- 54:1
- The Hour is near, and the Moon is cleft asunder
- 54:2
- But if they see a sign, they turn away and say, “This is a mysterious illusion.
- 54:3
- They reject it and follow their lusts, but every issue has its appointed time
- 54:4
- There have already come to them recitals with which there is enough to check them
- 54:5
- Perfect wisdom, but warners do not profit them
- 54:6
- Therefore, turn away from them. The day that the caller will call them to a terrible affair
- 54:7
- They will come forth, their eyes humbled from their graves, torpid like locusts scattered abroad
- 54:8
- Hastening with eyes transfixed towards the caller. “This is a trying day,” the unbelievers will say
- 54:9
- Before them the people of Noah rejected it. They rejected Our servant and said, “This one is possessed.” And he was driven out
- 54:10
- Then he called on his Lord, “I am one overcome, will You help me?
- 54:11
- So We opened the gates of heaven, with water pouring out
- 54:12
- And We caused the earth to gush forth with springs, so the waters met and rose to the extent decreed
- 54:13
- But We bore him on an ark made of broad planks and caulked with palm-fiber
- 54:14
- It floats under our eyes. A reward for one who had been rejected
- 54:15
- And We have left it as a sign. Then is there any who will receive advice
- 54:16
- But how was My penalty and My warning
- 54:17
- And We have indeed made the Quran intuitive. Then are there any who will receive advice
- 54:18
- The ‘Ad also rejected it. Then how was My penalty and My warnings
- 54:19
- For We sent against them a furious wind, on a day of violent disaster
- 54:20
- Plucking out human beings, as if they were roots of palm trees torn up
- 54:21
- Yes, how was My penalty and My warning
- 54:22
- And indeed We have made the Quran intuitive. Then will any experience it
- 54:23
- The Thamud rejected their warners
- 54:24
- For they said, “What, a human being, one from among ourselves? Should we follow such a one? Truly we would then be in error, and in madness
- 54:25
- “Is it that the message is sent to him of all people among us? No, he is a liar, an insolent one.
- 54:26
- They will know on the morrow, who is the liar, and the insolent one
- 54:27
- For We will send the she-camel as a trial for them. So watch them, and be patient
- 54:28
- And tell them that the water is to be divided between them. Each one’s right to drink being brought forward
- 54:29
- But they called to their companion, and he took a sword in hand, and hamstrung her
- 54:30
- How was My penalty and My warning
- 54:31
- For We sent against them a single mighty blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens livestock
- 54:32
- And indeed We have made the Quran intuitive. Then will any experience it
- 54:33
- The people of Lot rejected the warning
- 54:34
- We sent against them a violent tornado with showers of stones which caused them to perish, except Lot’s household. We delivered them by early dawn
- 54:35
- As a grace from Us. This is how We reward those who give thanks
- 54:36
- And Lot warned them of Our punishment, but they disputed about the warning
- 54:37
- And they even sought to abduct his guests, but We blinded their eyes. Now taste My punishment and My warning
- 54:38
- Early in the morning an abiding punishment indeed seized them
- 54:39
- “So taste My punishment and My warning.
- 54:40
- And indeed We have made the Quran intuitive. Then will any experience it
- 54:41
- Also to the people of Pharaoh came warners
- 54:42
- The people rejected all of Our signs, but We seized them with a penalty from One Exalted in Power, able to carry out His will
- 54:43
- Are your unbelievers better than they are? Or have you immunity in the sacred books
- 54:44
- Or do they say, “We, acting together, can defend ourselves”
- 54:45
- Soon will their party be on the retreat, and they will show their backs
- 54:46
- No, the Hour is the time promised them, and that Hour will be more terrible and most bitter
- 54:47
- Truly those in sin are the ones straying in mind, and in madness
- 54:48
- The day they will be dragged through the fire on their faces. Taste the touch of hell.
- 54:49
- Indeed, We have created all things in due proportion and measure
- 54:50
- And Our command is only a single act, like the blink of an eye
- 54:51
- And in the past, We have caused groups like you to perish. Then is there any who will receive advice
- 54:52
- All that they do is noted in books
- 54:53
- Every matter, small and great, is on record
- 54:54
- As for the righteous, they will be in the presence of gardens and rivers
- 54:55
- In an assembly of truth, in the presence of the Sovereign, Omnipotent
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