Ad-Dukhan الدخان
Watch for the day of smoke فارتقب يوم الدخان
Summary and links in the frieze
In the frieze He must watch for the announced smoke, learns of a messenger's departure by night, and sees where both paths lead.
Read just before, 45 leads here: "Bring back our forefathers, if you are veracious": the next sura puts this challenge, word for word, in the mouths of the deniers. 45
It leads to 43: You will relapse (44:15); the next sura shows it: relieved of the punishment, the people of Fir'awn go back on their word (43:50). 43
Closes on “The descent of the Scripture comes from God”
Read the section from its beginning: sura 49
Read with: the suras of the same shelf mark
- 39 In troops, toward the gatesthe threshold: the Law devoted to God alone
- 40 The man who withheld his faiththose who argue; the believing man of Fir'awn's clan
- 41 Between us and you, a veilthose who turn away; the Aad and the Thamud
- 42 Uphold the Lawthe one Law revealed to all the messengers
- 43 In the footsteps of the ancestorsthe footsteps of the fathers, and appearances
- 45 Every community on its kneesthe signs, and the legislated way
- 46 The Occulted fall silental-Ahqaf: the Aad, the Occulted who listen
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
حمٓ (Ḥa Mim).
حم
By the clear Scripture! We indeed sent it down in a blessed night; We are warners.
والكتب المبين انا انزلنه في ليله مبركه انا كنا منذرين
In it, every wise matter is set apart, a command from Us,
فيها يفرق كل امر حكيم امرا من عندنا
for We are senders, a benevolence from your Guardian,
انا كنا مرسلين رحمه من ربك
for it is He, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing,
انه هو السميع العليم
the Guardian of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, if you are of those who know with certainty.
رب السموت والارض وما بينهما ان كنتم موقنين
There is no deity but Him.
لا اله الا هو
He gives life and causes death,
يحي ويميت
your Guardian and the Guardian of your earliest forefathers.
ربكم ورب ابايكم الاولين
But they play in doubt.
بل هم في شك يلعبون
So watch for the day when the sky brings a clear smoke that covers mankind,
فارتقب يوم تاتي السما بدخان مبين يغشي الناس
this is a painful punishment.
هذا عذاب اليم
"Our Guardian, remove the punishment from us, for we believe."
ربنا اكشف عنا العذاب انا مومنون
How would the reminder benefit them, when a clear messenger had come to them, then they turned their backs on him and said: "One taught, deranged"?
اني لهم الذكري وقد جاهم رسول مبين ثم تولوا عنه وقالوا معلم مجنون
We will remove the punishment for a little while,
انا كاشفوا العذاب قليلا
but you will indeed relapse.
انكم عايدون
The day We strike the greatest Strike,
يوم نبطش البطشه الكبري
We will indeed take vengeance.
انا منتقمون
Before them, We tried the people of Fir'awn, and a noble messenger came to them: "Hand over to me the obedient ones of God; I am indeed for you a trustworthy messenger; and do not exalt yourselves against God — I bring you manifest authority; and I take refuge in my Guardian and yours against your banishing me; and if you do not give me credit, then keep away from me."
ولقد فتنا قبلهم قوم فرعون وجاهم رسول كريم ان ادوا الي عباد الله اني لكم رسول امين وان لا تعلوا علي الله اني اتيكم بسلطن مبين واني عذت بربي وربكم ان ترجمون وان لم تومنوا لي فاعتزلون
So he called upon his Guardian: "These are a severed people."
فدعا ربه ان هولا قوم مجرمون
"Set out with My obedient ones by night; you will be pursued. And leave the sea still,
فاسر بعبادي ليلا انكم متبعون واترك البحر رهوا
for they are an army that will be drowned."
انهم جند مغرقون
How many gardens and springs they left behind, and crops, and noble stations, and well-being in which they took delight.
كم تركوا من جنت وعيون وزروع ومقام كريم ونعمه كانوا فيها فكهين
Thus.
كذلك
And We made another people inherit them.
واورثنها قوما اخرين
Neither the sky nor the earth wept over them, and they were granted no reprieve.
فما بكت عليهم السما والارض وما كانوا منظرين
We indeed saved the Sons of Israel from the degrading punishment, from Fir'awn,
ولقد نجينا بني اسريل من العذاب المهين من فرعون
for he was, among the excessive, a haughty one.
انه كان عاليا من المسرفين
We indeed opted for them, knowingly, above all beings, and We gave them, among the signs, that which held a manifest testing.
ولقد اخترنهم علي علم علي العلمين واتينهم من الايت ما فيه بلوا مبين
These surely say: "There is nothing but our first death, and we will not be deployed. Bring back our forefathers, if you are veracious."
ان هولا ليقولون ان هي الا موتتنا الاولي وما نحن بمنشرين فاتوا باباينا ان كنتم صدقين
Are they better, or the people of Tubba'?
اهم خير ام قوم تبع
And those before them — We annihilated them,
والذين من قبلهم اهلكنهم
for they were severed.
انهم كانوا مجرمين
We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them in play.
وما خلقنا السموت والارض وما بينهما لعبين
We created them only in truth,
ما خلقنهما الا بالحق
but most of them do not know.
ولكن اكثرهم لا يعلمون
The Day of Separation is indeed the appointed time for them all — a day when no ally will be of any use to an ally, and they will not be helped, except the one on whom God has benevolence,
ان يوم الفصل ميقتهم اجمعين يوم لا يغني مولي عن مولي شيا ولا هم ينصرون الا من رحم الله
for He is the All-Powerful, the Benevolent.
انه هو العزيز الرحيم
Indeed, the tree of Zaqqoum is the food of the hardened transgressor; like molten metal, it boils in the bellies as boiling water boils.
ان شجرت الزقوم طعام الاثيم كالمهل يغلي في البطون كغلي الحميم
"Seize him and drag him into the midst of the Blaze, then pour over his head the punishment of boiling water. Taste!
خذوه فاعتلوه الي سوا الجحيم ثم صبوا فوق راسه من عذاب الحميم ذق
For it is you, the mighty, the noble!"
انك انت العزيز الكريم
This is indeed what you used to contend about.
ان هذا ما كنتم به تمترون
Those who guard themselves will indeed be in a secure place, in gardens and springs, wearing fine silk and brocade, facing one another.
ان المتقين في مقام امين في جنت وعيون يلبسون من سندس واستبرق متقبلين
Thus.
كذلك
And We will unite them with companions of listening and support.
وزوجنهم بحور عين
They will call therein for every savoury fruit, secure.
يدعون فيها بكل فكهه امنين
They will not taste death therein,
لا يذوقون فيها الموت
except the first death.
الا الموته الاولي
And He will have protected them from the punishment of the Blaze, as a favor from your Guardian.
ووقيهم عذاب الجحيم فضلا من ربك
That is the immense triumph.
ذلك هو الفوز العظيم
We have made it easy on your tongue only in the hope that they will remember.
فانما يسرنه بلسانك لعلهم يتذكرون
So watch,
فارتقب
for they are watching.
انهم مرتقبون