Surah Mulk



Blessed is the One who holds the dominion, and Who has power over all things,
- Thomas Cleary
Who created death and life to test which of you is best in behavior; Almighty, the Forgiving,
- Thomas Cleary
the One who created seven skies in correspondence; you see no disharmony in the creation of the Benevolent One. Now look: do you see any gap?
- Thomas Cleary
Then look twice again, and your vision will come back to you weak and weary.
- Thomas Cleary
We have adorned the sky of the world with lamps, and made them missiles against the devils, for whom We have prepared the agony of the blaze.
- Thomas Cleary
And for those who reject their Lord, there is the agony of hell, a miserable destination:
- Thomas Cleary
when they are thrown into it, they will hear its gasp as it flares,
- Thomas Cleary
nearly exploding with fury. Every time a group is thrown into it, its keepers will ask them, “Didn’t a warner come to you?”
- Thomas Cleary
They will say, “Yes, a warner came to us, but we scoffed and said, ‘God never sent anything down— you are very much mistaken.’”
- Thomas Cleary
And they will say, “Had we listened or been rational, we wouldn’t be among the inmates of the blaze.”
- Thomas Cleary