89:1
وَالْفَجْرِ
By the dawn
Surah 89 of 114 · Makkah · Juz 30
Surah Al-Fajr
The Dawn
الفجر30 ayahs
Revealed in Makkah
Translation: Saheeh International
About Surah Al-Fajr
Named after the oath it begins with: by the dawn, by ten nights, by the even and the odd, by the night as it passes (89:1 to 89:4). Most commentators read the ten nights as the first ten of Dhul-Hijjah, though other readings are held. It is Makkan, thirty ayahs, and its subject is what people do once they have power or wealth, treated first at the scale of whole nations and then at the scale of a single heart.
Three peoples are named in quick succession: Aad of Iram with its lofty pillars, Thamud who carved out the rocks in the valley, and Pharaoh, called the owner of the stakes (89:6 to 89:10). All of them oppressed and spread corruption, and punishment came down (89:11, 89:12, 89:13). The surah then moves indoors. A man says my Lord has honoured me when he is given, and my Lord has humiliated me when his provision is restricted (89:15, 89:16), and the reply is that he has misread both. The real failure is not honouring the orphan, not urging others to feed the poor, and devouring inheritance (89:17, 89:18, 89:19). The last four ayahs are among the most quoted lines in the Quran, spoken to the soul at peace: return to your Lord, well pleased and pleasing to Him, and enter My Paradise (89:27 to 89:30).
بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ
89:2
وَلَیَالٍ عَشْرٍ
And [by] ten nights
89:3
وَّالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِ
And [by] the even [number] and the odd
89:4
وَالَّیْلِ اِذَا یَسْرِ
And [by] the night when it passes,
89:5
هَلْ فِیْ ذٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِیْ حِجْرٍ ۟ؕ
Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?
89:6
اَلَمْ تَرَ كَیْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -
89:7
اِرَمَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِ
[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,
89:8
الَّتِیْ لَمْ یُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِی الْبِلَادِ
The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
89:9
وَثَمُوْدَ الَّذِیْنَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِ
And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
89:10
وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِی الْاَوْتَادِ
And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?
89:11
الَّذِیْنَ طَغَوْا فِی الْبِلَادِ
[All of] whom oppressed within the lands
89:12
فَاَكْثَرُوْا فِیْهَا الْفَسَادَ
And increased therein the corruption.
89:13
فَصَبَّ عَلَیْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ
So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
89:14
اِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ ۟ؕ
Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
89:15
فَاَمَّا الْاِنْسَانُ اِذَا مَا ابْتَلٰىهُ رَبُّهٗ فَاَكْرَمَهٗ وَنَعَّمَهٗ ۙ۬ فَیَقُوْلُ رَبِّیْۤ اَكْرَمَنِ ۟ؕ
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
وَاَمَّاۤ اِذَا مَا ابْتَلٰىهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَیْهِ رِزْقَهٗ ۙ۬ فَیَقُوْلُ رَبِّیْۤ اَهَانَنِ
But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."
89:17
كَلَّا بَلْ لَّا تُكْرِمُوْنَ الْیَتِیْمَ
No! But you do not honor the orphan
89:18
وَلَا تَحٰٓضُّوْنَ عَلٰی طَعَامِ الْمِسْكِیْنِ
And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
89:19
وَتَاْكُلُوْنَ التُّرَاثَ اَكْلًا لَّمًّا
And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,
89:20
وَّتُحِبُّوْنَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا ۟ؕ
And you love wealth with immense love.
89:21
كَلَّاۤ اِذَا دُكَّتِ الْاَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا
No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed
89:22
وَّجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا
And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,
89:23
وَجِایْٓءَ یَوْمَىِٕذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۙ۬ یَوْمَىِٕذٍ یَّتَذَكَّرُ الْاِنْسَانُ وَاَنّٰی لَهُ الذِّكْرٰی ۟ؕ
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
یَقُوْلُ یٰلَیْتَنِیْ قَدَّمْتُ لِحَیَاتِیْ
He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."
89:25
فَیَوْمَىِٕذٍ لَّا یُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهٗۤ اَحَدٌ
So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
89:26
وَّلَا یُوْثِقُ وَثَاقَهٗۤ اَحَدٌ ۟ؕ
And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
89:27
یٰۤاَیَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَىِٕنَّةُ
[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,
89:28
ارْجِعِیْۤ اِلٰی رَبِّكِ رَاضِیَةً مَّرْضِیَّةً
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
89:29
فَادْخُلِیْ فِیْ عِبٰدِیْ
And enter among My [righteous] servants
89:30
وَادْخُلِیْ جَنَّتِیْ
And enter My Paradise."
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