https://www.humanreligions.info/sura_44.html
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. |