Surah Adh-Dhāriyāt (The Winnowing Winds) in English

1. قال فما خطبكم أيها المرسلون

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   He said, ‘O messengers, what is now your errand?’

   qāla fa-mā khaṭbukum ʾayyuhā l-mursalūna

2. قالوا إنا أرسلنا إلى قوم مجرمين

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   They said, ‘We have been sent toward a guilty people,

   qālū ʾinnā ʾursilnā ʾilā qawmin mujrimīna

3. لنرسل عليهم حجارة من طين

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   that We may rain upon them stones of clay,

   li-nursila ʿalayhim ḥijāratan min ṭīnin

4. مسومة عند ربك للمسرفين

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   sent for the transgressors from your Lord.

   musawwamatan ʿinda rabbika li-l-musrifīna

5. فأخرجنا من كان فيها من المؤمنين

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   So We picked out those who were in it of the faithful,

   fa-ʾakhrajnā man kāna fīhā mina l-muʾminīna

6. فما وجدنا فيها غير بيت من المسلمين

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   but We did not find there other than one house of Muslims,

   fa-mā wajadnā fīhā ghayra baytin mina l-muslimīna

7. وتركنا فيها آية للذين يخافون العذاب الأليم

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   and We have left therein a sign for those who fear a painful punishment.’

   wa-taraknā fīhā ʾāyatan li-lladhīna yakhāfūna l-ʿadhāba l-ʾalīma

8. وفي موسى إذ أرسلناه إلى فرعون بسلطان مبين

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   And in Moses [too there is a sign] when We sent him to Pharaoh with a manifest authority.

   wa-fī mūsā ʾidh ʾarsalnāhu ʾilā firʿawna bi-sulṭānin mubīnin

9. فتولى بركنه وقال ساحر أو مجنون

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   But he turned away assured of his might, and said, ‘A magician or a crazy man!’

   fa-tawallā bi-ruknihī wa-qāla sāḥirun ʾaw majnūnun

10. فأخذناه وجنوده فنبذناهم في اليم وهو مليم

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    So We seized him and his hosts, and cast them into the sea, while he was blameworthy.

    fa-ʾakhadhnāhu wa-junūdahū fa-nabadhnāhum fī l-yammi wa-huwa mulīmun

11. وفي عاد إذ أرسلنا عليهم الريح العقيم

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    And in ‘Ad when We unleashed upon them a barren wind.

    wa-fī ʿādin ʾidh ʾarsalnā ʿalayhimu r-rīḥa l-ʿaqīma

12. ما تذر من شيء أتت عليه إلا جعلته كالرميم

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    It left nothing that it came upon without making it like decayed bones.

    mā tadharu min shayʾin ʾatat ʿalayhi ʾillā jaʿalathu ka-r-ramīmi

13. وفي ثمود إذ قيل لهم تمتعوا حتى حين

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    And in Thamud, when they were told, ‘Enjoy for a while.’

    wa-fī thamūda ʾidh qīla lahum tamattaʿū ḥattā ḥīnin

14. فعتوا عن أمر ربهم فأخذتهم الصاعقة وهم ينظرون

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    Then they defied the command of their Lord; so the thunderbolt seized them as they looked on.

    fa-ʿataw ʿan ʾamri rabbihim fa-ʾakhadhathumu ṣ-ṣāʿiqatu wa-hum yanẓurūna

15. فما استطاعوا من قيام وما كانوا منتصرين

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    So they were neither able to rise up, nor to come to one another’s aid.

    fa-mā staṭāʿū min qiyāmin wa-mā kānū muntaṣirīna

16. وقوم نوح من قبل إنهم كانوا قوما فاسقين

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    And the people of Noah aforetime. Indeed, they were a transgressing lot.

    wa-qawma nūḥin min qablu ʾinnahum kānū qawman fāsiqīna

17. والسماء بنيناها بأيد وإنا لموسعون

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    We have built the heaven with might, and indeed it is We who are its expanders.

    wa-s-samāʾa banaynāhā bi-ʾaydin wa-ʾinnā la-mūsiʿūna

18. والأرض فرشناها فنعم الماهدون

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    And We have spread out the earth, so how excellent spreaders We have been!

    wa-l-ʾarḍa farashnāhā fa-niʿma l-māhidūna

19. ومن كل شيء خلقنا زوجين لعلكم تذكرون

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    In all things We have created pairs so that you may take admonition.

    wa-min kulli shayʾin khalaqnā zawjayni laʿallakum tadhakkarūna

20. ففروا إلى الله إني لكم منه نذير مبين

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    ‘So flee toward Allah. Indeed, I am from Him a manifest warner to you.

    fa-firrū ʾilā llāhi ʾinnī lakum minhu nadhīrun mubīnun

21. ولا تجعلوا مع الله إلها آخر إني لكم منه نذير مبين

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    Do not set up another god besides Allah. Indeed I am from Him a manifest warner to you.’

    wa-lā tajʿalū maʿa llāhi ʾilāhan ʾākhara ʾinnī lakum minhu nadhīrun mubīnun