The Qur'an Sura LXXXIX — THE DAYBREAK
1By the DAYBREAK and ten nights.
2By that which is double and that which is single,
3By the night when it pursues its course!
4Is there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense?
5Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad,
6At Irem adorned with pillars,
7Whose like have not been reared in these lands!
8And with Themoud who hewed out the rocks in the valley;
9And with Pharaoh the impaler;
10Who all committed excesses in the lands,
11And multiplied wickedness therein.
12Wherefore thy Lord let loose on them the scourge of chastisement,
13For thy Lord standeth on a watch tower.
14As to man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteous to him,
15Then saith he, "My Lord honoureth me:"
16But when he proveth him and limiteth his gifts to him,
17He saith, "My Lord despiseth me."
18Aye. But ye honour not the orphan,
19Nor urge ye one another to feed the poor,
20And ye devour heritages, devouring greedily,
21And ye love riches with exceeding love.
22Aye. But when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing,
23And thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank,
24And Hell on that day shall be moved up,–Man shall on that day remember himself. But how shall remembrance help him?
25He shall say, Oh! would that I had prepared for this my life! On that day none shall punish as God punisheth,
26And none shall bind with such bonds as He.
27Oh, thou soul which art at rest,
28Return to thy Lord, pleased, and pleasing him:
29Enter thou among my servants,
30And enter thou my Paradise.
Suras are in the standard order; verse divisions follow Rodwell's 1861 edition and do not always match the standard ayah numbering.