{ "number": 44, "slug": "dukhan", "name": "Ad-Dukhan", "arabicName": "الدخان", "meaning": "The Smoke", "period": "Makkan", "tagline": "A blessed message, a warning, and the promise of safety", "overview": "Ad-Dukhan begins with revelation on a blessed night, then confronts distraction, distress, and promises forgotten after relief. The rescue from Pharaoh provides a historical mirror for power and vulnerability. Questions about resurrection lead to contrasting unseen outcomes, while the closing verses return to a message made accessible for remembrance.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_44.json" }, { "title": "Sahih International · English translation (AlQuran Cloud)", "url": "https://alquran.cloud/quran/en.sahih" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=5" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=8" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=12" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=16" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=19" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=23" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=38" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=28" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=31" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=35" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=1" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=56" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=41" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=47" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=44&verse=51" }, { "title": "Surah introduction · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/44/info" }, { "title": "The blessed night · Ibn Kathir", "url": "https://quran.com/44:3/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Ibn Masud's famine interpretation · Bukhari 4821", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4821" }, { "title": "Smoke among future signs · Muslim 2901a", "url": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:2901a" }, { "title": "Hijrah year · Britannica 1911", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "An attentive beginning", "A scripture that makes clear", "A blessed night", "Wisdom in the command", "A command and a mission", "Mercy from the One who hears", "The Lord of the whole creation", "Life, death, and the ancestors", "Doubt treated as diversion", "The warning of visible smoke", "A distress that reaches the people", "Belief spoken in distress", "A reminder had already arrived", "Labels used to turn away", "Relief and a return to old ways", "A greater reckoning", "A noble messenger before Pharaoh's people", "A demand to release Allah's servants", "Authority placed beneath Allah", "Seeking refuge from violence", "An appeal to be left unharmed", "A plea after rejection", "Leaving under cover of night", "The sea and the pursuing host", "Gardens left behind", "Fields and valued dwellings", "Pleasures that could not remain", "An inheritance for others", "No cosmic mourning for tyranny", "Deliverance from humiliation", "Pharaoh's excess", "A people entrusted with favor", "Signs that also test", "The audience's objection returns", "Only a first death?", "An immediate demonstration demanded", "Earlier peoples as a warning", "Creation is not a game", "A purpose not widely recognized", "The appointed Day of Decision", "The limits of human assistance", "Mercy within the judgment", "The tree named Zaqqum", "Food in the warning scene", "A disturbing comparison", "The sound and motion of boiling", "The collapse of self protection", "A severe image of consequence", "The reversal of claimed nobility", "What was doubted becomes present", "A place of security", "Gardens and flowing springs", "Dignity and companionship", "Companionship among the gifts", "Fruit without fear", "Life beyond another death", "The greatest success as a gift", "A message made accessible", "Waiting after the warning" ], "notes": [ "The separate letters Ha and Mim open a chapter shared in form with several neighboring surahs. The text gives no definitive expanded meaning for these letters. They prepare the listener for an oath by the Scripture and the account of revelation.", "The oath directs attention to the Scripture's clarifying role before the blessed night is mentioned. The chapter begins with a message made available for understanding. Its later scenes of warning and mercy should be read within that opening purpose.", "Revelation is associated with a blessed night and the continuing purpose of warning. Ibn Kathir connects this with the Night of Decree, drawing on other Quranic passages. The verse itself does not provide a modern calendar date for that night.", "The night is further described through the making clear of wise commands. The emphasis is on purpose and ordering rather than human control of the unseen. Commentary adds explanations, but an illustration cannot display the actual workings of divine decree.", "The command comes from Allah, and the passage recalls His sending of messengers. Revelation belongs to an active address to humanity. The verse carries the preceding description of the blessed night toward the mercy explicitly named in the next line.", "The message is called mercy from the Lord, whose hearing and knowledge are affirmed. Warning is therefore presented as part of care, not detached from it. The listener is addressed by One who knows the circumstances in which the message is received.", "Heaven, earth, and everything between them are gathered under one Lord. The appeal to certainty connects the source of revelation with