{ "number": 54, "slug": "qamar", "name": "Al-Qamar", "arabicName": "القمر", "meaning": "The Moon", "period": "Makkan", "tagline": "SIGNS, REMEMBERED WARNINGS & A CALL TO RESPOND", "overview": "A sign involving the moon opens a series of warnings through Noah, ‘Ad, Thamud, Lot, and Pharaoh. Repeated invitations to remember connect those accounts with present responsibility and a final promise of welcome.", "sources": [ { "title": "Arabic text · quranjson (MIT)", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/semarketir/quranjson/master/source/surah/surah_54.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=54&verse=1" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=16" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=19" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=24" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=5" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=8" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=12" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=43" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=48" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=52" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=27" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=31" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=35" }, { "title": "Word glosses · Quranic Arabic Corpus (GPL-3.0)", "url": "https://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=54&verse=39" }, { "title": "Classification and overview · Quran.com", "url": "https://quran.com/54/info" }, { "title": "The reported splitting of the moon · Bukhari 4864", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4864" }, { "title": "Verse 45 recited at Badr · Bukhari 4875", "url": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4875" }, { "title": "622 CE Hijrah boundary · Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911)", "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" } ], "titles": [ "The moon and the approaching Hour", "A sign dismissed", "Denial and an appointed resolution", "News that should restrain", "Wisdom without a willing response", "A summons beyond ordinary refusal", "Emerging like scattered locusts", "Hastening toward the call", "Noah rejected by his people", "An appeal for help", "The opened sky", "Springs rise from the earth", "A vessel of planks and nails", "A voyage under care", "A sign for those who remember", "Warning and consequence together", "A Quran made accessible to remembrance", "The warning to ‘Ad", "A relentless wind", "Like uprooted palm trunks", "The refrain after the wind", "Another invitation to remember", "Thamud rejects the warnings", "Rejecting a human messenger", "Resentment at the reminder", "A claim soon tested", "The she-camel as a test", "Shared access to water", "A companion attacks the camel", "The warning recalled again", "Like discarded enclosure twigs", "Remembering after Thamud", "The warning to Lot’s people", "A storm and a night rescue", "Rescue described as grace", "The warning had already been given", "The guests threatened", "The appointed morning arrives", "The warning becomes consequence", "Remembering after Lot’s account", "Warnings reach Pharaoh’s house", "Power cannot prevent the account", "No assumed exemption", "Confidence in a united force", "A force put to flight", "The Hour is the greater appointment", "The condition of the guilty", "The Fire in the future warning", "Everything created by measure", "A single command", "Earlier examples brought close", "Deeds recorded", "Small and great alike", "Gardens and rivers for the mindful", "Established in the Mighty King’s favor" ], "notes": [ "The opening joins the nearness of the Hour with the moon’s splitting. Bukhari 4864 preserves a report of the sign during the Prophet’s lifetime. The illustration evokes the scriptural account rather than claiming modern photographic evidence.", "The observers turn away from a sign and label it an illusion. The verse examines their response rather than the absence of something to consider. The following lines connect that refusal with desire and an eventual decision.", "Denial follows desire, while every matter reaches a settled outcome. The contrast places immediate preference beside a consequence it cannot indefinitely postpone. The verse prepares the chapter’s repeated movement from warning toward an account.", "Accounts carrying a warning have already reached the audience. The question is whether they will affect conduct. The earlier communities described later are therefore presented as lessons to receive, not simply stories to observe at a distance.", "The wisdom is sufficient, yet the warning does not benefit those refusing it. The line distinguishes the value of a message from its reception. The messenger cannot force the attentive response that the chapter repeatedly invites.", "The messenger is told to turn away as the account moves toward a terrible summons. The coming scene belongs