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Surah 44

Ad-Dukhaan

The Smoke

59 VersesMeccan RevelationMishary Rashid Alafasy
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Ayah 1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ حمٓ

English Translation

Ha. Mim.

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Ayah 2

وَٱلْكِتَٰبِ ٱلْمُبِينِ

English Translation

CONSIDER this divine writ, clear in itself and clearly showing the truth!

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Ayah 3

إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَٰهُ فِى لَيْلَةٍۢ مُّبَٰرَكَةٍ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُنذِرِينَ

English Translation

Behold, from on high have We bestowed it on a blessed night: for, verily, We have always been warning [man].

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Ayah 4

فِيهَا يُفْرَقُ كُلُّ أَمْرٍ حَكِيمٍ

English Translation

On that [night] was made clear, in wisdom, the distinction between all things [good and evil]

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Ayah 5

أَمْرًۭا مِّنْ عِندِنَآ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُرْسِلِينَ

English Translation

at a behest from Ourselves: for, verily, We have always been sending [Our messages of guidance]

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Ayah 6

رَحْمَةًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ

English Translation

in pur­suance of thy Sustainer’s grace [unto man]. Verily, He alone is all-hearing, all-knowing,

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Ayah 7

رَبِّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَآ ۖ إِن كُنتُم مُّوقِنِينَ

English Translation

the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them - if you could but grasp it with inner certainty!

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Ayah 8

لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ ۖ رَبُّكُمْ وَرَبُّ ءَابَآئِكُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

English Translation

There is no deity save Him: He grants life and deals death: He is your Sustainer as well as the Sustainer of your forebears of old.

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Ayah 9

بَلْ هُمْ فِى شَكٍّۢ يَلْعَبُونَ

English Translation

Nay, but they [who lack inner certainty] are but Dying with their doubts.

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Ayah 10

فَٱرْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ

English Translation

WAIT, THEN, for the Day when the skies shall bring forth a pall of smoke which will make obvious [the approach of the Last Hour],

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Ayah 11

يَغْشَى ٱلنَّاسَ ۖ هَٰذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ

English Translation

enveloping all mankind, [and causing the sinners to exclaim:] “Grievous is this suffering!

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Ayah 12

رَّبَّنَا ٱكْشِفْ عَنَّا ٱلْعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ

English Translation

O our Sustainer, relieve us of suffering, for, verily, we [now] believe [in Thee]!”

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Ayah 13

أَنَّىٰ لَهُمُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ وَقَدْ جَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ

English Translation

[But] how shall this remembrance avail them [at the Last Hour], seeing that an apostle had pre­viously come unto them, clearly expounding the truth,

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Ayah 14

ثُمَّ تَوَلَّوْا۟ عَنْهُ وَقَالُوا۟ مُعَلَّمٌۭ مَّجْنُونٌ

English Translation

whereupon they turned their backs on him and said, “Taught [by others] is he, a madman”?

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Ayah 15

إِنَّا كَاشِفُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابِ قَلِيلًا ۚ إِنَّكُمْ عَآئِدُونَ

English Translation

[Still,] behold, We shall postpone this suffer­ing for a little while, although you are bound to revert [to your evil ways: but]

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Ayah 16

يَوْمَ نَبْطِشُ ٱلْبَطْشَةَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰٓ إِنَّا مُنتَقِمُونَ

English Translation

on the Day when We shall seize [all sinners] with a most mighty onslaught, We shall, verily, inflict Our retribution [on you as well]!

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Ayah 17

۞ وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَجَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌۭ كَرِيمٌ

English Translation

AND, INDEED, [long] before their time did We try Pharaoh’s people [in the same way]: for there came unto them a noble apostle, [who said:]

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Ayah 18

أَنْ أَدُّوٓا۟ إِلَىَّ عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنِّى لَكُمْ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٌۭ

English Translation

“Give in unto me, O God’s bondmen! Verily, I am an apostle [sent] unto you, worthy of trust!

