Nobel Quran - English Translation
16. And WE have, indeed, made mansions of stars in the heaven and have adorned it for beholders.
17. And WE have guarded it against the intrusion of every rejected Satan.
18. But if anyone hears stealthily something of revelation and distorts it, there pursues him a bright flame.
19. And the earth have WE spread out, and set therein firm mountains and cause every thing to grow therein in proper proportion.
20. And WE have made for you therein means of livelihood and also for all those for whom you do not provide.
21. And there is not a thing but are limitless treasures thereof with US and WE sent it not down except in a known measure.
22. And WE send fecundating winds, then WE send down water from the clouds, then WE give it to you to drink, and you could not yourselves store it.
23. And verily, it is WE Who give life, and WE Who cause death; And it is WE Who are the sole Inheritors of ALL.
24. And WE do know those who go ahead among you and WE also do know those who lag behind.
25. And, surely, it is thy Lord Who will gather them together. Surely, HE is Wise, All-Knowing.
26. And, surely, WE created man from dry ringing clay, of black mud wrought into shape.
27. And the jinn WE have created before of the fire of hot wind.
28. And remember when thy Lord said to the angels, I am about to create man of dry ringing clay, of black mud wrought into shape:
29. So when I fashioned him in perfection and have breath into him of MY spirit, fall ye down in submission to him.'
30. So the angels submitted, all of them together.
31. But Iblis did not; he refused to be among those who submit.