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By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: Adh-Dhariyat
English: The Winnowing Winds
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 50 (Qaf - Qaf)
> Sura 52 (At-tur - Mount Sinai)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 46 (Al-Ahqaf - The Wind-curved Sandhills)
> Sura 88 (Al-Ghashiya - The Overwhelming)
Verses: 60
| 1 | By the swift scatterers | Sura 51:49: See Islam and Science: Errors in the Qur'an and Arab Education: 2. Biology Mistakes. |
| 2 | and the burden-bearers | |
| 3 | and the smooth runners | |
| 4 | and the partitioners, | |
| 5 | surely that you are promised is true, | |
| 6 | and surely the Doom is about to fall! | |
| 7 | By heaven with all its tracks | |
| 8 | surely you speak at variance, | |
| 9 | and perverted therefrom are some. | |
| 10 | Perish the conjecturers | |
| 11 | who are dazed in perplexity | |
| 12 | asking, 'When shall be the Day of Doom?' | |
| 13 | Upon the day when they shall be tried at the Fire: | |
| 14 | 'Taste your trial! This is that you were seeking to hasten.' | |
| 15 | Surely the godfearing shall be among gardens and fountains | |
| 16 | taking whatsoever their Lord has given them; they were good-doers before that. | |
| 17 | Little of the night would they slumber, | |
| 18 | and in the mornings they would ask for forgiveness; | |
| 19 | and the beggar and the outcast had a share in their wealth. | |
| 20 | In the earth are signs for those having sure faith; | |
| 21 | and in your selves; what, do you not see? | |
| 22 | And in heaven is your provision, and that you are promised. | |
| 23 | So by the Lord of heaven and earth, it is as surely true as that you have speech. | |
| 24 | Hast thou received the story of the honoured guests of Abraham? | |
| 25 | When they entered unto him, saying 'Peace!' he said 'Peace! You are a people unknown to me.' | |
| 26 | Then he turned to his household and brought a fattened calf, | |
| 27 | and he laid it before them saying, 'Will you not eat?' | |
| 28 | Then he conceived a fear of them. They said, 'Be not afraid!' And they gave him good tidings of a cunning boy. | |
| 29 | Then came forward his wife, clamouring, and she smote her face, and said, 'An old woman, barren!' | |
| 30 | They said, 'So says thy Lord; He is the All-wise, the All-knowing.' | |
| 31 | Said he, 'And what is your business, envoys?' | |
| 32 | They said, 'We have been sent to a people of sinners, | |
| 33 | to loose upon them stones of clay | |
| 34 | marked with thy Lord for the prodigal. | |
| 35 | So We brought forth such believers as were in it, | |
| 36 | but We found not therein except one house of those that have surrendered themselves. | |
| 37 | And therein We left a sign to those who fear the painful chastisement. | |
| 38 | And also in Moses, when We sent him unto Pharaoh, with a clear authority, | |
| 39 | but he turned his back, with his court, saying, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!' | |
| 40 | So We seized him and his hosts, and We cast them into the sea, and he blameworthy. | |
| 41 | And also in Ad, when We loosed against them the withering wind | |
| 42 | that left nothing it came upon, but made it as stuff decayed. | |
| 43 | And also in Thamood, when it was said to them, 'Take your enjoyment for a while!' | |
| 44 | Then they turned in disdain from the commandment of their Lord, and the thunderbolt took them and they themselves beholding | |
| 45 | and they were not able to stand upright, and were not helped. | |
| 46 | And the people of Noah before; surely they were an ungodly people. | |
| 47 | And heaven -- We built it with might, and We extend it wide. | |
| 48 | And the earth -- We spread it forth; O excellent Smoothers! | |
| 49 | And of everything created We two kinds; haply you will remember. | |
| 50 | Therefore flee unto God! I am a clear warner from Him to you. | |
| 51 | And set not up with God another god; I am a clear warner from Him to you. | |
| 52 | Even so not a Messenger came to those before them but they said, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!' | |
| 53 | What, have they bequeathed it one to another? Nay, but they are an insolent people. | |
| 54 | So turn thou from them; thou wilt not be reproached. | |
| 55 | And remind; the Reminder profits the believers. | |
| 56 | I have not created jinn and mankind except to serve Me. | |
| 57 | I desire of them no provision, neither do I desire that they should feed Me. | |
| 58 | Surely God is the All-provider, the Possessor of Strength, the Ever-Sure. | |
| 59 | The evildoers shall have their portion, like the portion of their fellows; so let them not hasten Me! | |
| 60 | So woe to the unbelievers, for that day of theirs that they are promised. |