[7.1] AlifLaamMeemSaad.
[7.2] The Book has been sent down to you; so let your chest have no constriction
because of it, in order to warn thereby and aswa reminder to the believers.
[7.3] Follow that which is sent down to you from your Lord and do not follow guardians other than Him; little do you remember.
[7.4] How many a village have We laid in ruin! In the night Our Might fell upon it, or at midday when they were drowsy.
[7.5] And when Our Might fell upon them they only said: 'We have indeed been harmdoers.'
[7.6] We will question those to whom Our Message was sent, as We shall question the Messengers.
[7.7] With knowledge We will narrate to them, for We are never absent.
[7.8] On that Day, the weighing is true. He whose scales are heavy - those are the prosperers,
[7.9] but he whose scales are light - those have lost their souls because they were harmful towards Our verses.
[7.10] We established you in the earth and made for you a livelihood but little is it that you give thanks.
[7.11] We created you then We shaped you, then We said to the angels: 'Prostrate
yourselves before Adam.' They all prostrated themselves except iblis - he was not among the prostrated.
[7.12] He (Allah) asked: 'What prevented you to prostrate, when I commanded you?' 'I
am better than he,' he replied. 'You created me of fire and You created him of clay.'
[7.13] He (Allah) said: 'Descend from it! This is no place for you to be proud. Begone, you are of the humiliated.'
[7.14] he replied: 'Respite me till the Day of Resurrection.'
[7.15] Said He (Allah): 'you are among the respited,'
[7.16] he answered: 'Because You have caused me to go astray, I will waylay them as they walk on Your Straight Path,
[7.17] and come upon them from the front and from the rear, from their right and from
their left. Then, You shall find most of them ungrateful.'
[7.18] 'Begone!' said He, 'despised and outcast. (As for) those of them that follow you, I
shall fill Gehenna (Hell) with all of you.'
[7.19] 'O Adam dwell with your wife in Paradise, and eat from whatever you please; but
never approach this tree or you shall both become harmdoers.'
[7.20] But satan whispered to them, so that he might reveal to them their shameful parts
which had been hidden from them, he said: 'Your Lord has prohibited you from this tree
lest you both become angels or become among the immortal.'
[7.21] he swore to both: 'Indeed, I am to you among the advisers.'
[7.22] So he cheated both by delusion. And when they had tasted the tree, their
shameful parts became apparent to them, and they both covered themselves with the
leaves of Paradise. (Then) their Lord calledsto them, saying: 'Did I not prohibit you to
approach that tree, and did I not warn you that satan was your clear enemy?'
[7.23] Both replied: 'Lord, We have harmed ourselves. If You do not forgive us and have
mercy on us, we shall surely be among the lost.'
[7.24] He said: 'Descend, each of you an enemy to each other. The earth will be a
dwelling place for you and an enjoyment for axtime.
