Total Verses: 30
Revealed At: MAKKA
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Bismi Allahi alrrahmani alrraheemi
089.001
By the break of Day
1. Waalfajri
089.002
By the Nights twice five;
2. Walayalin AAashrin
089.003
By the even and odd (contrasted);
3. WaalshshafAAi waalwatri
089.004
And by the Night when it passeth away;-
4. Waallayli itha yasri
089.005
Is there (not) in these an adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand?
5. Hal fee thalika qasamun lithee hijrin
089.006
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people),-
6. Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biAAadin
089.007
Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars,
7. Irama thati alAAimadi
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The like of which were not produced in (all) the land?
8. Allatee lam yukhlaq mithluha fee albiladi
089.009
And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley?-
9. Wathamooda allatheena jaboo alssakhra bialwadi
089.010
And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes?
10. WafirAAawna thee al-awtadi
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(All) these transgressed beyond bounds in the lands,
11. Allatheena taghaw fee albiladi
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And heaped therein mischief (on mischief).
12. Faaktharoo feeha alfasada
089.013
Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements:
13. Fasabba AAalayhim rabbuka sawta AAathabin
089.014
For thy Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch-tower.
14. Inna rabbaka labialmirsadi
089.015
Now, as for man, when his Lord trieth him, giving him honour and gifts, then
saith he, (puffed up), "My Lord hath honoured me."
15. Faamma al-insanu itha ma ibtalahu rabbuhu faakramahu wanaAAAAamahu fayaqoolu rabbee akramani
089.016
But when He trieth him, restricting his subsistence for him, then saith he (in
despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!"
16. Waamma itha ma ibtalahu faqadara AAalayhi rizqahu fayaqoolu rabbee ahanani
089.017
Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans!
17. Kalla bal la tukrimoona alyateema
089.018
Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor!-
18. Wala tahaddoona AAala taAAami almiskeeni
089.019
And ye devour inheritance - all with greed,
19. Wata/kuloona altturatha aklan lamman
089.020
And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
20. Watuhibboona almala hubban jamman
089.021
Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,
21. Kalla itha dukkati al-ardu dakkan dakkan
089.022
And thy Lord cometh, and His angels, rank upon rank,
22. Wajaa rabbuka waalmalaku saffan saffan
089.023
And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face),- on that Day will man remember,
but how will that remembrance profit him?
23. Wajee-a yawma-ithin bijahannama yawma-ithin yatathakkaru al-insanu waanna lahu alththikra
089.024
He will say: "Ah! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my (Future)
Life!"
24. Yaqoolu ya laytanee qaddamtu lihayatee
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For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
25. Fayawma-ithin la yuAAaththibu AAathabahu ahadun
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And His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind.
26. Wala yoothiqu wathaqahu ahadun
089.027
(To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest
and satisfaction!
27. Ya ayyatuha alnnafsu almutma-innatu
089.028
"Come back thou to thy Lord,- well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing
unto Him!
28. IrjiAAee ila rabbiki radiyatan mardiyyatan
089.029
"Enter thou, then, among My devotees!
29. Faodkhulee fee AAibadee
089.030
"Yea, enter thou My Heaven!
30. Waodkhulee jannatee
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