[17:1] Glory to The One who transported His servant during the night from the Sacred Mosque to the Ultimate Mosque, where We blessed its surroundings in order to show him some of Our Signs. Indeed, He is The All Hearer, The All Seer.

[17:2] And We gave Moses the scripture and rendered it guidance for the Children of Israel that you shall not take anyone besides Me as an advocate. 

[17:3] The progeny, We carried with Noah. Indeed he was an appreciative servant. 

[17:4] And We preordained for the Children of Israel in the scripture, that you will indeed spread corruption throughout the land twice and you will reach the heights of arrogance.  

[17:5] Then when the first time came, We rose against you servants of Ours who possessed great might, and then they searched the homes. And this promise will come to pass. 

[17:6] Then We gave you the upper hand over them and helped you with money and sons and increased your population greatly. 

[17:7] If you do good, you do good for yourselves, and if you commit evil, then you will see its results. Then when the other promise is fulfilled, disappointment covers your faces and they enter the Mosque, just like they entered the first time, and they wipe out all the gains you had made.  

[17:8] Perhaps, your Lord will shower you with His mercy. If you show animosity, We will do the same and We have rendered Gehhena as a confinement for the unfaithful. 

[17:9] Indeed this Quran guides the one who is steadfast and it gives good news to the faithful, those who lead a righteous life that indeed awaiting them is a huge recompense. 

[17:10] As for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We promise them a painful suffering. 

[17:11] And the human being asks for something that may be evil, when he thinks he is asking for something good, and the human being is always impatient. 

[17:12] And We rendered the night and the day as two signs as We turn the night sign into the day sign, bright, that you may seek the provisions of your Lord and in order to teach you counting of the years as well as calculus. And We described everything in full detail.  

[17:13] As for every human, We have tied his deeds around his neck, and We will produce on the Day of Resurrection a record, that he can readily access. 

[17:14] Read your record, today you are sufficient as a judge against yourself. 

[17:15] Anyone who is guided, then indeed his guidance benefits only him and anyone who has gone astray, then indeed his straying will only hurt him. No one will carry another one's sins. And We do not make them suffer until We raise a messenger. 

[17:16] And if We will to annihilate a community, We let its leaders commit vast corruption therein; then once they truly deserve it, We completely annihilate them. 

[17:17] And We annihilated many generations after Noah. And your Lord was sufficient as Cognizant, a Seer of His servants sins. 

[17:18] Anyone who seeks this quick interim, We will give him quickly what We will; then We will make Gehenna his abode where he will end up debased and despised.  

[17:19] And anyone who seeks the Hereafter, and he works his best to earn it, while being faithful, then he is of those whom their hard work is appreciated. 

[17:20] To both, We continue to give these and those from your Lord's gifts. And your Lord's gifts will never run out. 

[17:21] Observe how We preferred some of them over others. And in the Hereafter, the ranks are much wider and the preferences are much greater. 

[17:22] Do not set up another god besides God, lest you will end up debased and disgraced. 

[17:23] And your Lord has ordained that you shall not worship except Him and you shall be kind to the parents. As long as one or both live, you shall not say to them "Uff" and do not scold them and talk to them in an honorable manner. 

[17:24] And you shall lower the wings of humility for them and with kindness and say, Lord, have mercy upon them, for they have raised me from infancy. 

[17:25] Your Lord fully knows what is inside your souls. If you are righteous, then He is All Forgiving towards those who repent.

[17:26] And give the relative their due alms, as well as the poor and the refugee but do not be extravagant. 

[17:27] Indeed the extravagant are brethrens of devils, and indeed Satan is unappreciative of his Lord.  

[17:28] And even if you ignore them, seeking a mercy from your Lord, be hopeful, and talk to them softly. 

[17:29] And do not tie your hand around your neck and do not open them wide open, then you will end up remorseful and depressed. 

[17:30] Indeed your Lord increases the provision for whomever He wills and withholds it. Indeed your Lord is All Cognizant, All Seer over His servants. 

[17:31] And do not kill your children fearing poverty, We will provide for them as well as yourselves. Indeed their killing is a grave mistake. 

[17:32] And do not commit adultery; indeed it is an abomination and an evil path. 

[17:33] And do not kill a soul, for God has made it sacred, except in the course of justice. And whoever is killed unjustly, We then indeed grant authority to his heir, therefore, do not exceed the limits in avenging the murder. He will surely be helped.  

[17:34] And do not consume the fatherless' money, except in a righteous way, guard it until he reaches maturity. And you shall fulfill your promise; indeed you are responsible for your promises.

[17:35] And you shall give full measure when you measure and weigh with an equitable scale. Such is fairness and the most righteous approach. 

[17:36] And do not accept anything that you have no knowledge thereof. Indeed you have the hearing, the eyesight and the mind and you are responsible for using them.  

