51:1
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلذَّٰرِيَٰتِ ذَرْوًۭا
Waz-zaariyaati zarwaa
CONSIDER the winds that scatter the dust far and wide,
QUR’AN · SURAH 51
Adh-Dhaariyat
The Winnowing Winds · undefined verses · Meccan
Translation of meaning: Muhammad Asad. Transliteration is a learning aid; it cannot capture every Arabic sound. Recitation: Mishary Rashid Alafasy via Islamic Network. Recitation is streamed from Islamic Network and requires internet access.
51:2
فَٱلْحَٰمِلَٰتِ وِقْرًۭا
Falhaamilaati wiqraa
and those that carry the burden [of heavy clouds],
51:3
فَٱلْجَٰرِيَٰتِ يُسْرًۭا
Faljaariyaati yusraa
and those that speed along with gentle ease,
51:4
فَٱلْمُقَسِّمَٰتِ أَمْرًا
Falmuqassimaati amraa
and those that apportion [the gift of life] at [God’s] behest!
51:5
إِنَّمَا تُوعَدُونَ لَصَادِقٌۭ
Innamaa too'adoona la-saadiq
Verily, that which you are promised is true indeed,
51:6
وَإِنَّ ٱلدِّينَ لَوَٰقِعٌۭ
Wa innad deena la waaqi'
and, verily, judgment is bound to come!
51:7
وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْحُبُكِ
Wassamaaa'i zaatil hubuk
CONSIDER the firmament full of starry paths!
51:8
إِنَّكُمْ لَفِى قَوْلٍۢ مُّخْتَلِفٍۢ
Innakum lafee qawlim mukhtalif
Verily, [O men,] you are deeply at variance as to what to believe:
51:9
يُؤْفَكُ عَنْهُ مَنْ أُفِكَ
Yu'faku 'anhu man ufik
perverted in his views thereon is he who would deceive himself!
51:10
قُتِلَ ٱلْخَرَّٰصُونَ
Qutilal kharraasoon
They but destroy themselves, they who are given to guessing at what they cannot ascertain –
51:11
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى غَمْرَةٍۢ سَاهُونَ
Allazeena hum fee ghamratin saahoon
they who blunder along, in ignorance lost –
51:12
يَسْـَٔلُونَ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
Yas'aloona ayyaana yawmud Deen
they who [mockingly] ask, “When is that Day of Judgment to be?”
51:13
يَوْمَ هُمْ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ يُفْتَنُونَ
Yawma hum 'alan naari yuftanoon
[It will be] a Day when they will be sorely tried by the fire,
51:14
ذُوقُوا۟ فِتْنَتَكُمْ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ
Zooqoo fitnatakum haa zal lazee kuntum bihee tas ta'jiloon
[and will be told:] “Taste this your trial! It is this that you were so hastily asking for!”
51:15
إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَعُيُونٍ
Innal muttaqeena fee jannaatinw wa 'uyoon
[But,] behold, the God-conscious will find themselves amid gardens and springs,
51:16
ءَاخِذِينَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِينَ
Aakhizeena maaa aataahum Rabbuhum; innahum kaanoo qabla zaalika muhsineen
enjoying all that their Sustainer will have granted them [because], verily, they were doers of good in the past:
51:17
كَانُوا۟ قَلِيلًۭا مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ
kaanoo qaleelam minal laili maa yahja'oon
they would lie asleep during but a small part of the night,
51:18
وَبِٱلْأَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ
Wa bilashaari hum yastaghfiroon
and would pray for forgiveness from their innermost hearts;
51:19
وَفِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّۭ لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ
Wa feee amwaalihim haqqul lissaaa'ili walmahroom
and [would assign] in all that they possessed a due share unto such as might ask [for help] and such as might suffer privation.
51:20
وَفِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ءَايَٰتٌۭ لِّلْمُوقِنِينَ
Wa fil ardi aayaatul lilmooqineen
AND ON EARTH there are signs [of God’s existence, visible] to all who are endowed with inner certainty,
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Qur’an 51:1
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلذَّٰرِيَٰتِ ذَرْوًۭا
CONSIDER the winds that scatter the dust far and wide,
Qur’an 51:2
فَٱلْحَٰمِلَٰتِ وِقْرًۭا
and those that carry the burden [of heavy clouds],
Qur’an 51:3
فَٱلْجَٰرِيَٰتِ يُسْرًۭا
and those that speed along with gentle ease,
Qur’an 51:4
فَٱلْمُقَسِّمَٰتِ أَمْرًا
and those that apportion [the gift of life] at [God’s] behest!
Qur’an 51:5
إِنَّمَا تُوعَدُونَ لَصَادِقٌۭ
Verily, that which you are promised is true indeed,
Qur’an 51:6
وَإِنَّ ٱلدِّينَ لَوَٰقِعٌۭ
and, verily, judgment is bound to come!
Qur’an 51:7
وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْحُبُكِ
CONSIDER the firmament full of starry paths!
