Surah Al-Fajr — Word by Word
الفجر
The Dawn
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
wal-fajri
By the dawn
walayālin ʿashrin
And [by] ten nights
wal-shafʿi wal-watri
And [by] the even [number] and the odd
wa-al-layli idhā yasri
And [by] the night when it passes,
hal fī dhālika qasamun lidhī ḥij'rin
Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?
alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʿādin
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -
irama dhāti l-ʿimādi
[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars,
allatī lam yukh'laq mith'luhā fī l-bilādi
The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
wathamūda alladhīna jābū l-ṣakhra bil-wādi
And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
wafir'ʿawna dhī l-awtādi
And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?
alladhīna ṭaghaw fī l-bilādi
[All of] whom oppressed within the lands
fa-aktharū fīhā l-fasāda
And increased therein the corruption.
faṣabba ʿalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʿadhābin
So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
inna rabbaka labil-mir'ṣādi
Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
fa-ammā l-insānu idhā mā ib'talāhu rabbuhu fa-akramahu wanaʿʿamahu fayaqūlu rabbī akramani
And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."
wa-ammā idhā mā ib'talāhu faqadara ʿalayhi riz'qahu fayaqūlu rabbī ahānani
But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."
kallā bal lā tuk'rimūna l-yatīma
No! But you do not honor the orphan
walā taḥāḍḍūna ʿalā ṭaʿāmi l-mis'kīni
And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
watakulūna l-turātha aklan lamman
And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,
watuḥibbūna l-māla ḥubban jamman
And you love wealth with immense love.
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