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Az-Zariyat


(51:1) By the winds which scatter dust,

(51:2) which carry clouds laden with water,1

(51:3) which then smoothly speed along,

(51:4) and execute the great task of apportioning (rainfall):2

(51:5) surely what you are being warned against3 is true,

(51:6) and the Judgement shall doubtlessly take place.4

(51:7) By the heaven with its numerous forms:5

(51:8) surely you are at variance (about the Hereafter);6

(51:9) though only those who are averse to the Truth will turn away from
(believing in it).7

(51:10) Doomed are the conjecturers8

(51:11) who are steeped in ignorance and heedlessness.9

(51:12) They ask: “When will the Day of Judgement be?”

(51:13) It will be the Day when they shall be scourged by the Fire0

(51:14) (and be told): “Taste your ordeal!1 This is what you
were seeking to hasten.”2

(51:15) As for the God-fearing,3 they shall be in the midst of
gardens and fountains,

(51:16) joyously receiving what their Lord will have granted them.4
Verily they did good works before (the coming of this Day):

(51:17) they used to sleep but little by night,5

(51:18) and would ask for forgiveness at dawn,6

(51:19) and in their wealth there was a rightful share for him who would
ask and for the destitute.7

(51:20) There are many Signs on earth for those of sure faith,8

(51:21) and also in your own selves.9 Do you not see?

(51:22) And in heaven is your provision and also what you are being promised.
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(51:23) So, by the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is certainly true,
as true as the fact of your speaking.

(51:24) (O Prophet), did1 the story of Abraham’s honoured guests
reach you?2

(51:25) When they came to him, they said: “Peace”; he said: “Peace also be
to you; (you seem to be) a group of strangers.”3

(51:26) Then he went back to his family4 and brought a fat roasted
calf5

(51:27) and laid it before them, saying: “Will you not eat?”

(51:28) Then he became afraid of them.6 They said: “Fear not,”
and announced to him the good news of (the birth of) a boy endowed with knowledge.7

(51:29) So hearing his wife went forth shouting. She struck her face and
exclaimed: “A barren old woman am I.”8

(51:30) They said: “So has your Lord said (that you shall have a boy). Surely
He is Most Wise, All-Knowing.”9

(51:31) Abraham said: “Envoys (of Allah), what is your errand?”0

(51:32) They replied: “Behold, we have been sent to a wicked people1

(51:33) that we may unleash a shower of clay-stones

(51:34) marked by your Lord upon those who go beyond the limits.”2

(51:35) Then3 We evacuated there from all the believers

(51:36) – and We did not find there any, apart from a single house of Muslims
4

(51:37) and We left therein a Sign for those who fear the grievous chastisement.
5

(51:38) There is also a Sign for you in the story of Moses when We sent him
with a clear authority to Pharaoh.6

(51:39) But Pharaoh turned away, showing arrogance on account of his power,
and said (about Moses): “He is either a sorcerer or a madman.”7

(51:40) So We seized him and his hosts, and cast them into the sea. He became
an object of much blame.8

(51:41) There is also a Sign for you in (the story of) Ad, when We let loose
upon them an ominous wind

(51:42) that left nothing that it came upon without reducing it to rubble.9

(51:43) There is also a Sign for you in (the story of) Thamud. They were
told: “Enjoy yourselves for a while.”0

(51:44) But they brazenly disobeyed their Lord’s command, and then a sudden
chastisement1 overtook them while they looked on.

(51:45) They were unable even to stand up or protect themselves.2

(51:46) Before all these We destroyed the people of Noah: they were a wicked
people.

(51:47) And heaven – We3 made it with Our Own Power and We have
the Power to do so.4

(51:48) And the earth – We spread it out, and how well have We smoothed it!5

(51:49) And of everything We have created pairs;6 perhaps you
will take heed.7

(51:50) Flee, therefore, to Allah. Surely I am a clear warner to you from
Him;

(51:51) and do not set up any deity with Allah. Surely I am a clear warner
to you from Him.8

(51:52) Thus has it been (in the past): never did a Messenger come to the
nations that preceded them but they said: “(He is) a sorcerer, or a mad-man.”9

(51:53) Have they arrived at a common understanding concerning this? No;
but they are a people given to transgression.0

(51:54) So turn your attention away from them; you shall incur no blame.1

(51:55) Do, however, keep exhorting them; for exhortation benefits those
endowed with faith.2

(51:56) I created the jinn and humans for nothing else but that they may
serve Me;3

(51:57) I desire from them no provision, nor do I want them to feed Me.4

(51:58) Surely Allah is the Bestower of all provision, the Lord of all power,
the Strong.5

(51:59) The wrong-doers6 shall receive a portion of the chastisements
as their fellows (of yore). So let them not rush Me.

(51:60) Woe, then, betide those who disbelieved in that Day of theirs which
they are being asked to hold in dread.