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By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: Al-Qamar
English: The Moon
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 53 (An-Najm - The Star)
> Sura 55 (Ar-Rahman - The Beneficient)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 86 (At-Tariq - The Morning Star)
> Sura 38 (Sad - Sad)
Verses: 55
| 1 | The Hour has drawn nigh: the moon is split. | |
| 2 | Yet if they see a sign they turn away, and they say 'A continuous sorcery!' | |
| 3 | They have cried lies, and followed their caprices; but every matter is settled. | |
| 4 | And there have come to them such tidings as contain a deterrent -- | |
| 5 | a Wisdom far-reaching; yet warnings do not avail. | |
| 6 | So turn thou away from them. Upon the day when the Caller shall call unto a horrible thing, | |
| 7 | abasing their eyes, they shall come forth from the tombs as if they were scattered grasshoppers, | |
| 8 | running with outstretched necks to the Caller. The unbelievers shall say, 'This is a hard day!' | |
| 9 | The people of Noah cried lies before them; they cried lies to Our servant, and said, 'A man possessed!' And he was rejected. | |
| 10 | And so he called unto his Lord, saying, 'I am vanquished; do Thou succour me!' | |
| 11 | Then We opened the gates of heaven unto water torrential, | |
| 12 | and made the earth to gush with fountains, and the waters met for a matter decreed. | |
| 13 | And We bore him upon a well-planked vessel well-caulked | |
| 14 | running before Our eyes-a recompense for him denied. | |
| 15 | And We left it for a sign. Is there any that will remember? | |
| 16 | How then were My chastisement and My warnings? | |
| 17 | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? | |
| 18 | Ad cried lies. How then were My chastisement and My warnings? | |
| 19 | We loosed against them a wind clamorous in a day of ill fortune continuous, | |
| 20 | plucking up men as if they were stumps of uprooted palm-trees. | |
| 21 | How then were My chastisement and My warnings? | |
| 22 | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? | |
| 23 | Thamood cried lies to the warnings | |
| 24 | and said, 'What, shall we follow a mortal, one out of ourselves? Then indeed we should be in error and insanity! | |
| 25 | Has the Reminder been cast upon him alone among us? Nay, rather he is an impudent liar.' | |
| 26 | 'They shall surely know tomorrow who is the impudent liar. | |
| 27 | They shall send the She-camel as a trial for them; so watch thou them and keep patience. | |
| 28 | And tell them that the water is to be divided between them, each drink for each in turn. | |
| 29 | Then they called their comrade, and he took in hand, and hamstrung her. | |
| 30 | How then were My chastisement and My warnings? | |
| 31 | We loosed against them one Cry, and they were as the wattles of a pen-builder. | |
| 32 | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? | |
| 33 | The people of Lot cried lies to the warnings. | |
| 34 | We loosed against them a squall of pebbles except the folk of Lot; We delivered them at the dawn -- | |
| 35 | a blessing from Us; even so We recompense him who is thankful. | |
| 36 | He had warned them of Our assault, but they disputed the warnings. | |
| 37 | Even his guests they had solicited of him; so We obliterated their eyes, saying, 'Taste now My chastisement and My warnings!' | |
| 38 | In the morning early there came upon them a settled chastisement: | |
| 39 | 'Taste now My chastisement and My warnings!' | |
| 40 | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? | |
| 41 | The warnings came also to Pharaoh's folk. | |
| 42 | They cried lies to Our signs, all of them, so We seized them with the seizing of One mighty, omnipotent. | |
| 43 | What, are your unbelievers better than those? Or have you an immunity in the Scrolls? | |
| 44 | Or do they say, 'We are a congregation that shall be succoured?' | |
| 45 | Certainly the host shall be routed, and turn their backs. | |
| 46 | Nay, but the Hour is their tryst, and the Hour is very calamitous and bitter. | |
| 47 | Surely the sinners are in error and insanity! | |
| 48 | The day when they are dragged on their faces into the Fire: 'Taste now the touch of Sakar!' | |
| 49 | Surely We have created everything in measure. | |
| 50 | Our commandment is but one word, as the twinkling of an eye. | |
| 51 | We have destroyed the likes of you; is there any that will remember? | |
| 52 | Every thing that they have done is in the Scrolls, | |
| 53 | and everything, great and small, is inscribed. | |
| 54 | Surely the godfearing shall dwell amid gardens and a river | |
| 55 | in a sure abode, in the presence of a King Omnipotent. |