to resurrection. The verse gives no earthly caller, route, or calendar date to identify in a reconstruction.", "People emerge from graves with downcast eyes, compared with scattered locusts. The image conveys number and movement within the future scene. It is a comparison, not a claim that human beings become those insects.", "The people hurry toward the summoner and recognize the Day’s difficulty. Their earlier ability to dismiss a warning is gone. The scene sets the final account beside the historical warnings that will now follow.", "Noah’s people deny him, call him a madman, and drive him back. The narrative names hostility toward a messenger. The accusation belongs to that conflict and is not a diagnosis or a general statement about mental illness.", "Noah calls upon his Lord after being overcome. The short appeal places his weakness and dependence at the center of the scene. The following response is narrated as divine help, not as strength he independently commands.", "Pouring water comes from the opened heaven in the flood account. The image answers the preceding appeal for help. The chapter gives no exact ancient date or meteorological record by which to identify a modern storm.", "Water also gushes from the earth, meeting the water from above. The scene emphasizes an appointed purpose in the narrative. It does not identify an excavated flood layer or provide a complete geographic map of the event.", "Noah is carried on a vessel described through its planks and nails. These simple materials make the rescue concrete. The verse supplies neither exact dimensions nor an archaeological identification of a surviving ship.", "The vessel moves under divine care as a response to the rejection Noah suffered. The language conveys protection within the narrative. The illustration shows waters and a ship without portraying the prophet or giving divine reality a physical form.", "The rescue is left as a sign and followed by a question about remembrance. The point is reception of its lesson. The verse is not presented here as evidence that a particular modern object has been verified as the Ark.", "The refrain asks the listener to consider the severity of punishment after warnings. It closes the flood account before the invitation to remember. The chapter joins consequence with prior communication rather than presenting judgment without a message.", "The invitation to remember follows Noah’s story. The Quran is described as made accessible for that purpose. The question asks for a willing response, without implying that every interpretive difficulty can be resolved without learning or care.", "The people of ‘Ad enter the sequence through their rejection of warnings. Their account will be brief and forceful. The chapter supplies no absolute date or named ruin that could establish an exact archaeological setting.", "A raging wind is sent in the account of ‘Ad. The day is described by its continuing calamity rather than a calendar date. The verse does not identify every destructive wind as the same narrated judgment.", "The people swept away are compared with uprooted palms. The comparison conveys the collapse of apparent strength. The illustration can show a devastated landscape and fallen trees while leaving human suffering unpictured in graphic detail.", "The question about punishment and warnings returns after ‘Ad’s account. Its repetition asks the hearer to relate this story to the preceding one. Distinct events are gathered around the shared responsibility to respond.", "After the account of the wind, the Quran’s accessibility to remembrance is repeated. The familiar wording creates a pause for response. A new historical example has given the same invitation a different immediate setting.", "Thamud is introduced through the same pattern of refusal. The following verses reveal the objections voiced within that community. The passage names the people without assigning dates or identifying later monuments as their verified construction.", "The opponents object to following one human being from among themselves. Status and familiarity become reasons to reject the message. Their words belong to the narrated dispute, not a reliable account of the messenger’s character.", "The audience questions why the reminder should come to this one person and calls him a liar. The objection reveals resentment about who carries the message. It does not engage the responsibility the warning places upon them.", "The reply announces that the accusation will be exposed. Tomorrow belongs to the sequence of this particular narrative. It is not an instruction to predict a date for judgment upon a present-day opponent.", "The she-camel is sent as a test, with the warner told to watch and remain patient. The animal has a specific role in the story. Its illustration need not invent a precise ancient species or location.", "Water is to be apportioned between the camel and the people, with each turn attended. The test reaches into a practical shared resource. The verse connects response to the sign with restraint in ordinary access and use.", "The people call a companion who hamstrings the camel. The act violates the responsibility just described. The chapter does not give the man’s name here, and the illustration can convey the aftermath without showing graphic animal injury.", "The recurring question follows the attack upon the camel. The placement connects a deliberate breach with the consequence being narrated. It asks the listener to remember the warning and shared obligation that preceded the act.", "A single shout is followed by the image of dry material discarded by a cattle-fold builder. Apparent strength becomes something brittle and spent. The comparison is not a claim about an identified excavated enclosure.", "The invitation to remember returns after Thamud’s story. Its repeated form gives continuity to a chapter containing several different communities. The hearer is again asked to move from knowing an account to receiving its lesson.", "Lot’s people are introduced through rejection of warnings. Their account follows the established pattern while presenting its own circumstances. The verse gives no date or city name from which to fix an exact archaeological location.", "A storm of stones is contrasted with the rescue of Lot’s family during the last part of the night. The sequence belongs to the narrated event. It is not tied to a modern calendar date or verified ruin.", "The rescue is named as divine grace, with gratitude connected to reward. The line adds mercy to the preceding account of danger. It keeps the story from becoming only an image of destruction.", "Lot had warned his people of the coming severity, but they disputed it. The sequence emphasizes communication before consequence. The verse does not describe an uninformed community encountering an unexplained event without any prior call.", "The people seek Lot’s guests for an abusive purpose, and the narrative describes their sight being taken. The immediate scene concerns a threatening crowd and violated hospitality. It is not a warrant to harm any present-day group.", "The decreed consequence arrives in the early morning of the story. The timing connects with the preceding rescue at night. It supplies narrative sequence rather than an absolute date that can be placed on a modern calendar.", "The address to taste the consequence repeats the link with earlier warnings. It belongs within the narrated judgment. The reader is not authorized to imitate that punishment or decide another person’s final standing.", "The Quran’s accessibility to remembrance is repeated once more. After the story’s severe images, the chapter again addresses its hearer directly. The invitation is to thoughtful reception, not passive fascination with the account’s dramatic events.", "The warnings reach the house of Pharaoh, extending the sequence beyond the previous communities. The title identifies royal power without naming a particular ruler. The chapter supplies no dynasty, verified tomb, or identified mummy.", "Pharaoh’s house denies the signs and is seized by the Mighty and Powerful. Human authority is set beside a power it cannot defeat. The brief account does not establish a detailed chronology of the Egyptian court.", "The present audience is asked whether it is better protected than earlier deniers or holds a written exemption. The question challenges exceptionalism. The remembered accounts are brought directly into the listeners’ own sense of responsibility.", "The opponents claim strength in their collective force. The next verse will overturn that expectation. The passage questions confidence built on numbers alone rather than identifying a contemporary army as the subject of the claim.", "The promised rout reverses the preceding boast. Bukhari 4875 records the Prophet reciting this verse at Badr. That attributed later application is distinguished from an assertion that the whole chapter was first revealed at that battle.", "The Hour is presented as the greater and more bitter encounter beyond earthly defeat. The verse keeps historical consequence from becoming the full account. Its date remains undisclosed, even while the promise is stated with certainty.", "The guilty are described through error and a terrible condition in Pickthall’s rendering. The surrounding verses concern the final account. This is not a method for diagnosing illness or identifying hidden guilt in people around us.", "The scene intensifies the warning of the Fire. It belongs to the chapter’s revealed account of judgment, rather than a human sentence to enact. The artwork can convey severity through landscape without graphic bodily suffering.", "All things are created according to measure. The statement places the preceding accounts within divine order and knowledge. The following record of deeds also retains responsibility, so the verse should not be used to excuse harmful