الفجر
The Dawn • 30 ayahs • Meccan
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
1By the dawn
2And [by] ten nights[1913]
3And [by] the even [number] and the odd
4And [by] the night when it passes,
5Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?[1914]
6Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -
7[With] Iram[1915] - who had lofty pillars,[1916]
8The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
9And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
10And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?[1917]
11[All of] whom oppressed within the lands
12And increased therein the corruption.
13So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
14Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
15And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."[1918]
16But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."
17No![1919] But you do not honor the orphan
18And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
19And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,[1920]
20And you love wealth with immense love.
21No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed
22And your Lord has come[1921] and the angels, rank upon rank,
23And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?
24He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."[1922]
25So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
26And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
27[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,
28Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
29And enter among My [righteous] servants
30And enter My Paradise."