Sourate Adh-Dhariyat (51) unvowelled

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Benevolent. By those that scatter in scattering, those that bear a heavy load, those that glide with ease, those that distribute a command: what you are promised is indeed true, and the Retribution will, in truth, fall.i 6

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والذريت ذروا فالحملت وقرا فالجريت يسرا فالمقسمت امرا انما توعدون لصادق وان الدين لوقع

By the sky of interwoven paths! You are indeed in differing speech: turned away from it is whoever is turned away. 9

والسماء ذات الحبك انكم لفي قول مختلف يوفك عنه من افك

Cursed be the conjecturers, those who are plunged in blindness, heedless! 11

قتل الخرصون الذين هم في غمرة ساهون

They ask: 'When will the Day of Retribution be?' — the day they will be tried over the Fire. 13

يسلون ايان يوم الدين يوم هم على النار يفتنون

'Taste your trial.' 14

ذوقوا فتنتكم

This is what you used to seek to hasten. 14

هذا الذي كنتم به تستعجلون

The mindful are, in truth, in gardens and near springs, receiving what their Guardian has given them. 16

ان المتقين في جنت وعيون ءاخذين ما ءاتىهم ربهم

They were, before that, doers of good. 16

انهم كانوا قبل ذلك محسنين

They slept but little 17

كانوا قليلا

throughout the night, finding but little rest. 17

من اليل ما يهجعون

and, in the last hours of the night, they would implore forgiveness. 18

وبالاسحار هم يستغفرون

And in their wealth there was a due for the one who asks and the one who is deprived [without asking]. 19

وفي امولهم حق للسايل والمحروم

And on the earth there are signs for those who have certainty, 20

وفي الارض ءايت للموقنين

as well as within yourselves.i 21

وفي انفسكم

Do you not then see? 21

افلا تبصرون

And in the sky is your provision, 22

وفي السماء رزقكم

as well as what you are promised. By the Guardian of the sky and the earth, it is indeed the truth, just as it is true that you speak. 23

وما توعدون فورب السماء والارض انه لحق مثل ما انكم تنطقون

Has the account of Ibrahim's honored guests reached you? When they entered upon him and said: 'Peace!'i 25

هل اتىك حديث ضيف ابرهيم المكرمين اذ دخلوا عليه فقالوا سلما

he said: 'Peace.' 25

قال سلم

Unfamiliar people. 25

قوم منكرون

He went discreetly to his household, then brought a fat calf and presented it to them, saying: 'Will you not eat?' 27

فراغ الى اهله فجاء بعجل سمين فقربه اليهم قال الا تاكلون

He then felt, within himself, a fear of them. 28

فاوجس منهم خيفة

They said: 'Do not be afraid.' 28

قالوا لا تخف

And they gave him good news of a knowledgeable boy. 28

وبشروه بغلم عليم

Then his wife came forward crying out, struck her face, and said: 'An old, barren woman?!' 29

فاقبلت امراته في صرة فصكت وجهها وقالت عجوز عقيم

They said: 'Thus has your Guardian spoken.' 30

قالوا كذلك قال ربك

He is the Wise, the All-Knowing. 30

انه هو الحكيم العليم

He said: 'What then is your errand, O messengers?' 31

قال فما خطبكم ايها المرسلون

They said: 'We have been sent to a severed people, to pour down upon them stones of clay, marked with your Guardian for the excessive people.' 34

قالوا انا ارسلنا الى قوم مجرمين لنرسل عليهم حجارة من طين مسومة عند ربك للمسرفين

We brought out from it those who believed, but We found in it only one household of those true to God alone; and We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment. 37

فاخرجنا من كان فيها من المومنين فما وجدنا فيها غير بيت من المسلمين وتركنا فيها ءاية للذين يخافون العذاب الاليم

And [there is a sign] in Moussa: when We sent him to Fir'awn with clear authority, he turned away with all his might, and said: 'A worker of illusion, or a madman.'i 39

وفي موسى اذ ارسلنه الى فرعون بسلطن مبين فتولى بركنه وقال سحر او مجنون

We seized him, along with his armies, and cast them into the sea, while he was blameworthy. 40

فاخذنه وجنوده فنبذنهم في اليم وهو مليم

And for the Recidivists [Aad]: when We sent upon them the barren wind, which left nothing it passed over without reducing it to dust. 42

وفي عاد اذ ارسلنا عليهم الريح العقيم ما تذر من شىء اتت عليه الا جعلته كالرميم

And in the Depleters [Thamud]: when it was said to them, 'Enjoy yourselves for a while,' but they rebelled against the command of their Guardian, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on. 44

وفي ثمود اذ قيل لهم تمتعوا حتى حين فعتوا عن امر ربهم فاخذتهم الصعقة وهم ينظرون

They could neither rise up nor find help. 45

فما استطعوا من قيام وما كانوا منتصرين

And the people of Nuh, before that —i 46

وقوم نوح من قبل

they were, indeed, a people of oversteppers. 46

انهم كانوا قوما فسقين

And the sky, We built it with might, 47

والسماء بنينها باييد

and We are indeed expanding [its vastness]. 47

وانا لموسعون

And the earth, We spread it out [like a carpet]: 48

والارض فرشنها

what excellent [makers] to arrange it! 48

فنعم المهدون

And of every thing, We created a pair, so that you may remember. 49

ومن كل شىء خلقنا زوجين لعلكم تذكرون

So flee to God: I am to you, from Him, a clear warner. 50

ففروا الى الله اني لكم منه نذير مبين

And do not place, alongside God, another deity: I am to you, from Him, a clear warner. 51

ولا تجعلوا مع الله الها ءاخر اني لكم منه نذير مبين

So it was: 52

كذلك

no messenger came to those before them without their saying: 'A worker of illusion, or a madman.' 52

ما اتى الذين من قبلهم من رسول الا قالوا ساحر او مجنون

Have they passed it down [as a directive] to one another? 53

اتواصوا به

They are rather a people of transgressors. 53

بل هم قوم طاغون

So turn away from them — you will not be blamed at all — and remind, 55

فتول عنهم فما انت بملوم وذكر

for the reminder benefits the believers. 55

فان الذكرى تنفع المومنين

I did not create the Occulted and mankind except to obey Me.i 56

وما خلقت الجن والانس الا ليعبدون

I do not want any provision from them, nor do I want them to feed Me. 57

ما اريد منهم من رزق وما اريد ان يطعمون

God is, indeed, the Provider, the Possessor of strength, the Unshakeable. 58

ان الله هو الرزاق ذو القوة المتين

Those who did injustice will have a share [of punishment] like the share of their counterparts: so let them not seek to hasten it. 59

فان للذين ظلموا ذنوبا مثل ذنوب اصحبهم فلا يستعجلون

So woe to those who deny, because of their day which is promised to them. 60

فويل للذين كفروا من يومهم الذي يوعدون