سورة ق   

Surah Name: Al-Qaf Meaning: The Qaf

  • Revealed at Makkah
  • Total Number of Rukū / Sections 3
  • Total Number of Āyāt / Parts 45
  • Sūrah / Chapter number 50
  • Rukū / Section 1 contains Āyāt / Parts 15
  • Siparah/ Volume 26

bismillah

ق وَالْقُرْآنِ الْمَجِيدِ

Qaf wa(a)lqurani almajeed(i)

Qaf. By the glorious Quran, We-SWT have sent you as a warner.

(50:1)

بَلْ عَجِبُوا أَن جَاءهُمْ مُنذِرٌ مِّنْهُمْ فَقَالَ الْكَافِرُونَ هَذَا شَيْءٌ عَجِيبٌ

Bal AAajiboo an jaahum munthirun minhum faqala alkafiroona hatha shayon AAajeeb(un)

Aye! They marvel that a warner has come to them from among themselves, and so the infidels say: This is a tiling wonderful.

(50:2)

أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا ذَلِكَ رَجْعٌ بَعِيدٌ

Aitha mitna wakunna turaban thalika rajAAun baAAeed(un)

Shall we be brought back when we are dead and have become dust? That is a return remote!

(50:3)

قَدْ عَلِمْنَا مَا تَنقُصُ الْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ وَعِندَنَا كِتَابٌ حَفِيظٌ

Qad AAalimna ma tanqusu alardu minhum waAAindana kitabun hafeeth(un)

Surely We-SWT know what the earth consumes of them, and with Us-SWT is a Book preserved.

 (50:4)

بَلْ كَذَّبُوا بِالْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَاءهُمْ فَهُمْ فِي أَمْرٍ مَّرِيجٍ

Bal kaththaboo bi(a)lhaqqi lamma jaahum fahum fee amrin mareej(in)

Aye! They denied the truth when it came to them; so they are confused in the matter.

(50:5)

أَفَلَمْ يَنظُرُوا إِلَى السَّمَاء فَوْقَهُمْ كَيْفَ بَنَيْنَاهَا وَزَيَّنَّاهَا وَمَا لَهَا مِن فُرُوجٍ

Afalam yanthuroo ila a(l)ssamai fawqahum kayfa banaynaha wazayyannaha wama laha min furooj(in)

Have they not looked up to the sky above them; how We-SWT have constructed it, and adorned it and that there is no rift therein.

(50:6)

وَالْأَرْضَ مَدَدْنَاهَا وَأَلْقَيْنَا فِيهَا رَوَاسِيَ وَأَنبَتْنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍ بَهِيجٍ

Wa(a)larda madadnaha waalqayna feeha rawasiya waanbatna feeha min kulli zawjin baheej(in)

And the earth! We-SWT have spread it forth, and have cast upon it firm mountains, and have caused to grow in it every manner of beautiful plant.

(50:7)

تَبْصِرَةً وَذِكْرَى لِكُلِّ عَبْدٍ مُّنِيبٍ

Tabsiratan wathikra likulli AAabdin muneeb(in)

An insight and admonition for every penitent bondmen.

(50:8)

وَنَزَّلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاء مَاء مُّبَارَكًا فَأَنبَتْنَا بِهِ جَنَّاتٍ وَحَبَّ الْحَصِيدِ

Wanazzalna mina a(l)ssamai maan mubarakan faanbatna bihi jannatin wahabba alhaseed(i)

And We-SWT have sent down blessed water from the heaven whereby We-SWT have caused the gardens to grow, and the grain reaped.

(50:9)

وَالنَّخْلَ بَاسِقَاتٍ لَّهَا طَلْعٌ نَّضِيدٌ

Wa(al)nnakhla basiqatin laha talAAun nadeed(un)

And tall date-palms laden with ranged clusters.

(50:10)

رِزْقًا لِّلْعِبَادِ وَأَحْيَيْنَا بِهِ بَلْدَةً مَّيْتًا كَذَلِكَ الْخُرُوجُ

Rizqan lilAAibadi waahyayna bihi baldatan maytan kathalika alkhurooj(u)

As a provision for Our-SWT bondmen; and with it We-SWT made the dead land alive. Such will be the coming forth.

