AL-FAJR The Dawn الفجر Meccan (surah 89 • 30 ayahs) »The surah that opens with the oath of the Divine One swearing by THE DAWN, and other natural occurrences and sacred designations, as a means of categorical affirmation to mankind that God shall, indeed, hold all people accountable. It is names after "the dawn" (al-fajr) mentioned in verse 1. A surah in which God emphasizes that the tyrants of the Prophet's time will be like those He dealt with in the past. The surah compares the destiny of the ungrateful with that of the souls at peace.« بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ BI-SMI LLĀHI R-RAḤMĀNI R-RAḤĪMI 1StopPlay القرآن: وَالْفَجْرِ TRANSLITERATION: wa-l-fajri TRANSLATION: By the Dawn,1 Interpreted as the month of Muḥarram, which marks the beginning of the year. (Ṭabarī, Taʾrīkh, ii, 390, from Ibn ʿAbbās) 2 القرآن: وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ TRANSLITERATION: wa-layālin ʿashrin TRANSLATION: by the ten nights, 3 القرآن: وَالشَّفْعِ وَالْوَتْرِ TRANSLITERATION: wa-sh-shafʿi wa-l-watri TRANSLATION: by the Even and the Odd, 4 القرآن: وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ TRANSLITERATION: wa-l-layli ʾidhā yasri TRANSLATION: by the night when it departs! 5 القرآن: هَلْ فِي ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِذِي حِجْرٍ TRANSLITERATION: hal fī dhālika qasamun li-dhī ḥijrin TRANSLATION: Is there an oath in that for one possessing intellect? 6 القرآن: أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ TRANSLITERATION: ʾa-lam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka bi-ʿādin TRANSLATION: Have you not regarded how your Lord dealt with [the people of] ʿĀd, 7 القرآن: إِرَمَ ذَاتِ الْعِمَادِ TRANSLITERATION: ʾirama dhāti l-ʿimādi TRANSLATION: [and] Iram, [the city] of the pillars, 8 القرآن: الَّتِي لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِي الْبِلَادِ TRANSLITERATION: allatī lam yukhlaq mithluhā fī l-bilādi TRANSLATION: the like of which was not created among cities, 9 القرآن: وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالْوَادِ TRANSLITERATION: wa-thamūda lladhīna jābū ṣ-ṣakhra bi-l-wādi TRANSLATION: and [the people of] Thamūd, who hollowed out the rocks in the valley, 10 القرآن: وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِي الْأَوْتَادِ TRANSLITERATION: wa-firʿawna dhī l-ʾawtādi TRANSLATION: and Pharaoh, the impaler,1 See the note at 38:12. 11 القرآن: الَّذِينَ طَغَوْا فِي الْبِلَادِ TRANSLITERATION: alladhīna ṭaghaw fī l-bilādi TRANSLATION: —those who rebelled [against Allah] in their cities 12 القرآن: فَأَكْثَرُوا فِيهَا الْفَسَادَ TRANSLITERATION: fa-ʾaktharū fīhā l-fasāda TRANSLATION: and caused much corruption in them, 13 القرآن: فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ TRANSLITERATION: fa-ṣabba ʿalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʿadhābin TRANSLATION: so your Lord poured on them lashes of punishment. 14 القرآن: إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ TRANSLITERATION: ʾinna rabbaka la-bi-l-mirṣādi TRANSLATION: Indeed your Lord is in ambush. 15 القرآن: فَأَمَّا الْإِنْسَانُ إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ رَبُّهُ فَأَكْرَمَهُ وَنَعَّمَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَكْرَمَنِ TRANSLITERATION: fa-ʾammā l-ʾinsānu ʾidhā mā btalāhu rabbuhū fa-ʾakramahū wa-naʿʿamahū fa-yaqūlu rabbī ʾakramani TRANSLATION: As for man, whenever his Lord tests him and grants him honour and blesses him, he says, 'My Lord has honoured me.' 16StopPlay القرآن: وَأَمَّا إِذَا مَا ابْتَلَاهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّي أَهَانَنِ TRANSLITERATION: wa-ʾammā ʾidhā mā btalāhu fa-qadara ʿalayhi rizqahū fa-yaqūlu rabbī ʾahānani TRANSLATION: But when He tests him and tightens for him his provision, he says, 'My Lord has humiliated me.' Dr. Muhammad Salah is one of the well-know scholars in US He lead the Islamic Center of Victoria, Texas and founded two Islamic and Arabic schools, Namely Iman Stems and the Muslim Generation He is the presenter of Ask Huda, one of the most well-known Fatawa programs broadcast at Huda TV. He works as the religious supervisor of Huda TV.

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