☪️ Quran: Chapter 20 Taha سورة طه

Revelation place: Mecca

Revelation order: 45

Number of verses: 135

Background:

This chapter was revealed during the final period of the Prophet Muhammad’s time in Mecca, just before the Muslims migrated to Abyssinia (Habasha)

I seek refuge with Allah from Satan, the condemned.

With the name of Allah, the gracious the merciful.

1- Ta Ha (Could be a especial calling name title for the prophet)

2- We did not send down upon you the Quran to cause you hardship

3- Rather a reminder for those who are pious (Awe the majesty of Allah with humility)

4- Sent (gradually) from He who created the earth and the high havens

5- The Merciful upon the throne leveled

6- For Him what in the heavens and the earth and what between them and what is under the soil

7- And if you loud in speech, indeed He knows the secret and what is hidden (Knows you intension)

8- Allah there is no deity but Him, for Him is the best names

9- Did come to you the event of Moses?

10- As he saw fire, so he said to his family “Stay, indeed I have perceived a fire (joyfully as sign of refuge in the desert) perhaps I can bring you form it a torch or I found upon the fire guidance? (To the ways in the desert)

11- And when he came to it, he was called “O Moses”

12- Indeed, I am your God, remove your soles , indeed you are in the sacred valley, Towa (That one)

13- And I have chosen you, so listen to what is being revealed

14- Indeed, I am Allah there is no deity but Me, so worship Me (By obeying my commands and avoiding my prohibitions) and establish prayers for My remembrance

15- Indeed, the hour is coming, I almost conceal it, so that every soul may recompense according to what it seeks

16- So let not repel you from it who does not believe in it, and followed his whims, lest you perish

17- And what is that in your right, O Moses?

18- He said” It is my staff, I lean upon it, and I strike the tree leaves with it for my sheep, and I have in it other benefits

19- Said (Allah) “Throw it, O Moses”

20- So, he threw it, so it became a sliding serpent

21- Said ”Take her O Moses and do not be afraid, We shall return it to its first state

22- And conjoin your hands to your wing (Upper side), it will come out white with no harm, that is another sign

23- That we may show you of Our Great signs

24- Go to Pharoah, indeed he has transgressed

25- Said “ My God, expand for me my chest”

26- And ease for me my affair

27- And untie a knot (Stutter) from my tongue

28- So, they may understand my speech

29- And make for me minister (backer) from my family

30- Aaron, my brother

31- I stress with him, my strength

32- And I share him in my matter

33- That we glorify You much

34- And remember You much

35- Indeed, You were with us ever seeing (Aware of our actions)

36- Said ”you have been granted your request, O Moses”

37- And We have conferred upon you another time

38- As We have revealed to your mother what We revealed

39- To cast him into the chest and cast it in the river, so the river will throw him on to the bank, so will take him an enemy of Mine and an enemy of him, and I loaded upon him love from Me, and to be produced under My eye (Brought up under Allah’s supervision)

40- As your sister walks and said “Should I direct you to someone to take care of him (Nurse), so We returned you back to your mother so to settle her eye (Calm from worry) and do not grieve, and you killed a soul so We saved you from sadness (Being caught and killed) and tried you with many trails,

so you stayed years among the people of Median, then you came upon destiny O Moses (Allah destined him to return back to Egypt)

41- And I produced you for Myself (I prepared you for a mission I have)

42- Go you and your brother with My signs (miracles) and do not slacken in My remembrance

43- Go to Pharoah, indeed he has transgressed

44- And say to him a lean saying (gently), that perhaps he remembers for get pious (Remember Allah and humbly fear him and get guided)

45- They said “Our God indeed we fear that indeed he exceed upon us (pour excess punish), or that he will transgress (Upon us and our people)

46- Said “ Do not fear, indeed I am with you, hearing and seeing”

47- So, get to him and say” We are messengers of your God, so send with as the children of Israel and do not torment them, we have come to you with a sign from your God, and peace upon who follows the guidance” (End of discussion warning)

