al-Fajr

By the Dawn,

— Ali Quli Qarai

by the ten nights,

— Ali Quli Qarai

by the Even and the Odd,

— Ali Quli Qarai

by the night when it departs!

— Ali Quli Qarai

Is there an oath in that for one possessing intellect?

— Ali Quli Qarai

Have you not regarded how your Lord dealt with [the people of] ‘Ad,

— Ali Quli Qarai

[and] Iram, [the city] of the pillars,

— Ali Quli Qarai

the like of which was not created among cities,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and [the people of] Thamud, who hollowed out the rocks in the valley,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and Pharaoh, the impaler

— Ali Quli Qarai

—those who rebelled [against Allah] in their cities

— Ali Quli Qarai

and caused much corruption in them,

— Ali Quli Qarai

so your Lord poured on them lashes of punishment.

— Ali Quli Qarai

Indeed your Lord is in ambush.

— Ali Quli Qarai

As for man, whenever his Lord tests him, and grants him honour, and blesses him, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

But when He tests him and tightens for him his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

No indeed! No, you do not honour the orphan,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and do not urge the feeding of the needy.

— Ali Quli Qarai

You eat the inheritance rapaciously,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and love wealth with much fondness.

— Ali Quli Qarai

No indeed! When the earth is levelled to a plain,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and your Lord [’s edict] arrives with the angels in ranks,

— Ali Quli Qarai

the day when hell is brought [near], man will take admonition on that day, but what will that admonition avail him?

— Ali Quli Qarai

He will say, ‘Alas, had I sent ahead for my life [in the Hereafter]!’

— Ali Quli Qarai

On that day none shall punish as He punishes,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and none shall bind as He binds.

— Ali Quli Qarai

‘O soul at peace!

— Ali Quli Qarai

Return to your Lord, pleased and pleasing!

— Ali Quli Qarai

Then enter among My servants,

— Ali Quli Qarai

and enter My paradise!’

— Ali Quli Qarai