Chapter 54. The Moon, al-Qamar

54.0 In The Name Of YHWH: The Almighty, The Merciful.

54:1 The Hour draws near

when the moon will be rent asunder. for real, we will see this!

54:2 But if they see smaller Proofs they turn away and say:

Persistent fantasy!

54:3 Yea they reject and follow their own desires

but every matter is settled regardless.

54:4 And there has come to them Tidings

wherein is offered deterrence.

54:5 Yea and far reaching Wisdom

but the Warnings avail not.

54:6 So turn thou away from them

then on the Day The Caller Calls

54:7 their eyes will be humbled in horror

when they come forth from their states of death like scattered locusts

54:8 hastening towards The Caller with terror in their eyes.

Indeed those fools will say:

This is a difficult Day!

54:9 Like the people of Noah who denied before them

when they disrespected Our servant saying: One possessed and insane.

Then drove him away.

54:10 Hence he called to his Lord: I am rejected please Help!

54:11 So We opened the gates of the sky pouring water

54:12 and caused the Earth to gush forth in springs

and the waters met for the purpose determined.

54:13 And We carried him upon that vessel made of planks and pitch for caulk

54:14 which sailed before Our eyes as a gift for him who they disrespected.

54:15 And We have left this story as a Sign

but is there one here who recounts?

54:16 So how were My Punishments and My Warnings?

54:17 And We have made the Quran easy to memorize

in Arabic but is there one here who recounts?

54:18 Ad rejected

then how were My Punishments and My Warnings?

54:19 Truly We sent upon them a raging wind on a day of enduring calamity

54:20 hurling people like trunks of uprooted date palms.

54:21 Then how were My Punishments and My Warnings?

54:22 And We have made the Quran easy to memorize

but is there one here who recounts?

54:23 The people of Thamud refused the Warnings

54:24 when they said: Is it a lone mortal from among us we are to follow?

Nay. We would be astray and insane!

54:25 For has the Remembrance been given to Salih an average man from among us?

Nay. The Truth must be he is an insolent teller of lies.

54:26 But they will come to know tomorrow who the insolent tellers of lies are!

54:27 We sent the she camel as a test for them

so wait thou for them and be patient.

54:28 And inform them that the water is to be divided fairly between them and the she camel

each drinks in its turn.

54:29 Then they called their companion who took over and brutally crippled the thirsty she camel.

54:30 Then how were My Punishments and My Warnings?

54:31 We sent upon them one blast and they became like dry stalks of the fence maker.

54:32 Indeed We have made the Quran easy to memorize

yet is there one here who takes care to recount it?

54:33 The people of Lot refused the Warnings

54:34 so We sent upon them a rain of molten stones

except for the house of Lot

who We delivered at dawn

54:35 through grace from Us.

Thus do We help those who are grateful.

54:36 And he had advised them of Our might

but they disregarded the Warnings.

54:37 And they sought to lure him away from his guests

so We blinded their eyes.

Yea taste My Punishment after My Warnings!

54:38 And certainly an abiding scourge of death befell them in the early morn.

54:39 Yea taste My Punishment after My Warnings!

54:40 After We made the Quran easy for Remembrance

yet there is not one here who recounts it?

54:41 And the Warnings came to the house of pharaoh.

54:42 They denied each of Our Proofs

so We seized them with a Seizing Of One Who Is The Almighty, The Omnipotent.

54:43 Are your nontheists better than those?

Or have you immunity decreed by ancient scrolls?

54:44 Or if they say: United we stand.

54:45 Their multitude will be defeated and turn in flight.

54:46 For the Hour is as Promised to them

but the Hour is more calamitous and bitter than imaginable.

54:47 Yea it is the evildoers who are in error with insanity.

54:48 The Day they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces

it will be said: Taste the touch of Saqar!

54:49 Truly We Created everything in measure

54:50 and Our command to it was only one

completed in the twinkling of an eye.

54:51 And We have destroyed their like

yet is there even one who recalls?

54:52 But Everything they did is in written records.

54:53 Yea Everything small and great is written down.

54:54 Those of Wise Fear will be among Gardens with rivers

54:55 in positions of sincerity before The Omnipotent One.