Surah 55

The Most Gracious (Allâh)!

He has taught (you mankind) the Qur’ân (by His Mercy).

He created man.

He taught him eloquent speech.

The sun and the moon run on their fixed courses (exactly) calculated with measured out stages for each (for reckoning).

And the herbs (or stars) and the trees both prostrate themselves (to Allah - See V.22:18) (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)

And the heaven: He has raised it high, and He has set up the Balance.

In order that you may not transgress (due) balance.

And observe the weight with equity and do not make the balance deficient.

And the earth: He has put down (laid) for the creatures.

Therein are fruits and date-palms producing sheathed fruit-stalks (enclosing dates).

And also corn, with (its) leaves and stalk for fodder, and sweet-scented plants.

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

He created man (Adam) from sounding clay like the clay of pottery.

And the jinn: He created from a smokeless flame of fire.

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

(He is) the Lord of the two easts (places of sunrise during early summer and early winter) and the Lord of the two wests (places of sunset during early summer and early winter).

Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you both (jinn and men) deny?

He has let loose the two seas (the salt and fresh water) meeting together.

Between them is a barrier which none of them can transgress.