Sura 44 of the Qur'an

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By Vexen Crabtree 2013

Title: Ad-Dukhan
English: The Smoke
Location: Makkah

Traditional Order:
< Sura 43 (Az-Zukhruf - Ornaments of Gold)
> Sura 45 (Al-Jathiya - Crouching)

Chronological Order:
< Sura 43 (Az-Zukhruf - Ornaments of Gold)
> Sura 45 (Al-Jathiya - Crouching)

Verses: 59

¹	Ha Mim
²	By the Clear Book.
³	We have sent it down in a blessed night (We are ever warning)
⁴	therein every wise bidding
⁵	determined as a bidding from Us, (We are ever sending)
⁶	as a mercy from thy Lord (surely He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing)
⁷	Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is if you have faith.
⁸	There is no god but He; He gives life and makes to die; your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients.
⁹	Nay, but they are in doubt, playing.
¹⁰	So be on the watch for a day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke
¹¹	covering the people; this is a painful chastisement.
¹²	'O our Lord, remove Thou from us the chastisement; we are believers.'
¹³	How should they have the Reminder, seeing a clear Messenger already came to them,
¹⁴	then they turned away from him and said, 'A man tutored, possessed!'
¹⁵	'Behold, We are removing the chastisement a little; behold, you revert!'
¹⁶	Upon the day when We shall assault most mightily, then We shall take Our vengeance.
¹⁷	Already before them We tried the people of Pharaoh, and a noble Messenger came unto them,
¹⁸	saying, 'Deliver to me God's servants; I am for you a faithful Messenger,
¹⁹	and, 'Rise not up against God; behold, I come to you with a clear authority,
²⁰	and I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord, lest you should stone me.
²¹	'But if so be that you believe me not, go you apart from me!'
²²	And he called to his Lord, saying, 'These are a sinful people.'
²³	'Then set thou forth with My servants in a watch of the night; surely you will be followed.
²⁴	And leave the sea becalmed; they are a drowned host.'
²⁵	They left how many gardens and fountains,
²⁶	sown fields, and how noble a station,
²⁷	and what prosperity they had rejoiced in!
²⁸	Even so; and We bequeathed them upon another people.
²⁹	Neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they respited;
³⁰	and We delivered the Children of Israel from the humbling chastisement,
³¹	from Pharaoh; surely he was a high One, of the prodigals;
³²	and We chose them, out of a knowledge, above all beings,
³³	and gave them signs wherein there was a manifest trial.
³⁴	These men do say,
³⁵	'There is nothing but our first death; we shall not be revived.
³⁶	Bring us our fathers, if you speak truly!'
³⁷	Are they better, or the people of Tubba' and those before them whom We destroyed? They were surely sinners.
³⁸	We created not the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, in play;
³⁹	We created them not save in truth; but most of them know it not.
⁴⁰	Surely the Day of Decision shall be their appointed time, all together,
⁴¹	the day a master shall avail nothing a client, and they shall not be helped,
⁴²	save him upon whom God has mercy; He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
⁴³	Lo, the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum
⁴⁴	is the food of the guilty,
⁴⁵	like molten copper, bubbling in the belly
⁴⁶	as boiling water bubbles.
⁴⁷	'Take him, and thrust him into the midst of Hell,
⁴⁸	then pour over his head the chastisement of boiling water!'
⁴⁹	'Taste! Surely thou art the mighty, the noble.
⁵⁰	This is that concerning which you were doubting.'
⁵¹	Surely the godfearing shall be in a station secure
⁵²	among gardens and fountains,
⁵³	robed in silk and brocade, set face to face.
⁵⁴	Even so; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris,
⁵⁵	therein calling for every fruit, secure.
⁵⁶	They shall not taste therein of death, save the first death, And He shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell --
⁵⁷	a bounty from thy Lord; that is the mighty triumph.
⁵⁸	Now We have made it easy by thy tongue, that haply they may remember.
⁵⁹	So be on the watch; they too are on the watch.