48- Indeed, it has been revealed to us that torment is upon who denies and turn away (Follow his own way)

49- Said (Pharoah) “ Who is your God, O Moses?” (Both of you)

50- Said” Our God is who gave everything its form then guided”

51- Said “ What about the former generations?” (Trying to evade and change the main subject)

52- Said” Its knowledge is with my God in a book, my God does not stray or forget”

53- Who has made the land paved (Suitable for your living) and inserted in it for you paths, and sent down from the sky rain to bring forth with it pairs of various plants

54- Eat and shepherd you cattle’s, indeed in that are signs for those of prohibition (Intelligent to prohibit and control oneself, mind)

55- From it (earth) We created you and in it will return (burry you) you and from it will extract you (Resurrection) another time

56- And We have shown him Our signs all of them (The miracles assigned to Moses ), but he denied and refused

57- Said (Pharoah)”Have you come to us to expel us from our land with your magic O Moses”

58- Then we will bring to you a magic the like it, so make between us and between you an appointment that we will not pass it, neither us nor you, in a suitable place

59- Said (Moses) your appointment is on the day of the adornment (Nile flood festival), and to cram the people at mid-morning (Broad daylight, so everyone can see it)

60- Pharoah withdraw to gather his trickery (Scheme), then came

61- Said to them Moses (To the Magicians), “Woe to you do not slander about Allah lies, so He would crush you with torment, and indeed has failed who slandered”

62- So, they tore their affairs (Disputed) between themselves and concealed their talks

63- They said “ Indeed those are two magicians, they want to expel you from your land with their magic, and do away of your explementary way”

64- So, gather your trickery and come in line, and had succeeded today who the upmost (Said the magicians)

65- Said” O Moses, either you throe or we will be the first to throw”

66- So, He said ”Throw” then lo their ropes and staffs seemed to him from their magic that they were sliding (Crawling like serpents)

67- So, sensed  in himself fear, Moses

68- So, We said (Allah) “Do not fear you are the upmost”

69- And throw what is in your right (hand), will grab what they did, they did  but a trickery of magic, and will not succeed the magician in what he had gotten (In trickery or other deceits, all with Allah’s will)

70- So were thrown the magician prostrating (By the shock of the awakening of their instinct) and said” We believe in the God of Aaron and Moses” (Aaron God first, as Pharoah raised Moses so was called at that time his “god”)

71- Said (Pharoah)“You believed in him before I gave permission to you, he is but your elder (Chief) that taught you magic, so I will cut off your hands and legs from alternate (e.g. right arm left leg), and will crucify you in the trunks of the palm trees, so you will know which of us is more sever in torment and enduring

72- Said “ We will not equate you with what has come to us of clear proofs and Who created us, so judge what you judge you but judge this lower life”

73- Indeed, we have believed in our God that He may forgive our sins and what you have compelled us of magic, and Allah is better and more enduring

74- Indeed, who comes to his God as a criminal (Breaks God’s commands), indeed for him is Gahanna (Hell) does not die in it nor live

75- And who come to Him as a believer and had done righteousness, for those are the highest degrees

76- Garden of perpetual residence beneath which rivers run, abiding in it, and that is the reward for who self-purify (From sins and evolved himself with good deeds)

77- And We revealed to Moses to journey (By night) with My worshipers, and strike for them a dry road in the sea, do not fear reaching (By Pharoah) nor fearful (Of drowning)

78- So followed them Pharoah with his soldiers, so membraned them (Covered them) from the sea what membraned them

79- And had strayed Pharoah his people, and did not guide

80- Oh, Children of Isreal, We have saved you from your enemy, and We promised you (Jointly) the right side of the mount (Safe spot to receive God’s commandments) and sent down to you the manna (While liquid like honey) and quails

81- Eat from the goods of which We provided you, and do not transgress in it (Avoid what is disallowed), as that will allow upon you My anger, and whomever is allowed My anger upon, has certainly fallen