the world around the hearer. Nothing in that world lies outside the authority named at the chapter's opening.", "Allah alone gives life and death and is Lord of the present audience and its forefathers. Ancestral continuity therefore does not create a separate divine authority. The verse draws inherited loyalties back toward the same source of existence.", "The brief statement describes people playing within their doubt, after the preceding appeals to certainty. Its concern is a dismissive posture toward serious questions. The coming warning interrupts that diversion and asks the audience to recognize what it has been postponing.", "The sky's visible smoke gives the chapter its name. Reports interpret its setting differently: Ibn Masud links it to famine, while a separate hadith includes smoke among future signs. This reader preserves those distinctions without claiming a calculated fulfillment date.", "The smoke is described as enveloping people and bringing painful distress. The verse gives the experience its human weight rather than turning it into a spectacle. The following plea shows how crisis changes the language of those previously occupied with doubt.", "The afflicted ask their Lord to remove the torment and declare belief. The scene raises a question about the endurance of a promise made under pressure. Its meaning develops through the following recollection of a messenger already heard and dismissed.", "The question recalls that a clear messenger had come before the crisis. The audience's problem was not simply the absence of warning. The verse turns attention toward earlier opportunities to respond, while the present reader still has room for reflection.", "The messenger had been dismissed as taught by others or mad. These accusations are presented as the audience's words, not descriptions endorsed by the Quran. The verse shows how discrediting a speaker can become a substitute for considering a message.", "A temporary withdrawal of distress is followed by the warning that the audience will return to its previous course. The sequence examines the difference between requesting relief and lasting change. Gratitude is tested when urgent need no longer forces attention.", "The greater seizure culminates the smoke passage's warning. Bukhari's report from Ibn Masud connects it with Badr, while the chapter also looks toward final judgment. The report is identified as interpretation here, rather than made into an exact date supplied by this verse.", "The narrative turns to an earlier trial involving Pharaoh's community and a noble messenger. The coming verses identify his task through words and actions. The passage offers a moral comparison without naming a dynasty, establishing a reign, or locating a tomb.", "The messenger asks for Allah's servants to be handed over and states that he is trustworthy. Within the unfolding account, the demand challenges oppressive possession of people. His authority rests in the entrusted message, rather than the court's recognition or approval.", "The warning against exalting oneself over Allah confronts the arrogance of political power. A clear warrant accompanies the messenger's demand. The verse asks whether those holding authority can recognize an obligation that does not originate from their own position.", "The messenger seeks protection in his Lord and theirs against being stoned. His appeal names a shared divine sovereignty even while facing hostility. The scene presents vulnerability and trust together, rather than allowing force to determine whether the message is true.", "If they refuse belief, the messenger asks to be left alone. Read with the preceding threat, the request concerns freedom from violent interference. The narrative distinguishes rejecting his claim from attacking the person entrusted to deliver it.", "The messenger turns to his Lord and names the people's guilt. The concise prayer marks a transition from public appeal to reliance on divine judgment. It does not provide an open license for readers to identify present communities with Pharaoh's people.", "The command is to depart with Allah's servants at night, knowing pursuit will follow. The narrative's emphasis is on obedience amid danger. No exact route or modern crossing point is specified in this verse, and the illustration should preserve that uncertainty.", "The command to leave the sea at rest is followed by the declaration that the pursuing army will drown. This belongs to the scriptural rescue narrative. The verse does not establish a surveyed seabed route or identify particular remains as archaeological proof.", "The narrative pauses over the gardens and springs abandoned by the defeated people. Abundance becomes a measure of what power could not preserve. The image prepares a wider inventory of comfort, asking how possessions appear when their holders are gone.", "Cultivated land and desirable places continue the list of abandoned wealth. These short images connect prosperity with work, settlement, and social standing. The narrative does not condemn cultivation itself; it exposes the inability of such assets to prevent accountability.", "The inventory closes with the enjoyments in which the people had delighted. Familiar comfort is shown as temporary when separated from responsibility. Read with the preceding verses, this is a reflection on the fragility of privilege, not a reconstruction of palace furnishings.", "What had seemed securely possessed passes to another people. The verse makes the transfer part of the narrative's moral reversal. It does not identify every later owner, and this reader avoids supplying