Quran

Sura 6: ٱلْأَنْعَام‎ (Al-Anʿām) - The Livestock

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

(1) Praise be to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and established darkness and light. Yet those who disbelieve attribute equals to their Lord.

(2) It is He who created you from clay and decreed a term [for your life]. With Him is a fixed time [for Judgment], yet you doubt.

(3) He is Allah in the heavens and on earth. He knows what you conceal and what you reveal, and He knows what you earn.

(4) Whenever a sign comes to them from their Lord, they reject it.

(5) They have denied the truth when it came to them, but soon they will learn the reality of what they used to mock.

(6) Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them? We had established them on the earth more firmly than We have established you. We sent the sky pouring upon them with abundant rain and made rivers flow beneath them. Then We destroyed them for their sins and produced other generations after them.

(7) Even if We had sent down to you a Book inscribed on parchment, and they touched it with their hands, the disbelievers would say, "This is nothing but obvious magic."

(8) And they say, "Why has an angel not been sent down to him?" If We had sent down an angel, the matter would have been decided, and they would not be granted respite.

(9) And if We had made him an angel, We would have made him [appear as] a man, and thus confused them in what they are already confused.

(10) Messengers before you were mocked, but those who ridiculed them were engulfed by what they used to mock.

(11) Say, "Travel through the land and observe the end of those who denied [the truth]."

(12) Ask, "To whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth?" Say, "To Allah!" He has decreed mercy upon Himself. He will surely gather you together on the Day of Resurrection, about which there is no doubt. Those who have lost themselves will not believe.

(13) To Him belongs whatever dwells in the night and the day. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

(14) Say, "Shall I take a protector other than Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, who feeds and is not fed?" Say, "Indeed, I have been commanded to be the first to submit." And do not be among those who associate others [with Him].

(15) Say, "Indeed, I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the punishment of a tremendous Day."

(16) Whoever is averted from it that Day—He has granted him mercy. And that is the clear triumph.

(17) If Allah touches you with adversity, none can remove it but Him. And if He grants you good, then He is over all things competent.

(18) He is the Supreme over His servants. He is the Wise, the All-Aware.

(19) Say, "What thing is greatest as a testimony?" Say, "Allah is witness between me and you. This Qur'an has been revealed to me that I may warn you and whomever it reaches. Do you truly testify that there are other gods besides Allah?" Say, "I do not testify." Say, "He is only One God, and I am free from what you associate [with Him]."

(20) Those to whom We have given the Scripture recognize it as they recognize their own sons. Those who have lost themselves—they will not believe.

(21) Who does more wrong than one who invents lies against Allah or denies His signs? Indeed, the wrongdoers will not succeed.

(22) On the Day We gather them all together, We will say to those who associated others [with Allah], "Where are your partners that you used to claim?"

(23) Then there will be no [excuse] but to say, "By Allah, our Lord, we were not polytheists."