English - Chapter 44 - Ad-Dukhan

Ha, Mim (These are the names of letters of the Arabic alphabet, and only Allah knows their meaning here)

And (by) the evident Book

Surely We have sent it down in a blessed night; surely We have been warning

Therein every Wise Command is distinctly (decreed)

(As) a Command from Our providence; surely We have (ever) been sending (Messengers)

As a mercy from your Lord; surely He, Ever He, is The Ever-Hearing, The Ever-Knowing

The Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them both, in case you are (believers) with certitude

There is no god except He; He gives life and He makes to die; (He is) your Lord and The Lord of your earliest fathers

No indeed, (but) they are in doubt, playing

So be on the watch for a Day when the heaven will come up with an evident smoke

That will envelop mankind; this is a painful torment

Our Lord, lift off from us the torment; surely, we are believers

However could they have the Reminding, and an evident Messenger has already come to them

(Yet) thereafter they turned away from him and said, "A man taught (by others), a madman

Surely We are lifting off the torment a little; surely you will be going back (to disbelief)

Upon the Day when We will assault you with the greatest assault; surely We will be Avengers

And indeed already before them We tempted the people of Firaawn, (Pharaoh) and an honorable Messenger came to them. (Saying), "Discharge (Literally: give back to me) to me the bondmen of Allah; surely I am for you a trustworthy Messenger

And, "Do not exalt yourselves against Allah; surely I am bringing you an evident, all-binding authority

And surely I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord that you should (not) stone me

And in case you do not believe me, then keep apart from me

So he invoked his Lord, (saying)

These are a criminal people

Then set forth with My bondmen by night, surely you will be closely followed

And leave the sea becalmed; (Or: furrowed) surely they are a drowned host

They left how many gardens and springs

And plantations and how honorable a station

And what comfort they used to (enjoy) cheerfully

Thus (it was); and We made another people to inherit (these favors)

So, in no way did the heaven and the earth weep for them, and in no way were they respited

And indeed We already safely delivered the Seeds (Or: sons) of Israel) from degrading torment

From Firaawn; (Pharaoh) surely he was exalted, of the extravagant

And indeed We already chose them, out of a knowledge, over the worlds

And We brought them (some) signs wherein there was an evident trial

Surely these (people) are indeed saying

Decidedly there is nothing except our first death; and in no way will we be raised up

Then come up with (i.e., bring) our fathers, in case you are sincere

Are they more charitable, (i.e., better) or the people of Tubbac and the ones even before them? We caused them to perish; surely they were criminals

And in no way did We create the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them both, playing

In no way did We create them both except with The Truth; but most of them do not know

Surely the Day of Verdict is their appointed time all together

The Day a patronizer will not avail any patronized thing, and they will not be vindicated

Except him on whom Allah has mercy; surely He, Ever He, is The Ever-Mighty, The Ever-Merciful

Surely the Tree of Az-Zaqqum

Is the food of the constantly vicious

Like molten metal, it boils in the bellies

As the boiling of scalding water

Take him, then thrust him into the (deepest) level of Hell-Fire

Thereafter pour above his head of the torment of scalding (water)

Taste! Surely you, (only) you are (i.e., you used to think that you were mighty) the constantly mighty, the constantly honorable

Surely this is what you used to wrangle about

Surely the pious will be in a station constantly secure

In Gardens and Springs

Wearing (garments) of serenest and brocade, facing one another

Thus (it will be); and We will espouse them to wide-eyed h?r (Fair females in paradise)

Therein (they will be) calling for every (kind) of fruit, secure

They will not taste therein of death, except the first death, and He will protect them from the torment of Hell-Fire

A Grace from your Lord; that is it which is the magnificent triumph

So We have surely made it easy by your tongue, only that possibly they would remind themselves

Then be on the watch; surely they (too) are on the watch