Surah Ad-Dukhan, Ayah 21-40 — Word by Word
الدخان
The Smoke
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
wa-in lam tu'minū lī fa-iʿ'tazilūni
But if you do not believe me, then leave me alone."
fadaʿā rabbahu anna hāulāi qawmun muj'rimūna
And [finally] he called to his Lord that these were a criminal people.
fa-asri biʿibādī laylan innakum muttabaʿūna
[Allāh said], "Then set out with My servants by night. Indeed, you are to be pursued.
wa-ut'ruki l-baḥra rahwan innahum jundun mugh'raqūna
And leave the sea in stillness. Indeed, they are an army to be drowned."
kam tarakū min jannātin waʿuyūnin
How much they left behind of gardens and springs
wazurūʿin wamaqāmin karīmin
And crops and noble sites
wanaʿmatin kānū fīhā fākihīna
And comfort wherein they were amused.
kadhālika wa-awrathnāhā qawman ākharīna
Thus. And We caused to inherit it another people.
famā bakat ʿalayhimu l-samāu wal-arḍu wamā kānū munẓarīna
And the heaven and earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved.
walaqad najjaynā banī is'rāīla mina l-ʿadhābi l-muhīni
And We certainly saved the Children of Israel from the humiliating torment -
min fir'ʿawna innahu kāna ʿāliyan mina l-mus'rifīna
From Pharaoh. Indeed, he was a haughty one among the transgressors.
walaqadi ikh'tarnāhum ʿalā ʿil'min ʿalā l-ʿālamīna
And We certainly chose them by knowledge over [all] the worlds.
waātaynāhum mina l-āyāti mā fīhi balāon mubīnun
And We gave them of signs that in which there was a clear trial.
inna hāulāi layaqūlūna
Indeed, these [disbelievers] are saying,
in hiya illā mawtatunā l-ūlā wamā naḥnu bimunsharīna
"There is not but our first death, and we will not be resurrected.
fatū biābāinā in kuntum ṣādiqīna
Then bring [back] our forefathers, if you should be truthful."
ahum khayrun am qawmu tubbaʿin wa-alladhīna min qablihim ahlaknāhum innahum kānū muj'rimīna
Are they better or the people of Tubbaʿ and those before them? We destroyed them, [for] indeed, they were criminals.
wamā khalaqnā l-samāwāti wal-arḍa wamā baynahumā lāʿibīna
And We did not create the heavens and earth and that between them in play.
mā khalaqnāhumā illā bil-ḥaqi walākinna aktharahum lā yaʿlamūna
We did not create them except in truth, but most of them do not know.
inna yawma l-faṣli mīqātuhum ajmaʿīna
Indeed, the Day of Judgement is the appointed time for them all -