English - Chapter 54 - Al-Qamar

The Hour is near, and the Moon is cleft asunder

But if they see a sign, they turn away and say, “This is a mysterious illusion.”

They reject it and follow their lusts, but every issue has its appointed time

There have already come to them recitals with which there is enough to check them

Perfect wisdom, but warners do not profit them

Therefore, turn away from them. The day that the caller will call them to a terrible affair

They will come forth, their eyes humbled from their graves, torpid like locusts scattered abroad

Hastening with eyes transfixed towards the caller. “This is a trying day,” the unbelievers will say

Before them the people of Noah rejected it. They rejected Our servant and said, “This one is possessed.” And he was driven out

Then he called on his Lord, “I am one overcome, will You help me?”

So We opened the gates of heaven, with water pouring out

And We caused the earth to gush forth with springs, so the waters met and rose to the extent decreed

But We bore him on an ark made of broad planks and caulked with palm-fiber

It floats under our eyes. A reward for one who had been rejected

And We have left it as a sign. Then is there any who will receive advice

But how was My penalty and My warning

And We have indeed made the Quran intuitive. Then are there any who will receive advice

The ‘Ad also rejected it. Then how was My penalty and My warnings

For We sent against them a furious wind, on a day of violent disaster

Plucking out human beings, as if they were roots of palm trees torn up

Yes, how was My penalty and My warning

And indeed We have made the Quran intuitive. Then will any experience it

The Thamud rejected their warners

For they said, “What, a human being, one from among ourselves? Should we follow such a one? Truly we would then be in error, and in madness

“Is it that the message is sent to him of all people among us? No, he is a liar, an insolent one.”

They will know on the morrow, who is the liar, and the insolent one

For We will send the she-camel as a trial for them. So watch them, and be patient

And tell them that the water is to be divided between them. Each one’s right to drink being brought forward

But they called to their companion, and he took a sword in hand, and hamstrung her

How was My penalty and My warning

For We sent against them a single mighty blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens livestock

And indeed We have made the Quran intuitive. Then will any experience it

The people of Lot rejected the warning

We sent against them a violent tornado with showers of stones which caused them to perish, except Lot’s household. We delivered them by early dawn

As a grace from Us. This is how We reward those who give thanks

And Lot warned them of Our punishment, but they disputed about the warning

And they even sought to abduct his guests, but We blinded their eyes. Now taste My punishment and My warning

Early in the morning an abiding punishment indeed seized them

“So taste My punishment and My warning.”

And indeed We have made the Quran intuitive. Then will any experience it

Also to the people of Pharaoh came warners

The people rejected all of Our signs, but We seized them with a penalty from One Exalted in Power, able to carry out His will

Are your unbelievers better than they are? Or have you immunity in the sacred books

Or do they say, “We, acting together, can defend ourselves”

Soon will their party be on the retreat, and they will show their backs

No, the Hour is the time promised them, and that Hour will be more terrible and most bitter

Truly those in sin are the ones straying in mind, and in madness

The day they will be dragged through the fire on their faces. Taste the touch of hell.”

Indeed, We have created all things in due proportion and measure

And Our command is only a single act, like the blink of an eye

And in the past, We have caused groups like you to perish. Then is there any who will receive advice

All that they do is noted in books

Every matter, small and great, is on record

As for the righteous, they will be in the presence of gardens and rivers

In an assembly of truth, in the presence of the Sovereign, Omnipotent