Surah 30

Alif-Lãm-Mĩm.

The Romans have been defeated

in a nearby land.¹ Yet following their defeat, they will triumph

within three to nine years.¹ The ˹whole˺ matter rests with Allah before and after ˹victory˺. And on that day the believers will rejoice

at the victory willed by Allah. He gives victory to whoever He wills. For He is the Almighty, Most Merciful.

˹This is˺ the promise of Allah. ˹And˺ Allah never fails in His promise. But most people do not know.

They ˹only˺ know the worldly affairs of this life, but are ˹totally˺ oblivious to the Hereafter.

Have they not reflected upon their own being? Allah only created the heavens and the earth and everything in between for a purpose and an appointed term. Yet most people are truly in denial of the meeting with their Lord!

Have they not travelled throughout the land to see what was the end of those ˹destroyed˺ before them? They were far superior in might; they cultivated the land and developed it more than these ˹Meccans˺ ever have. Their messengers came to them with clear proofs. Allah would have never wronged them, but it was they who wronged themselves.

Then most evil was the end of the evildoers for denying and mocking the signs of Allah.

It is Allah Who originates the creation, and will resurrect it. And then to Him you will ˹all˺ be returned.

On the Day the Hour will arrive, the wicked will be dumbstruck.

There will be no intercessors for them from among their associate-gods, and they will ˹totally˺ deny their associate-gods.

And on the Day the Hour will arrive, the people will then be split ˹into two groups˺.

As for those who believed and did good, they will be rejoicing in a Garden.

And as for those who disbelieved, and denied Our signs and the meeting ˹with Allah˺ in the Hereafter, they will be confined in punishment.

So glorify Allah in the evening and in the morning—

all praise is for Him in the heavens and the earth—as well as in the afternoon, and at noon.¹ 

He brings forth the living from the dead and the dead from the living. And He gives life to the earth after its death. And so will you be brought forth ˹from the grave˺.

One of His signs is that He created you from dust, then—behold!—you are human beings spreading over ˹the earth˺.