an unsupported historical sequence for the inheritance.", "Heaven and earth are said not to have wept, and no reprieve was granted. The image removes the grandeur that rulers may attach to themselves. The collapse of an oppressive order is not presented as the collapse of creation's purpose.", "The focus shifts from the abandoned wealth of the oppressors to the rescue of the Children of Israel. Their suffering is described as humiliating torment. The narrative gives liberation its ethical center, rather than treating the defeat of an army as sufficient by itself.", "Pharaoh is characterized through tyranny and transgression. These are the qualities the passage asks readers to recognize in the narrative. The verse does not provide the personal name of an Egyptian king or establish a mummy, tomb, or portrait as his.", "The Children of Israel receive deliberate divine favor within the rescue account. Read alongside the next verse, distinction brings testing rather than immunity from responsibility. The passage should not be converted into a claim about the permanent moral worth of an ethnicity.", "The gifts and signs contain a clear trial. The verse prevents the rescue narrative from ending in effortless privilege: receiving help creates a new field of responsibility. Reflection turns toward what a blessing asks of those who have received it.", "The short introduction brings the reader back from Pharaoh's story to the present audience's speech. The next verses state its rejection of resurrection. The transition connects the earlier narrative's lesson about power with the continuing question of final accountability.", "The quoted speakers insist that death will not be followed by being raised. Their claim is presented as the objection the chapter will answer, not as the Quran's conclusion. The issue is whether earthly experience exhausts the possibilities of existence.", "The challenge to bring back the ancestors seeks proof on the opponents' chosen terms. The chapter treats the promised gathering as a divine appointment rather than a performance summoned by demand. Readers can consider whether a question is open to an answer.", "The people of Tubba and earlier communities are recalled as stronger precedents for the audience's warning. The verse supplies no reign dates or precise identities for each group. Its argument concerns the failure of guilty power to guarantee continued security.", "Heaven, earth, and all between them are said not to have been created in play. This answers the assumption that life ends without a meaningful account. The verse connects the seriousness of human choices with the purpose of the wider world.", "Creation is affirmed as grounded in truth, even where people fail to recognize that purpose. The verse distinguishes what is real from what an audience commonly assumes. Its appeal is to reconsider the framework within which life and death are understood.", "The final decision is named as the appointed meeting for all. Its universality answers the audience's attempt to reduce existence to present life. The verse supplies a promise of judgment, while withholding any calendar date that people could calculate.", "A friend cannot secure another's rescue on that day, and ordinary sources of help fail. The statement challenges reliance on relationships as a substitute for accountability. The next verse immediately places this scene beside the possibility of divine mercy.", "An exception is made for the one who receives Allah's mercy, and might is paired with mercy in the closing names. The verse prevents the account from being reduced to helplessness alone. Ultimate security rests in a gift beyond human leverage.", "The tree of Zaqqum begins a stark warning scene about the outcome of sin. It belongs to the Quran's description of the unseen, not a botanical identification. Artwork may suggest severity without inventing a scientifically observable plant or its location.", "The short line identifies the tree as the sinner's food, reversing the ordinary association of food with comfort and nourishment. Its severity serves the chapter's warning. The image should be understood within the afterlife narrative rather than literal earthly geography.", "The comparison with molten substance conveys the torment's intensity. Pickthall renders the image with brass, while the Arabic has its own interpretive range. The purpose here is the warning's force, not a claim to reproduce or measure an unseen physical process.", "Boiling water continues the preceding comparison and makes the warning sensorially vivid. The verse's brevity intensifies its place in the connected scene. It should not be isolated from the chapter's earlier offer of guidance or the contrasting security that follows.", "The command to seize and drag the sinner exposes complete loss of the control once assumed. This is a judgment scene of the unseen, not an instruction for human punishment. Its moral emphasis is the end of arrogant self assurance.", "Boiling torment poured upon the head continues the warning against guilt and pride. The description belongs to revelation's afterlife account. This reader does not turn it into a scene for imitation or claim that an illustration can disclose its actual nature.", "The address recalls the sinner's claims to might and honor with bitter irony. A status used as protection is shown to offer none. The verse asks how public distinction appears when detached from humility and accountability before the Lord.", "The scene names the consequence that its subjects previously doubted. Recognition now follows the end of opportunity within the