Al-Fajr
The Dawn
- 89:1
وَٱلْفَجْرِ ١
wal-fajri
By the dawn
- 89:2
وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ ٢
walayālin ʿashrin
And [by] ten nights
- 89:3
وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ ٣
wal-shafʿi wal-watri
And [by] the even [number] and the odd
- 89:4
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ ٤
wa-al-layli idhā yasri
And [by] the night when it passes,
- 89:5
هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ ٥
hal fī dhālika qasamun lidhī ḥij'rin
Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?
- 89:6
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ ٦
alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʿādin
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -
- 89:7
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ ٧
irama dhāti l-ʿimādi
[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,
- 89:8
ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ ٨
allatī lam yukh'laq mith'luhā fī l-bilādi
The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
- 89:9
وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ ٩
wathamūda alladhīna jābū l-ṣakhra bil-wādi
And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
- 89:10
وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ ١٠
wafir'ʿawna dhī l-awtādi
And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?
- 89:11
ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ ١١
alladhīna ṭaghaw fī l-bilādi
[All of] whom oppressed within the lands
- 89:12
فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ ١٢
fa-aktharū fīhā l-fasāda
And increased therein the corruption.
- 89:13
فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ ١٣
faṣabba ʿalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʿadhābin
So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
- 89:14
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ ١٤
inna rabbaka labil-mir'ṣādi
Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
- 89:15
فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ ١٥
fa-ammā l-insānu idhā mā ib'talāhu rabbuhu fa-akramahu wanaʿʿamahu fayaqūlu rabbī akramani
And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."
- 89:16
وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَـٰنَنِ ١٦
wa-ammā idhā mā ib'talāhu faqadara ʿalayhi riz'qahu fayaqūlu rabbī ahānani
But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."
- 89:17
كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ ١٧
kallā bal lā tuk'rimūna l-yatīma
No! But you do not honor the orphan
- 89:18
وَلَا تَحَـٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ١٨
walā taḥāḍḍūna ʿalā ṭaʿāmi l-mis'kīni
And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
- 89:19
وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَّمًّا ١٩
watakulūna l-turātha aklan lamman
And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,
- 89:20
وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا ٢٠
watuḥibbūna l-māla ḥubban jamman
And you love wealth with immense love.
- 89:21
كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا ٢١
kallā idhā dukkati l-arḍu dakkan dakkan
No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed
- 89:22
وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا ٢٢
wajāa rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffan
And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,
- 89:23
وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ٢٣
wajīa yawma-idhin bijahannama yawma-idhin yatadhakkaru l-insānu wa-annā lahu l-dhik'rā
And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?
- 89:24
يَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى ٢٤
yaqūlu yālaytanī qaddamtu liḥayātī
He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."
- 89:25
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ٢٥
fayawma-idhin lā yuʿadhibu ʿadhābahu aḥadun
So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
- 89:26
وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ٢٦
walā yūthiqu wathāqahu aḥadun
And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
- 89:27
يَـٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ٢٧
yāayyatuhā l-nafsu l-muṭ'ma-inatu
[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,
- 89:28
ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً ٢٨
ir'jiʿī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatan marḍiyyatan
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
- 89:29
فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَـٰدِى ٢٩
fa-ud'khulī fī ʿibādī
And enter among My [righteous] servants
- 89:30
وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى ٣٠
wa-ud'khulī jannatī
And enter My Paradise."