وَالذَّارِيَاتِ ذَرْوًا ١

By the swift scatterers

فَالْحَامِلَاتِ وِقْرًا ٢

and the burden-bearers

فَالْجَارِيَاتِ يُسْرًا ٣

and the smooth runners

فَالْمُقَسِّمَاتِ أَمْرًا ٤

and the partitioners,

إِنَّمَا تُوعَدُونَ لَصَادِقٌ ٥

surely that you are promised is true,

وَإِنَّ الدِّينَ لَوَاقِعٌ ٦

and surely the Doom is about to fall!

وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الْحُبُكِ ٧

By heaven with all its tracks

إِنَّكُمْ لَفِي قَوْلٍ مُّخْتَلِفٍ ٨

surely you speak at variance,

يُؤْفَكُ عَنْهُ مَنْ أُفِكَ ٩

and perverted therefrom are some.

قُتِلَ الْخَرَّاصُونَ ١٠

Perish the conjecturers

الَّذِينَ هُمْ فِي غَمْرَةٍ سَاهُونَ ١١

who are dazed in perplexity

يَسْأَلُونَ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ الدِّينِ ١٢

asking, ’When shall be the Day of Doom?’

يَوْمَ هُمْ عَلَى النَّارِ يُفْتَنُونَ ١٣

Upon the day when they shall be tried at the Fire:

ذُوقُوا فِتْنَتَكُمْ هَٰذَا الَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ ١٤

’Taste your trial! This is that you were seeking to hasten.’

إِنَّ الْمُتَّقِينَ فِي جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ ١٥

Surely the godfearing shall be among gardens and fountains

آخِذِينَ مَا آتَاهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِينَ ١٦

taking whatsoever their Lord has given them; they were good-doers before that.

كَانُوا قَلِيلًا مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ ١٧

Little of the night would they slumber,

وَبِالْأَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ ١٨

and in the mornings they would ask for forgiveness;

وَفِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ لِّلسَّائِلِ وَالْمَحْرُومِ ١٩

and the beggar and the outcast had a share in their wealth.

وَفِي الْأَرْضِ آيَاتٌ لِّلْمُوقِنِينَ ٢٠

In the earth are signs for those having sure faith;