Adh-Dhariyat الذاريات

Holy Quran

Al-Dhariyat (الذاريات, adh-dhāriyāt; meaning: The Winnowing Winds or The Scatterers) is the 51st chapter of the Qur'an with 60 verses

It mentions Abraham, Noah, and the day of judgment, and reiterates the essential Quranic message.

Summary

1-6 Numerous oaths that the judgment will come

7-11 Oaths and curses relating to unbelievers

12-16 Doom of infidels and reward of true believers

17-19 The piety and charity of Muslims

20-22 God reveals himself in his work of providence

23 Muhammad swears by the Lord that the Qurán is true

24-30 The story of Abraham's entertaining angels

31-37 Story of the destruction of Sodom

38-46 Pharaoh, Ád, Thamúd, and the people of Noah destroyed for rejecting their prophets as impostors

47-49 God reveals himself to men in his works of creation

50-51 Makkans warned to leave their idols and to fly to God

52-53 Every apostle of God called a magician or madman

54-55 Muhammad to withdraw from idolaters and yet to admonish them for the sake of true believers

56-58 Men and genii created to serve God

59-60 Woe to unbelievers who injure the apostles of God

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

1 By those scattering broadcast

2 And those bearing the load!

3 And those running easily!

4 And those distributing the Affair! -

5 What you are promised is surely true,

6 And the Judgment will surely come to pass

7 By the heaven full of paths!

8 Surely you are of varying opinion -

9 He is turned away from it who would be turned away

10 Cursed be the liars!

11 Who are in an abyss, neglectful;

12 They ask: When is the day of Judgment?

13 (It is) the day when they are tried at the Fire

14 Taste your persecution! This is what you would hasten on

15 Surely the dutiful are amidst Gardens and fountains,

16 Taking that which their Lord gives them. Surely they were before that the doers of good

17 They used to sleep but little at night

18 And in the morning they asked (Divine) protection

19 And in their wealth there was a due share for the beggar and for one who is denied (good)

20 And in the earth are signs for those who are sure,

21 And in yourselves do you not see?

22 And in the heavens is your sustenance and that which you are promised

23 So by the Lord of the heavens and the earth! it is surely the truth, just as you speak

24 Has the story of Abraham's honoured guests reached thee?

25 When they came to him, they said Peace! Peace! said he. Strangers!

26 Then he turned aside to his family and brought a fat calf

27 So he placed it before them. He said: Will you not eat?

28 So he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not. And they gave him the good news of a boy possessing knowledge

29 Then his wife came up in grief, and she smote her face and said: A barren old woman!

30 They said: Thus says thy Lord. Surely He is the Wise, the Knowing

31 He said: What is your errand, O messengers!

32 They said: We have been sent to a guilty people

33 That we may send upon them stones of clay,

34 Marked from thy Lord for the prodigal

35 Then We brought forth such believers as were there

36 And We found there but a (single) house of Muslims

37 And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful chastisement

38 And in Moses, when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority

39 But he turned away on account of his might and said: An enchanter or a madman!

40 So We seized him and his hosts and hurled them into the sea, and he was blameable

41 And in 'Ad, when We sent upon them the destructive wind

42 It spared naught that it came against, but it made it like ashes

43 And in Thamad, when it was said to them: Enjoy yourselves for a while

44 But they revolted against the commandment of their Lord, so the punishment overtook them, while they saw

45 So they were unable to rise up, nor could they defend themselves;

46 And the people of Noah before. Surely they were a transgressing people

47 And the heaven, We raised it high with power, and We are Makers of the vast extent

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