Sura LI (51)
The Scattering
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the
clouds which scatter with scattering,
And
those which bear their load,
And by
those which speed lightly along,
And
those which apportion by command!
True,
indeed, is that with which you are threatened,
And
lo! the religion will surely come.
By the
star-tracked heaven!
You
are discordant in what you say;
But
whoso turneth him from the truth, is turned from it by a divine decree.
51:10 Perish the liars,
Who
are bewildered in the depths of ignorance!
They
ask, "When this day of judgment?"
On
that day they shall be tormented at the fire.
"Taste
you of this your torment, whose speedy coming you challenged."
But
the God-fearing shall dwell amid gardens and fountains,
Enjoying
what their Lord hath given them, because, aforetime they were well-doers:
But
little of the night was it that they slept,
And at
dawn they prayed for pardon,
And
gave due share of their wealth to the suppliant and the outcast.
51:20 On Earth are signs for men of firm
belief,
And
also in your own selves: Will you not then
behold them?
The
Heaven hath sustenance for you, and it containeth that which you are promised.
By the
Lord then of the heaven and of the earth, I swear that this is the truth, even
as you speak yourselves.
Hath
the story reached thee of Abraham's honoured guests?
When
they went in unto him and said, "Peace!" he replied, "Peace: -- they are strangers."
And he
went apart to his family, and brought a fatted calf,
And
set it before them. He said, "Eat you not?"
And he
conceived a fear of them. They said to him, "Fear not:" and announced to him a wise son.
His
wife came up with outcry: she smote her face
and said, "What I, old and barren!"
51:30 They said, "Thus saith thy Lord.
He truly is the Wise, the Knowing."
Said
he, "And what, O messengers, is your errand?"
They
said, "To a wicked people are we sent,
To
hurl upon them stones of clay,
Destined
by thy Lord for men guilty of excesses."
And we
brought forth the believers who were in the city:
But we
found not in it but one family of Muslims.
And
signs we left in it for those who dread the afflictive chastisement, --
And in
Moses: when we sent him to Pharaoh with
manifest power:
But
relying on his forces he turned his back and said, "Sorcerer, or
Possessed."
51:40 So we seized him and his hosts and
cast them into the sea; for of all blame was he worthy.
And in
Ad: when we sent against them the desolating
blast:
It
touched not aught over which it came, but it turned it to dust.
And in
Themoud: when it was said to them, "Enjoy
yourselves for yet a while."
But
they rebelled against their Lord's command: so
the tempest took them as they watched its coming.
They
were not able to stand upright, and could not help themselves.
And we
destroyed the people of Noah, before them; for an impious people were they.
And
the Heaven -- with our hands have we built it up, and given it its expanse;
And
the Earth -- we have stretched it out like a carpet; and how smoothly have we
spread it forth!
And of
everything have we created pairs: that haply
you may reflect.
51:50 Fly then to God: I come to you from him a plain warner.
And
set not up another god with God: I come to you
from him a plain warner.
Even
thus came there no apostle to those who flourished before them, but they
exclaimed, "Sorcerer, or Possessed."
Have
they made a legacy to one another of this scoff? Yes, they are a rebel people.
Turn
away, then, from them, and thou shalt not incur reproach:
Yet
warn them, for, in truth, warning will profit the believers.
I have
not created Djinn and men, but that they worship me:
I
require not sustenance from them, neither require I that they feed me:
Verily,
God is the sole sustainer: possessed of might: the unshaken!
Therefore
to those who injure thee shall be a fate like the fate of their fellows of old.
Let them not challenge me to hasten it.
51:60 Woe then to the infidels, because of
their threatened day.