al-Qamar

The Hour has drawn near and the moon is split.

— Ali Quli Qarai

If they see a sign, they turn away, and say, ‘An incessant magic!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

They denied and followed their own desires, and every matter has a setting [appropriate to it].

— Ali Quli Qarai

There have already come to them reports containing admonishment,

— Ali Quli Qarai

[and representing] far-reaching wisdom; but warnings are of no avail!

— Ali Quli Qarai

So turn away from them! The day when the Caller calls to a dire thing,

— Ali Quli Qarai

they will emerge from the graves as if they were scattered locusts with a humbled look [in their eyes],

— Ali Quli Qarai

scrambling toward the summoner. The faithless will say, ‘This is a hard day!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

The people of Noah impugned before them. So they impugned Our servant and said, ‘A crazy man,’ and he was reviled.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Thereat he invoked his Lord, [saying,] ‘I have been overcome, so help [me].’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Then We opened the gates of the sky with pouring waters,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and We made the earth burst forth with springs, and the waters met for a preordained purpose.

— Ali Quli Qarai

We bore him on a vessel made of planks and nails,

— Ali Quli Qarai

which sailed [over the flood waters] in Our sight, as a retribution for him who was met with disbelief.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We have left it as a sign; so is there anyone who will be admonished?

— Ali Quli Qarai

So how were My punishment and warnings?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

— Ali Quli Qarai

[The people of] ‘Ad impugned [their apostle]. So how were My punishment and warnings?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed We unleashed upon them an icy gale on an incessantly ill-fated day,

— Ali Quli Qarai

knocking down people as if they were trunks of uprooted palm trees.

— Ali Quli Qarai

So how were My punishment and warnings?!

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

— Ali Quli Qarai

[The people of] Thamud denied the warnings,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and they said, ‘Are we to follow a lone human from ourselves?! Indeed then we would be in error and madness.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

‘Has the Reminder been cast upon him from among us? No, he is a self-conceited liar.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

‘Tomorrow they will know who is a self-conceited liar.

— Ali Quli Qarai

We are sending the She-camel as a trial for them; so watch them and be steadfast.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Inform them that the water is to be shared between them; each of them showing up at his turn.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

But they called their companion, and he took [a knife] and hamstrung [her].

— Ali Quli Qarai

So how were My punishment and My warnings?!

— Ali Quli Qarai

We sent against them a single Cry, and they became like the dry sticks of a corral builder.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

— Ali Quli Qarai

And the people of Lot denied the warnings.

— Ali Quli Qarai

We unleashed upon them a rain of stones, excepting the family of Lot, whom We delivered at dawn

— Ali Quli Qarai

as a blessing from Us. Thus do We reward those who give thanks.

— Ali Quli Qarai

He had already warned them of Our punishment, but they disputed the warnings.

— Ali Quli Qarai

They even solicited of him his guests, whereat We blotted out their eyes, [saying,] ‘Taste My punishment and My warnings!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Early at dawn there visited them an abiding punishment:

— Ali Quli Qarai

‘Taste My punishment and warnings!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly the warnings did come to Pharaoh’s clan

— Ali Quli Qarai

who denied all of Our signs. So We seized them with the seizing of One [who is] all-mighty, Omnipotent.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Are your faithless better than those? Have you [been granted] [some sort of] immunity in the scriptures?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Do they say, ‘We are a confederate league’?

— Ali Quli Qarai

The league will be routed and turn its back [to flee].

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed, the Hour is their tryst; and the Hour will be most calamitous and bitter.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed the guilty are steeped in error and madness.

— Ali Quli Qarai

The day when they are dragged on their faces into the Fire, [it will be said to them,] ‘Taste the touch of hell!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed We have created everything in a measure,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and Our command is but a single [word], like the twinkling of an eye.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Certainly We have destroyed your likes. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Everything they have done is in the books,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and everything big and small is committed to writing.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and streams,

— Ali Quli Qarai

in the abode of truthfulness with an omnipotent King.

— Ali Quli Qarai