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At-Takwir

التكوير

أعوذُ بِٱللَّهِ مِنَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ

O Allah, I seek refuge in you from the accursed Satan

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

إِذَا ٱلشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ ۝
81:1

When the sun is put out,

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وَإِذَا ٱلنُّجُومُ ٱنكَدَرَتْ ۝
81:2

and when the stars fall down,

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وَإِذَا ٱلْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ ۝
81:3

and when the mountains are blown away,

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وَإِذَا ٱلْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ ۝
81:4

and when pregnant camels are left untended,1

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وَإِذَا ٱلْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ ۝
81:5

and when wild beasts are gathered together,1

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وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ ۝
81:6

and when the seas are set on fire,1

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وَإِذَا ٱلنُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ ۝
81:7

and when the souls ˹and their bodies˺ are paired ˹once more˺,

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وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ ۝
81:8

and when baby girls, buried alive, are asked

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بِأَىِّ ذَنۢبٍۢ قُتِلَتْ ۝
81:9

for what crime they were put to death,1

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وَإِذَا ٱلصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ ۝
81:10

and when the records ˹of deeds˺ are laid open,

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وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ ۝
81:11

and when the sky is stripped away,

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وَإِذَا ٱلْجَحِيمُ سُعِّرَتْ ۝
81:12

and when the Hellfire is fiercely flared up,

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وَإِذَا ٱلْجَنَّةُ أُزْلِفَتْ ۝
81:13

and when Paradise is brought near—

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عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌۭ مَّآ أَحْضَرَتْ ۝
81:14

˹on that Day˺ each soul will know what ˹deeds˺ it has brought along.

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فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلْخُنَّسِ ۝
81:15

I do swear by the receding stars

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ٱلْجَوَارِ ٱلْكُنَّسِ ۝
81:16

which travel and hide,1

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وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ ۝
81:17

and the night as it falls

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وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَا تَنَفَّسَ ۝
81:18

and the day as it breaks!1

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إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍۢ كَرِيمٍۢ ۝
81:19

Indeed, this ˹Quran˺ is the Word of ˹Allah delivered by Gabriel,˺ a noble messenger-angel,

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ذِى قُوَّةٍ عِندَ ذِى ٱلْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍۢ ۝
81:20

full of power, held in honour by the Lord of the Throne,

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مُّطَاعٍۢ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍۢ ۝
81:21

obeyed there ˹in heaven˺, and trustworthy.

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وَمَا صَاحِبُكُم بِمَجْنُونٍۢ ۝
81:22

And your fellow man1 is not insane.

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وَلَقَدْ رَءَاهُ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْمُبِينِ ۝
81:23

And he did see that ˹angel˺ on the clear horizon,1

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وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى ٱلْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍۢ ۝
81:24

and he does not withhold ˹what is revealed to him of˺ the unseen.

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وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطَـٰنٍۢ رَّجِيمٍۢ ۝
81:25

And this ˹Quran˺ is not the word of an outcast devil.1

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فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ ۝
81:26

So what ˹other˺ path would you take?

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إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌۭ لِّلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ۝
81:27

Surely this ˹Quran˺ is only a reminder to the whole world—

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لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَسْتَقِيمَ ۝
81:28

to whoever of you wills to take the Straight Way.

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وَمَا تَشَآءُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ۝
81:29

But you cannot will ˹to do so˺, except by the Will of Allah, the Lord of all worlds.

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