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Ayah 19

وَأَن لَّا تَعْلُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنِّىٓ ءَاتِيكُم بِسُلْطَٰنٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ

English Translation

“And exalt not yourselves against God: for, verily, I come unto you with a manifest authority [from Him];

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Ayah 20

وَإِنِّى عُذْتُ بِرَبِّى وَرَبِّكُمْ أَن تَرْجُمُونِ

English Translation

and, behold, it is with my Sustainer - and your Sustainer - that I seek refuge against all your endeavours to revile me.

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Ayah 21

وَإِن لَّمْ تُؤْمِنُوا۟ لِى فَٱعْتَزِلُونِ

English Translation

And if you do not believe me, [at least] stand away from me!”

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Ayah 22

فَدَعَا رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ قَوْمٌۭ مُّجْرِمُونَ

English Translation

But then, [when they beset him with their enmity,] he called out to his Sustainer, “These are [indeed] people lost in sin!”

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Ayah 23

فَأَسْرِ بِعِبَادِى لَيْلًا إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ

English Translation

And [God said]: “Go thou forth with My servants by night, for you will surely be pursued;

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Ayah 24

وَٱتْرُكِ ٱلْبَحْرَ رَهْوًا ۖ إِنَّهُمْ جُندٌۭ مُّغْرَقُونَ

English Translation

and leave the sea becalmed [between thee and Pharaoh’s men]: for, verily, they are a host destined to be drowned!”

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Ayah 25

كَمْ تَرَكُوا۟ مِن جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَعُيُونٍۢ

English Translation

[And so they perished: and] how many gardens did they leave behind, and water-runnels,

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Ayah 26

وَزُرُوعٍۢ وَمَقَامٍۢ كَرِيمٍۢ

English Translation

and fields of grain, and noble dwellings,

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Ayah 27

وَنَعْمَةٍۢ كَانُوا۟ فِيهَا فَٰكِهِينَ

English Translation

and [all that] life of ease in which they used to delight!

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Ayah 28

كَذَٰلِكَ ۖ وَأَوْرَثْنَٰهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ

English Translation

Thus it was. And [then] We made another people heirs [to what they had left],

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Ayah 29

فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُنظَرِينَ

English Translation

and neither sky nor earth shed tears over them, nor were they allowed a respite.

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Ayah 30

وَلَقَدْ نَجَّيْنَا بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ مِنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْمُهِينِ

English Translation

And, indeed, We delivered the children of Israel from the shameful suffering

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Ayah 31

مِن فِرْعَوْنَ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ عَالِيًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ

English Translation

[inflicted on them] by Pharaoh, seeing that he was truly outstand­ing among those who waste their own selves;

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Ayah 32

وَلَقَدِ ٱخْتَرْنَٰهُمْ عَلَىٰ عِلْمٍ عَلَى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

English Translation

and indeed, We chose them knowingly above all other people,

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Ayah 33

وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُم مِّنَ ٱلْءَايَٰتِ مَا فِيهِ بَلَٰٓؤٌۭا۟ مُّبِينٌ

English Translation

and gave them such signs [of Our grace] as would clearly presage a test.

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Ayah 34

إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ لَيَقُولُونَ

English Translation

[Now,] behold, these [people] say indeed:

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Ayah 35

إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّا مَوْتَتُنَا ٱلْأُولَىٰ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُنشَرِينَ

English Translation

“That [which is ahead of us] is but our first [and only] death, and we shall not be raised to life again.

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Ayah 36

فَأْتُوا۟ بِـَٔابَآئِنَآ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ

English Translation

So then, bring forth our forefathers [as witnesses], if what you claim is true!”

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Ayah 37

أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍۢ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ مُجْرِمِينَ

English Translation

Are they, then, better than the people of Tubba and those before them, whom We destroyed because they were truly lost in [the same] sin?

