Sura LXXXIX (89)
The Daybreak
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the
Daybreak and ten nights.
By
that which is single,
By the
night when it pursues its course!
Is
there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense?
Hast
thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad,
At
Irem adorned with pillars,
Whose
like have not been reared in these lands!
And
with Themoud who hewed out the rocks in the valley;
And
with Pharaoh the impaler;
89:10 Who all committed excesses in the
lands,
And
multiplied wickedness therein.
Wherefore
thy Lord let loose on them the scourge of chastisement,
For
thy Lord standeth on a watch tower.
As to
man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteous to him,
Then
saith he, "My Lord honoureth me:"
But
when he proveth him and limiteth his gifts to him,
He
saith, "My Lord despiseth me."
Aye.
But you honour not the orphan,
Nor
urge you one another to feed the poor,
89:20 And you devour heritages, devouring
greedily,
And
you love riches with exceeding love.
Aye.
But when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing,
And
thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank,
And
Hell on that day shall be moved up, -- Man shall on that day remember himself.
But how shall remembrance help him?
He
shall say, Oh! would that I had prepared for this my life! On that day none
shall punish as God punisheth,
And
none shall bind with such bonds as He.
Oh,
thou soul which art at rest,
Return
to thy Lord, pleased, and pleasing him:
Enter
thou among my servants,
89:30 And enter thou my