SURAH
44: AL DUKHAN (The Smoke).
In the name of Allah, the Gracious,
the Merciful
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Ha Mim.
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By Al-Kitab
that makes things clear;
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We sent it down during a blessed night: for we wish to warn.
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In it is made distinct every affair of wisdom,
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By command from our presence. For we send it,
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As a mercy from your Lord: for he hears and knows all things;
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The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if you have an
assured faith.
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There is no god but he: it is he who gives life and gives death, the Lord to
you and your earliest ancestors.
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Yet they play about in doubt.
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Then watch for the day when the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke plainly
visible,
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Enveloping the people: this will be a penalty grievous.
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They will say: Our Lord! Remove the penalty from us, for we do really believe!
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How shall the message be for them, seeing that a messenger explaining things
clearly has come to them.
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Yet they turn away from him and say: Tutored, but a man possessed!
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We shall indeed remove the penalty for a while, but truly you will revert to
your ways.
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One day we shall seize you with a mighty onslaught. We will indeed exact
retribution!
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We did, before them, try the people of Firaun: there came to them a messenger
most honourable,
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Saying: "Restore to me the servants of Allah: I am to you a messenger worthy
of all trust;
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"And be not arrogant as against Allah: for I come to you with clear authority.
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"For me, I
have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me.
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"If you believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."
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Then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."
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"March forth with my servants by night: for you are sure to be pursued.
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"And leave the sea as a furrow: for they are a host to be drowned."
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How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,
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And corn fields and noble buildings,
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And wealth wherein they had taken such delight!
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Thus we made other people inherit those things!
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And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a
respite.
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We did deliver aforetime Bani-Israel from humiliating punishment,
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Inflicted by Firaun, for he was arrogant among inordinate transgressors.
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And we chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,
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And granted them signs in which there was a clear trial.
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As to these people, they say:
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There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.
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Bring back our forefathers, if what you say is true!
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Are they better than the people of Tubba' and those who were before them? We
destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.
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We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in sport:
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We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.
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Truly the day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,
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The day when no protector can avail his client in anything, and no help can
they receive,
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Except such as receive Allah's mercy: for he is exalted in might, most
merciful.
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Truly the tree of Zaqqum
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Will be the food of the sinful,
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Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides,
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Like the boiling of scalding water,
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Seize him and drag him into the midst of the blazing fire!
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Then pour over his head the penalty of boiling water.
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Taste this! Truly were you mighty, full of honour!
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Truly this is what you used to doubt!
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As to the righteous, they will be in a position of security,
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Among gardens and springs;
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Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other;
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So it is, and we shall join them to companions with beautiful, big and lustrous
eyes.
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There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security;
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Nor will they there taste death, except the first death; and he will preserve
them from the penalty of the blazing fire,
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As a bounty from your Lord! That will be the supreme achievement!
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Truly, we have made this easy, in your tongue, in order that they may give
heed.
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So wait and watch; for they are waiting.