# Surah 89

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> Surah 89
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> Al Fajr (The Dawn)
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> In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
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> 1.  By the Break of Day
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> 2.  By the Nights twice five;
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> 3.  By the Even and Odd (contrasted);
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> 4.  And by the Night when it passeth away--
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> 5.  Is there (not) in these and adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand?
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> 6.  Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the 'Ad (people)--
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> 7.  Of the (city of) Iram, with lofty pillars,
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> 8.  The like of which were not produced in (all) the land?
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> 9.  And with the Thamud (people), who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley?--
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> 10.  And with Pharaoh, Lord of Stakes?
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> 11.  (All) these transgressed Beyond bounds in the lands.
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> 12.  And heaped therein Mischief (on mischief).
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> 13.  Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisement:
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> 14.  For thy Lord is (As a Guardian) on a watchtower.
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> 15.  Now, as for man, when his Lord trieth him giving him honor and gifts, then saith he, (puffed up), "My Lord hath honored me."
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> 16.  But when He trieth him, restricting his subsistence for him, then saith he (in despair), "My Lord hath humiliated me!"
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> 17.  Nay, nay! but ye honor not the orphans!
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> 18.  Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor!--
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> 19.  And ye devour inheritance--all with greed.
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> 20.  And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
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> 21.  Nay! when the earth is pounded to powder,
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> 22.  And thy Lord cometh and His angels, rank upon rank,
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> 23.  And Hell, that Day, is brought (face to face)--on that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance profit him?
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> 24.  He will say: "Ah! would that I had sent forth (Good Deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life."
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> 25.  For, that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict,
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> 26.  And His bonds will be such as none (other) can bind.
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> 27.  (To the righteous soul will be said:) "O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
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> 28.  "Come back thou to thy Lord--well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him!
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> 29.  "Enter thou, then, among my Devotees!
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> 30.  "Yea, enter thou my Heaven"!
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> — *Surah 89*