| | Aisha Bewley rendition of Surah Smoke, The Evident Smoke(ad-Dukhan)
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| 44:1 | | Ha Mim. |
| 44:2 | | By the Book which makes things clear. |
| 44:3 | | We sent it down on a blessed night; We are constantly giving warning. |
| 44:4 | | During it every wise decree is specified |
| 44:5 | | by a command from Our presence. We are constantly sending out |
| 44:6 | | as a mercy from your Lord. He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing: |
| 44:7 | | the Lord of the heavens and the earth and everything in between them, if you are people with certainty. |
| 44:8 | | There is no god but Him — He gives life and causes to die — your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers, the previous peoples. |
| 44:9 | | Yet they play around in doubt. |
| 44:10 | | So be on the watch for a day when heaven brings forth a distinctive smoke, |
| 44:11 | | which enshrouds mankind. ´This is a painful punishment! |
| 44:12 | | Our Lord, remove the punishment from us. We are really muminun.´ |
| 44:13 | | How can they expect a Reminder when a clear Messenger has already come to them? |
| 44:14 | | But then they turned away from him and said, ´He is an instructed madman!´ |
| 44:15 | | We remove the punishment a little, and you revert! |
| 44:16 | | On the day We launch the Great Assault We will certainly take Our revenge. |
| 44:17 | | Before them We put Pharaoh´s people to the test when a noble Messenger came to them, saying |
| 44:18 | | ´Hand over to me the slaves of Allah. I am a trustworthy Messenger to you.´ |
| 44:19 | | And: ´Do not exalt yourselves above Allah. I come to you with clear authority. |
| 44:20 | | I have sought refuge with my Lord and your Lord against your stoning me. |
| 44:21 | | If you do not have iman in me, then at least leave me alone.´ |
| 44:22 | | He called out to his Lord, ´These are evildoing people.´ |
| 44:23 | | ´Set out with My slaves by night. You will certainly be pursued. |
| 44:24 | | Leave the sea divided as it is. They are an army who will be drowned.´ |
| 44:25 | | How many gardens and fountains they left behind, |
| 44:26 | | and ripe crops and noble residences. |
| 44:27 | | What comfort and ease they had delighted in! |
| 44:28 | | So it was. Yet We bequeathed these things to another people. |
| 44:29 | | Neither heaven nor earth shed any tears for them and they were granted no reprieve. |
| 44:30 | | We rescued the tribe of Israel from the humiliating punishment, |
| 44:31 | | from Pharaoh — he was haughty, one of the profligate. |
| 44:32 | | We chose them knowingly above all other people |
| 44:33 | | and We gave them Signs containing a clear trial. |
| 44:34 | | These people say, |
| 44:35 | | ´There is nothing more than our first death. We will not be raised up a second time. |
| 44:36 | | Bring us our fathers if you are telling the truth.´ |
| 44:37 | | Are they better or the people of Tubba´ and those before them whom We destroyed? They were certainly evildoers. |
| 44:38 | | We did not create the heavens and the earth and everything between them as a game. |
| 44:39 | | We did not create them except with truth but most of them do not know it. |
| 44:40 | | The Day of Decision will be their appointment all together: |
| 44:41 | | the Day when friends will be of no use at all to one another, and they will not be helped — |
| 44:42 | | except for those Allah has mercy on. He is the Almighty, the Most Merciful. |
| 44:43 | | The Tree of az-Zaqqum |
| 44:44 | | is the food of the wicked, |
| 44:45 | | seething in the belly like molten brass, |
| 44:46 | | as boiling water bubbles and seethes. |
| 44:47 | | ´Seize him and drag him bodily into the middle of the Blazing Fire. |
| 44:48 | | Then pour the punishment of boiling water on his head.´ |
| 44:49 | | ´Taste that! You are the mighty one, the noble one! |
| 44:50 | | This is the very thing you used to doubt.´ |
| 44:51 | | The people who have taqwa will be in a safe place |
| 44:52 | | amid gardens and fountains, |
| 44:53 | | wearing fine silk and rich brocade, face to face with one another. |
| 44:54 | | So it will be. We will marry them to dark-eyed maidens. |
| 44:55 | | They will call there for fruit of every kind, in complete security. |
| 44:56 | | They will not taste any death there — except for the first one. He will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire. |
| 44:57 | | A favour from your Lord. That is the Great Victory. |
| 44:58 | | We have made it easy in your own tongue so that hopefully they will pay heed. |
| 44:59 | | So watch and wait. They too are waiting. |
