English - Chapter 44 - Ad-Dukhan

Ha. Mim

By this clear Book

See! on a blessed night have we sent it down, for we would warn mankind

By virtue of our behest. Lo! we have ever sent forth Apostles

A mercy from thy Lord: he truly heareth and knoweth all things

Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth and of all that is between them, - if ye be firm in faith

There is no God but He! - He maketh alive and killeth! - Your Lord and the Lord of your sires of old

Yet with doubts do they disport them

But mark them on the day when the Heaven shall give out a palpable SMOKE

Which shall enshroud mankind: this will be an afflictive torment

They will cry, "Our Lord! relieve us from this torment: see! we are believers

But how did warning avail them, when an undoubted apostle had come to them

And they turned their backs on him, and said, "Taught by others, possessed

Were we to relieve you from the plague even a little, ye would certainly relapse

On the day when we shall fiercely put forth our great fierceness, we will surely take vengeance on them

Of old, before their time, had we proved the people of Pharaoh, when a noble apostle presented himself to them

Send away with me," cried he, "the servants of God; for I am an apostle worthy of all credit

And exalt not yourselves against God, for I come to you with undoubted power

And I take refuge with Him who is my Lord and your Lord, that ye stone me not

And if ye believe me not, at least separate yourselves from me

And he cried to his Lord, "That these are a wicked people

March forth then, said God, with my servants by night, for ye will be pursued

And leave behind you the cleft sea: they are a drowned host

How many a garden and fountain did they quit

And corn fields and noble dwellings

And pleasures in which they rejoiced them

So was it: and we gave them as a heritage to another people

Nor Heaven nor Earth wept for them, nor was their sentence respited

And we rescued the children of Israel from a degrading affliction

From Pharaoh, for he was haughty, given to excess

And we chose them, in our prescience, above all peoples

And we shewed them miracles wherein was their clear trial

Yet these infidels say

There is but our first death, neither shall we be raised again

Bring back our sires, if ye be men of truth

Are they better than the people of Tobba, And those who flourished before them whom we destroyed for their evil deeds

We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is between them in sport

We have not created them but for a serious end: but the greater part of them understand it not

Verily the day of severing shall be the appointed time of all

A day when the master shall not at all be aided by the servant, neither shall they be helped

Save those on whom God shall have mercy: for He is the mighty, the merciful

Verily the tree of Ez-Zakkoum

Shall be the sinner's food

Like dregs of oil shall it boil up in their bellies

Like the boiling of scalding water

Seize ye him, and drag him into the mid-fire

Then pour on his head of the tormenting boiling water

Taste this:' for thou forsooth art the mighty, the honourable

Lo! this is that of which ye doubted

But the pious shall be in a secure place

Amid gardens and fountains

Clothed in silk and richest robes, facing one another

Thus shall it be: and we will wed them to the virgins with large dark eyes

Therein shall they call, secure, for every kind of fruit

Therein, their first death passed, shall they taste death no more; and He shall keep them from the pains of Hell

Tis the gracious bounty of thy Lord! This is the great felicity

We have made this Koran easy for thee in thine own tongue, that they may take the warning

Therefore wait thou, for they are waiting