{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq054.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq054.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq054.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful\n1. The Hour (of Judgment)\n Is nigh, and the moon\n Is cleft asunder.\n2. But if they see\n A Sign, they turn away,\n And say, \"This is\n (But) transient magic.\"\n3. They reject (the warning)\n And follow their (own) lusts\n But every matter has\n Its appointed time.\n4. There have already come\n To them Recitals wherein\n There is (enough) to check (them),\n5. Mature wisdom;\u2014but\n (The preaching of) Warners\n Profits them not.\n6. Therefore, (O Prophet,)\n Turn away from them.\n The Day that the Caller\n Will call (them)\n To a terrible affair,\n7. They will come forth,\n Their eyes humbled\u2014\n From (their) graves, (torpid)\n Like locusts scattered abroad,\n8. Hastening, with eyes transfixed,\n Towards the Caller!\u2014\n \"Hard is this Day!\",\n The Unbelievers will say.\n9. Before them the People\n Of Noah rejected (their apostle):\n They rejected Our servant,\n And said, \"Here is\n One possessed!\", and he\n Was driven out.\n10. Then he called on his Lord:\n \"I am one overcome:\n Do Thou then help (me)!\n11. So We opened the gates\n Of heaven, with water\n Pouring forth.\n12. And We caused the earth\n To gush forth with springs.\n So the waters met (and rose)\n To the extent decreed.\n13. But We bore him\n On an (Ark) made of\n Broad planks and caulked\n With palm-fibre:\n14. She floats under our eyes\n (And care): a recompense\n To one who had been\n Rejected (with scorn)!\n15. And We have left\n This as a Sign\n (For all time): then\n Is there any that will\n Receive admonition?\n16. But how (terrible) was\n My Penalty and My Warning?\n17. And We have indeed\n Made the Qur-\u0101n easy\nTo understand and remember:\n Then is there any that\n Will receive admonition?\n18. The \u2018\u0100d (people) (too)\n Rejected (Truth): then\n How terrible was\n My Penalty and My Warning?\n19. For We sent against them\n A furious wind, on a Day\n Of violent Disaster,\n20. Plucking out men as if\n They were roots of palm-trees\n Torn up (from the ground).\n21. Yea, how (terrible) was\n My Penalty and My Warning!\n22. But We have indeed\n Made the Qur-\u0101n easy\n To understand and remember:\n Then is there any that\n Will receive admonition?\n23. The Tham\u016bd (also)\n Rejected (their) Warners.\n24. For they said: \"What!\n A man! a solitary one\nFrom among ourselves!\n Shall we follow such a one?\n Truly should we then be\n Straying in mind, and mad!\n25. \"Is it that the Message\n Is sent to him,\n Of all people amongst us?\n Nay, he is a liar,\n An insolent one!\"\n26. Ah! they will know\n On the morrow, which is\n The liar, the insolent one!\n27. For We will send\n The she-camel\n By way of trial for them.\n So watch them, (O \u1e62\u0101li\u1e25),\n And possess thyself in patience!\n28. And tell them that\n The water is to be\n Divided between them:\n Each one's right to drink\n Being brought forward\n (By suitable turns).\n29. But they called\n To their companion,\n And he took a sword\n In hand, and hamstrung (her).\n30. Ah! how (terrible) was\n My Penalty and My Warning!\n31. For We sent against them\n A single Mighty Blast,\n And they became\n Like the dry stubble used\n By one who pens cattle.\n32. And we have indeed\n Made the Qur-\u0101n easy\n To understand and remember:\n Then is there any that\n Will receive admonition?\n33. The People of L\u016b\u1e6d\n Rejected (his) Warning.\n34. We sent against them\n A violent tornado\n With showers of stones,\n (Which destroyed them), except\n L\u016b\u1e6d's household: them We\n Delivered by early Dawn,\u2014\n35. As a Grace from Us:\n Thus do We reward\n Those who give thanks.\n36. And (L\u016b\u1e6d) did warn them\n Of Our Punishment, but\n They disputed about the Warning.\n37. And they even sought\n To snatch away his guests\n From him, but We blinded\n Their eyes. (They heard:)\n \"Now taste ye My Wrath\n And My Warning.\"\n38. Early on the morrow\n An abiding Punishment\n Seized them:\n39. \"So taste ye My Wrath\n And My Warning.\"\n40. And We have indeed\n Made the Qur-\u0101n easy\n To understand and remember:\n Then is there any that\n Will receive admonition?\n41. To the People\n Of Pharaoh, too, aforetime,\n Came Warners (from God).\n42. The (people) rejected all\n Our Signs; but We\n Seized them with such Penalty\n (As comes) from One\n Exalted in Power,\n Able to carry out His Will.\n43. Are your Unbelievers,\n (O Quraish), better than they?\n Or have ye an immunity\n In the Sacred Books?\n44. Or do they say:\n \"We acting together\n Can defend ourselves\"?\n45. Soon will their multitude\n Be put to flight,\n And they will show\n Their backs.\n46. Nay, the Hour (of Judgment)\n Is the time promised them\n (For their full recompense):\n And that Hour will be\n Most grievous and most bitter.\n47. Truly those in sin\n Are the ones\n Straying in mind, and mad.\n48. The Day they will be\n Dragged through the Fire\n On their faces, (they\n Will hear:) \"Taste ye\n The touch of Hell!\"\n49. Verily, all things\n Have We created\n In proportion and measure.\n50. And Our Command\n Is but a single (Act),\u2014\n Like the twinkling\n Of an eye.\n51. And (oft) in the past,\n Have We destroyed gangs\n Like unto you: then\n Is there any that\n Will receive admonition?\n52. All that they do\n Is noted in (their)\n Books (of Deeds):\n53. Every matter, small and great,\n Is on record.\n54. As to the Righteous,\n They will be in the midst\n Of Gardens and Rivers,\n55. In an Assembly of Truth,\n In the Presence of\n A Sovereign Omnipotent.\np. 1464 p. 1465 p. 1466 p. 1467 p. 1468 p. 1469 p. 1470 p. 1471","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LIV. Qamar, or the Moon.","type":"page"}