narrative. The warning addresses current readers so that reflection and changed conduct can occur before such recognition is merely retrospective.", "The passage turns sharply from torment to the safety of those who guarded against wrongdoing. Security is the first quality named before the Garden's pleasures. The contrast places freedom from fear at the heart of the promised welcome.", "Gardens and springs unfold the secure place introduced in the preceding verse. Familiar images of life and refreshment carry the promise of abundance. They remain descriptions of the unseen; earthly garden scenes offer a visual meditation rather than an exact reconstruction.", "Fine garments and people facing one another portray honor together with social ease. The scene's pleasures are shared rather than defined by rivalry. Its details contribute to the larger promise of security, welcome, and restored relationships in the Garden.", "The promise includes companions described through beauty, continuing the Garden's welcome. These words belong to the scriptural account of the unseen. The reader does not invent portraits, biographies, or physical specifications beyond the description supplied by the verse.", "The Garden's inhabitants request fruit in safety. The ordinary act of enjoying provision is freed from anxiety over danger or loss. Read with the opening assurance of security, this detail connects abundance with the peace in which it is received.", "The promise excludes a further death after earthly death and joins this lasting life with deliverance from punishment. It answers the earlier objection that death ends everything. Security now reaches beyond surroundings and possessions to the continuity of life itself.", "The promised outcome is called a bounty from the Lord and a supreme triumph. The wording gathers the preceding pleasures into gratitude. Success finally rests in divine generosity, rather than the worldly might or nobility mocked earlier in the passage.", "The Scripture is made accessible in the messenger's language so that people may take heed. Clarity serves response rather than display. The chapter returns from unseen outcomes to a present opportunity: words are available now for listening, understanding, and reflection.", "The closing instruction places the messenger and his opponents in a posture of waiting after the message has been delivered. The outcome is not forced by impatient demand. The reader is left with the seriousness of response during the time still given." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 16, "title": "The blessed night and the smoke", "summary": "A clear revelation arrives as mercy; distress exposes the danger of hearing a warning without lasting change.", "reflection": "What promise made in difficulty deserves attention again after relief?" }, { "start": 17, "end": 33, "title": "Leaving Pharaoh's power behind", "summary": "A trustworthy messenger calls for release, and an oppressed people departs while gardens and privilege are left behind.", "reflection": "What distinguishes strength that protects from power that humiliates?" }, { "start": 34, "end": 42, "title": "Creation and the Day of Decision", "summary": "The denial of resurrection is answered through earlier peoples, purposeful creation, and a universal appointment.", "reflection": "How would a final account change the way an ordinary choice is weighed?" }, { "start": 43, "end": 59, "title": "Warning, welcome, and lasting safety", "summary": "Severe warning contrasts with the Garden's security, companionship, and bounty before the chapter returns to accessible revelation.", "reflection": "Notice how safety, gratitude, and being together shape the promise of the Garden." } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification", "year": 622, "body": "The chapter is classified as Makkan. The displayed year marks the Hijrah boundary, not a precise date for the smoke, famine, or the chapter's individual passages.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" }, { "title": "The blessed night · no fixed calendar date here", "year": null, "body": "Ibn Kathir links verse 3 to the Night of Decree through Quranic cross references. This identifies a traditional interpretation without assigning an exact historical night or a modern recurring date.", "source": "https://quran.com/44:3/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Smoke and famine · Ibn Masud's reported reading", "year": null, "body": "Bukhari 4821 links the smoke with a severe famine and the greater seizure with Badr. This timeline records the interpretation without deriving a precise revelation year from the report.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4821" }, { "title": "Smoke among the signs of the Hour", "year": null, "body": "Muslim 2901a separately lists smoke among future signs. The report is preserved alongside the famine interpretation without assuming that both necessarily describe one dated event.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:2901a" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · broad revelation setting", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "body": "The chapter's Makkan classification supplies general orientation. The smoke artwork is interpretive atmosphere, not a photograph of a verified event or an assertion of its date.", "source": "https://quran.com/44/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "pharaoh-domain", "name": "Pharaoh's domain · narrative landscape", "body": "Gardens, springs, cultivated fields, and valued dwellings describe the wealth left behind. The reader does not identify a particular palace, dynasty, tomb, or mummy from these verses.