Sura 51: Drivers of the Winds
(Al-Dhãreyãt)
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

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والذاريات ذروا

The blowing winds.

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فالحاملات وقرا

Bearing rain.

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فالجاريات يسرا

Bringing provisions.

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فالمقسمات امرا

Distributing them as commanded.

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انما توعدون لصادق

What is promised to you will surely come to pass.

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وان الدين لواقع

The Day of Judgment is inevitable.

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والسماء ذات الحبك

Despite the perfectly created sky.

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انكم لفي قول مختلف

You continue to dispute the truth.

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يؤفك عنه من افك

Deviating therefrom are the deviators.

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قتل الخراصون

Woe to the falsifiers.

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الذين هم في غمرة ساهون

In their blundering, they are totally heedless.

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يسالون ايان يوم الدين

They question the Day of Judgment.

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يوم هم على النار يفتنون

The day they are presented to the fire.

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ذوقوا فتنتكم هذا الذي كنتم به تستعجلون

Taste the retribution; this is what you used to challenge.

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ان المتقين في جنات وعيون

The righteous have deserved gardens and springs.

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اخذين ما اتاهم ربهم انهم كانوا قبل ذلك محسنين

They receive their Lord’s rewards, for they used to be pious.

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كانوا قليلا من الليل ما يهجعون

Rarely did they sleep the whole night.

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وبالاسحار هم يستغفرون

At dawn, they prayed for forgiveness.

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وفي اموالهم حق للسائل والمحروم

A portion of their money was set aside for the beggar and the needy.

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وفي الارض ايات للموقنين

The earth is full of signs for those who are certain.

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وفي انفسكم افلا تبصرون

And within yourselves; can you see?

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وفي السماء رزقكم وما توعدون

In the heaven is your provision, and everything that is promised to you.

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فورب السماء والارض انه لحق مثل ما انكم تنطقون

By the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is as true as the fact that you speak.

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هل اتاك حديث ضيف ابراهيم المكرمين

Have you noted the history of Abraham’s honorable guests?

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اذ دخلوا عليه فقالوا سلاما قال سلام قوم منكرون

They visited him, saying, “Peace.” He said, “Peace to you, strangers!”

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فراغ الى اهله فجاء بعجل سمين

He asked his family to prepare a fat calf.

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فقربه اليهم قال الا تاكلون

When he offered it to them, he remarked, “Do you not eat?”

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فاوجس منهم خيفة قالوا لا تخف وبشروه بغلام عليم

He harbored fear of them. They said, “Have no fear,” and they gave good news of a knowledgeable son.

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فاقبلت امراته في صرة فصكت وجهها وقالت عجوز عقيم

His wife was astonished. Noting her wrinkled face: “I am a sterile old woman.”

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قالوا كذلك قال ربك انه هو الحكيم العليم

They said, “Thus said your Lord. He is the Most Wise, the Omniscient.”

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قال فما خطبكم ايها المرسلون

He said, “What are you up to, O messengers?”

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قالوا انا ارسلنا الى قوم مجرمين

They said, “We have been dispatched to criminal people.

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لنرسل عليهم حجارة من طين

“We will shower them with rocks of clay.

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مسومة عند ربك للمسرفين

“Marked by your Lord for the transgressors.”

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فاخرجنا من كان فيها من المؤمنين

We then delivered all the believers.

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فما وجدنا فيها غير بيت من المسلمين

We did not find in it except one house of submitters.

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وتركنا فيها اية للذين يخافون العذاب الاليم

We set it up as a lesson for those who fear the painful retribution.

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وفي موسى اذ ارسلناه الى فرعون بسلطان مبين

In Moses (there is a lesson). We sent him to Pharaoh with manifest proofs.

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فتولى بركنه وقال ساحر او مجنون

But he turned away, in arrogance, and said, “Magician, or crazy.”

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فاخذناه وجنوده فنبذناهم في اليم وهو مليم

Consequently, we punished him and his troops. We threw them into the sea, and he is the one to blame.

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وفي عاد اذ ارسلنا عليهم الريح العقيم

In ‘Aad (there is a lesson). We sent upon them disastrous wind.

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ما تذر من شيء اتت عليه الا جعلته كالرميم

Anything that it came upon was utterly destroyed.

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وفي ثمود اذ قيل لهم تمتعوا حتى حين

In Thamoud (there is a lesson). They were told, “Enjoy temporarily.”

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فعتوا عن امر ربهم فاخذتهم الصاعقة وهم ينظرون

They rebelled against the command of their Lord. Consequently, the lightning struck them as they looked.

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فما استطاعوا من قيام وما كانوا منتصرين

They could never get up, nor were they helped.

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وقوم نوح من قبل انهم كانوا قوما فاسقين

And the people of Noah before that; they were wicked people.

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“Expansion of the Universe Theory”<br>Confirmed

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والسماء بنيناها بايد وانا لموسعون

We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.

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والارض فرشناها فنعم الماهدون

And we made the earth habitable; a perfect design.

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ومن كل شيء خلقنا زوجين لعلكم تذكرون

We created a pair (male and female) of everything, that you may take heed.

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ففروا الى الله اني لكم منه نذير مبين

You shall escape to GOD. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.

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ولا تجعلوا مع الله الها اخر اني لكم منه نذير مبين

Do not set up beside GOD any other god. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.

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كذلك ما اتى الذين من قبلهم من رسول الا قالوا ساحر او مجنون

Consistently, when a messenger went to the previous generations, they said, “Magician,” or, “Crazy.”

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اتواصوا به بل هم قوم طاغون

Did they make an agreement with each other? Indeed, they are transgressors.

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فتول عنهم فما انت بملوم

You may disregard them; you cannot be blamed.

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وذكر فان الذكرى تنفع المؤمنين

And remind, for the reminder benefits the believers.

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The Purpose of Our Existence

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وما خلقت الجن والانس الا ليعبدون

I did not create the jinns and the humans except to worship Me alone.

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ما اريد منهم من رزق وما اريد ان يطعمون

I need no provisions from them, nor do I need them to feed Me.

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ان الله هو الرزاق ذو القوة المتين

GOD is the Provider, the Possessor of all power, the Supreme.

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فان للذين ظلموا ذنوبا مثل ذنوب اصحابهم فلا يستعجلون

The transgressors have incurred the same fate as their previous counterparts; they should not challenge.

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فويل للذين كفروا من يومهم الذي يوعدون

Woe to those who disbelieved from the day that is awaiting them.

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