2:1 Allah, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise [understands all your needs and answers all your prayers (1:5; 2:186) in this Book]

2:2 [This is no ordinary book.] This is the Divine Prescript [which has nothing but the Truth (35:31)] beyond any doubt, [contradiction (4:82) or crookedness (39:28)] and is free from anything that may perturb any mind or disquiet any heart (32:2).  

2:3 This provides guidance to the mode of life of those who preserve themselves from the perils [of this life and the Hereafter] (2:66, 3:138, 5:46, 24:34). Those who believe in the existence of the Unseen, that which is beyond the reach of human perception (by the senses) [Allah (21:49, 35:18, 36:11, 50:33, 67:12); Al-Saa’at (16:77, 32:5-6, 34:3, 72:25-26) when every person will get the recompense for that which he strives (20:15); the day of resurrection (27:65-66) and  the everlasting paradise (19:61)]. Those who establish As-Salat [remembering Allah (20:14, 62:9) all the time (70:23) and at appointed times (4:103, 62:9), and follow His Guidance in all the affairs] and keep the resources, that We have bestowed upon them, open [for the welfare of humanity]. (2:177, 9:44, 39:33, 92:17-20) 

2:4 They [realise that human intellect alone cannot find an objective and absolute solution to all of their problems and] believe in that [Guidance] which has been revealed to you and in that which had been revealed before you [to the people of the past for their guidance]; and they are certain about [the life to come in] the Hereafter [realising that the life of human personality {i.e. the human software or the self} continues to evolve even after the death of the body {i.e. the human hardware} (57:12, 66:8)] 

2:5 It is they who (truly) follow the guidance from their Guardian Lord and it is they to whom belongs the ultimate success in this life and in the Hereafter (3:104, 7:8, 7:157, 9:88, 23:102, 24:51, 30:38, 31:5, 58:22, 59:9, 64:16) 

2.6 As for those who are bent upon denying these realities [because of their envy, grudge (2:90, 2:105, 2:109), inclination to depart from the right course (2:99), disdainful self-exaltation and dissention (27:14, 38:2), arrogant pride (35:42-43, 39:59, 45:31), pursuit of falsehood (47:3), stubbornness (50:24), deceitful  expediency or opportunism (35:42-43)], it is all the same whether you admonish them or not, they will not confess belief [, even though the guidance has been clearly shown to them (47:32) and they themselves have witnessed the truth (3:70, 3:86).] [No Warner can benefit those who thus belie the Profound Wisdom and prefer to follow their passions or arbitrary views based upon whim and personal opinion (54:3-5). One can only warn those who are alive to warnings and receptive (36:70, 21:45), who would follow the admonition and be afraid of (the consequences of violating the commands of) the Almighty, Unseen (36:10-11, 35:18)] 

2.7 Allah has sealed their hearts and their hearing (according to His laws), and on their perception is a covering [because of that they reject the truth in advance (without any reflection), or reject the truth intuitively or mistakenly first and then stubbornly stick to their position, refusing to rethink their decisions (7:101, 10:74); or believe in the truth first and then reject it because of double-dealing (6:1-3, 4:136-137) ; or simply refuse to acknowledge the manifest truth (4:155) and take their evil desires as their god and follow their lusts (45:23, 47:16), preferring the life of this world over the life of the Hereafter (16:107-108). It is nothing but the rust of their own deeds that has settled upon their hearts (83:14)]. For them is a terrible retribution [There temporal thirsts and carnal lusts will deprive them from benefiting from the real aliment for their minds and soul]. (6:46, 17:46, 18:57)(4:155) 

2.8 And there are people who [profess belief with the tongue only (without the assent of the heart and testimony of the actions); they] say that they believe in Allah and the Hereafter but they are not faithful at all. [True belief and conviction of the heart is much more than just saying something with the tongue only (49:14). Only those are truthful in their articulation of belief who have conviction from the bottom of their heart with no lingering doubts or disquiet in their minds and strive diligently with their wealth and life for the cause of Allah (49:15); they do not confound their belief with wrong doctrines (6:82) and their conviction is substantiated with their submission to the commands of Allah (43:69). As for those who take their faith for granted or believe in their own right must also refurbish their belief according to the concepts elucidated in the Quran (61:10-11) (4:136)] 

2.9 They (, who profess belief with the tongue only) pretend to Allah and to the believers the contrary of what they have in their minds; (By doing so) they deceive none but themselves but they perceive it not. 

