| | Ahmed Hulusi rendition of Surah Smoke, The Evident Smoke(ad-Dukhan)
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| 44:1 | | Ha (life), Meem (knowledge – the reality of Muhammad); |
| 44:2 | | The Clear Book (the apparent sunnatullah and the knowledge of the reality). |
| 44:3 | | We disclosed it during a blessed night (an instance of the experience of non-existence)! We are the warners! |
| 44:4 | | The wisdom pertaining to all affairs are realized in it (in that state of ‘nonexistence’); |
| 44:5 | | By a command from Us! We are the disclosers (of the Rasuls)! |
| 44:6 | | As grace from the Rabb (of those who are disclosed)! Indeed, He is HU, the Sami, the Aleem. |
| 44:7 | | The Rabb of the heavens, the earth and everything in between... If you are of those who have attained certainty! |
| 44:8 | | There is no god, only HU, who gives life and takes life! He is your Rabb and the Rabb of your forefathers! |
| 44:9 | | But no, they are in doubt, amusing themselves (with the worldly life). |
| 44:10 | | Watch for the day (the time when the reality of man will become apparent) when the sky will bring a visible smoke (dukhan). |
| 44:11 | | It will encompass the people! It is a severe suffering (for not having realized and fulfilled the requisites of the reality)! |
| 44:12 | | “Our Rabb! Take us out of this state of suffering; we are indeed believers (now)!” |
| 44:13 | | How is it possible for them to be contemplating and taking a lesson now? When a clear Rasul had already come to them... |
| 44:14 | | But they turned away from him and said, “He is a well instructed madman (possessed).” |
| 44:15 | | Indeed, We will lighten the suffering a little... (But) you will return to your old state. |
| 44:16 | | At that time (when the sky brings the visible smoke) We will seize with the greatest seizure... Indeed, We take retribution for all offences! |
| 44:17 | | Indeed, We had tried the people of Pharaoh before them with difficulties... A karim (noble and generous) Rasul had come to them. |
| 44:18 | | (Saying), “Deliver the servants of Allah to me... Indeed, I am a trustworthy Rasul...” |
| 44:19 | | “Do not be arrogant towards Allah (do not defy the Rasul)... I have presented to you a clear and undeniable proof.” |
| 44:20 | | “And I have sought refuge in my Rabb (the Names comprising my essence) and your Rabb (your essence) from your desire to stone me to death.” |
| 44:21 | | “If you do not believe me then at least leave me alone!” |
| 44:22 | | (Moses) turned to his Rabb, “These are guilty (dualist) people!” |
| 44:23 | | (His Rabb said), “Set out with My servants in the night (take them away)... Indeed, you will be pursued.” |
| 44:24 | | “Leave the sea in its open state... Indeed, they are an army to be drowned.” |
| 44:25 | | They left behind many gardens and springs. |
| 44:26 | | And many crops and beautiful sites... |
| 44:27 | | And the many blessings with which they found comfort and pleasure! |
| 44:28 | | Thus it is... And we left them for another people to inherit. |
| 44:29 | | And the heaven and the earth did not weep for them (for those who drowned in corporeality) and nor were they looked upon (acknowledged). |
| 44:30 | | Indeed, We saved the children of Israel from that humiliating suffering... |
| 44:31 | | From Pharaoh (who symbolizes the ego)! Indeed, he was arrogant and a squanderer (who wasted his inherent essential forces). |
| 44:32 | | Indeed, We chose them (the children of Israel) over all the worlds (people) with the knowledge! |
| 44:33 | | And We gave them signs in which there was a clear trial. |
| 44:34 | | Indeed, they said: |
| 44:35 | | “There is nothing further than the first death; we are not to be resurrected after death!” |
| 44:36 | | “Then bring back our forefathers, if you are truthful!” |
| 44:37 | | Are they better or the people of Tubba’ (the ruler of Yemen) and those before them? We destroyed them! Indeed, they were guilty (dualists). |
| 44:38 | | And We did not create the heavens, the earth and everything in between for play... |
| 44:39 | | We created only as the Truth (the manifestations of Our Names)! But the majority of them do not know (this Truth). |
| 44:40 | | They will all be gathered at the specified time of differentiation. |
| 44:41 | | That is time when no friend will avail a friend! Nor will they be helped... |
| 44:42 | | Except those upon who Allah bestows His grace... Indeed, He is HU, the Aziz, the Rahim. |
| 44:43 | | Indeed, the tree of Zaqqum, |
| 44:44 | | Is food for the denier (who denies his essential reality)! |
| 44:45 | | It is like molten metal; it boils in their bellies. |
| 44:46 | | Like the boiling of hot water. |
| 44:47 | | “Seize him and drag him into the midst of Fire...” |
| 44:48 | | “Then pour the suffering of that boiling water over his head!” |
| 44:49 | | “Taste it! You considered yourself Aziz and Karim!” |
| 44:50 | | “This is the thing you doubted (and denied)!” |
| 44:51 | | Indeed, those who protected themselves are in safety. |
| 44:52 | | Among Paradises and springs! |
| 44:53 | | Dressed in fine silk and brocade, facing one another. |
| 44:54 | | Thus it is... We partnered them (the conscious humans manifesting the forces of the Names) with houris (bodies with superior and clear vision [heart])! |
| 44:55 | | They will ask therein for every kind of fruit (expressions of gnosis) – safe and secure. |
| 44:56 | | They will not taste death therein except the first death (they are immortal)! And He will have protected them from the suffering of burning. |
| 44:57 | | As bounty from your Rabb! This is the great attainment! |
| 44:58 | | And We eased the Quran in your language, that perhaps they may reflect on it. |
| 44:59 | | So, observe and wait! Indeed, they too are waiting. |
