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English - Chapter 89 - Al-Fajr

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Verse 1 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:1

CONSIDER the daybreak
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Verse 2 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:2

and the ten nights
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Verse 3 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:3

Consider the multiple and the One
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Verse 4 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:4

Consider the night as it runs its course
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Verse 5 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:5

Considering all this - could there be, to anyone endowed with reason, a [more] solemn evidence of the truth
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Verse 6 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:6

ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer has dealt with [the tribe of] ‘Ad
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Verse 7 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:7

[the people of] Iram the many-pillared
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Verse 8 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:8

the like of whom has never been reared in all the land? –
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Verse 9 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:9

and with [the tribe of] Thamud, who hollowed out rocks in the valley? –
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Verse 10 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:10

and with Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles
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Verse 11 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:11

[It was they] who transgressed all bounds of equity all over their lands
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Verse 12 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:12

and brought about great corruption therein
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Verse 13 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:13

and therefore thy Sustainer let loose upon them a scourge of suffering
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Verse 14 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:14

for, verily, thy Sustainer is ever on the watch
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Verse 15 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:15

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
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Verse 16 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:16

whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me
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Verse 17 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:17

But nay, nay, [O men, consider all that you do and fail to do:] you are not generous towards the orphan
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Verse 18 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:18

and you do not urge one another to feed the needy
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Verse 19 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:19

and you devour the inheritance [of others] with devouring greed
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Verse 20 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:20

and you love wealth with boundless love
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Verse 21 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:21

Nay, but [how will you fare on Judgment Day,] when the earth is crushed with crushing upon crushing
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Verse 22 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:22

and [the majesty of] thy Sustainer stands revealed, as well as [the true nature of] the angels; rank upon rank
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Verse 23 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:23

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
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Verse 24 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:24

He will say, "Oh, would that I had. provided beforehand for my life [to come]
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Verse 25 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:25

For, none can make suffer as He will make suffer [the sinners] on that Day
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Verse 26 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:26

and none can bind with bonds like His
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Verse 27 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:27

[But unto the righteous God will say,] "O thou human being that hast attained to inner peace
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Verse 28 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:28

Return thou unto thy Sustainer, well-pleased [and] pleasing [Him]
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Verse 29 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:29

enter, then, together with My [other true] servants –
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Verse 30 — Surah Al-Fajr 89:30

yea, enter thou My paradise
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