Qur’an 51:8
إِنَّكُمْ لَفِى قَوْلٍۢ مُّخْتَلِفٍۢ
Verily, [O men,] you are deeply at variance as to what to believe:
Qur’an 51:9
يُؤْفَكُ عَنْهُ مَنْ أُفِكَ
perverted in his views thereon is he who would deceive himself!
Qur’an 51:10
قُتِلَ ٱلْخَرَّٰصُونَ
They but destroy themselves, they who are given to guessing at what they cannot ascertain –
Qur’an 51:11
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى غَمْرَةٍۢ سَاهُونَ
they who blunder along, in ignorance lost –
Qur’an 51:12
يَسْـَٔلُونَ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ
they who [mockingly] ask, “When is that Day of Judgment to be?”
Qur’an 51:13
يَوْمَ هُمْ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ يُفْتَنُونَ
[It will be] a Day when they will be sorely tried by the fire,
Qur’an 51:14
ذُوقُوا۟ فِتْنَتَكُمْ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ
[and will be told:] “Taste this your trial! It is this that you were so hastily asking for!”
Qur’an 51:15
إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَعُيُونٍ
[But,] behold, the God-conscious will find themselves amid gardens and springs,
Qur’an 51:16
ءَاخِذِينَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِينَ
enjoying all that their Sustainer will have granted them [because], verily, they were doers of good in the past:
Qur’an 51:17
كَانُوا۟ قَلِيلًۭا مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ
they would lie asleep during but a small part of the night,
Qur’an 51:18
وَبِٱلْأَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ
and would pray for forgiveness from their innermost hearts;
Qur’an 51:19
وَفِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّۭ لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ
and [would assign] in all that they possessed a due share unto such as might ask [for help] and such as might suffer privation.
Qur’an 51:20
وَفِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ءَايَٰتٌۭ لِّلْمُوقِنِينَ
AND ON EARTH there are signs [of God’s existence, visible] to all who are endowed with inner certainty,
Qur’an 51:21
وَفِىٓ أَنفُسِكُمْ ۚ أَفَلَا تُبْصِرُونَ
just as [there are signs thereof] within your own selves: can you not, then, see?
Qur’an 51:22
وَفِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ رِزْقُكُمْ وَمَا تُوعَدُونَ
And in heaven is [the source of] your sustenance [on earth] and [of] all that you are promised [for your life after death]:
Qur’an 51:23
فَوَرَبِّ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ إِنَّهُۥ لَحَقٌّۭ مِّثْلَ مَآ أَنَّكُمْ تَنطِقُونَ
for, by the Sustainer of heaven and earth, this [life after death] is the very truth - as true as that you are endowed with speech!
Qur’an 51:24
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ضَيْفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ ٱلْمُكْرَمِينَ
AND HAS the story of Abraham’s honoured guests ever come within thy ken?
Qur’an 51:25
إِذْ دَخَلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا۟ سَلَٰمًۭا ۖ قَالَ سَلَٰمٌۭ قَوْمٌۭ مُّنكَرُونَ
When those [heavenly messengers] came unto him and bade him peace, he answered, “[And upon you be] peace!” - [saying to himself,] “They are strangers.”
Qur’an 51:26
فَرَاغَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ فَجَآءَ بِعِجْلٍۢ سَمِينٍۢ
Then he turned quietly to his household, and brought forth a fat [roasted] calf,
Qur’an 51:27
فَقَرَّبَهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالَ أَلَا تَأْكُلُونَ
and placed it before them, saying, “Will you not eat?”
Qur’an 51:28
فَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةًۭ ۖ قَالُوا۟ لَا تَخَفْ ۖ وَبَشَّرُوهُ بِغُلَٰمٍ عَلِيمٍۢ
[And when he saw that the guests would not eat,] he became apprehensive of them; [but] they said, “Fear not” - and gave him the glad tiding of [the birth of] a son who would be endowed with deep knowledge.
Qur’an 51:29
فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍۢ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌۭ
Thereupon his wife approached [the guests] with a loud cry, and struck her face [in astonishment] and exclaimed: “A barren old woman [like me]!”
Qur’an 51:30
قَالُوا۟ كَذَٰلِكِ قَالَ رَبُّكِ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْحَكِيمُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ
They answered: “Thus has thy Sustainer decreed; and, verily, He alone is truly wise, all- knowing!”
Qur’an 51:31
۞ قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ
Said [Abraham]: “And what [else] may you have in view, O you [heavenly] messengers?”
Qur’an 51:32
قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّآ أُرْسِلْنَآ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍۢ مُّجْرِمِينَ
They answered: “Behold, we have been sent unto a people lost in sin,
Qur’an 51:33
لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةًۭ مِّن طِينٍۢ
to let loose upon them stone-hard blows of chastisement,
Qur’an 51:34
مُّسَوَّمَةً عِندَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ
marked out in thy Sustainer’s sight for [the punishment of] such as have wasted their own selves.”