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/044.htm", "image": 1 }, { "id": "sea", "name": "The sea of the rescue narrative", "body": "The departure and pursuing host appear in verses 23–24. This chapter does not name a modern crossing coordinate; no speculative seabed route is presented as established geography.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/044.htm", "image": 1 }, { "id": "garden", "name": "A place of safety · the promised Garden", "body": "Verses 51–57 describe gardens, springs, companionship, and freedom from another death. This is unseen promise rather than a terrestrial site; the image is a restrained visual interpretation.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/044.htm", "image": 3 } ], "people": [ { "id": "messenger", "title": "The noble messenger to Pharaoh", "body": "The messenger asks for the release of Allah's servants and seeks protection from violence. The story belongs to the Quran's account of Moses; the reader supplies no portrait or exact biographical date.", "verse": 17, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/044.htm" }, { "id": "pharaoh", "title": "Pharaoh · tyranny and excess", "body": "The narrative defines Pharaoh by oppression and transgression. It does not give an Egyptian personal name or identify a tomb or mummy, so this reader does not equate him with a specific king.", "verse": 31, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/044.htm" }, { "id": "israel", "title": "The Children of Israel · rescued and tested", "body": "The people are delivered from humiliating torment and receive signs containing a trial. Their favor is read alongside responsibility, without assigning inherited virtue or guilt to an entire ethnicity.", "verse": 30, "url": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/044.htm" }, { "id": "ibn-masud", "title": "Ibn Masud · a transmitted interpretation", "body": "His report in Bukhari connects the smoke passage with famine and relief followed by renewed rejection. This is an attributed interpretive report, kept distinct from the chapter's direct wording.", "verse": 10, "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4821" } ], "history": [ { "title": "The blessed night", "body": "Ibn Kathir associates the blessed night with Laylat al-Qadr using other Quranic passages. The reader does not assert a particular civil calendar night or portray divine decrees and their unseen transmission.", "source": "https://quran.com/44:3/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir" }, { "title": "Why two smoke reports are shown", "body": "Bukhari's report explains smoke through famine; Muslim's report lists smoke among signs before the Hour. Presenting both preserves a real interpretive distinction rather than replacing it with a single speculative prediction.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/muslim:2901a" }, { "title": "The famine report and its limits", "body": "Bukhari 4821 describes hunger, a request for rain, relief, and a return to rejection. Its narrator connects the greater seizure with Badr. No exact date for every verse is inferred from that sequence.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4821" }, { "title": "Scripture and visual reconstruction", "body": "The chapter narrates rescue from Pharaoh, purposeful creation, judgment, and the Garden. Its notes offer original close reading. Landscapes and architecture are illustrative; no image claims to establish ancient archaeology or expose the unseen.", "source": "https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/044.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Generally classified as Makkan. The 622 CE marker is a period boundary only. The famine interpretation of the smoke and the separate report of smoke among future signs are both attributed, with no calculated fulfillment or exact revelation date.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "حمٓ", "translation": "Ha, Meem." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "وَٱلْكِتَٰبِ ٱلْمُبِينِ", "translation": "By the clear Book," }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَنزَلْنَٰهُ فِى لَيْلَةٍۢ مُّبَٰرَكَةٍ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُنذِرِينَ", "translation": "Indeed, We sent it down during a blessed night. Indeed, We were to warn [mankind]." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "فِيهَا يُفْرَقُ كُلُّ أَمْرٍ حَكِيمٍ", "translation": "On that night is made distinct every precise matter -" }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "أَمْرًۭا مِّنْ عِندِنَآ ۚ إِنَّا كُنَّا مُرْسِلِينَ", "translation": "[Every] matter [proceeding] from Us. Indeed, We were to send [a messenger]" }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "رَحْمَةًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ", "translation": "As mercy from your Lord. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing." }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "رَبِّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَآ ۖ إِن كُنتُم مُّوقِنِينَ", "translation": "Lord of the heavens and the earth and that between them, if you would be certain." }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحْىِۦ وَيُمِيتُ ۖ رَبُّكُمْ وَرَبُّ ءَابَآئِكُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ", "translation": "There is no deity except Him; He gives life and causes death. [He is] your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers." }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "بَلْ هُمْ فِى شَكٍّۢ يَلْعَبُونَ", "translation": "But they are in doubt, amusing themselves." