Sahih Int'l: By the dawn
Sahih Int'l: And [by] ten nights
Sahih Int'l: And [by] the even [number] and the odd
Sahih Int'l: And [by] the night when it passes,
Sahih Int'l: Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?
Sahih Int'l: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ‘Aad –
Sahih Int'l: [With] Iram – who had lofty pillars,
Sahih Int'l: The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
Sahih Int'l: And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
Sahih Int'l: And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes? –
Sahih Int'l: [All of] whom oppressed within the lands
Sahih Int'l: And increased therein the corruption.
Sahih Int'l: So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
Sahih Int'l: Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
Sahih Int'l: And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."
Sahih Int'l: But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."
Sahih Int'l: No! But you do not honor the orphan
Sahih Int'l: And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
Sahih Int'l: And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,
Sahih Int'l: And you love wealth with immense love.
Sahih Int'l: No! When the earth has been leveled – pounded and crushed –
Sahih Int'l: And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,
Sahih Int'l: And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell – that Day, man will remember, but what good to him will be the remembrance?
Sahih Int'l: He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."
Sahih Int'l: So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
Sahih Int'l: And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
Sahih Int'l: [To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,
Sahih Int'l: Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
Sahih Int'l: And enter among My [righteous] servants
Sahih Int'l: And enter My Paradise."