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Ayah 38

وَمَا خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَٰعِبِينَ

English Translation

For [thus it is:] We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in mere idle play:

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Ayah 39

مَا خَلَقْنَٰهُمَآ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

English Translation

none of this have We created without [an inner] truth: but most of them under­stand it not.

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Ayah 40

إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ مِيقَٰتُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ

English Translation

VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] is the term appointed for all of them:

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Ayah 41

يَوْمَ لَا يُغْنِى مَوْلًى عَن مَّوْلًۭى شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ

English Translation

the Day when no friend shall be of the least avail to his friend, and when none shall be succoured

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Ayah 42

إِلَّا مَن رَّحِمَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ

English Translation

save those upon whom God will have bestowed His grace and mercy: for, verily, He alone is almighty, a dispenser of grace.

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Ayah 43

إِنَّ شَجَرَتَ ٱلزَّقُّومِ

English Translation

Verily, [in the life to come] the tree of deadly fruit

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Ayah 44

طَعَامُ ٱلْأَثِيمِ

English Translation

will be the food of the sinful:

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Ayah 45

كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَغْلِى فِى ٱلْبُطُونِ

English Translation

like molten lead will it boil in the belly,

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Ayah 46

كَغَلْىِ ٱلْحَمِيمِ

English Translation

like the boiling of burning despair.

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Ayah 47

خُذُوهُ فَٱعْتِلُوهُ إِلَىٰ سَوَآءِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ

English Translation

[And the word will be spoken:] “Seize him, [O you forces of hell,] and drag him into the midst of the blazing fire:

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Ayah 48

ثُمَّ صُبُّوا۟ فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِۦ مِنْ عَذَابِ ٱلْحَمِيمِ

English Translation

then pour over his head the anguish of burning despair!

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Ayah 49

ذُقْ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْكَرِيمُ

English Translation

Taste it - thou who [on earth] hast considered thyself so mighty, so noble!

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Ayah 50

إِنَّ هَٰذَا مَا كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَمْتَرُونَ

English Translation

This is the very thing which you [deniers of the truth] were wont to call in question!”

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Ayah 51

إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى مَقَامٍ أَمِينٍۢ

English Translation

[As against this -] verily, the God-conscious will find themselves in a state secure,

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Ayah 52

فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَعُيُونٍۢ

English Translation

amid gardens and springs,

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Ayah 53

يَلْبَسُونَ مِن سُندُسٍۢ وَإِسْتَبْرَقٍۢ مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ

English Translation

wearing [garments] of silk and brocade, facing one another [in love].

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Ayah 54

كَذَٰلِكَ وَزَوَّجْنَٰهُم بِحُورٍ عِينٍۢ

English Translation

Thus shall it be. And We shall pair them with companions pure, most beautiful of eye.

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Ayah 55

يَدْعُونَ فِيهَا بِكُلِّ فَٰكِهَةٍ ءَامِنِينَ

English Translation

In that [paradise] they shall [rightfully] claim all the fruits [of their past deeds], resting in security;

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Ayah 56

لَا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا ٱلْمَوْتَ إِلَّا ٱلْمَوْتَةَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ ۖ وَوَقَىٰهُمْ عَذَابَ ٱلْجَحِيمِ

English Translation

and neither shall they taste death there after having passed through their erstwhile death. Thus will He have preserved them from all suffer­ing through the blazing fire-

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Ayah 57

فَضْلًۭا مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلْفَوْزُ ٱلْعَظِيمُ

English Translation

an act of thy Sustainer’s favour: and that, that will be the triumph supreme!

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Ayah 58

فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرْنَٰهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ

English Translation

THUS, THEN, [O Prophet,] have We made this [divine writ] easy to understand, in thine own [human] tongue, so that men might take it to heart.

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Ayah 59

فَٱرْتَقِبْ إِنَّهُم مُّرْتَقِبُونَ

English Translation

So wait thou [for what the future will bring]: behold, they, too, are waiting.

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