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Hâ Mîm - Allâh is Praiseworthy, the Lord of all Honour.
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This perfect Book that makes (the truth) perspicuously clear bears witness (to the above truth).
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Verily, We have made it a Qur'ân, such (a Scripture) as brings (the nations) together, and (a Scripture) eloquently expressive so that you may make use of your understanding.
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And it (the Qur'ân) lies (safe) with Us in the Mother of the Book (which is the source of all knowledge), and (it is) indeed eminently sublime and full of wisdom.
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Should We then leave you altogether, and turn away from (giving) you the Reminder, the source of eminence (for you) just because you are a people exceeding all limits (and wasting your ownselves)?
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And so many a Prophet did We send among the earlier peoples,
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Yet there never came to them a Prophet but they treated him as of no importance.
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Look! We destroyed those who were stronger than these (Makkans) in valour, and the example of the former peoples has already gone before. (So how can they escape meeting the same fate?)
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And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will certainly say, '(It is) the All-Mighty, (and) the All-Knowing (God) who has created them.'
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(It is He) Who made the earth a resting place for you and Who has, for your benefit, forged in it pathways so that you may follow the right path.
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And (it is He) Who sends down again and again water from the clouds according to a set decree and in proper measure and by this means We revive the dead territory. That is how you (too) shall be brought forth (alive).
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(It is He) Who has created pairs of all things, He has also made for you the ships and created the cattle whereon you ride;
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So that you may sit firmly on their backs (and) then you may remember the favour of your Lord when you are firmly seated (and settled) on them and say, 'Glory be to Him Who has made these things subservient to us, while we (if left to) ourselves were not capable of (the task of) subduing them.
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'Certainly, we are the ones bound to return to our Lord.'
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(Though they say that Allâh alone is the Creator of the heavens and the earth) yet they have made some of His servants His part (His son), such a human being is evidently ungrateful.
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Or has He taken to Himself daughters from the things He Himself has created (as the pagans describe the angels to be God's daughters) and has chosen you for (honouring with) the sons.
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Yet (as to themselves) when one of them is given the news (of the birth of a female child), the like of which (sex) he ascribes to the Most Gracious (God), his face becomes gloomy and he is choked with inward grief.
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(Is he your god) who is brought up in the midst of ornaments and who is unable to make a clear expression (to an argument) and a plain speech in disputation (and discussions).
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And they regard the angels who are the servants of the Most Gracious (God) as females. Did they witness their creation? In that case their testimony will be recorded and they will be questioned (about it).
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And they say, 'If the Most Gracious (God) had (so) willed, we should never have worshipped them.' They have no real knowledge whatsoever in that matter. They do nothing but make conjectures.
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Have We given them a Scripture before this (Qur'ân) so that they are thereby adducing an argument (in support of their conjectures)?
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Nay, but they go on saying, 'We have found our forefathers on a certain course, and we (while walking) in their footsteps, are following the right course (of true guidance).
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It has always been the case, We never sent any Warner to any township before you but its insolent leaders and well-to-do persons said, 'We have found our forefathers on a certain course and we are the followers in their footsteps (to the right direction).'
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(Thereupon the Warner to them) said, '(Would you still follow the wrong course in their footsteps) even though I bring a (teaching giving) better guidance than that on which you found your fathers.' They said, 'We are disbelievers altogether (in the teaching) with which you are sent.'
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So We were displeased with them. Behold! how miserable was the end of those who cried lies (to Our Prophets).
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And (recall the time) when Abraham said to his sire and his people, 'I definitely disown what you worship;
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'But not Him (the true God) Who created me, and He will surely guide me to the right way.'
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And he (Abraham) made it (the Divine Unity) a word to abide (as a permanent legacy) among his posterity, so that they might turn (to One God).
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(Yet when these disbelievers took to idol-worship I did not obliterate them) rather I allowed them and their fathers to enjoy worldly provisions until there came to them this lasting truth and a great Messenger who tells the right from the wrong.
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Yet no sooner did the lasting truth come to them than they said, 'This is enchanting, but we are disbelievers in it altogether.'
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