بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلْفَجْرِ

CONSIDER the daybreak

وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍۢ

and the ten nights!

وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ

Consider the multiple and the One!

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ

Consider the night as it runs its course!

هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌۭ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ

Considering all this - could there be, to anyone endowed with reason, a [more] solemn evidence of the truth?

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ

ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer has dealt with [the tribe of] ‘Ad,

إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ

[the people of] Iram the many-pillared,

ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ

the like of whom has never been reared in all the land? –

وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ

and with [the tribe of] Thamud, who hollowed out rocks in the valley? –

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ

and with Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles?

ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ

[It was they] who transgressed all bounds of equity all over their lands,

فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ

and brought about great corruption therein:

فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ

and therefore thy Sustainer let loose upon them a scourge of suffering:

إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ

for, verily, thy Sustainer is ever on the watch!

فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ

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";

وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَٰنَنِ

whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"

كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ

But nay, nay, [O men, consider all that you do and fail to do:] you are not generous towards the orphan,

وَلَا تَحَٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ

and you do not urge one another to feed the needy,

وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًۭا لَّمًّۭا

and you devour the inheritance [of others] with devouring greed,

وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّۭا جَمًّۭا

and you love wealth with boundless love!

كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّۭا دَكًّۭا

Nay, but [how will you fare on Judgment Day,] when the earth is crushed with crushing upon crushing,

وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّۭا صَفًّۭا

and [the majesty of] thy Sustainer stands revealed, as well as [the true nature of] the angels; rank upon rank?

وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ

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?

يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى

He will say, "Oh, would that I had. provided beforehand for my life [to come]!"

فَيَوْمَئِذٍۢ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ

For, none can make suffer as He will make suffer [the sinners] on that Day,

وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌۭ

and none can bind with bonds like His.

يَٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ

[But unto the righteous God will say,] "O thou human being that hast attained to inner peace!

ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةًۭ مَّرْضِيَّةًۭ

Return thou unto thy Sustainer, well-pleased [and] pleasing [Him]:

فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَٰدِى

enter, then, together with My [other true] servants –

وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى

yea, enter thou My paradise!"