Surah Al-Fajr, Ayah 21-30 — 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.
kallā idhā dukkati l-arḍu dakkan dakkan
No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed
wajāa rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffan
And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,
wajīa yawma-idhin bijahannama yawma-idhin yatadhakkaru l-insānu wa-annā lahu l-dhik'rā
And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?
yaqūlu yālaytanī qaddamtu liḥayātī
He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."
fayawma-idhin lā yuʿadhibu ʿadhābahu aḥadun
So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
walā yūthiqu wathāqahu aḥadun
And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
yāayyatuhā l-nafsu l-muṭ'ma-inatu
[To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,
ir'jiʿī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatan marḍiyyatan
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
fa-ud'khulī fī ʿibādī
And enter among My [righteous] servants
wa-ud'khulī jannatī
And enter My Paradise."