| | Wahiduddin Khan rendition of Surah The Winnowing Winds, The Scatterers(adh-Dhariyat)
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| 51:1 | | By the winds that scatter the dust, |
| 51:2 | | and those that bear the burden [of the rain], |
| 51:3 | | and those speeding along with ease, |
| 51:4 | | and distributing the command of God at His behest! |
| 51:5 | | What you are promised is certainly true: |
| 51:6 | | the Judgement will surely come to pass |
| 51:7 | | by the heaven full of tracks, |
| 51:8 | | surely you are deeply at variance [as to what to believe] |
| 51:9 | | he is turned away from [the truth] who is destined to be so turned away. |
| 51:10 | | May the conjecturers perish, |
| 51:11 | | who flounder in the depths of ignorance. |
| 51:12 | | They ask, When will the Day of Judgement come? |
| 51:13 | | It will be the Day when they are tormented at the Fire. |
| 51:14 | | Taste your trial. This is what you sought to hasten. |
| 51:15 | | Surely the God-fearing will find themselves in the midst of gardens and springs. |
| 51:16 | | They shall receive what their Lord will bestow on them. They have done good works in the past, |
| 51:17 | | sleeping little in the night-time, |
| 51:18 | | praying at dawn for Gods pardon, |
| 51:19 | | and sharing their possessions with the beggars and the deprived. |
| 51:20 | | On the earth, and in yourselves, |
| 51:21 | | there are signs for firm believers. Do you not see then? |
| 51:22 | | In heaven is your sustenance, and also that which you are promised. |
| 51:23 | | By the Lord of the heaven and the earth, it is certainly the truth. It is as true as your ability to speak. |
| 51:24 | | Have you heard the story of Abrahams honoured guests? |
| 51:25 | | When they came to him they said, Peace! He answered, Peace! [saying to himself]. They are strangers. |
| 51:26 | | Then he turned quickly to his household, and brought a fatted calf, |
| 51:27 | | and placed it before them. Will you not eat? he said, |
| 51:28 | | beginning to be afraid of them. But they said, Dont be afraid; and they gave him the good news of a son who would be endowed with knowledge. |
| 51:29 | | Then his wife came forward, crying and beating her brow. She said, I am surely a barren, old woman. |
| 51:30 | | Such is the will of your Lord, they replied. He is the Wise, the All Knowing. |
| 51:31 | | Abraham asked, What is your errand, O messengers? |
| 51:32 | | They replied, We have been sent to a sinful people, |
| 51:33 | | so that we may bring down upon them a shower of stones of clay, |
| 51:34 | | which are marked by your Lord for the punishment of those guilty of excesses. |
| 51:35 | | We saved all the faithful in the town. |
| 51:36 | | We found in it only one household of true believers |
| 51:37 | | and We left therein a sign for those who fear a painful punishment. |
| 51:38 | | There is another sign in Moses: We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority. |
| 51:39 | | But he turned his back, he and his courtiers, and said, This is a sorcerer or a madman. |
| 51:40 | | Then We seized him and his army and cast them all into the sea: he himself [Pharaoh] was to blame. |
| 51:41 | | There is another sign in the [tribe of] Ad, when We sent against them a life-destroying wind |
| 51:42 | | and it destroyed everything over which it passed and reduced it to dust. |
| 51:43 | | In the Thamud [there was another sign], when they were told, Make the most of your lives for a while. |
| 51:44 | | But they rebelled against the command of their Lord. So the thunderbolt overtook them while they looked on: |
| 51:45 | | they could not stand up again, nor could they defend themselves. |
| 51:46 | | [We destroyed] the people of Noah before them. They were certainly a sinful people. |
| 51:47 | | We built the universe with Our might, giving it its vast expanse. |
| 51:48 | | We have spread out the earthhow well We have spread it out |
| 51:49 | | and We created pairs of all things so that you might reflect. |
| 51:50 | | Therefore hasten to God; truly, I am sent by Him to give you clear warning. |
| 51:51 | | Do not set up another god, along with God. I come from Him to warn you plainly. |
| 51:52 | | Likewise, there came no messenger to those before them, but they said, He is a sorcerer or a madman. |
| 51:53 | | Have they handed this down to one another? They are certainly a people who exceed all bounds, |
| 51:54 | | so ignore them you are not to blame |
| 51:55 | | but keep on exhorting them, for exhortation benefits the believers. |
| 51:56 | | I created the jinn and mankind only so that they might worship Me: |
| 51:57 | | I seek no sustenance from them, nor do I want them to feed Me |
| 51:58 | | it is God who is the great Sustainer, the Mighty One, the Invincible. |
| 51:59 | | The wrongdoers will meet the same fate as their predecessors let them not ask Me to hasten on [the punishment] |
| 51:60 | | woe, then, to those who are bent on denying the truth, when the Day arrives which they have been promised. |
