Al-Fajr

By the dawn

wal-fajri

And [by] ten nights

walayālin ʿashrin

And [by] the even [number] and the odd

wal-shafʿi wal-watri

And [by] the night when it passes,

wa-al-layli idhā yasri

Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?

hal fī dhālika qasamun lidhī ḥij'rin

Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with 'Aad -

alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʿādin

[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,

irama dhāti l-ʿimādi

The likes of whom had never been created in the land?

allatī lam yukh'laq mith'luhā fī l-bilādi

And [with] Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley?

wathamūda alladhīna jābū l-ṣakhra bil-wādi

And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes? -

wafir'ʿawna dhī l-awtādi

[All of] whom oppressed within the lands

alladhīna ṭaghaw fī l-bilādi

And increased therein the corruption.

fa-aktharū fīhā l-fasāda

So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.

faṣabba ʿalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʿadhābin

Indeed, your Lord is in observation.

inna rabbaka labil-mir'ṣādi

And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."

fa-ammā l-insānu idhā mā ib'talāhu rabbuhu fa-akramahu wanaʿʿamahu fayaqūlu rabbī akramani

But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."

wa-ammā idhā mā ib'talāhu faqadara ʿalayhi riz'qahu fayaqūlu rabbī ahānani

No! But you do not honor the orphan

kallā bal lā tuk'rimūna l-yatīma

And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.

walā taḥāḍḍūna ʿalā ṭaʿāmi l-mis'kīni

And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,

watakulūna l-turātha aklan lamman

And you love wealth with immense love.

watuḥibbūna l-māla ḥubban jamman

No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed -

kallā idhā dukkati l-arḍu dakkan dakkan

And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,

wajāa rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffan

And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but what good to him will be the remembrance?

wajīa yawma-idhin bijahannama yawma-idhin yatadhakkaru l-insānu wa-annā lahu l-dhik'rā

He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

yaqūlu yālaytanī qaddamtu liḥayātī

So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,

fayawma-idhin lā yuʿadhibu ʿadhābahu aḥadun

And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

walā yūthiqu wathāqahu aḥadun

[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,

yāayyatuhā l-nafsu l-muṭ'ma-inatu

Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],

ir'jiʿī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatan marḍiyyatan

And enter among My [righteous] servants

fa-ud'khulī fī ʿibādī

And enter My Paradise."

wa-ud'khulī jannatī