Chapter 89, Al-Fajr [ The Dawn ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. By the break of Day
- 2. By the Nights twice five;
- 3. By the even and odd (contrasted);
- 4. And by the Night when it passeth away;-
- 5. Is there (not) in these an adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand?
- 6. Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people),-
- 7. Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars,
- 8. The like of which were not produced in (all) the land?
- 9. And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley?-
- 10. And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes?
- 11. (All) these transgressed beyond bounds in the lands,
- 12. And heaped therein mischief (on mischief).
- 13. Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements:
- 14. For thy Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch-tower.
- 15. Now, as for man, when his Lord trieth him, giving him honour and gifts, then saith he, (puffed up), "My Lord hath honoured me."
- 16. But when He trieth him, restricting his subsistence for him, then saith he (in despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!"
- 17. Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans!
- 18. Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor!-
- 19. And ye devour inheritance - all with greed,
- 20. And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
- 21. Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder,
- 22. And thy Lord cometh, and His angels, rank upon rank,
- 23. And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face),- on that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance profit him?
- 24. He will say: "Ah! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life!"
- 25. For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
- 26. And His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind.
- 27. (To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
- 28. "Come back thou to thy Lord,- well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him!
- 29. "Enter thou, then, among My devotees!
- 30. "Yea, enter thou My Heaven!