[17:37] And do not tread the land arrogantly, for you cannot drill into the earth and you are not as tall as the mountains. 

[17:38] These are all bad behaviors and are disliked by your Lord. 

[17:39] These are some of the inspirations of wisdom to you from your Lord. And do not set up another god besides God for you will then end up in Gehenna, blameworthy and rejected. 

[17:40] Has your Lord blessed you with sons, while taking angels as daughters for Himself? Indeed you are making a huge claim.  

[17:41] And indeed We have cited repeated examples in this Quran that they may take heed, but it did not increase anything for them except their hatred. 

[17:42] Say, if there were other gods with Him, such as you claim, then, they would have tried to take over part of the dominion. 

[17:43] Be He glorified, much too High, what they claim is the height of arrogance. 

[17:44] The seven vacua and matter glorify Him constantly as well as everyone in them. And there is not a thing that does not glorify through praising Him, but you do not comprehend their glorification. Indeed He is Clement, All Forgiving. 

[17:45] And when you recite the Quran, We place between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter an impregnable barrier. 

[17:46] And We put a seal on their hearts so they cannot understand it and deafness in their ears. And when you mention your Lord in the Quran alone, they turn their backs hatefully.  

[17:47] We know full well what they hear when they listen to you, and when they whisper, when the transgressors say, you are following a bewitched man. 

[17:48] Observe what they are likening you to; they thus go astray and they cannot find their way. 

[17:49] And they said, when we become bones and fragments, do we get resurrected as a new creation? 

[17:50] Say, even if you turn into rock or iron. 

[17:51] Or a creation that you cannot even fathom in your mind. Then they will say who is bringing us back? Say, the One who initiated you the first time. Then they shake their heads at you and they say when would that be? Say, it may be very soon. 

[17:52] The day He recalls you, you respond while praising Him and you will realize that you lasted only a short while. 

[17:53] And say to My servants to utter only the best utterance. Indeed Satan wants to spread animosity amongst them. Indeed Satan is the human being's most manifest enemy. 

[17:54] Your Lord knows you full well. He may shower you with His Mercy or He may will to cause you suffering. And We did not send you as their advocate.  

[17:55] And your Lord fully knows regarding everyone in the vacua and matter. And indeed We preferred some prophets over others; accordingly, We gave David the Psalms. 

[17:56] Say, call upon those besides Him, according to your conjectures, then, you will see that they cannot relieve your hardship nor can they change your situation. 

[17:57] Those whom they call are devoted to their Lord, seeking the means to get closer to Him and are hopeful of His Mercy and fear His punishment. Indeed Your Lord's punishment shall be avoided.  

[17:58] There is not a single community that We do not annihilate before the Day of Resurrection or make them endure an extreme suffering. Indeed this is recorded in the scripture. 

[17:59] And We discontinued sending signs once the previous generations chose to reject them. As an example, We presented Thamoud with the camel as a portent, but they transgressed against her. And We send the signs only to instill fear. 

[17:60] And We said to you that indeed your Lord completely surrounds the people. And the dream We showed you was meant to test the people as well as the cursed tree in the Quran. And We try to instill fear in them, it only maximizes their tyranny.  

[17:61] And when We said to the angels to honor Adam, they all did, except Iblis, he said, should I honor the one whom You created from clay?  

[17:62] He said; do you see the one whom you honored over me, if You respite me until the Day of Resurrection, I will indeed destroy his descendants except a few. 

[17:63] You shall then go, and whoever follows you from amongst them, then Gehenna would be your requital, a complete requital. 

[17:64] Try to entice whomever you can with your voice, and bring your forces and your men upon them and promise them a share of the wealth and children. However, Satan only promises a mirage. 

[17:65] Indeed as for My servants, you have no authority over them. And your Lord is sufficient as an advocate. 

[17:66] Your Lord is the One who runs the ship in the sea that you may seek His bounty. Indeed He is All Merciful towards you. 

[17:67] And when a disaster afflicts you on the sea, who are you going to call except Him? Then when We save you to the dry land, you turn away. And the human being is always unappreciative. 

[17:68] Can you guarantee that the shore will not bury you, or a storm will not come your way, then you cannot find an advocate for yourselves?  

[17:69] Can you guarantee that He would not send you back to the sea once more, then send a violent wind upon you and drown you because of your infidelity, then you would not find any helper against Us?

[17:70] And indeed We honored the Children of Adam as We carried them on the land and the sea, and provided for them from clean provisions and preferred them over much of what We created, a great preference. 

[17:71] The day We call on all humans along with their leaders, then, those who receive their record in their right hands will read their record without the least injustice.  

[17:72] And whoever is blind here, then he is also blind in the Hereafter, and he has gone totally astray off the path.

[17:73] And they almost tricked you to abandon what We inspired to you in order to attribute other things to Us, and they almost made a beloved friend out of you. 

[17:74] And if it was not that We strengthened you, you almost leaned towards them a little. 

[17:75] Had you done that; We would have indeed made you taste twice the suffering in this life and twice in the Hereafter, then you would not have any helper against Us.  

[17:76] And they almost banished you from the land, and evicted you therefrom. And had you stayed, they would have opposed you except for a few.

[17:77] This is the system that We applied to all messengers We sent before you, and you will never find any change in Our system. 

[17:78] Observe the contact prayer when the sun starts its decline from the highest point in the sky towards the darkness of the night, and read the Quran at dawn, indeed reading the Quran at dawn is witnessed. 

[17:79] And during the night, you shall rise up from sleep to pray voluntarily, so that your Lord may raise you to an honorable position.  

[17:80] And say, Lord admit me an honorable admittance and make my departure an honorable departure. And provide for me from your special place a powerful support. 

[17:81] And say, the truth has dawned and the falsehood has vanished. Indeed, falsehood always vanishes. 

[17:82] And what is revealed from the Quran is a healing and mercy for the faithful and does not increase anything for the unjust, except loss. 

[17:83] And when We bless the human being, he turns away and distances himself farther going in some direction, and when an adversity touches him, he becomes despondent.  

[17:84] Say, everyone acts according to a paradigm, then, only your Lord has full knowledge of those who are guided to the path.  

[17:85] And they ask you about the Spirit, say, the Spirit is at my Lord's command and what is given to you from knowledge is minute.  

[17:86] And if We willed, We would have indeed recalled what We had revealed to you, then you would have not found any advocate for yourself against Us. 

[17:87] It is only a mercy from your Lord. Indeed His bounty He has bestowed upon you is immense. 

[17:88] Say, if all the humans and the jinns banded together to produce a Quran like this, they would not be able to produce one like it, no matter how much assistance they give one another.

[17:89] And indeed We cited for the people in this Quran all kinds of examples, but most people reject it and are ungrateful. 

[17:90] They further said, we will not believe you unless you cause a spring to gush out of the ground. 

[17:91] Or you own a garden of date palms and grapes with rivers running through it continuously. 

[17:92] Or you cause the sky to fall on us as you conjectured, and completely cover us or bring us God and His angels en masse. 

[17:93] Or you own a house adorned with ornaments, or you climb into the sky, and we will not believe you even if you do climb, until you bring us a book that we can read. Say, glory to my Lord, I am no more than a human messenger.

[17:94] And what prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them was that they questioned, did God raise a human messenger? 

[17:95] Say, if the angels inhabited the land, we would have sent from the sky an angel messenger. 

[17:96] Say, God is sufficient as a witness between me and you. Indeed, He is All Cognizant, All Seer over His servants.  

[17:97] And whomever God guides, then he is absolutely guided, and whomever He sends astray, then you cannot find any ally for them besides Him, and We gather them all on the Day of Resurrection facing blindness, muteness, and deafness. Their abode is Gehenna, humiliated and We will increase the blaze for them.  

[17:98] This is their requital because they indeed rejected Our proofs, and they said; when we become bones and fragments, do we get resurrected as a new creation? 

[17:99] Do they not realize that indeed God who has created the vacua and matter is capable of creating similar ones and that He assigned an interim for them wherein there is no doubt? However the transgressors continue to reject it and are ungrateful. 

[17:100] Say, even if you possessed the treasures of my Lord's mercy, you would have withheld them hesitating to give them away. Indeed the human being is stingy. 

[17:101] And We indeed gave Moses nine proven Signs; just ask the Children of Israel; however, when he presented them to Pharaoh, he said, I certainly think that you are bewitched O Moses. 

[17:102] He said, you shall know that indeed the Lord of the vacua and matter has revealed these portents, and I certainly think that you are doomed, O Pharaoh. 

[17:103] He then decided to banish them from the land; We therefore drowned him and those with him altogether. 

[17:104] And We said to the Children of Israel, settle in this land and when the promise of the Hereafter is fulfilled, We will gather you all together. 

[17:105] And truthfully We revealed it and truthfully it was revealed, and We have sent you only as a bearer of good news as well as a deliverer of warning. 

[17:106] And a Quran, We sent down in batches in order to recite to the people slowly, although We revealed it all as a single revelation.  

[17:107] Say, you can either believe in it or do not believe. Indeed those who have been given knowledge previously, once it is recited to them, they bow their heads, prostrating.  

[17:108] And they say, glory to our Lord, for indeed the promise of our Lord has been fulfilled. 

[17:109] As they bow their heads, weeping as it increases their reverence. 

[17:110] Say, call upon God or call upon The All Gracious, you may do either; remember that to Him belong the most beautiful names. And do not perform your contact prayer loudly or silently; you shall choose a moderate tone. 

[17:111] Say, praise God the One who has not begotten a son nor does He have any partners in kingship and He has no heir because of need, and you shall extol Him continuously.