Surah Al-Fajr — The Dawn

وَالْفَجْرِۙ

Wal-fajr(i).

By the dawn

وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍۙ

Wa layālin ‘asyr(in).

And [by] ten nights

وَّالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِۙ

Wasy-syaf‘i wal-watr(i).

And [by] the even [number] and the odd

وَالَّيْلِ اِذَا يَسْرِۚ

Wal-laili iżā yasr(i).

And [by] the night when it passes,

هَلْ فِيْ ذٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِيْ حِجْرٍۗ

Hal fī żālika qasamul liżī ḥijr(in).

Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?

اَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍۖ

Alam tara kaifa fa‘ala rabbuka bi‘ād(in).

Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -

اِرَمَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِۖ

Irama żātil-‘imād(i).

[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,

الَّتِيْ لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى الْبِلَادِۖ

Allatī lam yukhlaq miṡluhā fil-bilād(i).

The likes of whom had never been created in the land?

وَثَمُوْدَ الَّذِيْنَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِۖ

Wa ṡamūdal-lażīna jābuṣ-ṣakhra bil-wād(i).

And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى الْاَوْتَادِۖ

Wa fir‘auna żil-autād(i).

And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?

الَّذِيْنَ طَغَوْا فِى الْبِلَادِۖ

Allażīna ṭagau fil-bilād(i).

[All of] whom oppressed within the lands

فَاَكْثَرُوْا فِيْهَا الْفَسَادَۖ

Fa akṡarū fīhal-fasād(a).

And increased therein the corruption.

فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍۖ

Fa ṣabba ‘alaihim rabbuka sauṭa ‘ażāb(in).

So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.

اِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِۗ

Inna rabbaka labil-mirṣād(i).

Indeed, your Lord is in observation.

فَاَمَّا الْاِنْسَانُ اِذَا مَا ابْتَلٰىهُ رَبُّهٗ فَاَكْرَمَهٗ وَنَعَّمَهٗۙ فَيَقُوْلُ رَبِّيْٓ اَكْرَمَنِۗ

Fa ammal-insānu iżā mabtalāhu rabbuhū fa akramahū wa na‘‘amah(ū), fa yaqūlu rabbī akraman(i).

And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."

وَاَمَّآ اِذَا مَا ابْتَلٰىهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهٗ ەۙ فَيَقُوْلُ رَبِّيْٓ اَهَانَنِۚ

Wa ammā iżā mabtalāhu fa qadara ‘alaihi rizqah(ū), fa yaqūlu rabbī ahānan(i).

But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."

كَلَّا بَلْ لَّا تُكْرِمُوْنَ الْيَتِيْمَۙ

Kallā bal lā tukrimūnal-yatīm(a).

No! But you do not honor the orphan

وَلَا تَحٰۤضُّوْنَ عَلٰى طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِيْنِۙ

Wa lā taḥāḍḍūna ‘alā ṭa‘āmil-miskīn(i).

And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.

وَتَأْكُلُوْنَ التُّرَاثَ اَكْلًا لَّمًّاۙ

Wa ta'kulūnat-turāṡa aklal lammā(n).

And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,

وَّتُحِبُّوْنَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّاۗ

Wa tuḥibbūnal-māla ḥubban jammā(n).

And you love wealth with immense love.

كَلَّآ اِذَا دُكَّتِ الْاَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّاۙ

Kallā iżā dukkatil-arḍu dakkan dakkā(n).

No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed

وَّجَاۤءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّاۚ

Wa jā'a rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffā(n).

And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,

وَجِايْۤءَ يَوْمَىِٕذٍۢ بِجَهَنَّمَۙ يَوْمَىِٕذٍ يَّتَذَكَّرُ الْاِنْسَانُ وَاَنّٰى لَهُ الذِّكْرٰىۗ

Wa jī'a yauma'iżim bijahannam(a), yauma'iżiy yatażakkarul-insānu wa annā lahuż-żikrā.

And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?

يَقُوْلُ يٰلَيْتَنِيْ قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِيْۚ

Yaqūlu yā laitanī qaddamtu liḥayātī.

He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

فَيَوْمَىِٕذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهٗٓ اَحَدٌ ۙ

Fa yauma'iżil lā yu‘ażżibu ‘ażābahū aḥad(un).

So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,

وَّلَا يُوْثِقُ وَثَاقَهٗٓ اَحَدٌ ۗ

Wa lā yūṡiqu waṡāqahū aḥad(un).

And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

يٰٓاَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَىِٕنَّةُۙ

Yā ayyatuhan-nafsul-muṭma'innah(tu).

[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,

ارْجِعِيْٓ اِلٰى رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً ۚ

Irji‘ī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatam marḍiyyah(tan).

Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],

فَادْخُلِيْ فِيْ عِبٰدِيْۙ

Fadkhuli fī ‘ibādī.

And enter among My [righteous] servants

وَادْخُلِيْ جَنَّتِيْ ࣖࣖ

Wadkhulī jannatī.

And enter My Paradise."