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Sura Lxxxix. Fajr, Or The Break Of Day

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

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Sra Lxxxix.

\"FAJR," Or The Break Of Day.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

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;--

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5.
Is there (not) in these

An adjuration (or evidence)

For those who understand?

6.
Seest thou not

How thy Lord dealt

With the 'd (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 Thamd

(People), who cut out

(Huge) rocks in the-valley?--

10.
And with Pharaoh,

Lord of Stakes?

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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 I."

17.
Nay, nay! But "ye"

Honour not the orphans!

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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

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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!

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