conduct.", "The command is compared in swiftness with the blink of an eye. The comparison expresses the absence of difficulty for divine power. It is not a physical measurement or a timetable for an earthly process.", "The audience is reminded of earlier counterparts who were destroyed and asked whether anyone will remember. The question renews the chapter’s central invitation. Historical distance is not allowed to make the lesson irrelevant to present conduct.", "Everything they did is recorded. The statement shifts attention from dramatic outcomes to the conduct that preceded them. It emphasizes comprehensive accountability without giving human observers access to a complete record of another person’s life.", "Both small and great matters are written down. The detail prevents responsibility from being limited to spectacular events. Ordinary choices remain within the account, even when they attract little attention from the people around us.", "The closing scene turns toward gardens and rivers for the righteous. Welcome stands beside the chapter’s severe warnings. The landscape belongs to the promised hereafter, without an earthly location or a claim of exact visual reconstruction.", "The final verse places the welcomed people in an honored, secure position with the Mighty King. It concludes the account in favor rather than fear alone. The divine title remains unpictured, with no earthly throne-room substitute." ], "sections": [ { "start": 1, "end": 8, "title": "The moon, a sign, and the approaching summons", "summary": "A sign is dismissed, yet the chapter places that refusal beside the approaching account and the limits of persuasion.", "reflection": "What can make a person turn away even after receiving something worth considering?" }, { "start": 9, "end": 17, "title": "Noah’s appeal and the vessel on rising waters", "summary": "Rejection leads to an appeal for help, floodwaters, rescue, and the first repeated invitation to remember.", "reflection": "How can a remembered account become a lesson rather than only a dramatic story?" }, { "start": 18, "end": 32, "title": "The wind of ‘Ad and Thamud’s shared water", "summary": "Apparent strength fails, while a community’s response to the she-camel is tested through restraint and access to water.", "reflection": "What does fair access to a shared resource reveal about a community?" }, { "start": 33, "end": 42, "title": "Threatened guests and the house of Pharaoh", "summary": "Lot’s warnings and the royal household’s refusal continue the chapter’s pattern of message, response, and consequence.", "reflection": "How should power be used when another person’s safety is in your care?" }, { "start": 43, "end": 55, "title": "No exemption from the account", "summary": "Boasting is challenged, every deed is recorded, and the chapter ends with gardens and an honored welcome for the mindful.", "reflection": "Which small action deserves care even if nobody else notices it?" } ], "timeline": [ { "title": "Before 622 CE · Makkan classification", "year": 622, "body": "Al-Qamar is classified as Makkan. This is the Hijrah period boundary, not an exact revelation date or a dated astronomical observation.", "source": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Hejira" }, { "title": "The moon’s splitting · an attributed report", "year": null, "body": "Bukhari 4864 records the moon splitting during the Prophet’s lifetime. The report supplies no exact calendar date used by this reader, and the artwork is not modern photographic evidence.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4864" }, { "title": "Earlier communities · no absolute chronology supplied", "year": null, "body": "Noah, ‘Ad, Thamud, Lot’s people, and Pharaoh appear as warnings. The chapter does not provide absolute dates or a complete chronological table for them.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/054.htm" }, { "title": "Verse 45 at Badr · a later reported recitation", "year": null, "body": "Bukhari 4875 records the Prophet reciting the verse about a routed force at Badr. That occasion is kept distinct from the Makkan classification of the chapter.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4875" } ], "places": [ { "id": "makkah", "name": "Makkah · the broad setting of the address", "body": "The Makkan classification places the chapter’s address within the earlier mission. No exact observation point for the moon or original recitation building is asserted.", "lat": 21.4225, "lon": 39.8262, "source": "https://quran.com/54/info", "image": 0 }, { "id": "flood", "name": "The floodwaters and wooden vessel", "body": "The Quran describes water from sky and earth and a vessel of planks and nails. The scene is unlocated and does not claim to depict a verified recovered Ark.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/054.htm", "image": 1 }, { "id": "shared-water", "name": "Thamud’s water-sharing place", "body": "The chapter describes shared turns at water without naming the site. The image is a narrative reconstruction, not an identification of later rock-cut monuments as Thamud’s work.