بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلْفَجْرِ ﴿1﴾
Yusuf Ali
By the break of Day
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وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍۢ ﴿2﴾
Yusuf Ali
By the Nights twice five;
وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ ﴿3﴾
Yusuf Ali
By the even and odd (contrasted);
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ ﴿4﴾
Yusuf Ali
And by the Night when it passeth away;-
هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌۭ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ ﴿5﴾
Yusuf Ali
Is there (not) in these an adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand?
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ ﴿6﴾
Yusuf Ali
Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people),-
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ ﴿7﴾
Yusuf Ali
Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars,
ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ ﴿8﴾
Yusuf Ali
The like of which were not produced in (all) the land?
وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ ﴿9﴾
Yusuf Ali
And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley?-
وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ ﴿10﴾
Yusuf Ali
And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes?
ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ ﴿11﴾
Yusuf Ali
(All) these transgressed beyond bounds in the lands,
فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ ﴿12﴾
Yusuf Ali
And heaped therein mischief (on mischief).
فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ ﴿13﴾
Yusuf Ali
Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements:
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ ﴿14﴾
Yusuf Ali
For thy Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch-tower.
فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ ﴿15﴾
Yusuf Ali
Now, as for man, when his Lord trieth him, giving him honour and gifts, then saith he, (puffed up), "My Lord hath honoured me."
وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَٰنَنِ ﴿16﴾
Yusuf Ali
But when He trieth him, restricting his subsistence for him, then saith he (in despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!"
كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ ﴿17﴾
Yusuf Ali
Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans!
وَلَا تَحَٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ﴿18﴾
Yusuf Ali
Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor!-
وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًۭا لَّمًّۭا ﴿19﴾
Yusuf Ali
And ye devour inheritance - all with greed,
وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّۭا جَمًّۭا ﴿20﴾
Yusuf Ali
And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّۭا دَكًّۭا ﴿21﴾
Yusuf Ali
Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,
وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّۭا صَفًّۭا ﴿22﴾
Yusuf Ali
And thy Lord cometh, and His angels, rank upon rank,
وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ﴿23﴾
Yusuf Ali
And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face),- on that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance profit him?
يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى ﴿24﴾
Yusuf Ali
He will say: "Ah! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life!"
فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ ﴿25﴾
Yusuf Ali
For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ ﴿26﴾
Yusuf Ali
And His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind.
يَٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ﴿27﴾
Yusuf Ali
(To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةًۭ مَّرْضِيَّةًۭ ﴿28﴾
Yusuf Ali
"Come back thou to thy Lord,- well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him!
فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَٰدِى ﴿29﴾
Yusuf Ali
"Enter thou, then, among My devotees!
وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى ﴿30﴾
Yusuf Ali
"Yea, enter thou My Heaven!