| | Rashad Khalifa rendition of Surah The Winnowing Winds, The Scatterers(adh-Dhariyat)
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| 51:1 | | The blowing winds. |
| 51:2 | | Bearing rain. |
| 51:3 | | Bringing provisions. |
| 51:4 | | Distributing them as commanded. |
| 51:5 | | What is promised to you will surely come to pass. |
| 51:6 | | The Day of Judgment is inevitable. |
| 51:7 | | Despite the perfectly created sky. |
| 51:8 | | You continue to dispute the truth. |
| 51:9 | | Deviating therefrom are the deviators. |
| 51:10 | | Woe to the falsifiers. |
| 51:11 | | In their blundering, they are totally heedless. |
| 51:12 | | They question the Day of Judgment. |
| 51:13 | | The day they are presented to the fire. |
| 51:14 | | Taste the retribution; this is what you used to challenge. |
| 51:15 | | The righteous have deserved gardens and springs. |
| 51:16 | | They receive their Lord's rewards, for they used to be pious. |
| 51:17 | | Rarely did they sleep the whole night. |
| 51:18 | | At dawn, they prayed for forgiveness. |
| 51:19 | | A portion of their money was set aside for the beggar and the needy. |
| 51:20 | | The earth is full of signs for those who are certain. |
| 51:21 | | And within yourselves; can you see? |
| 51:22 | | In the heaven is your provision, and everything that is promised to you. |
| 51:23 | | By the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is as true as the fact that you speak. |
| 51:24 | | Have you noted the history of Abraham's honorable guests? |
| 51:25 | | They visited him, saying, "Peace." He said, "Peace to you, strangers!" |
| 51:26 | | He asked his family to prepare a fat calf. |
| 51:27 | | When he offered it to them, he remarked, "Do you not eat?" |
| 51:28 | | He harbored fear of them. They said, "Have no fear," and they gave good news of a knowledgeable son. |
| 51:29 | | His wife was astonished. Noting her wrinkled face: "I am a sterile old woman." |
| 51:30 | | They said, "Thus said your Lord. He is the Most Wise, the Omniscient." |
| 51:31 | | He said, "What are you up to, O messengers?" |
| 51:32 | | They said, "We have been dispatched to criminal people. |
| 51:33 | | "We will shower them with rocks of clay. |
| 51:34 | | "Marked by your Lord for the transgressors." |
| 51:35 | | We then delivered all the believers. |
| 51:36 | | We did not find in it except one house of submitters. |
| 51:37 | | We set it up as a lesson for those who fear the painful retribution. |
| 51:38 | | In Moses (there is a lesson). We sent him to Pharaoh with manifest proofs. |
| 51:39 | | But he turned away, in arrogance, and said, "Magician, or crazy." |
| 51:40 | | Consequently, we punished him and his troops. We threw them into the sea, and he is the one to blame. |
| 51:41 | | In `Aad (there is a lesson). We sent upon them disastrous wind. |
| 51:42 | | Anything that it came upon was utterly destroyed. |
| 51:43 | | In Thamoud (there is a lesson). They were told, "Enjoy temporarily." |
| 51:44 | | They rebelled against the command of their Lord. Consequently, the lightning struck them as they looked. |
| 51:45 | | They could never get up, nor were they helped. |
| 51:46 | | And the people of Noah before that; they were wicked people. |
| 51:47 | | We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it. |
| 51:48 | | And we made the earth habitable; a perfect design. |
| 51:49 | | We created a pair (male and female) of everything, that you may take heed. |
| 51:50 | | You shall escape to GOD. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner. |
| 51:51 | | KHALIFA:Do not set up beside GOD any other god. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner. |
| 51:52 | | Consistently, when a messenger went to the previous generations, they said, "Magician," or, "Crazy." |
| 51:53 | | Did they make an agreement with each other? Indeed, they are transgressors. |
| 51:54 | | You may disregard them; you cannot be blamed. |
| 51:55 | | And remind, for the reminder benefits the believers. |
| 51:56 | | I did not create the jinns and the humans except to worship Me alone. |
| 51:57 | | I need no provisions from them, nor do I need them to feed Me. |
| 51:58 | | GOD is the Provider, the Possessor of all power, the Supreme. |
| 51:59 | | The transgressors have incurred the same fate as their previous counterparts; they should not challenge. |
| 51:60 | | Woe to those who disbelieved from the day that is awaiting them. |
