Al-Fajr

By the dawn! By ten nights! By the even, and the odd! By the night when it ebbs away! Is there in that a swearing for one who has restraint?

وٱلفجر وليال عشر وٱلشفع وٱلوتر وٱليل إذا يسر هل في ذلك قسم لذي حجر

Have you not seen how your Guardian dealt with the Aad, Iram of the pillars, the like of which had never been created in the lands? And with the Thamud, who hewed through the rock in the valley? And with Fir'awn, holder of the stakes? Those who exceeded all measure in the lands and made corruption abound therein — so your Guardian poured upon them a scourge of punishment.

ألم تر كيف فعل ربك بعاد إرم ذات ٱلعماد ٱلتي لم يخلق مثلها في ٱلبلد وثمود ٱلذين جابوا ٱلصخر بٱلواد وفرعون ذي ٱلأوتاد ٱلذين طغوا في ٱلبلد فأكثروا فيها ٱلفساد فصب عليهم ربك سوط عذاب

Surely, your Guardian is ever on the lookout.

إن ربك لبٱلمرصاد

As for the human being, when his Guardian tests him and honors him and blesses him, he says, "My Guardian has honored me."

فأما ٱلإنسن إذا ما ٱبتلىه ربه فأكرمه ونعمه فيقول ربي أكرمن

But when He tests him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Guardian has degraded me." By no means!

وأمآ إذا ما ٱبتلىه فقدر عليه رزقه فيقول ربي أهنن كلا

But rather, you do not honor the orphan, and you do not urge the feeding of the destitute, and you consume the inheritance with voracious greed, and you love goods with immoderate love. By no means!

بل لا تكرمون ٱليتيم ولا تحضون على طعام ٱلمسكين وتأكلون ٱلتراث أكلا لما وتحبون ٱلمال حبا جما كلآ

When the earth is flattened blow after blow, and your Guardian comes, and the Agent, rank upon rank, and Jahannam is brought, that Day — that Day the human being will remember, but what good will remembrance be to him then?

إذا دكت ٱلأرض دكا دكا وجآء ربك وٱلملك صفا صفا وجايء يومئذ بجهنم يومئذ يتذكر ٱلإنسن وأنى له ٱلذكرى

He will say, "Oh, if only I had sent ahead for my life!"

يقول يليتني قدمت لحياتي

That Day, none will be punished as he is punished, and none will be bound as he is bound.

فيومئذ لا يعذب عذابه أحد ولا يوثق وثاقه أحد

O reassured Self! Return to your Guardian, well-pleased and pleasing. Enter among My obedient ones, and enter My Garden!

يأيتها ٱلنفس ٱلمطمئنة ٱرجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية فٱدخلي في عبدي وٱدخلي جنتي