heaviness in their ears. And when you mention your Lord alone in the Quran, they turn their backs in aversion.

17:47We know well what they listen to, when they listen to you, as they conspire, when the wrongdoers say, “You only follow a man bewitched.”

17:49And they say, “When we have become bones and fragments, shall we really be resurrected as a new creation?”

17:54Your Lord knows you best. If He wills, He will have mercy on you; and if He wills, He will punish you. We did not send you as their advocate.

17:55Your Lord knows well everyone in the heavens and the earth. We have given some prophets advantage over others; and to David We gave the Psalms.

17:56Say, “Call upon those you claim besides Him. They have no power to relieve your adversity, nor can they change it.”

17:58There is no city but We will destroy before the Day of Resurrection, or punish it with a severe punishment. This is inscribed in the Book.

17:59Nothing prevents Us from sending miraculous signs, except that the ancients called them lies. We gave Thamood the she-camel, a visible sign, but they mistreated her. We do not send the signs except to instill reverence.

17:60We said to you that your Lord encompasses humanity. We did not make the vision We showed you, except as a test for the people, and the tree cursed in the Quran. We frighten them, but that only increases their defiance.

17:61When We said to the angels, “Bow down before Adam,” they bowed down, except for Satan. He said, “Shall I bow down before someone You created from mud?”

17:64“And entice whomever of them you can with your voice, and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry, and share with them in wealth and children, and make promises to them.” But Satan promises them nothing but delusion.

17:70We have honored the Children of Adam, and carried them on land and sea, and provided them with good things, and greatly favored them over many of those We created.

17:71On the Day when We call every people with their leader. Whoever is given his record in his right hand—these will read their record, and they will not be wronged one bit.

17:73They almost lured you away from what We have revealed to you, so that you would invent something else in Our name. In that case, they would have taken you for a friend.

17:74Had We not given you stability, you might have inclined towards them a little.

17:75Then We would have made you taste double in life, and double at death; then you would have found for yourself no helper against Us.

17:77The tradition of the messengers We sent before you—you will find no change in Our rules.

17:80And say, “My Lord, lead me in through an entry of truth, and lead me out through an exit of truth, and grant me from You a supporting power.”

17:82We send down in the Quran healing and mercy for the believers, but it increases the wrongdoers only in loss.

17:83When We bless the human being, he turns away and distances himself. But when adversity touches him, he is in despair.

17:85And they ask you about the Spirit. Say, “The Spirit belongs to the domain of my Lord; and you were given only little knowledge.”

17:86If We willed, We could take away what We revealed to you. Then you will find for yourself no protecting guardian against Us.

17:89We have displayed for mankind in this Quran every kind of similitude, but most people insist on denying the truth.

17:90And they said, “We will not believe in you unless you make a spring burst from the ground for us.

17:93Or you possess a house of gold. Or you ascend into the sky. Even then, we will not believe in your ascension, unless you bring down for us a book that we can read.” Say, “Glory be to my Lord. Am I anything but a human messenger?”

17:95Say, “If there were angels on earth, walking around in peace, We would have sent down to them from heaven an angel messenger.”

17:96Say, “God is enough witness between you and me. He is fully aware of His servants, and He sees them well.”

17:97Whomever God guides is the guided one. And whomever He leaves astray—for them you will find no protectors apart from Him. And We will gather them on the Day of Resurrection, on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf. Their abode is Hell; whenever it abates, We intensify the blaze for them.

17:98This is their repayment for having blasphemed against Our revelations, and having said, “Shall we, when we have become bones and fragments, be resurrected as a new creation?”

17:101We gave Moses nine clear signs—ask the Children of Israel. When he went to them, Pharaoh said to him, “I think that you, Moses, are bewitched.”

17:103He resolved to scare them off the land, but We drowned him, and those with him, altogether.

17:104After him, We said to the Children of Israel, “Inhabit the land, and when the promise of the Hereafter arrives, We will bring you all together.”

17:105With the truth We sent it down, and with the truth it descended. We sent you only as a bearer of good news and a warner.

17:106A Quran which We unfolded gradually, that you may recite to the people over time. And We revealed it in stages.

17:107Say, “Believe in it, or do not believe.” Those who were given knowledge before it, when it is recited to them, they fall to their chins, prostrating.

17:109And they fall to their chins, weeping, and it adds to their humility.

17:110Say, “Call Him God, or call Him the Most Merciful. Whichever name you use, to Him belong the Best Names.” And be neither loud in your prayer, nor silent in it, but follow a course in between.

17:111And say, “Praise be to God, who has not begotten a son, nor has He a partner in sovereignty, nor has He an ally out of weakness, and glorify Him constantly.”