(50:11)

كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ وَأَصْحَابُ الرَّسِّ وَثَمُودُ

Kaththabat qablahum qawmu noohin waashabu a(l)rrassi wathamood(u)

Denied before them the people of Nuh-AS and the dwellers of Rass and the Thamud.

(50:12)

وَعَادٌ وَفِرْعَوْنُ وَإِخْوَانُ لُوطٍ

WaAAadun wafirAAawnu waikhwanu loot(in)

And the 'Ad, and the Pharaoh and the brethren of Lut.

(50:13)

وَأَصْحَابُ الْأَيْكَةِ وَقَوْمُ تُبَّعٍ كُلٌّ كَذَّبَ الرُّسُلَ فَحَقَّ وَعِيدِ

Waashabu alaykati waqawmu tubbaAAin kullun kaththaba a(l)rrusula fahaqqa waAAeed(i)

And the dwellers of the wood, and the People of Tubb'a. Each one belied the Messengers-AS, and so My--SWT judgement was fulfilled.

(50:14)

أَفَعَيِينَا بِالْخَلْقِ الْأَوَّلِ بَلْ هُمْ فِي لَبْسٍ مِّنْ خَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ

AfaAAayeena bi(a)lkhalqi alawwali bal hum fee labsin min khalqin jaded(in)

Are We-SWT then wearied with the first creation? Aye! They are in doubt regarding a new creation.

(50:15)

In The Name of Allah-SWT the Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
SECRETS OF REVELATION:

Qaf. By the glorious Quran, the most meritorious amongst all revealed Books, whatever is revealed in the forthcoming passages is nothing but the truth, proven both logically as well as through evidences revealed before. The infidels marvel how a human being can be raised as a Prophet-AS. What he preaches is even incredible that once they die and are reduced to dust, they will be quickened.

 

Allah-SWT declares that human being thinks by his own fallible knowledge and shortcomings, whereas He-SWT knows exactly where precisely the particles of a dead body are in the dust. His-SWT knowledge is eternal and ancient. When nothing existed He-SWT knew what was to happen and where every atom would eventually end up.  These afterall are the scattered particles of soil which, in the form of food arid medicine, unite to build a human body in this temporal life. They cannot be so widely scattered after death as they were before birth. Why, then can the dead not be quickened? The knowledge of every affair is safely stored in the Guarded Tablet. The reason for the skepticism of people is their infidelity for they repudiated the true Din offered by the Holy Prophet-SW and as a result their hearts were stuffed with doubts.

 

Why don't they ponder over the heaven, how Allah-SWT has stretched it over the entire universe, and also adorned it? No seam can be observed in its structure nor any effects of wear and tear ever appear. And the spherical earth has been spread out, with pathways and natural boundaries separating regions and continents. Giving special features to different places, He-SWT has grown a variety of plantations. Everything is but a combination of different atoms which have not come together by accident but by a deliberate plan of the Absolute Creator. A careful thought over these realities is sufficient to guide the one inclined to discover Him-SWT .

 

The perfected water cycle leads to downpour from the sky and orchards bearing multifarious fruits, vast fields of crops laden with grain, and tall date-palms carrying clusters of dates grow as the provisions for His creation. It is the combination of different atoms destined to form different thing, including human bodies. Fruits and crops decay after the season and the land turns barren. Life is restored once again by Him through rainfall. Similarly, on the Day of Qayamah the particles of every human body will be brought together and quickened.

 

If the infidels still deny, they indeed follow the people of Prophet Nuh-AS and the dwellers of Ar Rass (The Well). The latter, also the followers of Prophet Salih-AS , who were spared the doom and had migrated along with Prophet Salih-AS to settle down by a well, where the Prophet-AS  passed away and the place became known as Hadhr al Maut They subsequently digressed from the Prophet-AS’s  path and were ruined . Prophet Salih-AS‘s nation, the Thamud, was destroyed earner, as were the Ad, a mighty nation indeed. The Pharaoh, Prophet Lut-AS’s people, the People of the Woods, unto whom Prophet Sho'aib-AS was sent, and the nation of Tubb'a mentioned in Surah Dukhan, were those who had refuted the Messengers-AS of Allaah-SWT.They were subjected to the promised punishment and their ruins can be seen all over the land. Or is it that the infidels suffer from misconception that the Absolute Creator is exhausted after creating once and will be unable to do it again! A foolish idea without any evidence, for His-SWT Omnipotence is endorsed by ample evidences.

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