Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Ayah 21-40 — Word by Word
الذاريات
The Winnowing Winds
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
wafī anfusikum afalā tub'ṣirūna
And in yourselves. Then will you not see?
wafī l-samāi riz'qukum wamā tūʿadūna
And in the heaven is your provision and whatever you are promised.
fawarabbi l-samāi wal-arḍi innahu laḥaqqun mith'la mā annakum tanṭiqūna
Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth - just as [sure as] it is that you are speaking.
hal atāka ḥadīthu ḍayfi ib'rāhīma l-muk'ramīna
Has there reached you the story of the honored guests of Abraham? -
idh dakhalū ʿalayhi faqālū salāman qāla salāmun qawmun munkarūna
When they entered upon him and said, "[We greet you with] peace." He answered, "[And upon you] peace; [you are] a people unknown."
farāgha ilā ahlihi fajāa biʿij'lin samīnin
Then he went to his family and came with a fat [roasted] calf.
faqarrabahu ilayhim qāla alā takulūna
And placed it near them; he said, "Will you not eat?"
fa-awjasa min'hum khīfatan qālū lā takhaf wabasharūhu bighulāmin ʿalīmin
And he felt from them apprehension. They said, "Fear not," and gave him good tidings of a learned boy.
fa-aqbalati im'ra-atuhu fī ṣarratin faṣakkat wajhahā waqālat ʿajūzun ʿaqīmun
And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"
qālū kadhāliki qāla rabbuki innahu huwa l-ḥakīmu l-ʿalīmu
They said, "Thus has said your Lord; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing."
qāla famā khaṭbukum ayyuhā l-mur'salūna
[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"
qālū innā ur'sil'nā ilā qawmin muj'rimīna
They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals
linur'sila ʿalayhim ḥijāratan min ṭīnin
To send down upon them stones of clay,
musawwamatan ʿinda rabbika lil'mus'rifīna
Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."
fa-akhrajnā man kāna fīhā mina l-mu'minīna
So We brought out whoever was in them [i.e., the cities] of the believers.
famā wajadnā fīhā ghayra baytin mina l-mus'limīna
And We found not within them other than a [single] house of Muslims.
wataraknā fīhā āyatan lilladhīna yakhāfūna l-ʿadhāba l-alīma
And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful punishment.
wafī mūsā idh arsalnāhu ilā fir'ʿawna bisul'ṭānin mubīnin
And in Moses [was a sign], when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority.
fatawallā biruk'nihi waqāla sāḥirun aw majnūnun
But he turned away with his supporters and said, "A magician or a madman."
fa-akhadhnāhu wajunūdahu fanabadhnāhum fī l-yami wahuwa mulīmun
So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy.