Surah 89: Al-Fajr
الفجر
Ayah 1
By the dawn
وَٱلْفَجْرِ Walfajr — 🔊
Ayah 2
And [by] ten nights1
وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ Walayalin AAashr — 🔊
Ayah 3
And [by] the even [number] and the odd
وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ WashshafAAi walwatr — 🔊
Ayah 4
And [by] the night when it passes,
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ Wallayli itha yasr — 🔊
Ayah 5
Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?1
هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ Hal fee thalika qasamun lithee hijr — 🔊
Ayah 6
Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ Alam tara kayfa faAAala rabbuka biAAad — 🔊
Ayah 7
[With] Iram - who had lofty pillars
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ Irama thati alAAimad — 🔊
Ayah 8
The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ Allatee lam yukhlaq mithluha fee albilad — 🔊
Ayah 9
And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ Wathamooda allatheena jaboo assakhrabilwad — 🔊
Ayah 10
And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?1
وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ WafirAAawna thee al-awtad — 🔊
Ayah 11
[All of] whom oppressed within the lands
ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ Allatheena taghaw fee albilad — 🔊
Ayah 12
And increased therein the corruption.
فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ Faaktharoo feeha alfasad — 🔊
Ayah 13
So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ Fasabba AAalayhim rabbuka sawtaAAathab — 🔊
Ayah 14
Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ Inna rabbaka labilmirsad — 🔊
Ayah 15
And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, “My Lord has honored me.”1
فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ Faamma al-insanu itha maibtalahu rabbuhu faakramahu wanaAAAAamahu fayaqoolu rabbeeakraman — 🔊
Ayah 16
But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, “My Lord has humiliated me.”
وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَـٰنَنِ Waamma itha ma ibtalahufaqadara AAalayhi rizqahu fayaqoolu rabbee ahanan — 🔊
Ayah 17
No!1 But you do not honor the orphan
كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ Kalla bal la tukrimoonaalyateem — 🔊
Ayah 18
And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
وَلَا تَحَـٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ Wala tahaddoona AAala taAAamialmiskeen — 🔊
Ayah 19
And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether
وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَّمًّا Wata/kuloona atturatha aklanlamma — 🔊
Ayah 20
And you love wealth with immense love.
وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا Watuhibboona almala hubbanjamma — 🔊
Ayah 21
No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed
كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا Kalla itha dukkati al-ardudakkan dakka — 🔊
Ayah 22
And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,
وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا Wajaa rabbuka walmalaku saffansaffa — 🔊
Ayah 23
And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?
وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ ۚ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ Wajee-a yawma-ithin bijahannamayawma-ithin yatathakkaru al-insanu waannalahu aththikra — 🔊
Ayah 24
He will say, “Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life.”1
يَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى Yaqoolu ya laytanee qaddamtu lihayatee — 🔊
Ayah 25
So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ Fayawma-ithin la yuAAaththibuAAathabahu ahad — 🔊
Ayah 26
And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ Wala yoothiqu wathaqahu ahad — 🔊
Ayah 27
[To the righteous it will be said], “O reassured soul,
يَـٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ Ya ayyatuha annafsualmutma-inna — 🔊
Ayah 28
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً IrjiAAee ila rabbiki radiyatanmardiyya — 🔊
Ayah 29
And enter among My [righteous] servants
فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَـٰدِى Fadkhulee fee AAibadee — 🔊
Ayah 30
And enter My Paradise.”
وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى Wadkhulee jannatee — 🔊
Arabic and translation via Quran.com API. English: Saheeh International. Transliteration: Transliteration (id 57). Audio: OpenFurqan. Curated by Logos Gardners, March 2026.