82- And Indeed, I am forgiving for whoever repents and does righteousness (Obey Allah), then got guided (Stayed guided on believe and rightness deed)

83- And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses? (Allah said)

84- Said” They are upon my tracks (Following me), and I hastened to You my God, that you be pleased

85- Said” We indeed have tried you people from after you, and had strayed the Samiri” (Moses the Samiri a rebellious follower of Prophet Moses)

86- So returned Moses to his people angry and sorrowful, said” Oh people, have not your God promised you a good promise, or has taken long upon you the promise, or you wanted to allow upon you anger from your God, so you backed off on my promise (To listen to his brother Aaron until he returns)

87- They said “We did not back off your promise with our own (But by matters out of our hands), we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the folks (Borrowed ornaments from the Egyptians to use in their festivals) so we threw them (Into the fire out of shame) and like this The Samiri tossed (They followed his suite to repent for keeping the ornaments)

88- So, he (Samiri) extracted from it (Melted ornaments) a calf body (Statue) for it a lowing sound (When air pass through it) so they said” That is your deity and Moses’s deity, but he forgot” (The Samiri forget his promise, or Moses forget to make you a statue of it)

89- Do not they see that he does not return to them any saying, and does not possess for them harm or benefit

90- And had said to them Aaron from before” O people you have been tried by it (Calf), and indeed your God is the merciful, so follow me and obey my orders”

91- They said “ We will not part, will remain upon in it devoted, until Moses return to us”

92- Said (Moses)” What prevented you when you saw them going astray”

93- Said “Do not you follow me, did you disobey my order?”

94- Said” O son of my mother, do not seize by my beard nor my head, indeed I feared that you may say” You divided between the children of Israel and did not observe my word”

95- Said (Moses)” So what is your story, O Samiri?”

96- Said “ I saw what they did not see (perceived his people love to idols), so I took a handful from the track of the messenger (The portion of Moses message that forbid idols) and I tossed it away, and like this myself indicted me”

97- Said (Moses) “ So go, indeed for you in life is to say “no contact” (exiled, outcast, wander alone in the wilderness), and indeed for you an appointment you will not miss, and look to your deity that you stayed upon it devoted, we will surely burn it (Brush into crumbs) then will blow it (Sieve it) in the sea with a blast

98- It is but Indeed your Deity is Allah, that there is no Deity but Him, encompassed everything His knowledge

99- Like this We relate to you (Muhammed) from among the news for what has preceded, and We have brought to you from Ourself a reminder (The Quran)

100- Whoever side away from it, indeed he will carry on the day of Resurrection a burden

101- Eternally in it, and it is a bad for them on the day of Resurrection, as a load

102- The day when it will be blown in the trumpet, and We cram that day the criminals in blued (Blind, Glaucoma Blue water eyed )

103- They murmur among themselves “ Indeed we did not stay but ten” (Short time in the wordily life left behind)

104- We (Allah) are most knowing of what they say, as says the best of them in way (Sound judgement) “Rather you stayed not but a day”

105- And they ask you about the mountains, say “Will blow up my God with a blast

106- So will leave it (The earth) flat bottom

107- You will not see in it crookedness nor unevenness

108- That day they will follow the caller no crookedness therefrom him, and humbled the voices to The Merciful, and you do not hear but murmurs

109- That day will benefit no intersession, except whom was permitted by the Most Merciful, and his words were acceptable

110- He knows what is between their hands and what is before them (There past and what is ahead) and they do not encompass Him in knowledge

111- And humbled the faces to The Ever-Living The Sustainer, and have failed who carries injustice

112- And who does from among the rightness while a believer, will not fear injustice nor predigest (Deprivation from his full rights by others)

113- And for that We sent it down as an Arabic Quran (To challenge the eloquent Arabs so they can understand it, believe in it and carries it to others), and distributed in it from among the warnings (Spread In different forms, addressing all levels of humanity knowledge and senses) so that they may become pious or cause them to remember

