Quran Universe
17:9

إِنَّ هَٰذَا ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَ يَهۡدِي لِلَّتِي هِيَ أَقۡوَمُ وَيُبَشِّرُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَعۡمَلُونَ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَٰتِ أَنَّ لَهُمۡ أَجۡرٗا كَبِيرٗا

Inna hatha alqurana yahdee lillatee hiya aqwamu wayubashshiru almumineena allatheena yaAAmaloona alssalihati anna lahum ajran kabeeran

Indeed, this Qur'an guides to that which is most suitable and gives good tidings to the believers who do righteous deeds that they will have a great reward.

Word by word
  1. إِنَّIndeed
  2. هَٰذَاthis
  3. ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَthe Quran
  4. يَهۡدِيguides
  5. لِلَّتِيto that
  6. هِيَwhich
  7. أَقۡوَمُ(is) most straight
  8. وَيُبَشِّرُand gives glad tidings
  9. ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَto the believers
  10. ٱلَّذِينَthose who
  11. يَعۡمَلُونَdo
  12. ٱلصَّـٰلِحَٰتِthe righteous deeds
  13. أَنَّthat
  14. لَهُمۡfor them
  15. أَجۡرٗا(is) a reward
  16. كَبِيرٗاgreat
Al-Isra · 17:9Makkah

The Quran points to the straightest way through life.

Guidance and good news for those who act

What the Quran does
guidesto the most upright way
gives good newsto believers who do good
promising
a great rewardon the Day
Who gets the good news
people who agreebelief alone
believers who actdeeds in line with it

After the story of a people who had a Book and drifted, Allah praises His own Book, the Quran. Ibn Kathir says it directs people to the best and clearest of ways, and brings good news to those who believe and act according to it.

You have five apps for productivity, three podcasts on how to live, and a stack of self-help books half read. You keep looking for the straight road. The most upright way is already on your shelf. It works when you do what it says.

I need to find the right advice somewhere out there.

The Quran already points to the straightest path, if I walk it.

Try this

Read one page of the Quran today with its translation and pick one line to act on.

Simplified reflection. Read the tafsir for scholarship.draft
Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Verily, this Qur'an guides to that which is most just and right and gives good news to those who believe, those who do righteous deeds, that they will have a great reward (Paradise)(9)And that those who do not believe in the Hereafter, for them We have prepared a painful torment (Hell)(10)

Praising the Qur'an

Allah praises His noble Book, the Qur'an, which He revealed to His Messenger Muhammad ﷺ. It directs people to the best and clearest of ways.

وَيُبَشِّرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ

(gives good news to those who believe,) in it

الَّذِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ الصَّالِحَاتِ

(those who do righteous deeds,) in accordance with it, telling them

أَنَّ لَهُمْ أَجْرًا كَبِيرًا

(that they will have a great reward,) i.e., on the Day of Resurrection. And He tells

وَأَنَّ الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْآخِرَةِ

(those who do not believe in the Hereafter,) that

لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا

(for them is a painful torment,) i.e. on the Day of Resurrection. As Allah says:

فَبَشِّرْهُم بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ

(...then announce to them a painful torment.)[84:24]