| | Arthur John Arberry rendition of Surah The Winnowing Winds, The Scatterers(adh-Dhariyat)
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| 51:1 | | By the swift scatterers |
| 51:2 | | and the burden-bearers |
| 51:3 | | and the smooth runners |
| 51:4 | | and the partitioners, |
| 51:5 | | surely that you are promised is true, |
| 51:6 | | and surely the Doom is about to fall! |
| 51:7 | | By heaven with all its tracks |
| 51:8 | | surely you speak at variance, |
| 51:9 | | and perverted therefrom are some. |
| 51:10 | | Perish the conjecturers |
| 51:11 | | who are dazed in perplexity |
| 51:12 | | asking, 'When shall be the Day of Doom?' |
| 51:13 | | Upon the day when they shall be tried at the Fire: |
| 51:14 | | 'Taste your trial! This is that you were seeking to hasten.' |
| 51:15 | | Surely the godfearing shall be among gardens and fountains |
| 51:16 | | taking whatsoever their Lord has given them; they were good-doers before that. |
| 51:17 | | Little of the night would they slumber, |
| 51:18 | | and in the mornings they would ask for forgiveness; |
| 51:19 | | and the beggar and the outcast had a share in their wealth. |
| 51:20 | | In the earth are signs for those having sure faith; |
| 51:21 | | and in your selves; what, do you not see? |
| 51:22 | | And in heaven is your provision, and that you are promised. |
| 51:23 | | So by the Lord of heaven and earth, it is as surely true as that you have speech. |
| 51:24 | | Hast thou received the story of the honoured guests of Abraham? |
| 51:25 | | When they entered unto him, saying 'Peace!' he said 'Peace! You are a people unknown to me.' |
| 51:26 | | Then he turned to his household and brought a fattened calf, |
| 51:27 | | and he laid it before them saying, 'Will you not eat?' |
| 51:28 | | Then he conceived a fear of them. They said, 'Be not afraid!' And they gave him good tidings of a cunning boy. |
| 51:29 | | Then came forward his wife, clamouring, and she smote her face, and said, 'An old woman, barren!' |
| 51:30 | | They said, 'So says thy Lord; He is the All-wise, the All-knowing.' |
| 51:31 | | Said he, 'And what is your business, envoys?' |
| 51:32 | | They said, 'We have been sent to a people of sinners, |
| 51:33 | | to loose upon them stones of clay |
| 51:34 | | marked with thy Lord for the prodigal. |
| 51:35 | | So We brought forth such believers as were in it, |
| 51:36 | | but We found not therein except one house of those that have surrendered themselves. |
| 51:37 | | And therein We left a sign to those who fear the painful chastisement. |
| 51:38 | | And also in Moses, when We sent him unto Pharaoh, with a clear authority, |
| 51:39 | | but he turned his back, with his court, saying, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!' |
| 51:40 | | So We seized him and his hosts, and We cast them into the sea, and he blameworthy. |
| 51:41 | | And also in Ad, when We loosed against them the withering wind |
| 51:42 | | that left nothing it came upon, but made it as stuff decayed. |
| 51:43 | | And also in Thamood, when it was said to them, 'Take your enjoyment for a while!' |
| 51:44 | | Then they turned in disdain from the commandment of their Lord, and the thunderbolt took them and they themselves beholding |
| 51:45 | | and they were not able to stand upright, and were not helped. |
| 51:46 | | And the people of Noah before; surely they were an ungodly people. |
| 51:47 | | And heaven -- We built it with might, and We extend it wide. |
| 51:48 | | And the earth -- We spread it forth; O excellent Smoothers! |
| 51:49 | | And of everything created We two kinds; haply you will remember. |
| 51:50 | | Therefore flee unto God! I am a clear warner from Him to you. |
| 51:51 | | And set not up with God another god; I am a clear warner from Him to you. |
| 51:52 | | Even so not a Messenger came to those before them but they said, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!' |
| 51:53 | | What, have they bequeathed it one to another? Nay, but they are an insolent people. |
| 51:54 | | So turn thou from them; thou wilt not be reproached. |
| 51:55 | | And remind; the Reminder profits the believers. |
| 51:56 | | I have not created jinn and mankind except to serve Me. |
| 51:57 | | I desire of them no provision, neither do I desire that they should feed Me. |
| 51:58 | | Surely God is the All-provider, the Possessor of Strength, the Ever-Sure. |
| 51:59 | | The evildoers shall have their portion, like the portion of their fellows; so let them not hasten Me! |
| 51:60 | | So woe to the unbelievers, for that day of theirs that they are promised. |
