Surah Ad-Dukhān (The Smoke) in English

1. وأن لا تعلوا على الله إني آتيكم بسلطان مبين

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   Do not defy Allah. Indeed I bring you a manifest authority.

   wa-ʾan lā taʿlū ʿalā llāhi ʾinnī ʾātīkum bi-sulṭānin mubīnin

2. وإني عذت بربي وربكم أن ترجمون

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   I seek the protection of my Lord and your Lord, lest you should stone me.

   wa-ʾinnī ʿudhtu bi-rabbī wa-rabbikum ʾan tarjumūni

3. وإن لم تؤمنوا لي فاعتزلون

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   And if you do not believe me, keep out of my way.’

   wa-ʾin lam tuʾminū lī fa-ʿtazilūni

4. فدعا ربه أن هؤلاء قوم مجرمون

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   Then he invoked his Lord, [saying,] ‘These are indeed a guilty lot.’

   fa-daʿā rabbahū ʾanna hāʾulāʾi qawmun mujrimūna

5. فأسر بعبادي ليلا إنكم متبعون

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   [Allah told him,] ‘Set out by night with My servants; for you will be pursued.

   fa-ʾasri bi-ʿibādī laylan ʾinnakum muttabaʿūna

6. واترك البحر رهوا إنهم جند مغرقون

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   Leave behind the sea unmoving; for they will be a drowned host.’

   wa-truki l-baḥra rahwan ʾinnahum jundun mughraqūna

7. كم تركوا من جنات وعيون

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   How many gardens and springs did they leave behind!

   kam tarakū min jannātin wa-ʿuyūnin

8. وزروع ومقام كريم

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   Fields and splendid places,

   wa-zurūʿin wa-maqāmin karīmin

9. ونعمة كانوا فيها فاكهين

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   and the affluence wherein they rejoiced!

   wa-naʿmatin kānū fīhā fākihīna

10. كذلك وأورثناها قوما آخرين

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    So it was; and We bequeathed them to another people.

    ka-dhālika wa-ʾawrathnāhā qawman ʾākharīna

11. فما بكت عليهم السماء والأرض وما كانوا منظرين

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    So neither the sky wept for them, nor the earth; nor were they granted any respite.

    fa-mā bakat ʿalayhimu s-samāʾu wa-l-ʾarḍu wa-mā kānū munẓarīna

12. ولقد نجينا بني إسرائيل من العذاب المهين

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    Certainly We delivered the Children of Israel from the humiliating torment

    wa-la-qad najjaynā banī ʾisrāʾīla mina l-ʿadhābi l-muhīni

13. من فرعون إنه كان عاليا من المسرفين

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    of Pharaoh. Indeed, he was a tyrant among the transgressors.

    min firʿawna ʾinnahū kāna ʿāliyan mina l-musrifīna

14. ولقد اخترناهم على علم على العالمين

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    Certainly We chose them knowingly above all the nations,

    wa-la-qadi khtarnāhum ʿalā ʿilmin ʿalā l-ʿālamīna

15. وآتيناهم من الآيات ما فيه بلاء مبين

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    and We gave them some signs in which there was a manifest test.

    wa-ʾātaynāhum mina l-ʾāyāti mā fīhi balāʾun mubīnun

16. إن هؤلاء ليقولون

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    These ones say,

    ʾinna hāʾulāʾi la-yaqūlūna

17. إن هي إلا موتتنا الأولى وما نحن بمنشرين

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    ‘It will be only our first death, and we shall not be resurrected.

    ʾin hiya ʾillā mawtatunā l-ʾūlā wa-mā naḥnu bi-munsharīna

18. فأتوا بآبائنا إن كنتم صادقين

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    Bring our fathers back [to life], if you are truthful.’

    fa-ʾtū bi-ʾābāʾinā ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

19. أهم خير أم قوم تبع والذين من قبلهم أهلكناهم إنهم كانوا مجرمين

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    Are they better, or the people of Tubba‘, and those who were before them? We destroyed them; indeed, they were guilty.

    ʾa-hum khayrun ʾam qawmu tubbaʿin wa-lladhīna min qablihim ʾahlaknāhum ʾinnahum kānū mujrimīna

20. وما خلقنا السماوات والأرض وما بينهما لاعبين

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    We did not create the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them for play.

    wa-mā khalaqnā s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā lāʿibīna

21. ما خلقناهما إلا بالحق ولكن أكثرهم لا يعلمون

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    We did not create them except with consummate wisdom; but most of them do not know.

    mā khalaqnāhumā ʾillā bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-lākinna ʾaktharahum lā yaʿlamūna