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Ad-Dukhān

al-Dukhān

The Smoke

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ḥ-m (ḥā mīm)

Ha, Meem.

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-l-kitābi l-mubīni

By the Manifest Book!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnā ʾanzalnāhu fī laylatin mubārakatin ʾinnā kunnā mundhirīna

We sent it down on a blessed night, and We have been warning [mankind].

— Ali Quli Qarai

fīhā yufraqu kullu ʾamrin ḥakīmin

Every definitive matter is resolved on it,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾamran min ʿindinā ʾinnā kunnā mursilīna

as an ordinance from Us. We have been sending [apostles]

— Ali Quli Qarai

raḥmatan min rabbika ʾinnahū huwa s-samīʿu l-ʿalīmu

as a mercy from your Lord—indeed He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing—

— Ali Quli Qarai

rabbi s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-mā baynahumā ʾin kuntum mūqinīna

the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them, should you have conviction.

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa yuḥyī wa-yumītu rabbukum wa-rabbu ʾābāʾikumu l-ʾawwalīna

There is no god except Him: He gives life and brings death, your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers.

— Ali Quli Qarai

bal hum fī shakkin yalʿabūna

But they play around in doubt.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-rtaqib yawma taʾtī s-samāʾu bi-dukhānin mubīnin

So watch out for the day when the sky brings on a manifest smoke,

— Ali Quli Qarai

yaghshā n-nāsa hādhā ʿadhābun ʾalīmun

enveloping the people. [They will cry out:] ‘This is a painful punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

rabbanā kshif ʿannā l-ʿadhāba ʾinnā muʾminūna

Our Lord! Remove this punishment from us. Indeed we have believed!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾannā lahumu dh-dhikrā wa-qad jāʾahum rasūlun mubīnun

What will the admonition avail them, when a manifest apostle had already come to them,

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma tawallaw ʿanhu wa-qālū muʿallamun majnūnun

but they turned away from him, and said, ‘A tutored madman?’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinnā kāshifū l-ʿadhābi qalīlan ʾinnakum ʿāʾidūna

Indeed We will withdraw the punishment a little; but you will revert [to your earlier ways].

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma nabṭishu l-baṭshata l-kubrā ʾinnā muntaqimūna

The day We shall strike with the most terrible striking, We will indeed take vengeance [on them].

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-la-qad fatannā qablahum qawma firʿawna wa-jāʾahum rasūlun karīmun

Certainly We tried the people of Pharaoh before them, when a noble apostle came to them,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾan ʾaddū ʾilayya ʿibāda llāhi ʾinnī lakum rasūlun ʾamīnun

[saying,] ‘Give over the servants of Allah to me; indeed I am a trusted apostle [sent] to you.

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾin lam tuʾminū lī fa-ʿtazilūni

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-daʿā rabbahū ʾanna hāʾulāʾi qawmun mujrimūna

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾasri bi-ʿibādī laylan ʾinnakum muttabaʿūna

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-truki l-baḥra rahwan ʾinnahum jundun mughraqūna

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

kam tarakū min jannātin wa-ʿuyūnin

How many gardens and springs did they leave behind!

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-zurūʿin wa-maqāmin karīmin

Fields and splendid places,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-naʿmatin kānū fīhā fākihīna

and the affluence wherein they rejoiced!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-dhālika wa-ʾawrathnāhā qawman ʾākharīna

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

Certainly We delivered the Children of Israel from the humiliating torment

— Ali Quli Qarai

min firʿawna ʾinnahū kāna ʿāliyan mina l-musrifīna

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

Certainly We chose them knowingly above all the nations,

— Ali Quli Qarai

wa-ʾātaynāhum mina l-ʾāyāti mā fīhi balāʾun mubīnun

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna hāʾulāʾi la-yaqūlūna

These ones say,

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾtū bi-ʾābāʾinā ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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

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

— Ali Quli Qarai

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ʾinna yawma l-faṣli mīqātuhum ʾajmaʿīna

Indeed the Day of Judgement is the tryst for them all,

— Ali Quli Qarai

yawma lā yughnī mawlan ʿan mawlan shayʾan wa-lā hum yunṣarūna

the day when a friend will not avail a friend in any way, nor will they be helped,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾillā man raḥima llāhu ʾinnahū huwa l-ʿazīzu r-raḥīmu

except for him on whom Allah has mercy. Indeed He is the All-mighty, the All-merciful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna shajarata z-zaqqūmi

Indeed the tree of Zaqqum

— Ali Quli Qarai

ṭaʿāmu l-ʾathīmi

will be the food of the sinful.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-l-muhli yaghlī fī l-buṭūni

Like molten copper it will boil in their bellies,

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-ghalyi l-ḥamīmi

seething like boiling water.

— Ali Quli Qarai

khudhūhu fa-ʿtilūhu ʾilā sawāʾi l-jaḥīmi

[The keepers of hell will be told,] ‘Seize him and drag him to the middle of hell,

— Ali Quli Qarai

thumma ṣubbū fawqa raʾsihī min ʿadhābi l-ḥamīmi

then pour over his head boiling water as punishment,

— Ali Quli Qarai

dhuq ʾinnaka ʾanta l-ʿazīzu l-karīmu

[and tell them,] “Taste this! Indeed you are the [self-styled] mighty and noble!

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna hādhā mā kuntum bihī tamtarūna

This is what you used to doubt!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

ʾinna l-muttaqīna fī maqāmin ʾamīnin

Indeed the Godwary will be in a safe place,

— Ali Quli Qarai

fī jannātin wa-ʿuyūnin

amid gardens and springs,

— Ali Quli Qarai

yalbasūna min sundusin wa-ʾistabraqin mutaqābilīna

dressed in fine silk and brocade, sitting face to face.

— Ali Quli Qarai

ka-dhālika wa-zawwajnāhum bi-ḥūrin ʿīnin

So shall it be, and We shall wed them to black-eyed houris.

— Ali Quli Qarai

yadʿūna fīhā bi-kulli fākihatin ʾāminīna

Secure [from any kind of harm,] there they will call for every kind of fruit [they wish].

— Ali Quli Qarai

lā yadhūqūna fīhā l-mawta ʾillā l-mawtata l-ʾūlā wa-waqāhum ʿadhāba l-jaḥīmi

Other than the first death, they will not taste death therein, and He will save them from the punishment of hell

— Ali Quli Qarai

faḍlan min rabbika dhālika huwa l-fawzu l-ʿaẓīmu

—a grace from your Lord. That is the great success.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-ʾinnamā yassarnāhu bi-lisānika laʿallahum yatadhakkarūna

Indeed We have made it simple in your language, so that they may take admonition.

— Ali Quli Qarai

fa-rtaqib ʾinnahum murtaqibūna

So wait! They [too] are waiting.

— Ali Quli Qarai