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Sura Lxxxix. Fajr, Or The Break Of Day. Section 1

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"The Holy Quran", tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934],

Sra Lxxxix.: Fajr, Or The Break Of Day.

Section 1

1.
WaAlfajrI

1.
By the Break of Day;

2. Walayalin AAashrIn

2.
By the Nights twice five;

3. WaALshshafAAi waAlwatrI

3.
By the Even

And Odd (contrasted);

4.
WaAllayli itha yasrI

4.
And by the Night

When it passeth away;--

5.
Hal fee thalika qasamun lithee hijrIn

5.
Is there (not) in these

An adjuration (or evidence)

For those who understand?

6. Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biAAadIn

6.
Seest thou not

How thy Lord dealt

With the 'd (people),--

7.
Irama thati alAAimadI

7.
Of the (city of) Iram,

With lofty pillars,

8. Allatee lam yukhlaq mithluha fee albiladI

8.
The like of which

Were not produced

In (all) the land?

9. Wathamooda allatheena jaboo aLssakhra biAlwadI

9.
And with the Thamd

(People), who cut out

(Huge) rocks in the-valley?--

10.
WafirAAawna thee al-awtadI

10.
And with Pharaoh,

Lord of Stakes?

11.
Allatheena taghaw fee albiladI

11.
(All) these transgressed

Beyond bounds in the lands.

12.
Faaktharoo feeha alfasadA

12.
And heaped therein

Mischief (on mischief).

13.
Fasabba AAalayhim rabbuka sawta AAathabIn

13.
Therefore did thy Lord

Pour on them a scourge

Of diverse chastisements:


14.
Inna rabbaka labiAlmirsadI

14.
For thy Lord is

(As a Guardian)

On a watch-tower.

15.
Faamma al-insanu itha ma ibtalahu rabbuhu faakramahu wanaAAAAamahu fayaqoolu rabbee akramanI

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. Waamma itha ma ibtalahu faqadara AAalayhi rizqahu fayaqoolu rabbee ahananI

16.
But when he trieth him,

Restricting his subsistence

For him, then saith he

(In despair), "My Lord

Hath humiliated me I.
"

17. Kalla bal la tukrimoona alyateemA

17.
Nay, nay! But ye

Honour not the orphans!

18.
Wala tahaddoona AAala taAAami almiskeenI

18.
Nor do ye encourage

One another

To feed the poor!--

19.
Wata/kuloona aLtturatha aklan lammaN

19.
And ye devour Inheritance--

All with greed,

20.
Watuhibboona almala hubban jammaN

20.
And ye love wealth

With inordinate love!

21.
Kalla itha dukkati al-ardu dakkan dakkaN

21.
Nay! When the earth

Is pounded to powder,

22.
Wajaa rabbuka waAlmalaku saffan saffaN

22.
And thy Lord cometh,

And His angels,

Rank upon rank,

23.
Wajee-a yawma-ithin bijahannama yawma-ithin yatathakkaru al-insanu waanna lahu aLththikra

23.
And Hell, that Day,

Is brought (face to face),--

On that Day will man

Remember, but how will

That remembrance profit him?

24.
Yaqoolu ya laytanee qaddamtu lihayatee

24.
He will say: "Ah!

Would that I had

Sent forth (Good Deeds)

For (this) my (Future) Life!
"

25. Fayawma-ithin la yuAAaththibu AAathabahu ahadUn

25.
For, that Day,

His Chastisement will be

Such as none (else)

Can inflict,

26.
Wala yoothiqu wathaqahu ahadUn

26.
And His bonds

Will be such as

None (other) can bind.

27.
Ya ayyatuha aLnnafsu almutma-innaTu

27.
(To the righteous soul

Will be said:)

"O (thou) soul,

In (complete) rest

And satisfaction!

28.
IrjiAAee ila rabbiki radiyatan mardiyyaTan

28.
\"Come back thou

To thy Lord,--

Well pleased (thyself),

And well-pleasing

Unto Him!

29.
FaOdkhulee fee AAibadee

29.
\"Enter thou, then,

Among my Devotees!

30.
WaOdkhulee jannatee

30. \"Yea, enter thou

My Heaven!

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