Al-Fajr

    The Dawn • 30 verses

    بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

    In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

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    بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلْفَجْرِ

    By the dawn

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    وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍۢ

    And [by] ten nights

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    وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ

    And [by] the even [number] and the odd

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    وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ

    And [by] the night when it passes,

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    هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌۭ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ

    Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?

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    أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ

    Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with 'Aad -

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    إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ

    [With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,

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    ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ

    The likes of whom had never been created in the land?

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    وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ

    And [with] Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley?

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    وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ

    And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes? -

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    ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ

    [All of] whom oppressed within the lands

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    فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ

    And increased therein the corruption.

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    فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ

    So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.

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    إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ

    Indeed, your Lord is in observation.

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    فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ

    And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."

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    وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَٰنَنِ

    But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."

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    كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ

    No! But you do not honor the orphan

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    وَلَا تَحَٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ

    And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.

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    وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًۭا لَّمًّۭا

    And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,

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    وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّۭا جَمًّۭا

    And you love wealth with immense love.

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    كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّۭا دَكًّۭا

    No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed -

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    وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّۭا صَفًّۭا

    And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,

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    وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

    And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but what good to him will be the remembrance?

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    يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى

    He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

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    فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ

    So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,

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    وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ

    And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

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    يَٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ

    [To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,

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    ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةًۭ مَّرْضِيَّةًۭ

    Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],

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    فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَٰدِى

    And enter among My [righteous] servants

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    وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى

    And enter My Paradise."

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