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "فَٱرْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ", "translation": "Then watch for the Day when the sky will bring a visible smoke." }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "يَغْشَى ٱلنَّاسَ ۖ هَٰذَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ", "translation": "Covering the people; this is a painful torment." }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "رَّبَّنَا ٱكْشِفْ عَنَّا ٱلْعَذَابَ إِنَّا مُؤْمِنُونَ", "translation": "[They will say], \"Our Lord, remove from us the torment; indeed, we are believers.\"" }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "أَنَّىٰ لَهُمُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ وَقَدْ جَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ", "translation": "How will there be for them a reminder [at that time]? And there had come to them a clear Messenger." }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "ثُمَّ تَوَلَّوْا۟ عَنْهُ وَقَالُوا۟ مُعَلَّمٌۭ مَّجْنُونٌ", "translation": "Then they turned away from him and said, \"[He was] taught [and is] a madman.\"" }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "إِنَّا كَاشِفُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابِ قَلِيلًا ۚ إِنَّكُمْ عَآئِدُونَ", "translation": "Indeed, We will remove the torment for a little. Indeed, you [disbelievers] will return [to disbelief]." }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "يَوْمَ نَبْطِشُ ٱلْبَطْشَةَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰٓ إِنَّا مُنتَقِمُونَ", "translation": "The Day We will strike with the greatest assault, indeed, We will take retribution." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "۞ وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَجَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌۭ كَرِيمٌ", "translation": "And We had already tried before them the people of Pharaoh, and there came to them a noble messenger," }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "أَنْ أَدُّوٓا۟ إِلَىَّ عِبَادَ ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنِّى لَكُمْ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٌۭ", "translation": "[Saying], \"Render to me the servants of Allah. Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger,\"" }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "وَأَن لَّا تَعْلُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنِّىٓ ءَاتِيكُم بِسُلْطَٰنٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ", "translation": "And [saying], \"Be not haughty with Allah. Indeed, I have come to you with clear authority." }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "وَإِنِّى عُذْتُ بِرَبِّى وَرَبِّكُمْ أَن تَرْجُمُونِ", "translation": "And indeed, I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord, lest you stone me." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "وَإِن لَّمْ تُؤْمِنُوا۟ لِى فَٱعْتَزِلُونِ", "translation": "But if you do not believe me, then leave me alone.\"" }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "فَدَعَا رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ قَوْمٌۭ مُّجْرِمُونَ", "translation": "And [finally] he called to his Lord that these were a criminal people." }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "فَأَسْرِ بِعِبَادِى لَيْلًا إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ", "translation": "[Allah said], \"Then set out with My servants by night. Indeed, you are to be pursued." }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "وَٱتْرُكِ ٱلْبَحْرَ رَهْوًا ۖ إِنَّهُمْ جُندٌۭ مُّغْرَقُونَ", "translation": "And leave the sea in stillness. Indeed, they are an army to be drowned.\"" }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "كَمْ تَرَكُوا۟ مِن جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَعُيُونٍۢ", "translation": "How much they left behind of gardens and springs" }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "وَزُرُوعٍۢ وَمَقَامٍۢ كَرِيمٍۢ", "translation": "And crops and noble sites" }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "وَنَعْمَةٍۢ كَانُوا۟ فِيهَا فَٰكِهِينَ", "translation": "And comfort wherein they were amused." }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "كَذَٰلِكَ ۖ وَأَوْرَثْنَٰهَا قَوْمًا ءَاخَرِينَ", "translation": "Thus. And We caused to inherit it another people." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُنظَرِينَ", "translation": "And the heaven and earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ نَجَّيْنَا بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ مِنَ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْمُهِينِ", "translation": "And We certainly saved the Children of Israel from the humiliating torment -" }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "مِن فِرْعَوْنَ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ عَالِيًۭا مِّنَ ٱلْمُسْرِفِينَ", "translation": "From Pharaoh. Indeed, he was a haughty one among the transgressors." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "وَلَقَدِ ٱخْتَرْنَٰهُمْ عَلَىٰ عِلْمٍ عَلَى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ", "translation": "And We certainly chose them by knowledge over [all] the worlds." }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُم مِّنَ ٱلْءَايَٰتِ مَا فِيهِ بَلَٰٓؤٌۭا۟ مُّبِينٌ", "translation": "And We gave them of signs that in which there was a clear trial." