Chapter 51, 60 verses
By those [winds] scattering [dust] dispersing
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By those that winnow with a winnowing
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والذاريات ذروا
And those [clouds] carrying a load [of water]
And those that bear the burden (of the rain)
فالحاملات وقرا
And those [ships] sailing with ease
And those that glide with ease (upon the sea)
فالجاريات يسرا
And those [angels] apportioning [each] matter,
And those who distribute (blessings) by command,
فالمقسمات أمرا
Indeed, what you are promised is true.
Lo! that wherewith ye are threatened is indeed true,
إنما توعدون لصادق
And indeed, the recompense is to occur.
And lo! the judgment will indeed befall.
وإن الدين لواقع
By the heaven containing pathways,
By the heaven full of paths,
والسماء ذات الحبك
Indeed, you are in differing speech.
Lo! ye, forsooth, are of various opinion (concerning the truth).
إنكم لفي قول مختلف
Deluded away from the Qur'an is he who is deluded.
He is made to turn away from it who is (himself) averse.
يؤفك عنه من أفك
Destroyed are the falsifiers
Accursed be the conjecturers
قتل الخراصون
Who are within a flood [of confusion] and heedless.
Who are careless in an abyss!
الذين هم في غمرة ساهون
They ask, "When is the Day of Recompense?"
They ask: When is the Day of Judgment ?
يسألون أيان يوم الدين
[It is] the Day they will be tormented over the Fire
(It is) the day when they will be tormented at the Fire,
يوم هم على النار يفتنون
[And will be told], "Taste your torment. This is that for which you were impatient."
(And it will be said unto them): Taste your torment (which ye inflicted). This is what ye sought to hasten.
ذوقوا فتنتكم هذا الذي كنتم به تستعجلون
Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and springs,
Lo! those who keep from evil will dwell amid gardens and watersprings,
إن المتقين في جنات وعيون
Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that doers of good.
Taking that which their Lord giveth them; for lo! aforetime they were doers of good;
آخذين ما آتاهم ربهم ۚ إنهم كانوا قبل ذلك محسنين
They used to sleep but little of the night,
They used to sleep but little of the night,
كانوا قليلا من الليل ما يهجعون
And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,
And ere the dawning of each day would seek forgiveness,
وبالأسحار هم يستغفرون
And from their properties was [given] the right of the [needy] petitioner and the deprived.
And in their wealth the beggar and the outcast had due share.
وفي أموالهم حق للسائل والمحروم
And on the earth are signs for the certain [in faith]
And in the earth are portents for those whose faith is sure.
وفي الأرض آيات للموقنين
And in yourselves. Then will you not see?
And (also) in yourselves. Can ye then not see ?
وفي أنفسكم ۚ أفلا تبصرون
And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised.
And in the heaven is your providence and that which ye are promised;
وفي السماء رزقكم وما توعدون
Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth - just as [sure as] it is that you are speaking.
And by the Lord of the heavens and the earth, it is the truth, even as (it is true) that ye speak.
فورب السماء والأرض إنه لحق مثل ما أنكم تنطقون
Has there reached you the story of the honored guests of Abraham? -
Hath the story of Abraham's honoured guests reached thee (O Muhammad) ?
هل أتاك حديث ضيف إبراهيم المكرمين
When they entered upon him and said, "[We greet you with] peace." He answered, "[And upon you] peace, [you are] a people unknown.
When they came in unto him and said: Peace! he answered, Peace! (and thought): Folk unknown (to me).
إذ دخلوا عليه فقالوا سلاما ۖ قال سلام قوم منكرون
Then he went to his family and came with a fat [roasted] calf
Then he went apart unto his housefolk so that they brought a fatted calf;
فراغ إلى أهله فجاء بعجل سمين
And placed it near them; he said, "Will you not eat?"
And he set it before them, saying: Will ye not eat ?
فقربه إليهم قال ألا تأكلون
And he felt from them apprehension. They said, "Fear not," and gave him good tidings of a learned boy.
Then he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! and gave him tidings of (the birth of) a wise son.
فأوجس منهم خيفة ۖ قالوا لا تخف ۖ وبشروه بغلام عليم
And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"
Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and cried: A barren old woman!
فأقبلت امرأته في صرة فصكت وجهها وقالت عجوز عقيم
They said, "Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing."
They said: Even so saith thy Lord. Lo! He is the Wise, the Knower.
قالوا كذلك قال ربك ۖ إنه هو الحكيم العليم
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"
(Abraham) said: And (afterward) what is your errand, O ye sent (from Allah) ?
۞ قال فما خطبكم أيها المرسلون
They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals
They said: Lo! we are sent unto a guilty folk,
قالوا إنا أرسلنا إلى قوم مجرمين
To send down upon them stones of clay,
That we may send upon them stones of clay,
لنرسل عليهم حجارة من طين
Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."
