39:3Is not to God that sincere faith is due? As for those who take guardians besides Him, “We only worship them that they may bring us nearer to God.” God will judge between them regarding their differences. God does not guide the lying blasphemer.

39:5He created the heavens and the earth with reason. He wraps the night around the day, and He wraps the day around the night. And He regulates the sun and the moon, each running along a specific course. He is indeed the Almighty, the Forgiver.

39:8When some adversity touches the human being, he prays to his Lord, repenting to Him. But then, when He confers on him a grace of His, he forgets what he was praying for before, and he attributes rivals to God, in order to lead astray from His way. Say, “Enjoy your disbelief for a little while; you will be among the inmates of the Fire.”

39:9Is he who worships devoutly during the watches of the night, prostrating himself and standing up, mindful of the Hereafter, and placing his hope in the mercy of his Lord? Say, “Are those who know and those who do not know equal?” Only those possessed of reason will remember.

39:10Say, “O My devotees who have believed, keep your duty to your Lord. For those who do good in this world, is goodness. And God’s earth is vast. The steadfast will be paid their wages in full, without reckoning.”

39:11Say, “I was commanded to serve God, devoting my religion exclusively to Him.

39:12And I was commanded to be the first of those who submit.”

39:17As for those who avoid the worship of idols, and devote themselves to God—theirs is the good news. So give good news to My servants.

39:18Those who listen to the Word, and follow the best of it. These are they whom God has guided. These are they who possess intellect.

39:19What about someone who has deserved the sentence of punishment? Is it you who can save those in the Fire?

39:22What about someone whose heart God has opened to Islam, so that he follows a light from His Lord? Woe to those whose hearts are hardened against the mention of God. Those are in manifest error.

39:23God has sent down the best of narrations: a Scripture consistent and paired. The skins of those who reverence their Lord shiver from it, then their skins and their hearts soften up to the remembrance of God. Such is God’s guidance; He guides with it whomever He wills. But whomever God leaves astray, for him there is no guide.

39:24What about someone who covers his face against the terrible misery of the Day of Resurrection? To the evildoers it will be said, “Taste what you used to earn.”

39:26God made them taste disgrace in the present life, but the punishment of the Hereafter is worse, if they only knew.

39:32Who is more evil than he who lies about God, and denies the truth when it has come to him? Is there not in Hell room for the ungrateful?

39:34They will have whatever they please with their Lord. Such is the reward for the virtuous.

39:36Is God not enough for His servant? And they frighten you with those besides Him. Whomever God sends astray, for him there is no guide.

39:38And if you asked them, “Who created the heavens and the earth?” they would say, “God.” Say, “Have you seen those you pray to instead of God? If God willed any harm for me, can they lift His harm? And if He willed a blessing for me, can they hold back His mercy?” Say, “God suffices for me. On Him the reliant rely.”

39:40Who will receive a humiliating punishment, and on whom will fall a lasting torment.”

39:42God takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that have not died during their sleep. He retains those for which He has decreed death, and He releases the others until a predetermined time. In that are signs for people who reflect.

39:43Or have they chosen intercessors other than God? Say, “Even though they have no power over anything, and are devoid of reason?”

39:55And follow the best of what was revealed to you from your Lord, before the punishment comes upon you suddenly, while you are unaware.

39:63To Him belong the reins of the heavens and the earth. But those who blaspheme against the revelations of God—it is they who are the losers.

39:65It was revealed to you, and to those before you, that if you idolize, your works will be in vain, and you will be of the losers.

39:67They have not esteemed God as He ought to be esteemed. The entire earth will be in His grip on the Day of Resurrection, and the heavens will be folded in His righ. Immaculate is He, and Transcendent He is beyond the associations they make.

39:69And the earth will shine with the Light of its Lord; and the Book will be put in place; and the prophets and the witnesses will be brought in; and Judgment will be passed among them equitably, and they will not be wronged.

39:74And they will say, “Praise be to God, who has fulfilled His promise to us, and made us inherit the land, enjoying Paradise as we please.” How excellent is the reward of the workers.