| y_ali | asad | literal | tlt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. * | By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour; | CONSIDER the sun and its radiant brightness, | And/by the sun and its sunrise/day light. | swr+ al$ms bsm allh alrHmn alrHym ? wal$ms wDHaha | |||
| 2. * | By the Moon as she follows him; | and the moon as it reflects the sun! * | And/by the moon when/if it followed it. | walqmr aXa tlaha | |||
| 3. * | By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory; | Consider the day as it reveals the world, * | And/by the daytime when/if it shined/revealed it. | walnhar aXa jlaha | |||
| 4. * | By the Night as it conceals it; | and the night as it veils it darkly! | And/by the night when/if it covers/darkens it. | wallyl aXa yG$aha | |||
| 5. * | By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure; | Consider the sky and its wondrous make, * | And/by the sky/space and who built/constructed it. | walsma' wmabnaha | |||
| 6. * | By the Earth and its (wide) expanse: | and the earth and all its expanse! | And/by the earth/Planet Earth and who spread and extended it. | walarD wmaTHaha | |||
| 7. * | By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; | Consider the human self, and how it is formed in accordance with what it is meant to be, * | And/by a self and who straightened it. | wnfs wmaswaha | |||
| 8. * | And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;- | and how it is imbued with moral failings as well as with consciousness of God! * | So He inspired/transmitted (to) it its debauchery/corruption, and its fear and obedience of God. | falhmha fjwrha wtqwaha | |||
| 9. * | Truly he succeeds that purifies it, | To a happy state shall indeed attain he who causes this [self] to grow in purity, | Who purified/corrected it had succeeded/won. | qd aflH mn zkaha | |||
| 10. * | And he fails that corrupts it! | and truly lost is he who buries it [in darkness]. | And who buried it/plotted against it (corrupted it) had failed/despaired. | wqd Kab mn dsaha | |||
| 11. * | The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing, | TO [THIS] TRUTH gave the lie, in their overweening arrogance, [the tribe of] Thamud, * | Thamud had lied/denied/falsified with its own tyranny/excess of the limit. | kXbt xmwd bTGwaha | |||
| 12. * | Behold, the most wicked man among them was deputed (for impiety). | when that most hapless wretch from among them rushed forward [to commit his evil deed], | When/if its most miserable/unhappy stirred up/urged. | aX anb`x a$qaha | |||
| 13. * | But the Messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah. And (bar her not from) having her drink!" | although God's apostle had told them, "It is a she-camel belonging to God, so let her drink [and do her no harm]!" * | So God's messenger said to them: "God's female camel, and its drink/drinking (water)." | fqal lhm rswl allh naq+ allh wsqyaha | |||
| 14. * | Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)! | But they gave him the lie, and cruelly slaughtered her * - whereupon their Sustainer visited them wwith utter destruction for this their sin, destroying them all alike: | So they denied him, so they wounded it/slaughtered it/made it infertile, so their Lord became angry/destroyed on them because of their crime, so He straightened it. | fkXbwh f`qrwha fdmdm `lyhm rbhm bXnbhm fswaha | |||
| 15. * | And for Him is no fear of its consequences. | for none [of them] had any fear of what might befall them. * | And He does not fear its end/turn (result). | wlayKaf `qbaha | |||