Surah “The Dawn, Daybreak”

as rendered by Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto — 30 verses

89:1
By the dawn
89:2
By ten nights
89:3
By the even and the odd
89:4
By the night as it passes,
89:5
Is there in that only an oath, for one highly intelligent one?
89:6
Have you not considered [O man] how your Lord dealt with [the people of] Aad,
89:7
[Of the town] Iram, having lofty pillars,
89:8
Whose, was not created, alike within the towns?
89:9
And [with the people of] Thamud, those who carved out the rocks in the valley?
89:10
And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?
89:11
Those who turned themselves into taghut in the lands
89:12
So they add therein rebels.
89:13
So your Lord [O Muhammad] poured down upon them a scourge of punishment.
89:14
Indeed, your Lord is surely ever watchful.
89:15
And as for the human, whenever his Lord does not try him by hardship but honours him and favours him, he says, "My Lord has honoured me."
89:16
And whenever He does not try him in easiness and restricts against him his provision, then he says, "My Lord has abased me."
89:17
No such should be there [Qur'an 89:15-16]. No but is there [Qur'an 89:15-16]. You [people] do not honour the orphan
89:18
And you do not encourage one another upon feeding the needy.
89:19
And you devour inheritance, devouring greedily,
89:20
And you love wealth, the immense love.
89:21
No such should be there [Qur'an 89:15-16]. When the earth was crushed, crushing after crushing
89:22
And your Lord comes with the angels, row after row,
89:23
And Hell is brought on that Day [in view]. On that Day, the human will remember, but how the remembrance be relevant to him?
89:24
He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent forward for my life [something relevant]."
89:25
So on that Day, none will punish as His punishing,
89:26
And none will bind as His binding.
89:27
[The pious will be told], "O serene soul,
89:28
Return to your Lord, well pleased and pleasing [to Him],
89:29
And enter within My slaves
89:30
And enter My Paradise."