The Qur'an Sura LXXVI — MAN
1Doth not a long time pass over MAN, during which he is a thing unremembered?
2We have created man from the union of the sexes that we might prove him; and hearing, seeing, have we made him:
3In a right way have we guided him, be he thankful or ungrateful.
4For the Infidels we have got ready chains and collars and flaming fire.
5But a wine cup tempered at the camphor fountain the just shall quaff:
6Fount whence the servants of God shall drink, and guide by channels from place to place;
7They who fulfilled their vows, and feared the day whose woes will spread far and wide;
8Who though longing for it themselves, bestowed their food on the poor and the orphan and the captive:
9"We feed you for the sake of God: we seek from you neither recompense nor thanks:
10A stern and calamitous day dread we from our Lord."
11From the evil therefore of that day hath God delivered them and cast on them brightness of face and joy:
12And hath rewarded their constancy, with Paradise and silken robes:
13Reclining therein on bridal couches, nought shall they know of sun or piercing cold:
14Its shades shall be close over them, and low shall its fruits hang down:
15And vessels of silver and goblets like flagons shall be borne round among them:
16Flagons of silver whose measure themselves shall mete.
17And there shall they be given to drink of the cup tempered with zendjebil (ginger)
18From the fount therein whose name is Selsebil (the softly flowing).
19Aye-blooming youths go round among them. When thou lookest at them thou wouldest deem them scattered pearls;
20And when thou seest this, thou wilt see delights and a vast kingdom:
21Their clothing green silk robes and rich brocade: with silver bracelets shall they be adorned; and drink of a pure beverage shall their Lord give them.
22This shall be your recompense. Your efforts shall meet with thanks.
23We ourselves have sent down to thee the Koran as a missive from on high.
24Await then with patience the judgments of thy Lord, and obey not the wicked among them and the unbelieving:
25And make mention of the name of thy Lord at morn, at even,
26And at night. Adore him, and praise him the livelong night.
27But these men love the fleeting present, and leave behind them the heavy day of doom.
28Ourselves have we created them, and strengthened their joints; and when we please, with others like unto themselves will we replace them.
29This truly is a warning: And whoso willeth, taketh the way to his Lord;
30But will it ye shall not, unless God will it, for God is Knowing, Wise.
31He causeth whom He will to enter into his mercy. But for the evil doers, He hath made ready an afflictive chastisement.
Suras are in the standard order; verse divisions follow Rodwell's 1861 edition and do not always match the standard ayah numbering.