2.10 There mental faculties are distempered and disordered. Allah worsened their pathological condition (according to His Laws) and they will suffer a distressful retribution because of the chronic conflict between what they assert and what is deep down in their minds. (63:1) [The only way to cure their mental disease is that they wholeheartedly believe in the Divine Guidance and earnestly act upon its Exhortation (10:57).] 

2.11 And when it is said to them, “Do not cause corruption or disorder in the land [or do not make mischief and disrupt peace, order and balance of the society and the world]”, they say, “We are but reformers [redressing the systems and setting things right. 

2:12 Beware! It is they who are indeed the corruptors [and disruptors of balance, peace and order of the society and the world] but they perceive it not.

[Such people do not give full measure and full weight; or diminish to people their rights and deprive them of what is their due (7:85, 11:85, 26:183); or hinder people form the path of Allah or seek to make it crooked (7:86); or they are not benevolent to others so as to create an economic balance (28:77); or they destroy crops and the cattle (2:205); or create divisions among the people (28:4) and sever  ties of kinship (47:22) an so on.] 

2:13 And when it is said to them, “Believe (and be faithful, trustworthy and true to the trust that is confided in you) like other people who have become the true believers”, they retort, “Shall we believe as the fools have believed?” Verily, it is they who are indeed foolish but they do not understand (their foolishness) [because of the imprints upon their minds (9:93) resulting from their hypocritical behaviour (63:1-3)]. 

2:14 And when they meet the (truly faithful) believers, they say, “We are faithful (believers)” but when they see their rebellious confederates in private, they assure them of their full support and collaboration and say, “We are not serious (with the believers); we just make fool of them (or make mockery of them) and deride them”. 

2:15 [But actually,] Allah makes light of them and will return their mockery upon them [according to His Eternal Law of Requital (6:10, 21:41, 13:32, 15:95)] and will let them continue in their (way of) transgression (by allowing them total freedom of action). They will keep on wandering blindly (straying from the right course) [unless they believe on the Guidance that Allah has bestowed upon them and follow that Guidance (41:44, 30:53, 27:81, 6:104)]. 

2:16 It is they who have preferred a perplexing maze of (trial &) error to the most equitable Guidance (17:9) [that would lead them through the straight path (46:30)], but neither their bargain fetched any profit (in the long run) nor they could become the rightly guided (from elsewhere) (2:175, 4:44, 7:30). [They have taken insolent and the rebellious ones as their protecting friends instead of Allah and they deem that they are the rightly guided (7:30) [Let them be warned that the only perfect and true Guidance is Allah’s Guidance (2:120, 3:73, 6:71).  The Most Beneficent shall give them respite. If they fail to mend their ways they shall surely see the promised retribution (19:75)] 

2:17 Their likeness is that of a person who sought to light up some fire (without adequate fuel, in the dark night of a jungle), then as soon as it brightened up his surroundings (the fuel finished and), Allah (, according to His Law) took away their light leaving them in the shadows of darkness wherein they cannot see. [Likewise, every now and then some wise men endeavour to enlighten their dark environs by the light of their wisdom but soon, the light of their wisdom ceases to illuminate the world around them, leaving behind the glooms of various sorts, sombre than ever before. [They fail to realise that Allah is the Supreme Enlightener (24:35) and His is the only Light that endures, and which can take them out of every kind of darkness to a lasting illumination (2:257, 5:15-16)] 

[but] 

2:18 By turning a deaf ear and by staying dumb, visionless [, heedless (7:179), and witless (2:171, 8:22)], they cannot turn [to the Right Guidance, until they be sensible (7:179, 17:36)] [Allah has made His revelations clear so that they may turn (to His Guidance)(7:174) {, if they will (18:29)] 

2:19 Or their likeness is that of those who are hit by a rain-storm from the sky wherein is thick darkness, frightening thunder and dazzling lightning. To keep themselves from death, they thrust their fingers in their ears against the thunderclaps. (They fail to realise that) Allah is surrounding the disbelievers (by His Universal Laws) from every direction (9:49, 29:54) (and by plugging their ear holes, they cannot avoid their doom). [Those who prefer sightlessness to the Guidance, a thunderbolt of despicable torment will seize them because of what they acquire (13:13, 41:13, 17, 51:44).] [When the doom will befall, it will come from such directions which they least expect and perceive not (7:182, 16:26, 39:25, 59:2)] 

