The Qur'an Sura XLIV — SMOKE
1Ha. Mim. By this clear Book!
2See! on a blessed night have we sent it down, for we would warn mankind:
3On the night wherein all things are disposed in wisdom,
4By virtue of our behest. Lo! we have ever sent forth Apostles,
5A mercy from thy Lord: he truly heareth and knoweth all things–
6Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth and of all that is between them,–if ye be firm in faith–
7There is no God but He!–He maketh alive and killeth!–Your Lord and the Lord of your sires of old!
8Yet with doubts do they disport them.
9But mark them on the day when the Heaven shall give out a palpable SMOKE,
10Which shall enshroud mankind: this will be an afflictive torment.
11They will cry, "Our Lord! relieve us from this torment: see! we are believers."
12But how did warning avail them, when an undoubted apostle had come to them;
13And they turned their backs on him, and said, "Taught by others, possessed?"
14Were we to relieve you from the plague even a little, ye would certainly relapse.
15On the day when we shall fiercely put forth our great fierceness, we will surely take vengeance on them!
16Of old, before their time, had we proved the people of Pharaoh, when a noble apostle presented himself to them.
17"Send away with me," cried he, "the servants of God; for I am an apostle worthy of all credit:
18And exalt not yourselves against God, for I come to you with undoubted power;
19And I take refuge with Him who is my Lord and your Lord, that ye stone me not:
20And if ye believe me not, at least separate yourselves from me."
21And he cried to his Lord, "That these are a wicked people."
22"March forth then, said God, with my servants by night, for ye will be pursued.
23And leave behind you the cleft sea: they are a drowned host."
24How many a garden and fountain did they quit!
25And corn fields and noble dwellings!
26And pleasures in which they rejoiced them!
27So was it: and we gave them as a heritage to another people.
28Nor Heaven nor Earth wept for them, nor was their sentence respited;
29And we rescued the children of Israel from a degrading affliction–
30From Pharaoh, for he was haughty, given to excess.
31And we chose them, in our prescience, above all peoples,
32And we shewed them miracles wherein was their clear trial.
33Yet these infidels say,
34"There is but our first death, neither shall we be raised again:
35Bring back our sires, if ye be men of truth."
36Are they better than the people of Tobba,
37And those who flourished before them whom we destroyed for their evil deeds?
38We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is between them in sport:
39We have not created them but for a serious end: but the greater part of them understand it not.
40Verily the day of severing shall be the appointed time of all:
41A day when the master shall not at all be aided by the servant, neither shall they be helped;
42Save those on whom God shall have mercy: for He is the mighty, the merciful.
43Verily the tree of Ez-Zakkoum
44Shall be the sinner's food:
45Like dregs of oil shall it boil up in their bellies,
46Like the boiling of scalding water.
47"–Seize ye him, and drag him into the mid-fire;
48Then pour on his head of the tormenting boiling water.
49–'Taste this:' for thou forsooth art the mighty, the honourable!
50Lo! this is that of which ye doubted."
51But the pious shall be in a secure place,
52Amid gardens and fountains,
53Clothed in silk and richest robes, facing one another:
54Thus shall it be: and we will wed them to the virgins with large dark eyes:
55Therein shall they call, secure, for every kind of fruit;
56Therein, their first death passed, shall they taste death no more; and He shall keep them from the pains of Hell:–
57'Tis the gracious bounty of thy Lord! This is the great felicity.
58We have made this Koran easy for thee in thine own tongue, that they may take the warning.
59Therefore wait thou, for they are waiting.
Suras are in the standard order; verse divisions follow Rodwell's 1861 edition and do not always match the standard ayah numbering.