بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلْفَجْرِ
Ahmed Ali
I CALL TO witness the dawn
سُورَةُ الفَجۡرِ
Al-Fajr · 30 verses
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلْفَجْرِ
Ahmed Ali
I CALL TO witness the dawn
وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍۢ
Ahmed Ali
And the Ten Nights,
وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ
Ahmed Ali
The multiple and the one,
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ
Ahmed Ali
The night as it advances,
هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌۭ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ
Ahmed Ali
Is there not an evidence in this for those who have sense?
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ
Ahmed Ali
Have you not seen what your Lord did to the 'Ad
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ
Ahmed Ali
Of Eram with lofty pillars (erected as signposts in the desert),
ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ
Ahmed Ali
The like of whom were never created in the realm;
وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ
Ahmed Ali
And with Thamud who carved rocks in the valley;
وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ
Ahmed Ali
And the mighty Pharaoh
ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ
Ahmed Ali
Who terrorised the region,
فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ
Ahmed Ali
And multiplied corruption.
فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ
Ahmed Ali
So your Lord poured a scourge of punishment over them.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ
Ahmed Ali
Your Lord is certainly in wait.
فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ
Ahmed Ali
As for man, whenever his Lord tries him and then is gracious and provides good things for him, he says: "My Lord has been gracious to me."
وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَٰنَنِ
Ahmed Ali
But when He tries him by restraining his means, he says: "My Lord despises me."
كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ
Ahmed Ali
No. In fact you are not generous to the orphans,
وَلَا تَحَٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ
Ahmed Ali
Nor do you urge one another to feed the poor,
وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًۭا لَّمًّۭا
Ahmed Ali
And you devour (others') inheritance greedily,
وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّۭا جَمًّۭا
Ahmed Ali
And love wealth with all your heart.
كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّۭا دَكًّۭا
Ahmed Ali
Surely when We pound the earth to powder grounded, pounded to dust,
وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّۭا صَفًّۭا
Ahmed Ali
And comes your Lord, and angels row on row,
وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ
Ahmed Ali
And Hell is brought near, that day will man remember, but of what avail will then remembering be?
يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى
Ahmed Ali
He will say: "Alas the woe! Would that I had sent ahead something in my life."
فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
None can punish as He will punish on that day,
وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
And none can bind as He will bind.
يَٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ
Ahmed Ali
O you tranquil soul,
ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةًۭ مَّرْضِيَّةًۭ
Ahmed Ali
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and well-pleasing Him.
فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَٰدِى
Ahmed Ali
"Enter then among My votaries,
وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى
Ahmed Ali
Enter then My garden."
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