2:20 The lightning almost snatches away their sight; whenever, it flashes, they walk a few steps and whenever it gets darker, they stand still [Such people lose sight of the fact that the flashes of lightning cannot be a sure and ceaseless guide for a traveller who is lost in the wilderness on a dark, stormy night, where each flash of lightning is succeeded by darkness deeper than before. Likewise, human intellect may brighten a path momentarily but it cannot provide an everlasting light to perpetually illuminate the way of human life and guide the humanity from darknesses of all sorts to eternal enlightenment.]. If Allah had willed, He would have taken away their hearing and their sight (and deprived them even of their intellect). But he has prescribed Laws and defined measures for everything and He does not infringe upon these Laws, though most surely He is All Powerful to do anything (6/96; 10/5; 13/8; 25/2; 36/38; 41/12; 54/49; 65/3; 87/3). 

[Therefore,] 

2:21 O mankind! Do what your Guardian-Lord approves of [and live in the unflickering light of His timeless Guidance] [. It is He] who has created you and created those before your times [. Who can guide you better than the Creator Himself? Therefore render complete submissiveness to Him by doing what He commands and approves of and staying away from what He forbids and disapproves of] so that you may [preserve yourself from the hardships of trial and error and] guard yourself against the perils of this life and the hereafter.

2:22 It is He who has made the earth  a habitable place  for you [wherein is the means of your life and subsistence (7:10, 32:27)] and the atmospheric structure  over it (as) a protecting roof (21:32) [which protects you from the   harmful radiations of the sun, the meteors and the freezing cold of the space]; He has caused water to descend from the clouds (according to His Laws) and then to bring forth with it fruits of various sorts for your sustenance (6:99, 13:17, 14:32, 16:10, 16:65, 20:53, 22:63, 35:27, 39:21). So knowing all this, do not take rivals of Allah [anything that would make you stray or deviate from His path (14:30, 39:8)]

2:23 And if there is anything that perturbs your mind or makes you sceptical about (the truth and authenticity of) what We have revealed to our Servant (Muhammad), then produce a single Surah which is  like this [ in magnificence (50:1, 85:21), grandeur (15:97), wisdom (36:2), eloquence (12:2, 39:28, 41:3, 43:3, 15:1, 36:69) and esteem (56:77)] (11:13, 10:38, 17:88, 52:34); and call upon your aids (who you think are the most knowledgeable and sagacious, for your help) besides Allah, to prove yourself true.

2:24 But if you cannot - and surely you cannot - then guard yourself against the Inferno (of devastation), whose fuel are the commoners and the crafty ones alike (66:6, 89:5), readied for those who are bent upon denying and defying (this paradisiacal code of life).

2:25 And give glad tidings to those who (accept and) firmly believe (in this code of life) and do such deeds which are right and just according to it, which actualise their own potentialities as well as  are beneficial for  the society and the world at large. For them will be lush Gardens with rivulets flowing underneath [This is just a similitude to give them an idea of the pleasantness of their  reward (13:35, 47:15) in this world and in the Hereafter (41:30-32). No human being can imagine (in this life) what blissful delights (, in real, ) are kept hidden for them in the Hereafter as a reward for their good deeds  (32:17).] Some of the  provisions in the everlasting paradise will be of the similar sort that they  enjoyed in the ephemeral world while others will comprise those which were explained to them before, with examples and similitudes (only). And they shall have therein pure (and chaste) consorts, and they shall abide therein forever.

2:26 Indeed, Allah does not refrain from propounding a similitude (or citing a parable) of anything as tiny as a mosquito or anything even smaller [for the purpose of reflection (59:21) and/or exhortation (14:25). The people of knowledge can understand  this (29:43) and]. The believers know that this is  a substantial truth,  suitable to the requirement of wisdom but those who deny (and disbelieve such realities) say, "What could Allah desire (to teach) by such a similitude". He thereby causes many to go astray and many to be guided (according to His Laws). And He does not cause anyone to go astray except those who go forth from the bounds of appropriateness and deviate  from the right course. [As also He leaves astray those who  do not place things in their right place or  exceed or fall short or deviate from the right time and place (14:27); who are exorbitant, heedless, unmindful and inordinate sceptics (40:34); who dispute about the Ayaat of Allah, turn away from them, belie the Divine Prescript and reject it (40:69-74); and those who take their vain desires as their gods (45:23)] 

[Such people who go forth from the bounds of appropriateness and deviate from the right course are...]

