# Surah 44

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> Surah 44
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> Al Dukhan (The Smoke)
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> In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
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> 1.  Ha Mim.
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> 2.  By the Book that makes things clear--
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> 3.  We sent it down during a blessed night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil).
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> 4.  In that (night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom,
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> 5.  By command, from Our presence.  For We (ever) send (revelations),
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> 6.  As a Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things);
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> 7.  The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith.
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> 8.  There is no god but He: it is He Who gives life and gives death--the Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors.
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> 9.  Yet they play about in doubt.
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> 10.  Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible.
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> 11.  Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous.
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> 12.  (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us for We do really believe!"
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> 13.  How shall the Message be (effectual) for them, seeing that a Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them--
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> 14.  Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"
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> 15.  We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways).
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> 16.  One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught We will indeed (then) exact Retribution!
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> 17.  We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them and messenger most honorable,
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> 18.  Saying: "Restore to me the servants of Allah: I am to you an messenger worthy of all trust;
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> 19.  "And be not arrogant as against Allah: for I come to you with authority manifest.
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> 20.  "For me, I have sought Safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me.
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> 21.  "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."
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> 22.  (But they were aggressive): then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."
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> 23.  (The reply came): "March forth with My servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.
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> 24.  "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided).  For they are a host (destined) to be drowned."
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> 25.  How many were the gardens and springs they left behind.
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> 26.  And corn-fields and noble buildings.
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> 27.  And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!
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> 28.  Thus (was their end)!  And We made other people inherit (those things)!
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> 29.  And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).
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> 30.  We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,
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> 31.  Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.
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> 32.  And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,
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> 33.  And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial.
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> 34.  As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:
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> 35.  "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.
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> 36.  "Then bring (back) our forefathers if what ye say is true!"
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> 37.  What! 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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> 38.  We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:
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> 39.  We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.
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> 40.  Verily the Day of Sorting Out is the time appointed for all of them--
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> 41.  The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive.
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> 42.  Except such as receive Allah's Mercy: for He is exalted in Might, Most Merciful.
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> 43.  Verily the tree of Zaqqum
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> 44.  Will be the food of the Sinful--
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> 45.  Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides,
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> 46.  Like the boiling of scalding water.
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> 47.  (A voice will cry:) "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire!
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> 48.  "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water;
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> 49.  "Taste thou (this)!  Truly wast thou Mighty, full of honor!
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> 50.  "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!"
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> 51.  As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security,
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> 52.  Among Gardens and Springs;
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> 53.  Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other;
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> 54.  So; and We shall Join them to Companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes.
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> 55.  There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security;
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> 56.  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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> 57.  As a Bounty from thy Lord!  That will be the supreme achievement!
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> 58.  Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed.
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> 59.  So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting.
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> — *Surah 44*