25. Al-Furqaan - (The Criterion)

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:1]
Blessed is He who sent down the criterion to His servant, that it may be an admonition to all creatures;-
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:2]
He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: no son has He begotten, nor has He a partner in His dominion: it is He who created all things, and ordered them in due proportions.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:3]
Yet have they taken, besides him, gods that can create nothing but are themselves created; that have no control of hurt or good to themselves; nor can they control death nor life nor resurrection.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:4]
But the misbelievers say: "Naught is this but a lie which he has forged, and others have helped him at it." In truth it is they who have put forward an iniquity and a falsehood.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:5]
And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written: and they are dictated before him morning and evening."
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:6]
Say: "The (Qur'an) was sent down by Him who knows the mystery (that is) in the heavens and the earth: verily He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:7]
And they say: "What sort of a messenger is this, who eats food, and walks through the streets? Why has not an angel been sent down to him to give admonition with him?
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:8]
"Or (Why) has not a treasure been bestowed on him, or why has he (not) a garden for enjoyment?" The wicked say: "Ye follow none other than a man bewitched."
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:9]
See what kinds of comparisons they make for thee! But they have gone astray, and never a way will they be able to find!
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:10]
Blessed is He who, if that were His will, could give thee better (things) than those,- Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and He could give thee palaces (secure to dwell in).
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:11]
Nay they deny the hour (of the judgment to come): but We have prepared a blazing fire for such as deny the hour:
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:12]
When it sees them from a place fAr off, they will hear its fury and its ranging sigh.
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:13]
And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place therein, they will pLead for destruction there and then!
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:14]
"This day plead not for a single destruction: plead for destruction oft-repeated!"
Recitation:
English Yusuf Ali: [25:15]
Say: "Is that best, or the eternal garden, promised to the righteous? for them, that is a reward as well as a goal (of attainment).