Surah Adh-Dhariyat (The Winnowing Winds) 51

Revealed 67th in the Qur'an

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By those scattering, dispersing

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And those carrying a load [of water]

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And those sailing with ease

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And those apportioning [each] matter,

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Indeed, what you are promised is true.

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And indeed, [the promise of] the Religion is to occur.

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By the heaven containing pathways,

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Indeed, you are in differing speech.

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He who is deluded is deluded away from [the Qur'an].

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The falsifiers are destroyed

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Who are within a flood [of confusion] and heedless.

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They ask, "When is the Day of the Religion?"

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[It is] the Day they will be tried over the Fire

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[And will be told], "Taste your trial. This is that which you were impatient for."

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Indeed, those who fear [God] will be among gardens and springs, *Book of Enoch 48:1

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Accepting what their Lord has given them. Indeed, they were doers of good before that.

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They used to sleep only a little during the night,

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And they would ask for forgiveness in the hours before dawn,

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And there was a right in their wealth [given] to those who asked and to the deprived.

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And there are signs on the earth for the certain [in faith]

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And in yourselves. Then will you not see?

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And your provision is in the heaven and [also] whatever you are promised.

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Then by the Lord of the heaven and earth, indeed, it is truth - just as [sure as] it is that you are speaking.

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Has the story of the honored guests of Abraham reached you?

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When they entered upon him and said, "Peace." He answered, "Peace, wrongdoing people."

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Then he went to his family and came with a fat [roasted] calf *Genesis 18:7

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And placed it near them; he said, "Will you not eat?"

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And he felt apprehension from them. They said, "Do not fear," and they gave him good news of a knowledgeable boy. *Genesis 18:10

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And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!" *Genesis 18:12

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They said, "Your Lord has thus said; indeed, He is the Wise, the Knowing."

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[Abraham] said, "Then what is your business [here], O messengers?"

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They said, "Indeed, we have been sent to a people of criminals

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To send down stones of clay upon them,

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Marked in the presence of your Lord for the transgressors."

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So We brought out whoever was in the cities of the believers.

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And We did not find [any believers] except a [single] house of those in submission [to God] within them.

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And We left a sign therein for those who fear the painful punishment.

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And [there was a sign] in Moses, when We sent him to Pharaoh with a clear authority.

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But he turned away with his supporters and said, "[He is] a magician or possessed [by devils of jinn]."

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So We took him and his soldiers and cast them into the sea, and he was blameworthy.

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And [there was a sign] in 'Aad, when We sent the barren wind against them.

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It left nothing of what it came upon except that it made it like disintegrated ruins.

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And [there was a sign] in Thamud, when it was said to them, "Enjoy yourselves for a time."

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But they were insolent toward the command of their Lord, so the thunderbolt seized them while they were looking on.

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And they were unable to arise, nor could they defend themselves.

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And [We destroyed] the people of Noah before; indeed, they were a defiantly disobedient people.

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And We constructed the heaven with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expanders.

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And We have spread the earth out [as a carpet], *Isaiah 42:5, *Isaiah 44:24 and the Spreader is [indeed] excellent.

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And We created two pairs of all things; perhaps you will remember. *Book of Enoch 54:8, *Sirach 33:15

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So flee to God. Indeed, I am a clear warner to you from Him.

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And do not make another god [as equal] with God. Indeed, I am a clear warner to you from Him.

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Similarly, no messenger came to those before them except that they said, "[He is] a magician or possessed [by devils of jinn]." *Matthew 11:18, *Luke 7:33, *John 7:20*John 8:48*John 10:20

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Did they enjoin it upon them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people.

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So turn away from them, for you are not to be blamed.

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And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers.

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And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to serve Me.

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I do not want any provision from them, nor do I want them to feed Me. *Psalms 50:13, *Isaiah 1:11

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Indeed, it is God who is the [continual] Provider, the firm possessor of strength.

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And indeed, there is a portion [of punishment] for those who have wronged like the portion of their predecessors, so do not let them impatiently urge Me.

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And woe to those who have disbelieved from their Day which they are promised.