| | Maududi rendition of Surah The Winnowing Winds, The Scatterers(adh-Dhariyat)
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| 51:1 | | By the winds which scatter dust, |
| 51:2 | | which carry clouds laden with water, |
| 51:3 | | which then smoothly speed along, |
| 51:4 | | and execute the great task of apportioning (rainfall): |
| 51:5 | | surely what you are being warned against is true, |
| 51:6 | | and the Judgement shall doubtlessly take place. |
| 51:7 | | By the heaven with its numerous forms: |
| 51:8 | | surely you are at variance (about the Hereafter); |
| 51:9 | | though only those who are averse to the Truth will turn away from (believing in it). |
| 51:10 | | Doomed are the conjecturers |
| 51:11 | | who are steeped in ignorance and heedlessness. |
| 51:12 | | They ask: "When will the Day of Judgement be?" |
| 51:13 | | It will be the Day when they shall be scourged by the Fire |
| 51:14 | | (and be told): "Taste your ordeal! This is what you were seeking to hasten." |
| 51:15 | | As for the God-fearing, they shall be in the midst of gardens and fountains, |
| 51:16 | | joyously receiving what their Lord will have granted them. Verily they did good works before (the coming of this Day): |
| 51:17 | | they used to sleep but little by night, |
| 51:18 | | and would ask for forgiveness at dawn, |
| 51:19 | | and in their wealth there was a rightful share for him who would ask and for the destitute. |
| 51:20 | | There are many Signs on earth for those of sure faith, |
| 51:21 | | and also in your own selves. Do you not see? |
| 51:22 | | And in heaven is your provision and also what you are being promised. |
| 51:23 | | So, by the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is certainly true, as true as the fact of your speaking. |
| 51:24 | | (O Prophet), did the story of Abraham´s honoured guests reach you? |
| 51:25 | | When they came to him, they said: "Peace"; he said: "Peace also be to you; (you seem to be) a group of strangers." |
| 51:26 | | Then he went back to his family and brought a fat roasted calf |
| 51:27 | | and laid it before them, saying: "Will you not eat?" |
| 51:28 | | Then he became afraid of them. They said: "Fear not," and announced to him the good news of (the birth of) a boy endowed with knowledge. |
| 51:29 | | So hearing his wife went forth shouting. She struck her face and exclaimed: "A barren old woman am I." |
| 51:30 | | They said: "So has your Lord said (that you shall have a boy). Surely He is Most Wise, All-Knowing." |
| 51:31 | | Abraham said: "Envoys (of Allah), what is your errand?" |
| 51:32 | | They replied: "Behold, we have been sent to a wicked people |
| 51:33 | | that we may unleash a shower of clay-stones |
| 51:34 | | marked by your Lord upon those who go beyond the limits." |
| 51:35 | | Then We evacuated there from all the believers |
| 51:36 | | – and We did not find there any, apart from a single house of Muslims – |
| 51:37 | | and We left therein a Sign for those who fear the grievous chastisement. |
| 51:38 | | There is also a Sign for you in the story of Moses when We sent him with a clear authority to Pharaoh. |
| 51:39 | | But Pharaoh turned away, showing arrogance on account of his power, and said (about Moses): "He is either a sorcerer or a madman." |
| 51:40 | | So We seized him and his hosts, and cast them into the sea. He became an object of much blame. |
| 51:41 | | There is also a Sign for you in (the story of) Ad, when We let loose upon them an ominous wind |
| 51:42 | | that left nothing that it came upon without reducing it to rubble. |
| 51:43 | | There is also a Sign for you in (the story of) Thamud. They were told: "Enjoy yourselves for a while." |
| 51:44 | | But they brazenly disobeyed their Lord´s command, and then a sudden chastisement overtook them while they looked on. |
| 51:45 | | They were unable even to stand up or protect themselves. |
| 51:46 | | Before all these We destroyed the people of Noah: they were a wicked people. |
| 51:47 | | And heaven – We made it with Our Own Power and We have the Power to do so. |
| 51:48 | | And the earth – We spread it out, and how well have We smoothed it! |
| 51:49 | | And of everything We have created pairs; perhaps you will take heed. |
| 51:50 | | Flee, therefore, to Allah. Surely I am a clear warner to you from Him; |
| 51:51 | | and do not set up any deity with Allah. Surely I am a clear warner to you from Him. |
| 51:52 | | Thus has it been (in the past): never did a Messenger come to the nations that preceded them but they said: "(He is) a sorcerer, or a mad-man." |
| 51:53 | | Have they arrived at a common understanding concerning this? No; but they are a people given to transgression. |
| 51:54 | | So turn your attention away from them; you shall incur no blame. |
| 51:55 | | Do, however, keep exhorting them; for exhortation benefits those endowed with faith. |
| 51:56 | | I created the jinn and humans for nothing else but that they may serve Me; |
| 51:57 | | I desire from them no provision, nor do I want them to feed Me. |
| 51:58 | | Surely Allah is the Bestower of all provision, the Lord of all power, the Strong. |
| 51:59 | | The wrong-doers shall receive a portion of the chastisements as their fellows (of yore). So let them not rush Me. |
| 51:60 | | Woe, then, betide those who disbelieved in that Day of theirs which they are being asked to hold in dread. |
