Sura-40 [Al mumin mecca 60]


The Quranic Text & Ali’s version




مَنْ عَمِلَ سَيِّئَةً فَلَا يُجْزَى إِلَّا مِثْلَهَا...

40:40. "He that works evil will not be requited but by the like thereof:

... وَمَنْ عَمِلَ صَالِحًا مِّن ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنثَى وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ...

and he that works a righteous deed -- whether man or woman -- and is a believer --

... فَأُوْلَئِكَ يَدْخُلُونَ الْجَنَّةَ يُرْزَقُونَ فِيهَا بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ ﴿٤٠﴾

such will enter the Garden (of Bliss):

therein will they have abundance without measure.

C4413. Cf. 2:212.

This sustenance will not only last. It will be a most liberal reward, far above any merits of the recipient.


Asad’s Version:



(40:40) [There,] anyone who has done a bad deed will be requited with no more than the like thereof, whereas anyone, be it man or woman, who has done righteous deeds and is a believer withal - all such will enter paradise, wherein they shall be blest with good beyond all reckoning! 28



[[Asad’s notes -

28 I.e., beyond any earthly imagination. The concept of rizq (expressed in the verb yurzaqun) has here its full significance of all that is good and of benefit to a living being, comprising things material as well as intellectual and spiritual; hence my rendering of yurzaqun (lit., "they will be given sustenance") as "they shall be blest with good".