Chapter 44, Ad-Dukhan [ The Smoke ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. Ha-Mim.
- 2. By the Book that makes things clear;-
- 3. We sent it down during a Blessed Night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil).
- 4. In the (Night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom,
- 5. By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations),
- 6. As Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things);
- 7. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith.
- 8. There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death,- The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors.
- 9. Yet they play about in doubt.
- 10. Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible,
- 11. Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous.
- 12. (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us, for we do really believe!"
- 13. How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,-
- 14. Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"
- 15. We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways).
- 16. One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught: We will indeed (then) exact Retribution!
- 17. We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them a messenger most honourable,
- 18. Saying: "Restore to me the Servants of Allah: I am to you an messenger worthy of all trust;
- 19. "And be not arrogant as against Allah: for I come to you with authority manifest.
- 20. "For me, I have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me.
- 21. "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."
- 22. (But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."
- 23. (The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.
- 24. "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned."
- 25. How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,
- 26. And corn-fields and noble buildings,
- 27. And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!
- 28. Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!
- 29. And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).
- 30. We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,
- 31. Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.
- 32. And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,
- 33. And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial
- 34. As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:
- 35. "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.
- 36. "Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!"
- 37. What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.
- 38. We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:
- 39. We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.
- 40. Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,-
- 41. The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive,
- 42. Except such as receive Allah's Mercy: for He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.
- 43. Verily the tree of Zaqqum
- 44. Will be the food of the Sinful,-
- 45. Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides.
- 46. Like the boiling of scalding water.
- 47. (A voice will cry: "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire!
- 48. "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water,
- 49. "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou mighty, full of honour!
- 50. "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!"
- 51. As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security,
- 52. Among Gardens and Springs;
- 53. Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other;
- 54. So; and We shall join them to fair women with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes.
- 55. There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security;
- 56. Nor will they there taste Death, except the first death; and He will preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire,-
- 57. As a Bounty from thy Lord! that will be the supreme achievement!
- 58. Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed.
- 59. So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting.