ٱلْفُرْقَان : ١

  • تَبَارَكَ Blessed is He
  • ٱلَّذِي Who
  • نَزَّلَ sent down
  • ٱلۡفُرۡقَانَ the Criterion
  • عَلَىٰ upon
  • عَبۡدِهِۦ His slave
  • لِيَكُونَ that he may be
  • لِلۡعَٰلَمِينَ to the worlds
  • نَذِيرًا a warner
Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His Servant that he may be to the worlds a warner -
Al-Furqaan Meccan, except for verses 68, 69 and 70, which are Medinese; it consists of 77 verses, and was revealed after [soorat] Yaaseen. Blessed, exalted, is He Who revealed the Criterion (al-furqaan), Al-Qur'an - called thus [al-furqaan] because it has discriminated (faraqa) between truth and falsehood - to His servant, Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, that he may be to all the worlds, [to] mankind and the jinn, but not the angels, a warner, a threatening of God's chastisement.