Chapter 89, 30 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. By the dawn;
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والفجر
I swear by the daybreak,
By the break of Day
By the ten nights (i.e. the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Hijjah) ,
وليال عشر
And the ten nights,
By the Nights twice five;
And by the even and the odd (of all the creations of Allah).
والشفع والوتر
And the even and the odd,
By the even and odd (contrasted);
And by the night when it departs.
والليل إذا يسر
And the night when it departs.
And by the Night when it passeth away; -
There is indeed in them (the above oaths) sufficient proofs for men of understanding (and that, they should avoid all kinds of sins and disbeliefs)!
هل في ذلك قسم لذي حجر
Truly in that there is an oath for those who possess understanding.
Is there (not) in these an adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand?
Saw you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) not how your Lord dealt with 'Ad (people)
ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بعاد
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with Ad,
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people), -
Of Iram (who were very tall) like (lofty) pillars,
إرم ذات العماد
(The people of) Aram, possessors of lofty buildings,
Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars,
The like of which were not created in the land?
التي لم يخلق مثلها في البلاد
The like of which were not created in the (other) cities;
The like of which were not produced in (all) the land?
And (with) Thamud (people), who hewed out rocks in the valley (to make dwellings)?
وثمود الذين جابوا الصخر بالواد
And (with) Samood, who hewed out the rocks in the valley,
And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley? -
And (with) Fir'aun (Pharaoh) who had the stakes (to torture men by binding them to the stakes)?
وفرعون ذي الأوتاد
And (with) Firon, the lord of hosts,
And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes?
Who did transgress beyond bounds in the lands (in the disobedience of Allah).
الذين طغوا في البلاد
Who committed inordinacy in the cities,
(All) these transgressed beyond bounds in the lands,
And made therein much mischief.
فأكثروا فيها الفساد
So they made great mischief therein?
And heaped therein mischief (on mischief).
So your Lord poured on them different kinds of severe torment.
فصب عليهم ربك سوط عذاب
Therefore your Lord let down upon them a portion of the chastisement.
Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements:
Verily, your Lord is Ever Watchful (over them).
إن ربك لبالمرصاد
Most surely your Lord is watching.
For thy Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch - tower.
As for man, when his Lord tries him by giving him honour and bounties, then he says (in exultation): "My Lord has honoured me."
فأما الإنسان إذا ما ابتلاه ربه فأكرمه ونعمه فيقول ربي أكرمن
And as for man, when his Lord tries him, then treats him with honor and makes him lead an easy life, he says: My Lord honors me.
Now, as for man, when his Lord trieth him, giving him honour and gifts, then saith he, (puffed up), "My Lord hath honoured me."
But when He tries him by straitening his means of life, he says: "My Lord has humiliated me!"
وأما إذا ما ابتلاه فقدر عليه رزقه فيقول ربي أهانن
But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me.
But when He trieth him, restricting his subsistence for him, then saith he (in despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!"
Nay! But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity (i.e. you neither treat them well, nor give them their exact right of inheritance)!
كلا ۖ بل لا تكرمون اليتيم
Nay! but you do not honor the orphan,
Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans!
And urge not one another on the feeding of Al-Miskin (the poor)!
ولا تحاضون على طعام المسكين
Nor do you urge one another to feed the poor,
Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor! -
And you devour the inheritance all with greed.
وتأكلون التراث أكلا لما
And you eat away the heritage, devouring (everything) indiscriminately,
And ye devour inheritance - all with greed,
And you love wealth with much love.
وتحبون المال حبا جما
And you love wealth with exceeding love.
And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
Nay! When the earth is ground to powder.
كلا إذا دكت الأرض دكا دكا
Nay! when the earth is made to crumble to pieces,
Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,
And your Lord comes with the angels in rows.
وجاء ربك والملك صفا صفا
And your Lord comes and (also) the angels in ranks,
And thy Lord cometh, and His angels, rank upon rank,
And Hell will be brought near that Day. On that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance (then) avail him?
وجيء يومئذ بجهنم ۚ يومئذ يتذكر الإنسان وأنى له الذكرى
And hell is made to appear on that day. On that day shall man be mindful, and what shall being mindful (then) avail him?
And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face), - on that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance profit him?
He will say: "Alas! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my life!"
يقول يا ليتني قدمت لحياتي
He shall say: O! would that I had sent before for (this) my life!
He will say: "Ah! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life!"
So on that Day none will punish as He will punish.
فيومئذ لا يعذب عذابه أحد
But on that day shall no one chastise with (anything like) His chastisement,
For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
And none will bind (the wicked, disbelievers and polytheists) as He will bind.
ولا يوثق وثاقه أحد
And no one shall bind with (anything like) His binding.
And His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind.
(It will be said to the pious believers of Islamic Monotheism): "O (you) the one in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
يا أيتها النفس المطمئنة
O soul that art at rest!
(To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
"Come back to your Lord well-pleased (yourself) and well-pleasing (unto Him)!
ارجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية
Return to your Lord, well - pleased (with him), well - pleasing (Him),
"Come back thou to thy Lord, - well pleased (thyself), and well - pleasing unto Him!
"Enter you then among My (honoured) slaves,
فادخلي في عبادي
So enter among My servants,
"Enter thou, then, among My devotees!
"And enter you My Paradise!"
وادخلي جنتي
And enter into My garden.
"Yea, enter thou My Heaven!