21 verses Starts at An-Nahl 30 Ends at An-Nahl 50

Rub’ al-Hizb 108 of 240

Rub’ al-Hizb 108 ربع ١٠٨

A quarter of a hizb: 240 short portions.

From: An-Nahl 30
To: An-Nahl 50
Verses: 21

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

But when the righteous are asked, ‘What has your Lord sent down?’ they will say, ‘All that is good.’ There is a reward in this present world for those who do good, but their home in the Hereafter is far better: the home of the righteous is excellent.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

They will enter perpetual Gardens graced with flowing streams. There they will have everything they wish. This is the way God rewards the righteous,

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

those whose lives the angels take in a state of goodness. They will say to them, ‘Peace be upon you. Enter the Garden as a reward for what you have done.’

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Are the disbelievers waiting for the angels to come to them, or your Lord’s Judgement? Those who went before them did the same. God did not wrong them; they wronged themselves.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

So the evil they had done hit them and they were surrounded by the very thing they had mocked.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Those who worshipped others alongside God say, ‘If God had willed, we would not have worshipped anything but Him, nor would our fathers. We would not have declared anything forbidden without His sanction.’ Those before them said the same. Are the messengers obliged to do anything other than deliver [their message] clearly?

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

We sent a messenger to every community, saying, ‘Worship God and shun false gods.’ Among them were some God guided; misguidance took hold of others. So travel through the earth and see what was the fate of those who denied the truth.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Though you [Prophet] may be eager to guide them, God does not guide those who misguide [others], nor will they have anyone to help them.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

They have sworn by God with their strongest oaths that He will not raise the dead to life. But He will- it is His binding promise, though most people do not realize it-

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

in order to make clear for them what they have differed about and so that the disbelievers may realize that what they said was false.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

When We will something to happen, all that We say is, ‘Be,’ and it is.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

As for those who emi-grated in God’s cause after being wronged, We shall give them a good home in this world, but the reward of the Hereafter will be far greater, if they only knew it.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

They are the ones who are steadfast and put their trust in their Lord.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

[Prophet], all the messengers We sent before you were simply men to whom We had given the Revelation: you [people] can ask those who have knowledge if you do not know.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

We sent them with clear signs and scriptures. We have sent down the message to you too [Prophet], so that you can explain to people what was sent for them, so that they may reflect.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Are those who plan evil so sure that God will not make the earth swallow them up, that punishment will not come on them from some unimagined direction,

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

that it will not catch them suddenly in the midst of their comings and goings- for they cannot frustrate God-

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

or that it will not catch up with them gradually? Indeed your Lord is kind and merciful.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Do the [disbelievers] not observe the things that God has created, casting their shadows right and left, submitting themselves to God obediently?

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

It is to God that everything in the heavens and earth submits, every beast that moves, even the angels- they are free from arrogance:

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

they fear their Lord above them, and they do as they are commanded.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

End of An-Nahl

Explore Reflections Surah Info

Al-Hijr Al-Isra

Explore the Quran

Read, listen, and study with powerful tools designed for your journey.

Start Reading Listen to Radio Learning Plans

Quran recitation Listen Ask AI a question Cites classical books