89. Al-Fajr

89:1

وَٱلْفَجْرِ ﴿١﴾

Wal-fajr

By the Dawn

89:2

وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ ﴿٢﴾

Walayālin ʿashr

And ten nights,

89:3

وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ ﴿٣﴾

Wash-shafʿi wal-watr

And the Even and the Odd,

89:4

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ ﴿٤﴾

Wallayli idhā yasr

And the night when it departeth,

89:5

هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ ﴿٥﴾

Hal fī dhālika qasamun lidhī ḥijr

There surely is an oath for thinking man.

89:6

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ ﴿٦﴾

Alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʿād

Dost thou not consider how thy Lord dealt with (the tribe of) A'ad,

89:7

إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ ﴿٧﴾

Irama dhāti al-ʿimād

With many-columned Iram,

89:8

ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ ﴿٨﴾

Allatī lam yukhlaq mithluhā fī al-bilād

The like of which was not created in the lands;

89:9

وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ ﴿٩﴾

Wathamūda alladhīna jābū aṣ-ṣakhra bil-wād

And with (the tribe of) Thamud, who clove the rocks in the valley;

89:10

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ ﴿١٠﴾

Wafirʿawna dhī al-awtād

And with Pharaoh, firm of might,

89:11

ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ ﴿١١﴾

Alladhīna ṭaghaw fī al-bilād

Who (all) were rebellious (to Allah) in these lands,

89:12

فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ ﴿١٢﴾

Faʾaktharū fīhā al-fasād

And multiplied iniquity therein?

89:13

فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ ﴿١٣﴾

Faṣabba ʿalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʿadhāb

Therefore thy Lord poured on them the disaster of His punishment.

89:14

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ ﴿١٤﴾

Inna rabbaka labil-mirṣād

Lo! thy Lord is ever watchful.

89:15

فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ ﴿١٥﴾

Faʾammā al-insānu idhā mā ibtalāhu rabbuhu faʾakramahu wanaʿʿamahu fayaqūlu rabbī akraman

As for man, whenever his Lord trieth him by honouring him, and is gracious unto him, he saith: My Lord honoureth me.

89:16

وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَـٰنَنِ ﴿١٦﴾

Waʾammā idhā mā ibtalāhu faqadara ʿalayhi rizqahu fayaqūlu rabbī ahānan

But whenever He trieth him by straitening his means of life, he saith: My Lord despiseth me.

89:17

كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ ﴿١٧﴾

Kallā bal lā tukrimūna al-yatīm

Nay, but ye (for your part) honour not the orphan

89:18

وَلَا تَحَـٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ﴿١٨﴾

Walā taḥāḍḍūna ʿalā ṭaʿāmi al-miskīn

And urge not on the feeding of the poor.

89:19

وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَّمًّا ﴿١٩﴾

Wataʾkulūna at-turātha aklan lammā

And ye devour heritages with devouring greed.

89:20

وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا ﴿٢٠﴾

Watuḥibbūna al-māla ḥubban jammā

And love wealth with abounding love.

89:21

كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا ﴿٢١﴾

Kallā idhā dukkati al-arḍu dakkan dakkā

Nay, but when the earth is ground to atoms, grinding, grinding,

89:22

وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا ﴿٢٢﴾

Wajāʾa rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffā

And thy Lord shall come with angels, rank on rank,

89:23

وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ﴿٢٣﴾

Wajīʾa yawmaʾidhin bijahannama yawmaʾidhin yatadhakkaru al-insānu waʾannā lahu adh-dhikrā

And hell is brought near that day; on that day man will remember, but how will the remembrance (then avail him)?

89:24

يَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى ﴿٢٤﴾

Yaqūlu yā laytanī qaddamtu liḥayātī

He will say: Ah, would that I had sent before me (some provision) for my life!

89:25

فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ﴿٢٥﴾

Fayawmaʾidhin lā yuʿadhdhibu ʿadhābahu aḥad

None punisheth as He will punish on that day!

89:26

وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ﴿٢٦﴾

Walā yūthiqu wathāqahu aḥad

None bindeth as He then will bind.

89:27

يَـٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ﴿٢٧﴾

Yā ayyatuhā an-nafsu al-muṭmaʾinnah

But ah! thou soul at peace!

89:28

ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً ﴿٢٨﴾

Irjiʿī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatan marḍiyyah

Return unto thy Lord, content in His good pleasure!

89:29

فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَـٰدِى ﴿٢٩﴾

Fādkhulī fī ʿibādī

Enter thou among My bondmen!

89:30

وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى ﴿٣٠﴾

Wādkhulī jannatī

Enter thou My Garden!