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44. Ad-Dukhan - The Drought
| 1 | Ha-Mim. |
| 2 | By the Book that makes things clear;- |
| 3 | We sent it down during a Blessed Night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil). |
| 4 | In the (Night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom, |
| 5 | By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations), |
| 6 | As Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things); |
| 7 | The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith. |
| 8 | There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death,- The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors. |
| 9 | Yet they play about in doubt. |
| 10 | Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible, |
| 11 | Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous. |
| 12 | (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us, for we do really believe!" |
| 13 | How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,- |
| 14 | Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!" |
| 15 | We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways). |
| 16 | One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught: We will indeed (then) exact Retribution! |
| 17 | We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them a messenger most honourable, |
| 18 | Saying: "Restore to me the Servants of Allah: I am to you an messenger worthy of all trust; |
| 19 | "And be not arrogant as against Allah: for I come to you with authority manifest. |
| 20 | "For me, I have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me. |
| 21 | "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me." |
| 22 | (But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin." |
| 23 | (The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued. |
| 24 | "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned." |
| 25 | How many were the gardens and springs they left behind, |
| 26 | And corn-fields and noble buildings, |
| 27 | And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight! |
| 28 | Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)! |
| 29 | And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again). |
| 30 | We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment, |
| 31 | Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors. |
| 32 | And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly, |
| 33 | And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial |
| 34 | As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth: |
| 35 | "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again. |
| 36 | "Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!" |
| 37 | What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin. |
| 38 | We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport: |
| 39 | We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand. |
| 40 | Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,- |
| 41 | The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive, |
| 42 | Except such as receive Allah's Mercy: for He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful. |
| 43 | Verily the tree of Zaqqum |
| 44 | Will be the food of the Sinful,- |
| 45 | Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides. |
| 46 | Like the boiling of scalding water. |
| 47 | (A voice will cry: "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire! |
| 48 | "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water, |
| 49 | "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou mighty, full of honour! |
| 50 | "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!" |
| 51 | As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security, |
| 52 | Among Gardens and Springs; |
| 53 | Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other; |
| 54 | So; and We shall join them to fair women with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes. |
| 55 | There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security; |
| 56 | Nor will they there taste Death, except the first death; and He will preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire,- |
| 57 | As a Bounty from thy Lord! that will be the supreme achievement! |
| 58 | Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed. |
| 59 | So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting. |