Surah “The Dawn, Daybreak”

as rendered by Ali Quli Qara'i — 30 verses

89:1
By the Dawn
89:2
by the ten nights
89:3
by the Even and the Odd
89:4
by the night when it departs
89:5
Is there an oath in that for one possessing intellect
89:6
Have you not regarded how your Lord dealt with [the people of] ‘a€d
89:7
[and] Iram, [the city] of the pillars
89:8
the like of which was not created among cities
89:9
and [the people of] Thamud, who hollowed out the rocks in the valley
89:10
and Pharaoh, the impaler
89:11
—those who rebelled [against Allah] in their cities
89:12
and caused much corruption in them
89:13
so your Lord poured on them lashes of punishment
89:14
Indeed your Lord is in ambush
89:15
As for man, whenever his Lord tests him and grants him honour and blesses him, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me.’
89:16
But when He tests him and tightens for him his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’
89:17
No indeed! Rather you do not honour the orphan
89:18
and do not urge the feeding of the needy
89:19
and you eat the inheritance rapaciously
89:20
and you love wealth with much fondness
89:21
No indeed! When the earth is levelled to a plain
89:22
and your Lord and the angels arrive in ranks
89:23
the day when hell is brought [near], on that day man will take admonition but what will the admonition avail him
89:24
He will say, ‘Alas, had I sent ahead for my life!’
89:25
On that day none shall punish as He punishes
89:26
and none shall bind as He binds
89:27
‘O soul at peace
89:28
Return to your Lord, pleased, pleasing
89:29
Then enter among My servants
89:30
And enter My paradise!’