2:27 Those who violate Allah's ratified Covenant [,  whereby they pledged to dedicate their lives and their wealth for the cause of Allah  in return of a paradisiacal life  (9:111, 9:75-76, 13:19-21, 16:91-92, 16:95, 6:152, 48:10)] (3:77, 7:102, 8:55-56, 13:25),  and interrupt what Allah has ordained to be attained with it, and cause corruption [and disruption of balance, peace and order of the society and the world]

[Such corruptors (and disruptors) are those  who do not give full measure and full weight; or diminish to people their rights and deprive them of what is their due (7:85, 11:85, 26:183); or hinder people form the path of Allah or seek to make it crooked (7:86); or they are not benevolent to others so as to create an economic balance (28:77); or they destroy crops and the cattle (2:205); or create divisions among the people (28:4) and sever  ties of kinship (47:22) an so on.] 

It is they who are the  losers [in the long run (16:109)] [as are those who reject Allah's Guidance (2:121, 7:178, 39:63) and prefer to obey the human beings like themselves  (23:34); who indulge in futile play or vain discourse (9:69) and believe in false deities and refuse to acknowledge Allah (29:52)]

2:28 How can you refuse to acknowledge Allah [when your very existence is a living evidence of the Creator. There was a time when you were a thing not worth mentioning (76:1)] You were lifeless and He it is Who gave you life [and made you worthy of being addressed as 'you' (32:9)]  Then He will cause you to die  and then bring you  back to life again whereupon unto Him you will  be made to return.  (40:11, 7:25, 22:66, 26:81, 30:40, 45:26, 71:17-18) (2:281, 10:56, 32:11)

2:29 He it is Who created  for you all, everything that is in or on the earth; then He directed His design to the regions above (the earth) and fashioned them suitably into seven layers of the atmosphere (67:3, 71:15)(11:7, 17:44, 23:86, 41:11-12, 57:4, 65:12); He knows all about everything, (truly and certainly).

[Now, to make you understand your  position  in this Universe,  Allah narrates to you, in metaphorical terms,  the  story of your own creation (i.e. the creation of Adam / man / human beings) ]

2:30 When your Guardian-Lord made known  to Malaika that He is going to appoint on earth a successor [of a previous creation] (15:26-29, 38:71) (who would have supremacy on earth, and) [who could defy or infringe upon the Divine Laws], the Malaika [, the servants of the Beneficent, who always obey Him with humility and submissiveness (43:19) and never disobey Him in what He commands them (16:49-50, 66:6)] said: “Will you appoint on earth such (creation) as will cause disorder therein and shed blood!  - Whereas we are always engaged in performing the duties entrusted upon us and do our utmost to establish your Glory and manifest your absolute Impeccability” He answered, “Behold, I know (completely and absolutely) what you know not.”

[6:2, 7:189, 15:26-27, 22:5, 23:12-13, 25:54, 32:7-9, 35:11, 37:11, 71:17]

2:31 And Allah endowed man with the capacity to acquire knowledge of all things; then He presented those things to Malaika and asked them, "Tell me the names of these things (i.e. the signs  thereof that convey  your knowledge about them), if you (think you) are right (in considering yourself superior to man)"

2:32 They (humbly) said, "You are far  from any error or imperfection (and your plans extend much beyond the reach of our knowledge). We know nothing more than you have made us to know. Verily, You, and only You, have the complete and absolute knowledge about everything and only You are All-Wise to get everything done, most judiciously.

2:33 Then He said, “O Adam! (Demonstrate to them some of your learning ability and) tell them the names of these things (i.e. the signs  thereof that convey  your knowledge about them).” And when Adam (had shown them his ability to learn and) told them the names of those things, He said to the Malaika, “Did I not tell you that I know everything in the Heavens and the Earth that is beyond the reach of your  cognizance? And I know truly and certainly your manifest abilities as well as your latent potentialities”

2:34  [7:11, 15:31, 17:61, 18:50, 20:116, 38:74-75