Surah Adh-Dhaariyat

وَفِىٓأَنفُسِكُمْأَفَلَاتُبْصِرُونَ

just as [there are signs thereof] within your own selves: can you not, then, see?

وَفِىٱلسَّمَآءِرِزْقُكُمْوَمَاتُوعَدُونَ

And in heaven is [the source of] your sus­tenance [on earth] and [of] all that you are promised [for your life after death]:

فَوَرَبِّٱلسَّمَآءِوَٱلْأَرْضِإِنَّهُۥلَحَقٌّۭمِّثْلَمَآأَنَّكُمْتَنطِقُونَ

for, by the Sustainer of heaven and earth, this [life after death] is the very truth - as true as that you are endowed with speech!

هَلْأَتَىٰكَحَدِيثُضَيْفِإِبْرَٰهِيمَٱلْمُكْرَمِينَ

AND HAS the story of Abraham’s honoured guests ever come within thy ken?

إِذْدَخَلُوا۟عَلَيْهِفَقَالُوا۟سَلَٰمًۭاقَالَسَلَٰمٌۭقَوْمٌۭمُّنكَرُونَ

When those [heavenly messengers] came unto him and bade him peace, he answered, “[And upon you be] peace!” - [saying to himself,] “They are strangers.”

فَرَاغَإِلَىٰٓأَهْلِهِۦفَجَآءَبِعِجْلٍۢسَمِينٍۢ

Then he turned quietly to his household, and brought forth a fat [roasted] calf,

فَقَرَّبَهُۥٓإِلَيْهِمْقَالَأَلَاتَأْكُلُونَ

and placed it before them, saying, “Will you not eat?”

فَأَوْجَسَمِنْهُمْخِيفَةًۭقَالُوا۟لَاتَخَفْوَبَشَّرُوهُبِغُلَٰمٍعَلِيمٍۢ

[And when he saw that the guests would not eat,] he became apprehensive of them; [but] they said, “Fear not” - and gave him the glad tiding of [the birth of] a son who would be endowed with deep knowledge.

فَأَقْبَلَتِٱمْرَأَتُهُۥفِىصَرَّةٍۢفَصَكَّتْوَجْهَهَاوَقَالَتْعَجُوزٌعَقِيمٌۭ

Thereupon his wife approached [the guests] with a loud cry, and struck her face [in astonishment] and exclaimed: “A barren old woman [like me]!”

قَالُوا۟كَذَٰلِكِقَالَرَبُّكِإِنَّهُۥهُوَٱلْحَكِيمُٱلْعَلِيمُ

They answered: “Thus has thy Sustainer decreed; and, verily, He alone is truly wise, all- knowing!”

قَالَفَمَاخَطْبُكُمْأَيُّهَاٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ

Said [Abraham]: “And what [else] may you have in view, O you [heavenly] messengers?”

قَالُوٓا۟إِنَّآأُرْسِلْنَآإِلَىٰقَوْمٍۢمُّجْرِمِينَ

They answered: “Behold, we have been sent unto a people lost in sin,

لِنُرْسِلَعَلَيْهِمْحِجَارَةًۭمِّنطِينٍۢ

to let loose upon them stone-hard blows of chastisement,

مُّسَوَّمَةًعِندَرَبِّكَلِلْمُسْرِفِينَ

marked out in thy Sustainer’s sight for [the punishment of] such as have wasted their own selves.”

فَأَخْرَجْنَامَنكَانَفِيهَامِنَٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

And in the course of time We brought out [of Lot ’s city] such [few] believers as were there:

فَمَاوَجَدْنَافِيهَاغَيْرَبَيْتٍۢمِّنَٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ

for apart from one [single] house We did not find there any who had surrendered themselves to Us.

وَتَرَكْنَافِيهَآءَايَةًۭلِّلَّذِينَيَخَافُونَٱلْعَذَابَٱلْأَلِيمَ

And so We left therein a message for those who fear the grievous suffering [which awaits all evildoers].

وَفِىمُوسَىٰٓإِذْأَرْسَلْنَٰهُإِلَىٰفِرْعَوْنَبِسُلْطَٰنٍۢمُّبِينٍۢ

AND IN [the story of Pharaoh and] Moses, too, [We left the same message: for] when We sent him unto Pharaoh with [Our] manifest authority,

فَتَوَلَّىٰبِرُكْنِهِۦوَقَالَسَٰحِرٌأَوْمَجْنُونٌۭ

and he turned away in [the pride of] his power and said, “A sorcerer [is this Moses], or a madman!” –

فَأَخَذْنَٰهُوَجُنُودَهُۥفَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْفِىٱلْيَمِّوَهُوَمُلِيمٌۭ

We seized him and his hosts, and cast them all into the sea: and [none but Pharaoh] himself was to blame [for what happened].