ad-Dukhan (Smoke, The Evident Smoke) at IslamAwakened.com

44:1 Ha-Mim. (Only Allah and the Messenger [blessings and peace be upon him] know the real meaning.

44:2 By this Light-Giving Book

44:3 Surely, We have sent it down in a blessed night. Surely, We are the Warner

44:4 In this (night) judgment is given on all matters of wisdom (separately)

44:5 By Our command; surely, it is We Who send

44:6 (It) is mercy from your Lord. Verily, He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing

44:7 The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, provided you have faith with certitude

44:8 There is no God but He. He is the One Who gives life and causes death. He is your Lord and the Lord of your fathers (as well)

44:9 Yet they are in doubt, busy playing

44:10 So wait for the Day when the sky will cause a clear smoke to appear

44:11 Which will envelop people (i.e., will encompass everything). That will be a painful torment

44:12 (They will then say:) ‘O our Lord! Remove this torment from us. Surely, we believe.

44:13 How can their acceptance of the admonition now be (of any use), whereas there came to them a Messenger with a clear exposition

44:14 But they turned their faces from him and (denigrating) they said: ‘(He) is a tutored madman.

44:15 Indeed, We remove the torment a little (but) you will certainly reiterate (the same disbelief)

44:16 The Day when We will seize with the Greatest Seizure, (that Day) We shall certainly exact revenge

44:17 And in fact, We put to trial the people of Pharaoh (also) before them and the exalted Messenger (Musa [Moses]) came to them

44:18 (He said:) ‘Hand over to me the servants of Allah (the Children of Israel). Verily, I am a trusted Messenger for your guidance and leadership

44:19 And do not rebel against Allah. I have come to you with the enlightening proof

44:20 And I have indeed sought the protection of my Lord and your Lord lest you should stone me

44:21 And if you do not believe in me, then keep away from me.

44:22 Then he prayed to his Lord: ‘Surely, they are a sinful people.

44:23 (Allah said:) ‘Then set out with My servants by night. You shall certainly be chased

44:24 And (after you pass through) leave the river still and split open. Surely, they are an army who will be drowned.

44:25 How many a garden and spring they left behind

44:26 And green crops and magnificent buildings

44:27 And blessings (and comforts) in which they used to luxuriate

44:28 So it happened! We made another people the inheritors of all that

44:29 Then neither the heaven nor the earth wept over them, nor were they given respite

44:30 And verily, We delivered the Children of Israel from a humiliating suffering

44:31 From Pharaoh. Indeed, he was of the most rebellious transgressors

44:32 And surely, We chose them (the Children of Israel) above (their contemporary civilizations of) the world on the basis of knowledge

44:33 And We bestowed upon them signs containing an obvious favour (and a clear trial)

44:34 Surely, they say

44:35 ‘There is nothing after our first death and we shall not be raised up (again)

44:36 So bring back our ancestors (alive) if you are truthful.

44:37 Well, are they better or the people of Tubba‘ (the people of As‘ad Abu Kurib al-Himyari, the King of Yemen) and those who were before them? We destroyed (all of) them. Surely, they were people given to evildoing

44:38 And We have not created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them merely in sport

44:39 We have created them both with (the purpose and reason) of truth. But most of them do not know

44:40 Surely, the Day of Judgment is the appointed time for all of them

44:41 The Day when a friend shall not avail a friend at all, nor will they be helped

44:42 Except those to whom Allah has shown mercy. (They will intercede for one another.) Surely, He is Almighty, Ever-Merciful

44:43 Indeed, the tree bearing thorny fruit

44:44 Will be the food of the major sinners

44:45 It will boil in the bellies like molten copper

44:46 Like the seething of simmering water

44:47 (It will be commanded:) ‘Seize him and drag him forcefully to the midst of Hell

44:48 Then torment him by pouring boiling water over his head

44:49 Taste it! Yes, you it is, the respectable and venerable (in your notion and claim)

44:50 Certainly, this is the very Hell you used to doubt.

44:51 Assuredly, the Godfearing will be in a place of calm and peace

44:52 Amid gardens and springs

44:53 Dressed in fine silk and heavy brocade, facing one another

44:54 So will it happen! And We shall marry them to fair maidens having lovely wide eyes

44:55 (Sitting) there, they will call calmly for every kind of fruit

44:56 There (in Paradise) they will not taste death except the first death (which would have passed). And Allah will save them from the torment of Hell

44:57 It is a bounty of your Lord (i.e., your Lord will bestow through your mediation alone). That is but a great success

44:58 So We have made this (Qur’an) easy in your own tongue so that they may take advice

44:59 So wait. Certainly, they (too) are waiting. (You will see Our revenge and their evil end, and they will see your glory and My favours to the believers through your mediation.