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Alif-Lam-Mim. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Quran, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings.]

This Book (Al-Qur’an), which contains no doubt, is revealed by the Lord of the worlds.

Or do they say, “He invented it”? Rather, it is the truth from your Lord, [O Muhammad], that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you [so] perhaps they will be guided.

It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days; then He established Himself above the Throne. You have not besides Him any protector or any intercessor; so will you not be reminded?
Meaning:-
Intercessor: a person who intervenes on behalf of another,

He arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand years of those which you count.

This is the Knower of the unseen and the seen, the Mighty the Merciful,

It is He Who has given the best form to everything that He has created. He originated the creation of man from clay;

Then He made his offspring from semen of worthless water (male and female sexual discharge).
Meaning:-
Offspring: a person’s child or children.

Then He proportioned him and breathed into him from His [created] soul and made for you hearing and vision and hearts; little are you grateful.

They say: “What! Once we are lost in the earth, shall we be created afresh?” Nay! They deny the fact that they will ever meet their Lord.

“The angel of death (Izra’il) is assigned for you will carry off your souls and bring you back to your Lord.”

If only you could visualize when the criminals will hang their heads before their Lord saying: “Our Lord! We have seen and we have heard; please send us back to the world and we will do good deeds: we are now convinced.”

In response to that, it will be said: “Had We so willed, We could have given every soul its guidance. But My word which I had said has been fulfilled, that I shall fill hell with jinns and men all together.”

Now taste the reward for your forgetting the meeting of this Day – We too have forgotten you now – taste the everlasting punishment in consequence of your misdeeds.”

Only those people believe in Our verses, who, when they are reminded of them, prostrate themselves in adoration and celebrate the praises of their Lord and are not puffed up with pride.
Meaning:-
Prostrate: lying stretched out on the ground with one’s face downward, especially in reverence or submission.
Adoration: Worship, deep love and respect.

They arise from [their] beds; they supplicate their Lord in fear and aspiration, and from what We have provided them, they spend (charity in Allah’s Cause).
Meaning:-
Supplicate: ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.
Aspiration: a hope or ambition of achieving something

No one knows what delights of the eye have been kept hidden for them as a reward for their good deeds.

Then is one who was a believer like one who was defiantly disobedient? They are not equal.

As for those who believe and do good deeds, they shall be awarded the gardens of paradise as a reward of their labors.

But those who transgress shall be cast into the fire. Whenever they try to escape from it, they shall be pushed back into it, and it will be said to them: “Taste the punishment of the fire which you used to deny.”
Meaning:-
Transgress: violation of a law, command, etc.; sin.

We shall certainly make them taste the lighter punishment in this life before the greater punishment of the hereafter, so that they may return to the Right Way.

And who is more unjust than one who is reminded of the verses of his Lord; then he turns away from them? Indeed We, from the criminals, will take retribution.
Meaning:-
Retribution : punishment, penalty.

And We certainly gave Moses the Scripture, so do not be in doubt over his meeting. And we made the Torah guidance for the Children of Israel.

When they showed patience, We appointed from among them leaders giving guidance under Our command so long as they continued to have faith in Our Signs.

Surely your Lord will decide between them, on the Day of Resurrection, concerning those matters wherein they differ among themselves.
Meaning:-
Differ: Disagree, conflict with, run counter to, be incompatible with.

Does it not teach them a lesson, how many generations We destroyed before them, in whose dwellings they (now) go to and fro? Verily in that are Signs: Do they not then listen?
Meaning:-
Dwelling: a house, or other place of residence.

Do they not see how We drive the rain to the parched lands and therefrom bring forth crops of which they and their cattle eat? Have they no vision?
Meaning:-
Parched: dried out with heat.

And they say: When will this judgment take place, If you are truthful?

Say, [O Muhammad], “On the Day of judgment the belief of those who had disbelieved will not benefit them, nor will they be reprieved.”
Meaning:-
Reprieve: a cancellation or postponement of a punishment.

Therefore turn away from them (O Muhammad)and wait, surely they too are waiting.