Al-Fajr

Wal-Fajr

CONSIDER the daybreak

Wa layaalin 'ashr

and the ten nights!

Wash shaf'i wal watr

Consider the multiple and the One!

Wallaili izaa yasr

Consider the night as it runs its course!

Hal fee zaalika qasamul lizee hijr

Considering all this - could there be, to anyone endowed with reason, a [more] solemn evidence of the truth?

Alam tara kaifa fa'ala rabbuka bi'aad

ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer has dealt with [the tribe of] ‘Ad,

Iramaa zaatil 'imaad

[the people of] Iram the many-pillared,

Allatee lam yukhlaq misluhaa fil bilaad

the like of whom has never been reared in all the land? –

Wa samoodal lazeena jaabus sakhra bil waad

and with [the tribe of] Thamud, who hollowed out rocks in the valley? –

Wa fir'awna zil awtaad

and with Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles?

Allazeena taghaw fil bilaad

[It was they] who transgressed all bounds of equity all over their lands,

Fa aksaroo feehal fasaad

and brought about great corruption therein:

Fasabba 'alaihim Rabbuka sawta 'azaab

and therefore thy Sustainer let loose upon them a scourge of suffering:

Inna Rabbaka labil mirsaad

for, verily, thy Sustainer is ever on the watch!

Fa ammal insaanu izaa mab talaahu Rabbuhoo fa akramahoo wa na' 'amahoo fa yaqoolu Rabbeee akraman

BUT AS FOR man, whenever his Sustainer tries him by His generosity and by letting him enjoy a life of ease, he says, "My Sustainer has been [justly] generous towards me";

Wa ammaaa izaa mabtalaahu faqadara 'alaihi rizqahoo fa yaqoolu Rabbeee ahaanan

whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"

Kalla bal laa tukrimooo nal yateem

But nay, nay, [O men, consider all that you do and fail to do:] you are not generous towards the orphan,

Wa laa tahaaaddoona 'alaata'aamil miskeen

and you do not urge one another to feed the needy,

Wa taakuloonat turaasa aklal lammaa

and you devour the inheritance [of others] with devouring greed,

Wa tuhibboonal maala hubban jammaa

and you love wealth with boundless love!

Kallaaa izaaa dukkatil ardu dakkan dakka

Nay, but [how will you fare on Judgment Day,] when the earth is crushed with crushing upon crushing,

Wa jaaa'a Rabbuka wal malaku saffan saffaa

and [the majesty of] thy Sustainer stands revealed, as well as [the true nature of] the angels; rank upon rank?

Wa jeee'a yawma'izim bi jahannnam; Yawma 'iziny yatazakkarul insaanu wa annaa lahuz zikraa

And on that Day hell will be brought [within sight]; on that Day man will remember [all that he did and failed to do]: but what will that remembrance avail him?

Yaqoolu yaa laitanee qaddamtu lihayaatee

He will say, "Oh, would that I had. provided beforehand for my life [to come]!"

Fa Yawma izil laa yu'azzibu 'azaabahooo ahad

For, none can make suffer as He will make suffer [the sinners] on that Day,

Wa laa yoosiqu wasaaqa hooo ahad

and none can bind with bonds like His.

Yaaa ayyatuhan nafsul mutma 'innah

[But unto the righteous God will say,] "O thou human being that hast attained to inner peace!

Irji'eee ilaa Rabbiki raadiyatam mardiyyah

Return thou unto thy Sustainer, well-pleased [and] pleasing [Him]:

Fadkhulee fee 'ibaadee

enter, then, together with My [other true] servants –

Wadkhulee jannatee

yea, enter thou My paradise!"