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ لَيَقُولُونَ", "translation": "Indeed, these [disbelievers] are saying," }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّا مَوْتَتُنَا ٱلْأُولَىٰ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُنشَرِينَ", "translation": "\"There is not but our first death, and we will not be resurrected." }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "فَأْتُوا۟ بِـَٔابَآئِنَآ إِن كُنتُمْ صَٰدِقِينَ", "translation": "Then bring [back] our forefathers, if you should be truthful.\"" }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "أَهُمْ خَيْرٌ أَمْ قَوْمُ تُبَّعٍۢ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ أَهْلَكْنَٰهُمْ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ مُجْرِمِينَ", "translation": "Are they better or the people of Tubba' and those before them? We destroyed them, [for] indeed, they were criminals." }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَمَا خَلَقْنَا ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا لَٰعِبِينَ", "translation": "And We did not create the heavens and earth and that between them in play." }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "مَا خَلَقْنَٰهُمَآ إِلَّا بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ", "translation": "We did not create them except in truth, but most of them do not know." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ مِيقَٰتُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ", "translation": "Indeed, the Day of Judgement is the appointed time for them all -" }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "يَوْمَ لَا يُغْنِى مَوْلًى عَن مَّوْلًۭى شَيْـًۭٔا وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ", "translation": "The Day when no relation will avail a relation at all, nor will they be helped -" }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "إِلَّا مَن رَّحِمَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ", "translation": "Except those [believers] on whom Allah has mercy. Indeed, He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "إِنَّ شَجَرَتَ ٱلزَّقُّومِ", "translation": "Indeed, the tree of zaqqum" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "طَعَامُ ٱلْأَثِيمِ", "translation": "Is food for the sinful." }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "كَٱلْمُهْلِ يَغْلِى فِى ٱلْبُطُونِ", "translation": "Like murky oil, it boils within bellies" }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "كَغَلْىِ ٱلْحَمِيمِ", "translation": "Like the boiling of scalding water." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "خُذُوهُ فَٱعْتِلُوهُ إِلَىٰ سَوَآءِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ", "translation": "[It will be commanded], \"Seize him and drag him into the midst of the Hellfire," }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "ثُمَّ صُبُّوا۟ فَوْقَ رَأْسِهِۦ مِنْ عَذَابِ ٱلْحَمِيمِ", "translation": "Then pour over his head from the torment of scalding water.\"" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "ذُقْ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْكَرِيمُ", "translation": "[It will be said], \"Taste! Indeed, you are the honored, the noble!" }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "إِنَّ هَٰذَا مَا كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَمْتَرُونَ", "translation": "Indeed, this is what you used to dispute.\"" }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى مَقَامٍ أَمِينٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, the righteous will be in a secure place;" }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَعُيُونٍۢ", "translation": "Within gardens and springs," }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "يَلْبَسُونَ مِن سُندُسٍۢ وَإِسْتَبْرَقٍۢ مُّتَقَٰبِلِينَ", "translation": "Wearing [garments of] fine silk and brocade, facing each other." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "كَذَٰلِكَ وَزَوَّجْنَٰهُم بِحُورٍ عِينٍۢ", "translation": "Thus. And We will marry them to fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes." }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "يَدْعُونَ فِيهَا بِكُلِّ فَٰكِهَةٍ ءَامِنِينَ", "translation": "They will call therein for every [kind of] fruit - safe and secure." }, { "n": 56, "arabic": "لَا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا ٱلْمَوْتَ إِلَّا ٱلْمَوْتَةَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ ۖ وَوَقَىٰهُمْ عَذَابَ ٱلْجَحِيمِ", "translation": "They will not taste death therein except the first death, and He will have protected them from the punishment of Hellfire" }, { "n": 57, "arabic": "فَضْلًۭا مِّن رَّبِّكَ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلْفَوْزُ ٱلْعَظِيمُ", "translation": "As bounty from your Lord. That is what is the great attainment." }, { "n": 58, "arabic": "فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرْنَٰهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ", "translation": "And indeed, We have eased the Qur'an in your tongue that they might be reminded." }, { "n": 59, "arabic": "فَٱرْتَقِبْ إِنَّهُم مُّرْتَقِبُونَ", "translation": "So watch, [O Muhammad]; indeed, they are watching [for your end]." } ], "glosses": [ [ "Ha Meem." ], [ "By the Book", "the clear," ], [ "Indeed, We", "revealed it", "in", "a Night", "Blessed.", "Indeed, We", "[We] are", "(ever) warning." ], [ "Therein", "is made distinct", "every", "affair,", "wise," ], [ "A command", "from", "Us.", "Indeed, We", "[We] are", "(ever) sending," ], [ "As Mercy", "from", "your Lord.", "Indeed, He", "[He]", "(is) the All-Hearer,", "the All-Knower." ], [ "Lord", "(of) the heavens", "and the earth", "and whatever", "(is) between both of them,", "if", "you are", "certain." ], [ "(There is) no", "god", "except", "Him;", "He gives life", "and causes death,", 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