Al-Dukhan

In the name of Allah the Most Beneficent the Most Merciful.

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 that (night) is made distinct every affair of Wisdom, 5-By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations), 6-As a 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 a 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 a 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 trail. 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-Moreover, We shall join them to Companions 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.