50. Surah Qaf [45 verses]

Mecca Period 34

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَنَزَّلْنَا مِنَ السَّمَاء مَاء مُّبَارَكًا فَأَنبَتْنَا بِهِ جَنَّاتٍ وَحَبَّ الْحَصِيدِ ﴿٩﴾

50: 9.     And We send down from the sky Rain charged with blessing,

and We produce therewith Gardens and Grain for harvests;

وَالنَّخْلَ بَاسِقَاتٍ لَّهَا طَلْعٌ نَّضِيدٌ ﴿١٠﴾

50: 10.  And tall (and stately) palm-trees, with shoots of fruit-stalks, piled one over another --

C4949. A beautiful nature passage. How graphic and unforgettable to any one who has seen a spring and summer in an Arabian oasis!

رِزْقًا لِّلْعِبَادِ وَأَحْيَيْنَا بِهِ بَلْدَةً مَّيْتًا كَذَلِكَ الْخُرُوجُ ﴿١١﴾

50: 11.  As sustenance for (Allah's) Servants;

and We give (new) life therewith to land that is dead: Thus will be the Resurrection.

Asad’s Version:

50:9 And We send down from the skies water rich in blessings, and cause thereby gardens to grow, and fields of grain,

(50:10) and tall palm-trees with their thickly-clustered dates,

(50:11) as sustenance apportioned to men; and by [all] this We bring dead land to life: [and] even so will be [man's] coming-forth from death.