| | Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar rendition of Surah Smoke, The Evident Smoke(ad-Dukhan)
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| 44:1 | | +[ M\m. |
| 44:2 | | By the clear Book |
| 44:3 | | truly, We caused it to descend on a blessed night. Truly, We had been ones who warn. |
| 44:4 | | Every wise command is made clear in it, |
| 44:5 | | a command from Us. Truly, We had been ones who send it |
| 44:6 | | as a mercy from thy Lord. Truly, He is The Hearing, The Knowing, |
| 44:7 | | Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. If you had been ones who are certain. |
| 44:8 | | There is no god but He. It is He Who gives life and causes to die. He is your Lord and the Lord of your ancient fathers. |
| 44:9 | | Nay! They play in uncertainty. |
| 44:10 | | Then, thou be on the watch for a Day when the heavens will bring a clear smoke |
| 44:11 | | overcoming humanity. This is a painful punishment. |
| 44:12 | | Our Lord! Remove thou the punishment from us! Truly, we are ones who believe. |
| 44:13 | | What will there be as a reminder for them? A clear Messenger drew near them. |
| 44:14 | | Again, they turned away from him and they said: He is one who is taught by others, one who is possessed. |
| 44:15 | | Truly, We are ones who remove the punishment for a little. Truly, you are ones who revert to ingratitude. |
| 44:16 | | On the Day when We will seize by force with the greatest attack, truly, We will be ones who requite. |
| 44:17 | | And, certainly, We tried a folk of Pharaoh before them when there drew near them a generous Messenger: |
| 44:18 | | Give back to me the servants of God, the Children of Israel. Truly, I am a trustworthy Messenger to you. |
| 44:19 | | And rise not up against God. Truly, I am one who arrives with a clear authority. |
| 44:20 | | Truly, I took refuge in my Lord and your Lord so that you not stone me. |
| 44:21 | | But if you believe not in me, then, withdraw. |
| 44:22 | | So he called on his Lord: Truly, these are a folk, ones who sin. |
| 44:23 | | He said: Set thou forth with my servants by night. Truly, you will be ones who are followed. |
| 44:24 | | And leave the sea calmly as it is. Truly, they will be an army, one that is drowned. |
| 44:25 | | How many they left behind of gardens and springs |
| 44:26 | | and crops and generous stations |
| 44:27 | | and prosperity in which they had been, ones who are joyful! |
| 44:28 | | And, thus, We gave it as inheritance to another folk. |
| 44:29 | | And neither the heavens wept for them nor the earth nor had they been ones who are given respite. |
| 44:30 | | And, certainly, We delivered the Children of Israel from the despised punishment |
| 44:31 | | of Pharaoh. Truly, He had been one who exalts himself and was of the ones who are excessive. |
| 44:32 | | And, certainly, We chose them with knowledge above the worlds |
| 44:33 | | and gave them the signs in which there was a clear trial. |
| 44:34 | | Truly, these say: |
| 44:35 | | There is nothing but our first singled out death and we will not be ones who are revived. |
| 44:36 | | Then, bring our fathers back if you had been ones who are sincere. |
| 44:37 | | Are they better or a folk of Tubba and those who were before them? We caused them to perish. They, truly, had been ones who sin. |
| 44:38 | | And We created not the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them as ones who play! |
| 44:39 | | We created them not but with The Truth but most of them know not. |
| 44:40 | | Truly, the Day of Decision is the time appointed for them one and all, |
| 44:41 | | a Day when a defender will not avail another defender at all nor will they be helped |
| 44:42 | | but him on whom God had mercy. Truly, He is The Almighty, The Compassionate. |
| 44:43 | | Truly, the tree of Zaqqum |
| 44:44 | | will be the food of the sinful. |
| 44:45 | | Like molten copper it will bubble in the bellies, |
| 44:46 | | like boiling, scalding water. |
| 44:47 | | It will be said: Take him and drag him violently into the depths of hellfire. |
| 44:48 | | Again, then, unloose over his head the punishment of scalding water! |
| 44:49 | | Experience this! Truly, thou, thou art seemingly the mighty, the generous. |
| 44:50 | | Truly, this is what you had been contesting. |
| 44:51 | | Truly, the ones who are Godfearing will be in the station of trustworthiness |
| 44:52 | | among Gardens and springs |
| 44:53 | | wearing fine silk and brocade, ones who face one another. |
| 44:54 | | Thus, it is so. We will give in marriage lovely, most beautiful eyed ones. |
| 44:55 | | They will call therein for every kind of sweet fruit, ones that are safe. |
| 44:56 | | They will not experience death with them but the first singled out death. And He will protect them from the punishment of hellfire, |
| 44:57 | | a grace from thy Lord. That, it is the winning the sublime triumph! |
| 44:58 | | Truly, We made this easy in thy language so that perhaps they will recollect. |
| 44:59 | | So be on the watch! Truly, they are ones who watch. |