114- So high is Allah (exalted above all, nothing like Him), The King, The Truth, and do not hasten with The Quran before its completed to, and say “ My God increase me in knowledge” (O Mohamed do not try to repeat the revelations in your mind out of fear to forget, Allah promised you will not forget it)

115- And We have taken a promise from Adam from before (Do not eat from that tree), but he forgot, and We did not find in him determination (Allah consoling the prophet to be patient as the sons of Adams like their father are forgetful and some has no strong will and determination)

116- And as We said to the angels to prostrate to Adam (In respect, obeying Allah’s command), except Iblees (Satan) he refused

117- So, We said” O Adam, this is an enemy to you and your pair (Wife), so let him not remove you from paradise so you would suffer

118- Indeed, for you in it not get hungry nor naked

119- And, indeed you do not get thirsty in it nor hot (Midday sun heat)

120- So, clink clinked (seductive whispering) to him Satan, and said ”O Adam should I point you to the tree of eternity and a kingdom that does not wear out

121- So, they (Adam and his wife) ate from it, so became apparent to them their badness (private parts as food waste was came out of them for the first time), and they take to stick together upon them from paradise’s leaves, and disobeyed Adam his God and he missed the point (Failed the trial)

122- Then, chose him His God (Preparation for his mission) and repent upon him (forgave Adam) and guided

123- Said (Allah) “Descend from it (Paradise) all, some are enamines to others (Obedient and disobedient to God, e.g. You are the enemy of Satan and his followers if you are obedient to God, and Satan is your enemy if you are obedient to God. If you are disobedient to God), and if should come to you from Me guidance, so whoever follow My guidance will neither go astray nor will suffer

124- And whoever side away from My remembrance, so indeed for him a depressed life (once overwhelmed by life they have to one to turn to so they e.g. suicide) and We will cram him on the Day of Resurrection, blind

125- Said “My God, why have you crammed me blind, while I was seeing” (In the wordily life)

126- Said (Allah)” Like this came to you My signs, so you forgot them, and like this, this day you will be forgotten” (From the goodness of Paradise, but not by Hell)

127- And like this We penalize who transgressed (In this worldly life, by a depressed life) and did not believe in the signs of his God, and the torment for the hereafter is more severe and more enduring

128- Was it not guided to them, how much We perished from before them from centuries (Of tyrants), who they are walking in their dwellings (Nowadays), indeed in there are signs for those of inhibition (Intelligence to avoid error)

129- If it was not for a prior word from Your God (Postponed term till Judgment day) it would have been and obligation (To punish immediately in this would like the precedent nations) and a named term (And also in the hereafter)

130- So be patient about what they say and praise with your God exalt, before the rising of the sun and before it setting, and from among periods of the night praise, and the edges of the morning, that you may be satisfied

131- And do not extend your eyes to what We have enjoined with a pair of them, a flower of this lower life (Wilt fast and eventually perish)so We can trial them in it, and the provision of your God is better and more enduring

132- And command your family to prayer and be patient on it, We do not ask you for provision, We provide for you and the consequences is for the pious (In Crisis you turn to God for the ultimate outcome)

133- And they said “ If he just gets us a sign from his God”, have not came to them clear sign, from what was in the former scriptures?

134- And if We had perished them by torments from before it (The warning in the scriptures), they would have said” If you just had sent to us a messenger so we can follow your verses, before we get hamulated and disgraced”

135- Say “all is lurking, so lurk , for you will know who are the companion of the even path, and who is guided” (On that even path)

Disclaimer:

The Holy Quran, in its essence, is a divine revelation that can only be fully appreciated in its original Arabic language. Any translation or interpretation, including the one presented here, is not and cannot be a replacement for the Arabic Holy Quran. I intended to offer an English rendering that remains faithful to the original Arabic. I am neither a scholar nor do I possess any formal Islamic qualifications. My approach to this translation is empirical, drawing upon my readings of selected scholarly interpretations, personal experiences, and understanding of the Holy Quran as a Muslim native Arabic speaker.