Surah Ad-Dukhan, Ayah 41-59 — 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.
yawma lā yugh'nī mawlan ʿan mawlan shayan walā hum yunṣarūna
The Day when no relation will avail a relation at all, nor will they be helped -
illā man raḥima l-lahu innahu huwa l-ʿazīzu l-raḥīmu
Except those [believers] on whom Allāh has mercy. Indeed, He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.
inna shajarata l-zaqūmi
Indeed, the tree of zaqqūm
ṭaʿāmu l-athīmi
Is food for the sinful.
kal-muh'li yaghlī fī l-buṭūni
Like murky oil, it boils within bellies
kaghalyi l-ḥamīmi
Like the boiling of scalding water.
khudhūhu fa-iʿ'tilūhu ilā sawāi l-jaḥīmi
[It will be commanded], "Seize him and drag him into the midst of the Hellfire,
thumma ṣubbū fawqa rasihi min ʿadhābi l-ḥamīmi
Then pour over his head from the torment of scalding water."
dhuq innaka anta l-ʿazīzu l-karīmu
[It will be said], "Taste! Indeed, you are the honored, the noble!
inna hādhā mā kuntum bihi tamtarūna
Indeed, this is what you used to dispute."
inna l-mutaqīna fī maqāmin amīnin
Indeed, the righteous will be in a secure place:
fī jannātin waʿuyūnin
Within gardens and springs,
yalbasūna min sundusin wa-is'tabraqin mutaqābilīna
Wearing [garments of] fine silk and brocade, facing each other.
kadhālika wazawwajnāhum biḥūrin ʿīnin
Thus. And We will marry them to fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes.
yadʿūna fīhā bikulli fākihatin āminīna
They will call therein for every [kind of] fruit - safe and secure.
lā yadhūqūna fīhā l-mawta illā l-mawtata l-ūlā wawaqāhum ʿadhāba l-jaḥīmi
They will not taste death therein except the first death, and He will have protected them from the punishment of Hellfire
faḍlan min rabbika dhālika huwa l-fawzu l-ʿaẓīmu
As bounty from your Lord. That is what is the great attainment.
fa-innamā yassarnāhu bilisānika laʿallahum yatadhakkarūna
And indeed, We have eased it [i.e., the Qur’ān] in your tongue that they might be reminded.
fa-ir'taqib innahum mur'taqibūna
So watch, [O Muḥammad]; indeed, they are watching [for your end].