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Surat al-fajr (Dawn)

الفجر

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وَالْفَجْرِۙ

wal-fajr

I CALL TO witness the dawn

وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍۙ

wa layālin 'asyr

And the Ten Nights

وَّالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِۙ

wasy-syaf'i wal-watr

The multiple and the one

وَالَّيْلِ اِذَا يَسْرِۚ

wal-laili iżā yasr

The night as it advances

هَلْ فِيْ ذٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِيْ حِجْرٍۗ

hal fī żālika qasamul liżī ḥijr

Is there not an evidence in this for those who have sense?

اَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍۖ

a lam tara kaifa fa'ala rabbuka bi'ād

Have you not seen what your Lord did to the ´Ad

اِرَمَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِۖ

irama żātil-'imād

Of Eram with lofty pillars (erected as signposts in the desert)

الَّتِيْ لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى الْبِلَادِۖ

allatī lam yukhlaq miṡluhā fil-bilād

The like of whom were never created in the realm;

وَثَمُوْدَ الَّذِيْنَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِۖ

wa ṡamụdallażīna jābuṣ-ṣakhra bil-wād

And with Thamud who carved rocks in the valley;

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى الْاَوْتَادِۖ

wa fir'auna żil-autād

And the mighty Pharaoh

الَّذِيْنَ طَغَوْا فِى الْبِلَادِۖ

allażīna ṭagau fil-bilād

Who terrorised the region

فَاَكْثَرُوْا فِيْهَا الْفَسَادَۖ

fa akṡarụ fīhal-fasād

And multiplied corruption.

فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍۖ

fa ṣabba 'alaihim rabbuka sauṭa 'ażāb

So your Lord poured a scourge of punishment over them.

اِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِۗ

inna rabbaka labil-mirṣād

Your Lord is certainly in wait.

فَاَمَّا الْاِنْسَانُ اِذَا مَا ابْتَلٰىهُ رَبُّهٗ فَاَكْرَمَهٗ وَنَعَّمَهٗۙ فَيَقُوْلُ رَبِّيْٓ اَكْرَمَنِۗ

fa ammal-insānu iżā mabtalāhu rabbuhụ fa akramahụ wa na''amahụ fa yaqụlu rabbī akraman

As for man whenever his Lord tries him and then is gracious and provides good things for him he says: "My Lord has been gracious to me."

وَاَمَّآ اِذَا مَا ابْتَلٰىهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهٗ ەۙ فَيَقُوْلُ رَبِّيْٓ اَهَانَنِۚ

wa ammā iżā mabtalāhu fa qadara 'alaihi rizqahụ fa yaqụlu rabbī ahānan

But when He tries him by restraining his means he says: "My Lord despises me."

كَلَّا بَلْ لَّا تُكْرِمُوْنَ الْيَتِيْمَۙ

kallā bal lā tukrimụnal-yatīm

No. In fact you are not generous to the orphans

وَلَا تَحٰۤضُّوْنَ عَلٰى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِيْنِۙ

wa lā tahāḍḍụna 'alā ṭa'āmil-miskīn

Nor do you urge one another to feed the poor

وَتَأْكُلُوْنَ التُّرَاثَ اَكْلًا لَّمًّاۙ

wa ta`kulụnat-turāṡa aklal lammā

And you devour (others´) inheritance greedily

وَّتُحِبُّوْنَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّاۗ

wa tuḥibbụnal-māla ḥubban jammā

And love wealth with all your heart.

كَلَّآ اِذَا دُكَّتِ الْاَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّاۙ

kallā iżā dukkatil-arḍu dakkan dakkā

Surely when We pound the earth to powder grounded pounded to dust

وَّجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّاۚ

wa jā`a rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffā

And comes your Lord and angels row on row

وَجِايْۤءَ يَوْمَىِٕذٍۢ بِجَهَنَّمَۙ يَوْمَىِٕذٍ يَّتَذَكَّرُ الْاِنْسَانُ وَاَنّٰى لَهُ الذِّكْرٰىۗ

wa jī`a yauma`iżim bijahannama yauma`iżiy yatażakkarul-insānu wa annā lahuż-żikrā

And Hell is brought near that day will man remember but of what avail will then remembering be?

يَقُوْلُ يٰلَيْتَنِيْ قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِيْۚ

yaqụlu yā laitanī qaddamtu liḥayātī

He will say: "Alas the woe! Would that I had sent ahead something in my life."

فَيَوْمَىِٕذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهٗٓ اَحَدٌ ۙ

fa yauma`iżil lā yu'ażżibu 'ażābahū aḥad

None can punish as He will punish on that day

وَّلَا يُوْثِقُ وَثَاقَهٗٓ اَحَدٌ ۗ

wa lā yụṡiqu waṡāqahū aḥad

And none can bind as He will bind.

يٰٓاَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَىِٕنَّةُۙ

yā ayyatuhan-nafsul-muṭma`innah

O you tranquil soul

ارْجِعِيْٓ اِلٰى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً ۚ

irji'ī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatam marḍiyyah

Return to your Lord well-pleased and well-pleasing Him.

فَادْخُلِيْ فِيْ عِبٰدِيْۙ

fadkhulī fī 'ibādī

"Enter then among My votaries

وَادْخُلِيْ جَنَّتِيْࣖ

wadkhulī jannatī

Enter then My garden."