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/054.htm", "image": 2 }, { "id": "badr", "name": "Badr · the reported recitation of verse 45", "body": "Bukhari 4875 places a recitation of this verse at Badr. The contextual marker concerns that report, not a claim that the full surah originated at the battle.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4875", "image": 4 } ], "people": [ { "id": "noah", "title": "Noah · a rejected messenger seeking help", "body": "His appeal and rescue form the first extended account. The text gives no exact ancient dates, verified grave, or portrait; the ship and waters carry the illustrative scene.", "verse": 10 }, { "id": "ad-thamud", "title": "‘Ad and Thamud · two distinct communities", "body": "Their warnings concern destructive wind and the test of the she-camel. The reader keeps those stories distinct and does not attach them to an unsourced archaeological chronology.", "verse": 23 }, { "id": "lot", "title": "Lot · warning and the safety of guests", "body": "His people’s rejection includes a threat against guests. The account is read through that narrated conflict and hospitality, without a prophet portrait or a claimed modern location.", "verse": 37 }, { "id": "pharaoh", "title": "Pharaoh’s household · power confronted by signs", "body": "The title is given without a royal personal name or dynasty. This surah alone cannot identify the ruler’s palace, tomb, or mummy.", "verse": 41 }, { "id": "present-audience", "title": "The audience challenged to remember", "body": "The repeated questions turn earlier accounts toward the hearer’s own conduct. Numbers, influence, and distance from ancient events do not provide the exemption challenged by the chapter.", "verse": 43 } ], "history": [ { "title": "The moon in scripture and a primary report", "body": "The opening states that the moon split, and Bukhari 4864 records the sign during the Prophet’s lifetime. The edition attributes that report without adding a precise date or a modern scientific proof claim.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4864" }, { "title": "A verse recalled at Badr", "body": "Bukhari 4875 records verse 45 recited in the setting of Badr. This provides a reported application of the warning, rather than a reason to replace the chapter’s Makkan classification.", "source": "https://sunnah.com/bukhari:4875" }, { "title": "Why the refrain returns", "body": "The invitation to remember occurs after several distinct stories. Its repetition makes reception of the lesson part of the chapter’s structure, not a decorative break between dramatic scenes.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/054.htm" }, { "title": "Ancient names without invented sites", "body": "The chapter names several peoples and prophets but supplies few geographical details. The illustrated settings remain broad, with no fabricated tombs, recovered vessels, or exact dates attached to the accounts.", "source": "https://original.sacred-texts.com/isl/pick/054.htm" } ], "revelationNote": "Makkan. The 622 CE marker gives a period boundary only. The moon report and the later recitation at Badr are separately attributed. Ancient settings remain unlocated unless named in the text; no prophet, divine figure, or graphic punishment is depicted.", "verses": [ { "n": 1, "arabic": "ٱقْتَرَبَتِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ وَٱنشَقَّ ٱلْقَمَرُ", "translation": "The Hour has come near, and the moon has split [in two]." }, { "n": 2, "arabic": "وَإِن يَرَوْا۟ ءَايَةًۭ يُعْرِضُوا۟ وَيَقُولُوا۟ سِحْرٌۭ مُّسْتَمِرٌّۭ", "translation": "And if they see a miracle, they turn away and say, \"Passing magic.\"" }, { "n": 3, "arabic": "وَكَذَّبُوا۟ وَٱتَّبَعُوٓا۟ أَهْوَآءَهُمْ ۚ وَكُلُّ أَمْرٍۢ مُّسْتَقِرٌّۭ", "translation": "And they denied and followed their inclinations. But for every matter is a [time of] settlement." }, { "n": 4, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ جَآءَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَنۢبَآءِ مَا فِيهِ مُزْدَجَرٌ", "translation": "And there has already come to them of information that in which there is deterrence -" }, { "n": 5, "arabic": "حِكْمَةٌۢ بَٰلِغَةٌۭ ۖ فَمَا تُغْنِ ٱلنُّذُرُ", "translation": "Extensive wisdom - but warning does not avail [them]." }, { "n": 6, "arabic": "فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ ۘ يَوْمَ يَدْعُ ٱلدَّاعِ إِلَىٰ شَىْءٍۢ نُّكُرٍ", "translation": "So leave them, [O Muhammad]. The Day the Caller calls to something forbidding," }, { "n": 7, "arabic": "خُشَّعًا أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ كَأَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌۭ مُّنتَشِرٌۭ", "translation": "Their eyes humbled, they will emerge from the graves as if they were locusts spreading," }, { "n": 8, "arabic": "مُّهْطِعِينَ إِلَى ٱلدَّاعِ ۖ يَقُولُ ٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ هَٰذَا يَوْمٌ عَسِرٌۭ", "translation": "Racing ahead toward the Caller. The disbelievers will say, \"This is a difficult Day.