Sura 51: Drivers of the Winds (Al-Dhareyat)
Number of verses: 60
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
1. The blowing winds.
2. Bearing rain.
3. Bringing provisions.
4. Distributing them as
commanded.
5. What is promised to
you will surely come to pass.
6. The Day of Judgment is
inevitable.
7. Despite the
perfectly created sky.
8. You continue to
dispute the truth.
9. Deviating therefrom
are the deviators.
10. Woe to the
falsifiers.
11. In their blundering,
they are totally heedless.
12. They question the Day
of Judgment.
13. The day they are
presented to the fire.
14. Taste the
retribution; this is what you used to challenge.
15. The righteous have
deserved gardens and springs.
16. They receive their
Lord's rewards, for they used to be pious.
17. Rarely did they sleep
the whole night.
18. At dawn, they prayed
for forgiveness.
19. A portion of their
money was set aside for the beggar and the needy.
20. The earth is full
of signs for those who are certain.
21. And within
yourselves; can you see?
22. In the heaven is
your provision, and everything that is promised to you.
23. By the Lord of the
heaven and the earth, this is as true as the fact that you speak.
24. Have you noted the
history of Abraham's honorable guests?
25. They visited him,
saying, "Peace." He said, "Peace to you,
strangers!"
26. He asked his family
to prepare a fat calf.
27. When he offered it to
them, he remarked, "Do you not eat?"
28. He harbored fear of
them. They said, "Have no fear," and they gave good
news of a knowledgeable son.
29. His wife was
astonished. Noting her wrinkled face: "I am a sterile old
woman."
30. They said, "Thus
said your Lord. He is the Most Wise, the Omniscient."
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31. He said,
"What are you up to, O messengers?"
32. They said, "We
have been dispatched to criminal people.
33. "We will shower
them with rocks of clay.
34. "Marked by your
Lord for the transgressors."
35. We then delivered
all the believers.
36. We did not find in it
except one house of submitters.
37. We set it up as a
lesson for those who fear the painful retribution.
38. In Moses (there is
a lesson). We sent him to Pharaoh with manifest proofs.
39. But he turned away,
in arrogance, and said, "Magician, or crazy."
40. Consequently, we
punished him and his troops. We threw them into the sea, and he
is the one to blame.
41. In `Aad (there is
a lesson). We sent upon them disastrous wind.
42. Anything that it came
upon was utterly destroyed.
43. In Thamoud (there
is a lesson). They were told, "Enjoy temporarily."
44. They rebelled against
the command of their Lord. Consequently, the lightning struck
them as they looked.
45. They could never get
up, nor were they helped.
46. And the people of Noah before that; they were wicked people.
"Expansion of the Universe Theory" Confirmed
47. We constructed the
sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.
48. And we made the earth
habitable; a perfect design.
49. We created a pair
(male and female) of everything, that you may take heed.
50. You shall escape
to GOD. I am sent by Him to you as a
manifest warner.
51. Do not set up beside GOD
any other god. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.
52. Consistently, when a
messenger went to the previous generations, they said,
"Magician," or, "Crazy."
53. Did
they make an agreement with each other? Indeed, they are
transgressors.
54. You may disregard
them; you cannot be blamed.
55. And remind, for the
reminder benefits the believers.
The Purpose of Our Existence
56. I did not create
the jinns and the humans except to worship Me alone.
57. I need no provisions
from them, nor do I need them to feed Me.
58. GOD is the Provider, the Possessor of all power, the Supreme.
59. The
transgressors have incurred the same fate as their previous
counterparts; they should not challenge.
60. Woe to those who
disbelieved from the day that is awaiting them.
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