Surah Luqman

Alif Lam Mim

Those are the signs of the Wise Book

for a guidance and a mercy to the good-doers

who perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and have sure faith in the Hereafter.

Those are upon guidance from their Lord; those are the prosperers.

Some men there are who buy diverting talk to lead astray from the way of God without knowledge, and to take it in mockery; those -- there awaits them a humbling chastisement.

And when Our signs are recited to such a man he turns away, waxing proud, as though he heard them not, and in his ears were heaviness; so give him good tidings of a painful chastisement.

Surely those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, there awaits them Gardens of Bliss

therein to dwell forever -- God's promise in truth; and He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.

He created the heavens without pillars you can see, and He cast on the earth firm mountains, lest it shake with you, and He scattered abroad in it all manner of crawling thing. And We sent down out of heaven water, and caused to grow in it of every generous kind.

This is God's creation; now show me what those have created that are apart from Him! Nay, but the evildoers are in manifest error.

Indeed, We gave Lokman wisdom: 'Give thanks to God. Whosoever gives thanks gives thanks only for his own soul's good, and whosoever is ungrateful -- surely God is All-sufficient, All-laudable.'

And when Lokman said to his son, admonishing him, 'O my son, do not associate others with God; to associate others with God is a mighty wrong.

(And We have charged man concerning his parents -- his mother bore him in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning was in two years -- 'Be thankful to Me, and to thy parents; to Me is the homecoming.

But if they strive with thee to make thee associate with Me that whereof thou hast no knowledge, then do not obey them. Keep them company honourable in this world; but follow the way of him who turns to Me. Then unto Me you shall return, and I shall tell you what you were doing.')