\"" }, { "n": 9, "arabic": "۞ كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍۢ فَكَذَّبُوا۟ عَبْدَنَا وَقَالُوا۟ مَجْنُونٌۭ وَٱزْدُجِرَ", "translation": "The people of Noah denied before them, and they denied Our servant and said, \"A madman,\" and he was repelled." }, { "n": 10, "arabic": "فَدَعَا رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنِّى مَغْلُوبٌۭ فَٱنتَصِرْ", "translation": "So he invoked his Lord, \"Indeed, I am overpowered, so help.\"" }, { "n": 11, "arabic": "فَفَتَحْنَآ أَبْوَٰبَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَآءٍۢ مُّنْهَمِرٍۢ", "translation": "Then We opened the gates of the heaven with rain pouring down" }, { "n": 12, "arabic": "وَفَجَّرْنَا ٱلْأَرْضَ عُيُونًۭا فَٱلْتَقَى ٱلْمَآءُ عَلَىٰٓ أَمْرٍۢ قَدْ قُدِرَ", "translation": "And caused the earth to burst with springs, and the waters met for a matter already predestined." }, { "n": 13, "arabic": "وَحَمَلْنَٰهُ عَلَىٰ ذَاتِ أَلْوَٰحٍۢ وَدُسُرٍۢ", "translation": "And We carried him on a [construction of] planks and nails," }, { "n": 14, "arabic": "تَجْرِى بِأَعْيُنِنَا جَزَآءًۭ لِّمَن كَانَ كُفِرَ", "translation": "Sailing under Our observation as reward for he who had been denied." }, { "n": 15, "arabic": "وَلَقَد تَّرَكْنَٰهَآ ءَايَةًۭ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ", "translation": "And We left it as a sign, so is there any who will remember?" }, { "n": 16, "arabic": "فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ", "translation": "And how [severe] were My punishment and warning." }, { "n": 17, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ", "translation": "And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?" }, { "n": 18, "arabic": "كَذَّبَتْ عَادٌۭ فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ", "translation": "'Aad denied; and how [severe] were My punishment and warning." }, { "n": 19, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًۭا صَرْصَرًۭا فِى يَوْمِ نَحْسٍۢ مُّسْتَمِرٍّۢ", "translation": "Indeed, We sent upon them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune," }, { "n": 20, "arabic": "تَنزِعُ ٱلنَّاسَ كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍۢ مُّنقَعِرٍۢ", "translation": "Extracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted." }, { "n": 21, "arabic": "فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ", "translation": "And how [severe] were My punishment and warning." }, { "n": 22, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ", "translation": "And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?" }, { "n": 23, "arabic": "كَذَّبَتْ ثَمُودُ بِٱلنُّذُرِ", "translation": "Thamud denied the warning" }, { "n": 24, "arabic": "فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَبَشَرًۭا مِّنَّا وَٰحِدًۭا نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذًۭا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ وَسُعُرٍ", "translation": "And said, \"Is it one human being among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness." }, { "n": 25, "arabic": "أَءُلْقِىَ ٱلذِّكْرُ عَلَيْهِ مِنۢ بَيْنِنَا بَلْ هُوَ كَذَّابٌ أَشِرٌۭ", "translation": "Has the message been sent down upon him from among us? Rather, he is an insolent liar.\"" }, { "n": 26, "arabic": "سَيَعْلَمُونَ غَدًۭا مَّنِ ٱلْكَذَّابُ ٱلْأَشِرُ", "translation": "They will know tomorrow who is the insolent liar." }, { "n": 27, "arabic": "إِنَّا مُرْسِلُوا۟ ٱلنَّاقَةِ فِتْنَةًۭ لَّهُمْ فَٱرْتَقِبْهُمْ وَٱصْطَبِرْ", "translation": "Indeed, We are sending the she-camel as trial for them, so watch them and be patient." }, { "n": 28, "arabic": "وَنَبِّئْهُمْ أَنَّ ٱلْمَآءَ قِسْمَةٌۢ بَيْنَهُمْ ۖ كُلُّ شِرْبٍۢ مُّحْتَضَرٌۭ", "translation": "And inform them that the water is shared between them, each [day of] drink attended [by turn]." }, { "n": 29, "arabic": "فَنَادَوْا۟ صَاحِبَهُمْ فَتَعَاطَىٰ فَعَقَرَ", "translation": "But they called their companion, and he dared and hamstrung [her]." }, { "n": 30, "arabic": "فَكَيْفَ كَانَ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ", "translation": "And how [severe] were My punishment and warning." }, { "n": 31, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ صَيْحَةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ فَكَانُوا۟ كَهَشِيمِ ٱلْمُحْتَظِرِ", "translation": "Indeed, We sent upon them one blast from the sky, and they became like the dry twig fragments of an [animal] pen." }, { "n": 32, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ", "translation": "And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?" }, { "n": 33, "arabic": "كَذَّبَتْ قَوْمُ لُوطٍۭ بِٱلنُّذُرِ", "translation": "The people of Lot denied the warning." }, { "n": 34, "arabic": "إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حَاصِبًا إِلَّآ ءَالَ لُوطٍۢ ۖ نَّجَّيْنَٰهُم بِسَحَرٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, We sent upon them a storm of stones, except the family of Lot - We saved them before dawn" }, { "n": 35, "arabic": "نِّعْمَةًۭ مِّنْ عِندِنَا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِى مَن شَكَرَ", "translation": "As favor from us. Thus do We reward he who is grateful." }, { "n": 36, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَنذَرَهُم بَطْشَتَنَا فَتَمَارَوْا۟ بِٱلنُّذُرِ", "translation": "And he had already warned them of Our assault, but they disputed the warning." }, { "n": 37, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ رَٰوَدُوهُ عَن ضَيْفِهِۦ فَطَمَسْنَآ أَعْيُنَهُمْ فَذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ", "translation": "And they had demanded from him his guests, but We obliterated their eyes, [saying], \"Taste My punishment and warning.\"" }, { "n": 38, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ صَبَّحَهُم بُكْرَةً عَذَابٌۭ مُّسْتَقِرٌّۭ", "translation": "And there came upon them by morning an abiding punishment." }, { "n": 39, "arabic": "فَذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابِى وَنُذُرِ", "translation": "So taste My punishment and warning." }, { "n": 40, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ يَسَّرْنَا ٱلْقُرْءَانَ لِلذِّكْرِ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ", "translation": "And We have certainly made the Qur'an easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?" }, { "n": 41, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ جَآءَ ءَالَ فِرْعَوْنَ ٱلنُّذُرُ", "translation": "And there certainly came to the people of Pharaoh warning." }, { "n": 42, "arabic": "كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا كُلِّهَا فَأَخَذْنَٰهُمْ أَخْذَ عَزِيزٍۢ مُّقْتَدِرٍ", "translation": "They denied Our signs, all of them, so We seized them with a seizure of one Exalted in Might and Perfect in Ability." }, { "n": 43, "arabic": "أَكُفَّارُكُمْ خَيْرٌۭ مِّنْ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكُمْ أَمْ لَكُم بَرَآءَةٌۭ فِى ٱلزُّبُرِ", "translation": "Are your disbelievers better than those [former ones], or have you immunity in the scripture?" }, { "n": 44, "arabic": "أَمْ يَقُولُونَ نَحْنُ جَمِيعٌۭ مُّنتَصِرٌۭ", "translation": "Or do they say, \"We are an assembly supporting [each other]\"?" }, { "n": 45, "arabic": "سَيُهْزَمُ ٱلْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّونَ ٱلدُّبُرَ", "translation": "[Their] assembly will be defeated, and they will turn their backs [in retreat]." }, { "n": 46, "arabic": "بَلِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَٱلسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَىٰ وَأَمَرُّ", "translation": "But the Hour is their appointment [for due punishment], and the Hour is more disastrous and more bitter." }, { "n": 47, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ وَسُعُرٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, the criminals are in error and madness." }, { "n": 48, "arabic": "يَوْمَ يُسْحَبُونَ فِى ٱلنَّارِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ ذُوقُوا۟ مَسَّ سَقَرَ", "translation": "The Day they are dragged into the Fire on their faces [it will be said], \"Taste the touch of Saqar.\"" }, { "n": 49, "arabic": "إِنَّا كُلَّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقْنَٰهُ بِقَدَرٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, all things We created with predestination." }, { "n": 50, "arabic": "وَمَآ أَمْرُنَآ إِلَّا وَٰحِدَةٌۭ كَلَمْحٍۭ بِٱلْبَصَرِ", "translation": "And Our command is but one, like a glance of the eye." }, { "n": 51, "arabic": "وَلَقَدْ أَهْلَكْنَآ أَشْيَاعَكُمْ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ", "translation": "And We have already destroyed your kinds, so is there any who will remember?" }, { "n": 52, "arabic": "وَكُلُّ شَىْءٍۢ فَعَلُوهُ فِى ٱلزُّبُرِ", "translation": "And everything they did is in written records." }, { "n": 53, "arabic": "وَكُلُّ صَغِيرٍۢ وَكَبِيرٍۢ مُّسْتَطَرٌ", "translation": "And every small and great [thing] is inscribed." }, { "n": 54, "arabic": "إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَنَهَرٍۢ", "translation": "Indeed, the righteous will be among gardens and rivers," }, { "n": 55, "arabic": "فِى مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ عِندَ مَلِيكٍۢ مُّقْتَدِرٍۭ", "translation": "In a seat of honor near a Sovereign, Perfect in Ability." } ], "glosses": [ [ "Has come near", "the Hour", "and has split", "the moon." ], [ "And if", "they see", "a Sign,", "they turn away", "and say,", "\"Magic", "continuing.\"" ], [ "And they denied", "and followed", "their desires,", "but (for) every", "matter", "(will be a) settlement." ], [ "And certainly", "has come to them", "of", "the information", "wherein", "wherein", "(is) deterrence," ], [ "Wisdom", "perfect,", "but not", "will avail", "the warnings." ], [ "So turn away", "from them.", "(The) Day,", "will call", "the 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