51 - Surah Adh-Dhariyat الذاريات

By those [winds] scattering [dust] dispersing

wal-dhāriyāti dharwan

And those [clouds] carrying a load [of water]

fal-ḥāmilāti wiq'ran

And those [ships] sailing with ease

fal-jāriyāti yus'ran

And those [angels] apportioning [each] matter,

fal-muqasimāti amran

Indeed, what you are promised is true.

innamā tūʿadūna laṣādiqun

And indeed, the recompense is to occur.

wa-inna l-dīna lawāqiʿun

By the heaven containing pathways,

wal-samāi dhāti l-ḥubuki

Indeed, you are in differing speech.

innakum lafī qawlin mukh'talifin

Deluded away from the Qur'an is he who is deluded.

yu'faku ʿanhu man ufika

Destroyed are the falsifiers

qutila l-kharāṣūna

Who are within a flood [of confusion] and heedless.

alladhīna hum fī ghamratin sāhūna

They ask, "When is the Day of Recompense?"

yasalūna ayyāna yawmu l-dīni

[It is] the Day they will be tormented over the Fire

yawma hum ʿalā l-nāri yuf'tanūna

[And will be told], "Taste your torment. This is that for which you were impatient."

dhūqū fit'natakum hādhā alladhī kuntum bihi tastaʿjilūna

Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and springs,

inna l-mutaqīna fī jannātin waʿuyūnin

Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were before that doers of good.

ākhidhīna mā ātāhum rabbuhum innahum kānū qabla dhālika muḥ'sinīna

They used to sleep but little of the night,

kānū qalīlan mina al-layli mā yahjaʿūna

And in the hours before dawn they would ask forgiveness,

wabil-asḥāri hum yastaghfirūna

And from their properties was [given] the right of the [needy] petitioner and the deprived.

wafī amwālihim ḥaqqun lilssāili wal-maḥrūmi

And on the earth are signs for the certain [in faith]

wafī l-arḍi āyātun lil'mūqinīna

And in yourselves. Then will you not see?

wafī anfusikum afalā tub'ṣirūna

And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised.

wafī l-samāi riz'qukum wamā tūʿadūna

Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth - just as [sure as] it is that you are speaking.

fawarabbi l-samāi wal-arḍi innahu laḥaqqun mith'la mā annakum tanṭiqūna

Has there reached you the story of the honored guests of Abraham? -

hal atāka ḥadīthu ḍayfi ib'rāhīma l-muk'ramīna

When they entered upon him and said, "[We greet you with] peace." He answered, "[And upon you] peace, [you are] a people unknown.

idh dakhalū ʿalayhi faqālū salāman qāla salāmun qawmun munkarūna

Then he went to his family and came with a fat [roasted] calf

farāgha ilā ahlihi fajāa biʿij'lin samīnin

And placed it near them; he said, "Will you not eat?"

faqarrabahu ilayhim qāla alā takulūna

And he felt from them apprehension. They said, "Fear not," and gave him good tidings of a learned boy.

fa-awjasa min'hum khīfatan qālū lā takhaf wabasharūhu bighulāmin ʿalīmin

And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"

fa-aqbalati im'ra-atuhu fī ṣarratin faṣakkat wajhahā waqālat ʿajūzun ʿaqīmun

They said, "Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing."

qālū kadhāliki qāla rabbuki innahu huwa l-ḥakīmu l-ʿalīmu

[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"

qāla famā khaṭbukum ayyuhā l-mur'salūna

They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals

qālū innā ur'sil'nā ilā qawmin muj'rimīna

To send down upon them stones of clay,

linur'sila ʿalayhim ḥijāratan min ṭīnin

Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."

musawwamatan ʿinda rabbika lil'mus'rifīna

So We brought out whoever was in the cities of the believers.

fa-akhrajnā man kāna fīhā mina l-mu'minīna

And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims.

famā wajadnā fīhā ghayra baytin mina l-mus'limīna

And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.

wataraknā fīhā āyatan lilladhīna yakhāfūna l-ʿadhāba l-alīma

And in Moses [was a sign], when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority.

wafī mūsā idh arsalnāhu ilā fir'ʿawna bisul'ṭānin mubīnin

But he turned away with his supporters and said," A magician or a madman."

fatawallā biruk'nihi waqāla sāḥirun aw majnūnun

So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy.

fa-akhadhnāhu wajunūdahu fanabadhnāhum fī l-yami wahuwa mulīmun

And in 'Aad [was a sign], when We sent against them the barren wind.

wafī ʿādin idh arsalnā ʿalayhimu l-rīḥa l-ʿaqīma

It left nothing of what it came upon but that it made it like disintegrated ruins.

mā tadharu min shayin atat ʿalayhi illā jaʿalathu kal-ramīmi

And in Thamud, when it was said to them, "Enjoy yourselves for a time."

wafī thamūda idh qīla lahum tamattaʿū ḥattā ḥīnin

But they were insolent toward the command of their Lord, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on.

faʿataw ʿan amri rabbihim fa-akhadhathumu l-ṣāʿiqatu wahum yanẓurūna

And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves.

famā is'taṭāʿū min qiyāmin wamā kānū muntaṣirīna

And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a people defiantly disobedient.

waqawma nūḥin min qablu innahum kānū qawman fāsiqīna

And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.

wal-samāa banaynāhā bi-aydin wa-innā lamūsiʿūna

And the earth We have spread out, and excellent is the preparer.

wal-arḍa farashnāhā faniʿ'ma l-māhidūna

And of all things We created two mates; perhaps you will remember.

wamin kulli shayin khalaqnā zawjayni laʿallakum tadhakkarūna

So flee to Allah. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner.

fafirrū ilā l-lahi innī lakum min'hu nadhīrun mubīnun

And do not make [as equal] with Allah another deity. Indeed, I am to you from Him a clear warner.

walā tajʿalū maʿa l-lahi ilāhan ākhara innī lakum min'hu nadhīrun mubīnun

Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."

kadhālika mā atā alladhīna min qablihim min rasūlin illā qālū sāḥirun aw majnūnun

Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people.

atawāṣaw bihi bal hum qawmun ṭāghūna

So leave them, [O Muhammad], for you are not to be blamed.

fatawalla ʿanhum famā anta bimalūmin

And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers.

wadhakkir fa-inna l-dhik'rā tanfaʿu l-mu'minīna

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.

wamā khalaqtu l-jina wal-insa illā liyaʿbudūni

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

mā urīdu min'hum min riz'qin wamā urīdu an yuṭ'ʿimūni

Indeed, it is Allah who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength.

inna l-laha huwa l-razāqu dhū l-quwati l-matīnu

And indeed, for those who have wronged is a portion [of punishment] like the portion of their predecessors, so let them not impatiently urge Me.

fa-inna lilladhīna ẓalamū dhanūban mith'la dhanūbi aṣḥābihim falā yastaʿjilūni

And woe to those who have disbelieved from their Day which they are promised.

fawaylun lilladhīna kafarū min yawmihimu alladhī yūʿadūna