The Compassionate (ar-Rahman)

^1-2 The Compassionate Enki:

• has taught the Quran.
• ³ created man ⁴ and taught him clear expression.

⁵ The sun and the moon move according to plan.

⁶ The stars and the trees prostrate themselves.

⁷ Enki:

• raised the sky
• set up the balance.

⁸ So do not transgress in the balance.

⁹ But maintain the weights with justice, and do not violate the balance.

¹⁰ Enki set up the earth for the creatures.

¹¹ In it are:

• fruits, and palms in clusters.
• ^12-13 grains in the blades, and fragrant plants

¹⁴ Enki created:

• man from hard clay, like bricks
• ^15-16 the jinn from a fusion of fire

^17-18 Lord of the two Easts and Lord of the two Wests.

¹⁹ He merged the 2 seas, converging together.

^20-21 Between them is a barrier, which they do not overrun.

^22-23 From them emerge pearls and coral.

^24-25 His are the ships, raised above the sea like landmarks.

²⁶ Everyone upon it is perishing.

²⁷ But will remain the Presence of your Lord, Full of Majesty and Splendor.

^29-30 Everyone in the heavens and the earth asks Him. Every day He is managing.

^31-32 We will attend to you, O prominent two.

³³ O society of jinn and humans!

If you can pass through the bounds of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and pass.

But you will not pass except with authorization.

^35-36 You will be bombarded with flares of fire and brass, and you will not succeed.

^37-38 When the sky splits apart, and becomes rose, like paint.

^39-40 On that Day, no human and no jinn will be asked about his sins.

⁴¹ The guilty will be recognized by their marks. They will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.

⁴³ This is Hell that the guilty denied.

⁴⁴ They circulate between it and between a seething bath.

⁴⁶ But for him who feared the standing of his Lord are 2 gardens ^48-49 full of varieties ^50-51 with:

• 2 flowing springs ^52-53 with fruits of every kind, in pairs.
• ^54-55 furnishings lined with brocade near the fruits of the 2 gardens
• ^56-58 virgins looking only at their male partners, untouched before by any man or jinn, as though they were rubies and corals.

^60-61 The reward of goodness is goodness.

^62-64 Beneath them are 2 other gardens, deep green, with 2 gushing springs ^65-68 with fruits, date-palms, and pomegranates.

^70-76 In them are good and beautiful virgins, fair ones secluded in the tents, untouched by human nor jinn.

• They are reclined on green cushions and beautiful carpets.