Dawn (Al-Fajr)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By the dawn 1 And the Ten Nights, 2 by the even, and the odd, 3 And the night when it departeth, 4 Is there in that an oath for a mindful man? 5 Have you not seen what your Lord did to the 'Ad 6 [the people of] Iram the many-pillared, 7 whose like has never been created in any other land. 8 And [with] Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley? 9 And with Pharaoh, lord of stakes? 10 who all were insolent in the land 11 and brought about great corruption therein: 12 Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisements: 13 surely thy Lord is ever on the watch. 14 As for man, when his Lord tests him by exalting him and bestowing His bounties upon him, he says: “My Lord has exalted me.” 15 But when He tests him by straitening his sustenance, he says: “My Lord has humiliated me.” 16 No! But you do not honor the orphan 17 Nor do you urge one another to feed the poor, 18 And you devour inheritance all with greed, 19 and why do you have an excessive love of riches? 20 But no; when the earth is ground to powder, 21 And when the command of your Lord comes – and the angels row by row, 22 and Gehenna is brought out, upon that day man will remember; and how shall the Reminder be for him? 23 He will say: "Alas! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my life!" 24 None punisheth as He will punish on that day! 25 And no one shall bind with (anything like) His binding. 26 O soul that art at rest! 27 return to your Lord wellpleased, wellpleasing. 28 "Enter then among My votaries, 29 Enter thou My Paradise!' 30