| | Ali Ünal rendition of Surah The Dawn, Daybreak(al-Fajr)
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| 89:1 | | By the dawn |
| 89:2 | | And ten nights |
| 89:3 | | And the even and the odd |
| 89:4 | | And the night as it journeys on (towards an end) |
| 89:5 | | Is there not in that a solemn oath for one endowed with reason (to reflect upon, so that it may guide him to the truth and keep him away from evils) |
| 89:6 | | Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the (tribe of) ‘Ad |
| 89:7 | | (The people of) Iram with many-columned (i.e. monumental) buildings |
| 89:8 | | The like of which had not been created in the land |
| 89:9 | | And with (the tribe of) Thamud, who hewed rocks in the valley (to make dwellings) |
| 89:10 | | And with the Pharaoh, who had formidable strongholds |
| 89:11 | | (All of) these rebelled (and transgressed all bounds) in the lands (where they lived) |
| 89:12 | | And increased manifold disorder and corruption therein |
| 89:13 | | Therefore your Lord let loose on them a scourge of punishment (coming in different forms) |
| 89:14 | | Your Lord is ever on the watch (over human and tests him in the blessings with which He favors him) |
| 89:15 | | And so, human – when his Lord tries him by bestowing favors on him – says: "My Lord has honored me." |
| 89:16 | | But whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, then he says, "My Lord has humiliated me." |
| 89:17 | | No indeed! You (O people) do not treat the orphan with kindness and generosity |
| 89:18 | | And do not urge one another to feed the destitute |
| 89:19 | | And you consume inheritance (belonging to you or others) with greed (without distinction of the lawful and unlawful) |
| 89:20 | | And you love wealth with a boundless ardor for it and for hoarding |
| 89:21 | | No indeed! When the earth is pounded to dust with pounding after pounding |
| 89:22 | | And your Lord comes (unveils His Power and Majesty), and the angels in row upon row |
| 89:23 | | And on that Day Hell is brought (forward); on that Day human will come to understand (what being favored with bounties meant and how he should have responded), but what will that understanding (then) avail him |
| 89:24 | | He will say: "Would that I had forwarded (some good deeds) for my life (to come)!" |
| 89:25 | | None can punish as He will punish on that Day |
| 89:26 | | And none can bind as He will bind (on that Day) |
| 89:27 | | (But to the righteous God will say:) "O you soul at rest (content with the truths of faith and God’s commands and His treatment of His creatures) |
| 89:28 | | "Return to your Lord, well-pleased (with Him and His treatment of you), and well-pleasing to Him |
| 89:29 | | "Enter, then, among My servants (fully content with servanthood to Me) |
| 89:30 | | "And enter my Paradise!" |
