Chapter 89, 30 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. By the dawn;
I swear by the daybreak,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والفجر
By the break of Day
By the ten nights (i.e. the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Hijjah) ,
And the ten nights,
وليال عشر
By the Nights twice five;
And by the even and the odd (of all the creations of Allah).
And the even and the odd,
والشفع والوتر
By the even and odd (contrasted);
And by the night when it departs.
And the night when it departs.
والليل إذا يسر
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)!
Truly in that there is an oath for those who possess understanding.
هل في ذلك قسم لذي حجر
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)
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with Ad,
ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بعاد
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people), -
Of Iram (who were very tall) like (lofty) pillars,
(The people of) Aram, possessors of lofty buildings,
إرم ذات العماد
Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars,
The like of which were not created in the land?
The like of which were not created in the (other) cities;
التي لم يخلق مثلها في البلاد
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)?
And (with) Samood, who hewed out the rocks in the valley,
وثمود الذين جابوا الصخر بالواد
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)?
And (with) Firon, the lord of hosts,
وفرعون ذي الأوتاد
And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes?
Who did transgress beyond bounds in the lands (in the disobedience of Allah).
Who committed inordinacy in the cities,
الذين طغوا في البلاد
(All) these transgressed beyond bounds in the lands,
And made therein much mischief.
So they made great mischief therein?
فأكثروا فيها الفساد
And heaped therein mischief (on mischief).
So your Lord poured on them different kinds of severe torment.
Therefore your Lord let down upon them a portion of the chastisement.
فصب عليهم ربك سوط عذاب
Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements:
Verily, your Lord is Ever Watchful (over them).
Most surely your Lord is watching.
إن ربك لبالمرصاد
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."
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.
فأما الإنسان إذا ما ابتلاه ربه فأكرمه ونعمه فيقول ربي أكرمن
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!"
But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me.
وأما إذا ما ابتلاه فقدر عليه رزقه فيقول ربي أهانن
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)!
Nay! but you do not honor the orphan,
كلا ۖ بل لا تكرمون اليتيم
Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans!
And urge not one another on the feeding of Al-Miskin (the poor)!
Nor do you urge one another to feed the poor,
ولا تحاضون على طعام المسكين
Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor! -
And you devour the inheritance all with greed.
And you eat away the heritage, devouring (everything) indiscriminately,
وتأكلون التراث أكلا لما
And ye devour inheritance - all with greed,
And you love wealth with much love.
And you love wealth with exceeding love.
وتحبون المال حبا جما
And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
Nay! When the earth is ground to powder.
Nay! when the earth is made to crumble to pieces,
كلا إذا دكت الأرض دكا دكا
Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,
And your Lord comes with the angels in rows.
And your Lord comes and (also) the angels in ranks,
وجاء ربك والملك صفا صفا
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?
And hell is made to appear on that day. On that day shall man be mindful, and what shall being mindful (then) avail him?
وجيء يومئذ بجهنم ۚ يومئذ يتذكر الإنسان وأنى له الذكرى
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!"
He shall say: O! would that I had sent before for (this) my life!
يقول يا ليتني قدمت لحياتي
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.
But on that day shall no one chastise with (anything like) His chastisement,
فيومئذ لا يعذب عذابه أحد
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.
And no one shall bind with (anything like) His binding.
ولا يوثق وثاقه أحد
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!
O soul that art at rest!
يا أيتها النفس المطمئنة
(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)!
Return to your Lord, well - pleased (with him), well - pleasing (Him),
ارجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية
"Come back thou to thy Lord, - well pleased (thyself), and well - pleasing unto Him!
"Enter you then among My (honoured) slaves,
So enter among My servants,
فادخلي في عبادي
"Enter thou, then, among My devotees!
"And enter you My Paradise!"
And enter into My garden.
وادخلي جنتي
"Yea, enter thou My Heaven!