Yā Sīn

Yā, Seen.

By the wise Qur’ān,

Indeed you, [O Muḥammad], are from among the messengers,

That you may warn a people whose forefathers were not warned, so they are unaware.

And there came from the farthest end of the city a man, running. He said, "O my people, follow the messengers.

It was said, "Enter Paradise." He said, "I wish my people could know

And a sign for them is the dead earth. We have brought it to life and brought forth from it grain, and from it they eat.

And the sun runs [on course] toward its stopping point. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

Did I not enjoin upon you, O children of Adam, that you not worship Satan - [for] indeed, he is to you a clear enemy -

That Day, We will seal over their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will testify about what they used to earn.

Does man not consider that We created him from a [mere] sperm-drop - then at once he is a clear adversary?

Say, "He will give them life who produced them the first time; and He is, of all creation, Knowing."

His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, "Be," and it is.

So exalted is He in whose hand is the realm of all things, and to Him you will be returned.