Marked by thy Lord for (the destruction of) the wanton.
مسومة عند ربك للمسرفين
So We brought out whoever was in the cities of the believers.
Then we brought forth such believers as were there.
فأخرجنا من كان فيها من المؤمنين
And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims.
But We found there but one house of those surrendered (to Allah).
فما وجدنا فيها غير بيت من المسلمين
And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.
And We left behind therein a portent for those who fear a painful doom.
وتركنا فيها آية للذين يخافون العذاب الأليم
And in Moses [was a sign], when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority.
And in Moses (too, there is a portent) when We sent him unto Pharaoh with clear warrant,
وفي موسى إذ أرسلناه إلى فرعون بسلطان مبين
But he turned away with his supporters and said," A magician or a madman."
But he withdrew (confiding) in his might, and said: A wizard or a madman.
فتولى بركنه وقال ساحر أو مجنون
So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy.
So We seized him and his hosts and flung them in the sea, for he was reprobate.
فأخذناه وجنوده فنبذناهم في اليم وهو مليم
And in 'Aad [was a sign], when We sent against them the barren wind.
And in (the tribe of) A'ad (there is a portent) when we sent the fatal wind against them.
وفي عاد إذ أرسلنا عليهم الريح العقيم
It left nothing of what it came upon but that it made it like disintegrated ruins.
It spared naught that it reached, but made it (all) as dust.
ما تذر من شيء أتت عليه إلا جعلته كالرميم
And in Thamud, when it was said to them, "Enjoy yourselves for a time."
And in (the tribe of) Thamud (there is a portent) when it was told them: Take your ease awhile.
وفي ثمود إذ قيل لهم تمتعوا حتى حين
But they were insolent toward the command of their Lord, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on.
But they rebelled against their Lord's decree, and so the thunderbolt overtook them even while they gazed;
فعتوا عن أمر ربهم فأخذتهم الصاعقة وهم ينظرون
And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves.
And they were unable to rise up, nor could they help themselves.
فما استطاعوا من قيام وما كانوا منتصرين
And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a people defiantly disobedient.
And the folk of Noah aforetime. Lo! they were licentious folk.
وقوم نوح من قبل ۖ إنهم كانوا قوما فاسقين
And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.
We have built the heaven with might, and We it is Who make the vast extent (thereof).
والسماء بنيناها بأيد وإنا لموسعون
And the earth We have spread out, and excellent is the preparer.
And the earth have We laid out, how gracious is the Spreader (thereof)!
والأرض فرشناها فنعم الماهدون
And of all things We created two mates; perhaps you will remember.
And all things We have created by pairs, that haply ye may reflect.
ومن كل شيء خلقنا زوجين لعلكم تذكرون
So flee to Allah. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner.
Therefor flee unto Allah; lo! I am a plain warner unto you from him.
ففروا إلى الله ۖ إني لكم منه نذير مبين
And do not make [as equal] with Allah another deity. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner.
And set not any other god along with Allah; lo! I am a plain warner unto you from Him.
ولا تجعلوا مع الله إلها آخر ۖ إني لكم منه نذير مبين
Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."
Even so there came no messenger unto those before them but they said: A wizard or a madman!
كذلك ما أتى الذين من قبلهم من رسول إلا قالوا ساحر أو مجنون
Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people.
Have they handed down (the saying) as an heirloom one unto another ? Nay, but they are froward folk.
أتواصوا به ۚ بل هم قوم طاغون
So leave them, [O Muhammad], for you are not to be blamed.
So withdraw from them (O Muhammad), for thou art in no wise blameworthy,
فتول عنهم فما أنت بملوم
And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers.
And warn, for warning profiteth believers.
وذكر فإن الذكرى تنفع المؤمنين
And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.
I created the jinn and humankind only that they might worship Me.
وما خلقت الجن والإنس إلا ليعبدون
I do not want from them any provision, nor do I want them to feed Me.
I seek no livelihood from them, nor do I ask that they should feed Me.
ما أريد منهم من رزق وما أريد أن يطعمون
Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength.
Lo! Allah! He it is that giveth livelihood, the Lord of unbreakable might.
إن الله هو الرزاق ذو القوة المتين
And indeed, for those who have wronged is a portion [of punishment] like the portion of their predecessors, so let them not impatiently urge Me.
And lo! for those who (now) do wrong there is an evil day like unto the evil day (which came for) their likes (of old); so let them not ask Me to hasten on (that day).
فإن للذين ظلموا ذنوبا مثل ذنوب أصحابهم فلا يستعجلون
And woe to those who have disbelieved from their Day which they are promised.
And woe unto those who disbelieve, from (that) their day which they are promised.
فويل للذين كفروا من يومهم الذي يوعدون