By the break of dawn
By ten nights
By the even and the odd
By the night as it traverses
Is there in that an oath for one of objective sense?
Have you not seen how your Rabb dealt with ʿĀd
of Iram, the many-columned [settlement]—
one which had none other of its like created in the territories.
And the Thamūd who cut through boulders by the valley
and Pharaoh, owner of the anchor-blocks—
The ones who transgressed beyond bounds across the territories
and proliferated therein that rot of disharmony and discord?
Then, your Rabb unleashed on them a scourge of punishment
Surely, your Rabb is ever with vigilant oversight.
So, as for man, whenever his Rabb tests him— if it be by being generous to him and blessing him— he says, “My Rabb has honored me.”
But when it be that HE tests him by limiting his provision— he says, “My Rabb has put me down.”
Not ever so! Rather, you are not generous to the orphan
Nor do you promote the feeding of the poor
And you devour the inheritance, in an indiscriminate devouring!
And you love material wealth with abounding love.
No! When the earth is levelled to a flat, without contours
and your Rabb unveils [HIS Majesty] and the angels, row upon row
and Jahannam that day is brought to bear— that day man will genuinely reflect. And why and for what is the Remembrance for him [that day]?
He says, “Ah how I wish I had contributed forward for my [Real] life.”
Then, on that day not anyone will punish HIS punishment.
and not will anyone bind HIS bond.
O tranquil soul,
come back to your Rabb content and accepted—
Enter among MY devotees,
and enter MY Paradise.