English - Chapter 54 - Al-Qamar

The Hour approaches and the Moon is splitting apart

Yet if they see any sign, they avoid it and say: ´It´s constant magic

They deny [it all] and follow their own whims, even though every matter has been settled

News has come to them containing a rebuke

as eloquent wisdom, even though warners can get nowhere

So turn away from them on the day when the Crier will call out about a horrible event

Their eyes cast down, they will issue forth from their tombs as if they were scattered grasshoppers

dashing along towards the Crier. Disbelievers will say: "This is such a hard day

Noah´s folk denied it long before them; they rejected Our servant and said: "[He´s] crazy!", and he was rebuffed

He appealed to his Lord: "I have been overpowered, so support [me]

So We opened Heaven´s gates for water to pour down

We drilled the earth full of springs and the waters met at a command which had been decreed

We transported him on something built with planks and caulking

which sailed on before Our eyes, as a reward for someone who had been rejected

We left it as a sign; yet will anyone bear it in mind

How were My torment, and My warnings

We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone [bother to] memorize it

Ad rejected it. How were My torment, and My warnings

We sent a howling gale against them on a day full of continuous misfortune

which snatched men up as if they were hollow palm trunks

How were My torment, and My warnings

We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone memorize it

Thamud rejected My warnings too

and they said: "Are we to follow a single human being from among ourselves? We would then be in error and frenzy

Has the Reminder been delivered merely to him among Us? Instead he is a brash liar

Tomorrow they will know who the brash liar is

We are sending them a she-camel as a test, so watch them and act patient

Announce to them how water must be shared among them; each will have his own special time to drink

They called out to their companion; and he assumed the task and hamstrung [her]

How were My torment, and My warnings

We sent a single Blast against them so they [lay] like dry stalks caught in a fence corner

We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone [bother to] memorize it

Lot´s people rejected the warnings

We sent a sandstorm against them, except for Lot´s own household whom We saved at daybreak

as a favor from Ourself; thus We reward anyone who acts grateful

He had warned them of Our onslaught, yet they discredited the warnings

They tried to coax his guests away from him, so We dazzled their eyes. "Taste My torment and My warnings

Early one, morning, unavoidable torment dawned upon them

Taste My torment and My warnings

We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone memorize it

Warnings came to Pharaoh´s court

Yet they rejected Our signs completely, so We seized them the way a Powerful, Competent person would seize [them]

Are your disbelievers any better than those men were, or have you some dispensation [to be found] in the Psalms

Or do they say: "We all support one another

They will all be defeated together and turn their backs [to run away]

Indeed the Hour has been promised them; the Hour will be quite disastrous and most bitter

Criminals will be lost in error and frenzy

Some day they will be dragged face down through the Fire: "Experience the sense of scorching

Our command comes only once, in the twinkling of an eye

We wiped out your adherents; does no one recall it

Everything they did is [to be found] in the Psalms

everything small or great has been recorded

The heedful will be by gardens and a river

in a sure position under a Competent Sovereign