Qur’an 51:35
فَأَخْرَجْنَا مَن كَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
And in the course of time We brought out [of Lot ’s city] such [few] believers as were there:
Qur’an 51:36
فَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهَا غَيْرَ بَيْتٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ
for apart from one [single] house We did not find there any who had surrendered themselves to Us.
Qur’an 51:37
وَتَرَكْنَا فِيهَآ ءَايَةًۭ لِّلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَلِيمَ
And so We left therein a message for those who fear the grievous suffering [which awaits all evildoers].
Qur’an 51:38
وَفِى مُوسَىٰٓ إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَٰهُ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ بِسُلْطَٰنٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ
AND IN [the story of Pharaoh and] Moses, too, [We left the same message: for] when We sent him unto Pharaoh with [Our] manifest authority,
Qur’an 51:39
فَتَوَلَّىٰ بِرُكْنِهِۦ وَقَالَ سَٰحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌۭ
and he turned away in [the pride of] his power and said, “A sorcerer [is this Moses], or a madman!” –
Qur’an 51:40
فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌۭ
We seized him and his hosts, and cast them all into the sea: and [none but Pharaoh] himself was to blame [for what happened].
Qur’an 51:41
وَفِى عَادٍ إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلرِّيحَ ٱلْعَقِيمَ
And [you have the same message] in [what happened to the tribe of] Ad, when We let loose against them that life-destroying wind
Qur’an 51:42
مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَىْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا جَعَلَتْهُ كَٱلرَّمِيمِ
which spared nothing of what it came upon, but caused [all of] it to become like bones dead and decayed.
Qur’an 51:43
وَفِى ثَمُودَ إِذْ قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَمَتَّعُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍۢ
And in [the story of the tribe of] Thamud, too, when they were told, “You shall enjoy your life for [but] a little while,”
Qur’an 51:44
فَعَتَوْا۟ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّٰعِقَةُ وَهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ
after they had turned with disdain from their Sustainer’s commandment - whereupon the thunderbolt of punishment overtook them while they were [helplessly] looking on:
Qur’an 51:45
فَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ مِن قِيَامٍۢ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُنتَصِرِينَ
for they were unable even to rise, and could not defend themselves.
Qur’an 51:46
وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍۢ مِّن قَبْلُ ۖ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمًۭا فَٰسِقِينَ
And [thus, too, We destroyed] Noah’s people aforetime: for they were iniquitous folk.
Qur’an 51:47
وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا بِأَيْي۟دٍۢ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ
AND IT IS We who have built the universe with [Our creative] power; and, verily, it is We who are steadily expanding it.
Qur’an 51:48
وَٱلْأَرْضَ فَرَشْنَٰهَا فَنِعْمَ ٱلْمَٰهِدُونَ
And the earth have We spread out wide - and how well have We ordered it!
Qur’an 51:49
وَمِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ
And in everything have We created opposites, so that you might bear in mind [that God alone is One].
Qur’an 51:50
فَفِرُّوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنِّى لَكُم مِّنْهُ نَذِيرٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ
And so, [O Muhammad, say unto them:] “Flee unto God [from all that is false and evil]! Verily, I am a plain warner to you from Him!
Qur’an 51:51
وَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ ۖ إِنِّى لَكُم مِّنْهُ نَذِيرٌۭ مُّبِينٌۭ
And do not ascribe divinity to aught side by side with God: verily, I am a plain warner to you from Him!”
Qur’an 51:52
كَذَٰلِكَ مَآ أَتَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا قَالُوا۟ سَاحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ
[But] thus it is: never yet came any apostle to those who lived before their time but they said, “A spellbinder [Lit., "sorcerer".] [is he], or a madman!”
Qur’an 51:53
أَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِهِۦ ۚ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌۭ طَاغُونَ
Have they, perchance, handed down this [way of thinking] as a legacy unto one another? Nay, they are people filled with overweening arrogance!
Qur’an 51:54
فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ فَمَآ أَنتَ بِمَلُومٍۢ
Turn, then, away from them, and thou shalt incur no blame;
Qur’an 51:55
وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ تَنفَعُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
yet go on reminding [all who would listen]: for, verily, such a reminder will profit the believers.
Qur’an 51:56
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ ٱلْجِنَّ وَٱلْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ
And [tell them that] I have not created the invisible beings and men to any end other than that they may [know and] worship Me.
Qur’an 51:57
مَآ أُرِيدُ مِنْهُم مِّن رِّزْقٍۢ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونِ
[But withal,] no sustenance do I ever demand of them, nor do I demand that they feed Me:
Qur’an 51:58
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلرَّزَّاقُ ذُو ٱلْقُوَّةِ ٱلْمَتِينُ
for, verily, God Himself is the Provider of all sustenance, the Lord of all might, the Eternal!
Qur’an 51:59
فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًۭا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ
And, verily, they who are bent on doing evil shall have their share [of evil] like unto the share of their fellows [of old]: so let them not ask Me to hasten [their doom]!
Qur’an 51:60
فَوَيْلٌۭ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن يَوْمِهِمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ
For, woe unto those who are bent on denying the truth - [woe] on the Day which they have been promised