| y_ali | asad | literal | tlt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. * | By the break of Day | CONSIDER the daybreak | And/by the dawn | swr+ alfjr bsm allh alrHmn alrHym ?_ walfjr | |||
| 2. * | By the Nights twice five; | and the ten nights!* | And/by ten nights. | wlyal `$r | |||
| 3. * | By the even and odd (contrasted); | Consider the multiple and the One!* | And/by the double/even number, and the odd/singular/uneven. | wal$f` walwtr | |||
| 4. * | And by the Night when it passeth away;- | Consider the night as it runs its course!* | And/by the night when (it) goes/departs. | wallyl aXa ysr | |||
| 5. * | Is there (not) in these an adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand? | Considering all this - could there be, to anyone endowed with reason, a [more] solemn evidence of the truth?* | Is in that an oath to (those) of (E) a mind? | hl fy Xlk qsm lXy Hjr | |||
| 6. * | Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people),- | ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer has dealt with [the tribe of] `Ad,* | Did you not see/understand how your Lord made/did with Aad? | alm tr kyf f`l rbk b`ad | |||
| 7. * | Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars, | [the people of] Iram the many-pillared, | Iram that of the pillars/posts ? | arm Xat al`mad | |||
| 8. * | The like of which were not produced in (all) the land? | the like of whom has never been reared in all the land? - | Which was not created similar/equal to it in the countries/cities ? | alty lm yKlq mxlha fy alblad | |||
| 9. * | And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley?- | and with [the tribe of] Thamud,* who hollowed out rocks in the valley? - | And Thamud who pierced/penetrated the rock/rock terrain at the valley? | wxmwd alXyn jabwa alSKr balwad | |||
| 10. * | And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes? | and with Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles?* | And Pharaoh that of the stakes/pegs/nails ? | wfr`wn Xy alawtad | |||
| 11. * | (All) these transgressed beyond bounds in the lands, | [It was they] who transgressed all bounds of equity all over their lands, | Those who tyrannized/exceeded the limit in the countries/cities. | alXyn TGwa fy alblad | |||
| 12. * | And heaped therein mischief (on mischief). | and brought about great corruption therein: | So they increased (made too much) in it the corruption. | fakxrwa fyha alfsad | |||
| 13. * | Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements: | and therefore thy Sustainer let loose upon them a scourge of suffering: | So your Lord poured on them (the) torture's intensity/severity. | fSb `lyhm rbk swT `Xab | |||
| 14. * | For thy Lord is (as a Guardian) on a watch-tower. | for, verily, thy Sustainer is ever on the watch! | That truly your Lord (is) at the watch/observation/ambuscade (E). | an rbk lbalmrSad | |||
| 15. * | Now, as for man, when his Lord trieth him, giving him honour and gifts, then saith he, (puffed up), "My Lord hath honoured me." | BUT AS FOR man, whenever his Sustainer tries him by His generosity and by letting him enjoy a life of ease, he says, "My Sustainer has been [justly] generous towards me";* | So but the human/mankind when as long as his Lord tested him, so he honoured him and He blessed/comforted and eased him, so he says: "My Lord honored me." | fama alansan aXa maabtlah rbh fakrmh wn`mh fyqwl rby akrmn | |||
| 16. * | But when He trieth him, restricting his subsistence for him, then saith he (in despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!" | whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"* | And but when as long as He tested him, so He tightened/strained on him His/his provision, so he says: "My Lord humiliated/disgraced/degraded me." | wama aXa maabtlah fqdr `lyh rzqh fyqwl rby ahann | |||
| 17. * | Nay, nay! but ye honour not the orphans! | But nay, nay, [O men, consider all that you do and fail to do:] you are not generous towards the orphan, | No but, you do not honour/be kind/generous (to) the orphan. | kla bl latkrmwn alytym | |||
| 18. * | Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor!- | and you do not urge one another to feed the needy,* | And nor you urge/insight/influence on feeding the poorest of poor/poor oppressed. | wlatHaDwn `li T`am almskyn | |||
| 19. * | And ye devour inheritance - all with greed, | and you devour the inheritance [of others] with devouring greed, | And you eat the inheritance accumulatively/collectively gluttony. | wtaklwn altrax akla lma | |||
| 20. * | And ye love wealth with inordinate love! | and you love wealth with boundless love! | And you love/like the property/possession/wealth lovingly excessively. | wtHbwn almal Hba jma | |||
| 21. * | Nay! When the earth is pounded to powder, | Nay, but [how will you fare on Judgment Day,] when the earth is crushed with crushing upon crushing, | No but, when/if the earth/Planet Earth was hammered down/crushed, crushingly/destroyingly,crushingly/destroyingly. | kla aXa dkt alarD dka dka | |||
| 22. * | And thy Lord cometh, and His angels, rank upon rank, | and [the majesty of] thy Sustainer stands revealed,* as well as [the true nature of] the angels; rank upon rank? | And your Lord came and the angels (in) a row/arranged (after) a row/arranged. | wja' rbk walmlk Sfa Sfa | |||
| 23. * | And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face),- on that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance profit him? | And on that Day hell will be brought [within sight]; on that Day man will remember [all that he did and failed to do]: but what will that remembrance avail him? | And came (on) that day with Hell ; that day the human/mankind remembers/mentions, and from where (is) for him the remembrance/reminder? | wjyY ywmYX bjhnm ywmYX ytXkr alansan wani lh alXkri | |||
| 24. * | He will say: "Ah! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life!" | He will say, "Oh, would that I had. provided beforehand for my life [to come]!" | He says: "Oh if only I advanced/presented/preceded for my life." | yqwl yalytny qdmt lHyaty | |||
| 25. * | For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict, | For, none can make suffer as He will make suffer [the sinners] on that Day, | So (on) that day no one tortures His torture. | fywmYX lay`Xb `Xabh aHd | |||
| 26. * | And His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind. | and none can bind with bonds like His.* | And no one ties/chains/affirms His tying/chaining (restraining). | wlaywxq wxaqh aHd | |||
| 27. * | (To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction! | [But unto the righteous God will say,] "O thou human being that hast attained to inner peace! | You, you the self, the assured/tranquil. | yaaytha alnfs almTmYn+ | |||
| 28. * | "Come back thou to thy Lord,- well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him! | Return thou unto thy Sustainer, well-pleased [and] pleasing [Him]: | Return to your Lord accepting/approving, accepted/approved. | arj`y ali rbk raDy+ mrDy+ | |||
| 29. * | "Enter thou, then, among My devotees! | enter, then, together with My [other true] servants - | So enter in (among) My worshippers/servants. | fadKly fy `bady | |||
| 30. * | "Yea, enter thou My Heaven! | yea, enter thou My paradise!" | And enter My treed garden/paradise.469 | wadKly jnty | |||