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Surah Al-Fajr (The Dawn)

(سورة الفَجۡرِ)
Surah 89 • Category: Meccan • Verses: 30
1

وَالْفَجْرِ

English Translation
By the dawn
2

وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ

English Translation
And [by] ten nights
3

وَالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِ

English Translation
And [by] the even [number] and the odd
4

وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ

English Translation
And [by] the night when it passes,
5

هَلْ فِي ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِذِي حِجْرٍ

English Translation
Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?
6

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ

English Translation
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with 'Aad -
7

إِرَمَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِ

English Translation
[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,
8

الَّتِي لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِي الْبِلَادِ

English Translation
The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
9

وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِ

English Translation
And [with] Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
10

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِي الْأَوْتَادِ

English Translation
And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes? -
11

الَّذِينَ طَغَوْا فِي الْبِلَادِ

English Translation
[All of] whom oppressed within the lands
12

فَأَكْثَرُوا فِيهَا الْفَسَادَ

English Translation
And increased therein the corruption.
13

فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ

English Translation
So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
14

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ

English Translation
Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
15

فَأَمَّا الْإِنْسَانُ إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَأَكْرَمَهُ وَنَعَّمَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَكْرَمَنِ

English Translation
And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."
16

وَأَمَّا إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَهَانَنِ

English Translation
But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."
17

كَلَّا ۖ بَلْ لَا تُكْرِمُونَ الْيَتِيمَ

English Translation
No! But you do not honor the orphan
18

وَلَا تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِينِ

English Translation
And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
19

وَتَأْكُلُونَ التُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَمًّا

English Translation
And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,
20

وَتُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا

English Translation
And you love wealth with immense love.
21

كَلَّا إِذَا دُكَّتِ الْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا

English Translation
No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed -
22

وَجَاءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا

English Translation
And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,
23

وَجِيءَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنْسَانُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ الذِّكْرَىٰ

English Translation
And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but what good to him will be the remembrance?
24

يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِي

English Translation
He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."
25

فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُ أَحَدٌ

English Translation
So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
26

وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُ أَحَدٌ

English Translation
And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
27

يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ

English Translation
[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,
28

ارْجِعِي إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَرْضِيَّةً

English Translation
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
29

فَادْخُلِي فِي عِبَادِي

English Translation
And enter among My [righteous] servants
30

وَادْخُلِي جَنَّتِي

English Translation
And enter My Paradise."

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