Driver of the Winds

In the name of GOD, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīm

The blowing winds.

وَٱلذَّٰرِيَٰتِ ذَرْوًا

wal-dhāriyāti dharwa

Bearing rain.

فَٱلْحَٰمِلَٰتِ وِقْرًا

fal-ḥāmilāti wiq'ra

Bringing provisions.

فَٱلْجَٰرِيَٰتِ يُسْرًا

fal-jāriyāti yus'ra

Distributing them as commanded.

فَٱلْمُقَسِّمَٰتِ أَمْرًا

fal-muqasimāti amra

What is promised to you will surely come to pass.

إِنَّمَا تُوعَدُونَ لَصَادِقٌ

innamā tūʿadūna laṣādiqu

The Day of Judgment is inevitable.

وَإِنَّ ٱلدِّينَ لَوَٰقِعٌ

wa-inna l-dīna lawāqiʿu

Despite the perfectly created sky.

وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْحُبُكِ

wal-samāi dhāti l-ḥubuk

You continue to dispute the truth.

إِنَّكُمْ لَفِى قَوْلٍ مُّخْتَلِفٍ

innakum lafī qawlin mukh'talifi

Deviating therefrom are the deviators.

يُؤْفَكُ عَنْهُ مَنْ أُفِكَ

yu'faku ʿanhu man ufik

Woe to the falsifiers.

قُتِلَ ٱلْخَرَّٰصُونَ

qutila l-kharāṣūn

In their blundering, they are totally heedless.

ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ فِى غَمْرَةٍ سَاهُونَ

alladhīna hum fī ghamratin sāhūn

They question the Day of Judgment.

يَسْـَٔلُونَ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ

yasalūna ayyāna yawmu l-dīn

The day they are presented to the fire.

يَوْمَ هُمْ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ يُفْتَنُونَ

yawma hum ʿalā l-nāri yuf'tanūn

Taste the retribution; this is what you used to challenge.

ذُوقُوا۟ فِتْنَتَكُمْ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ

dhūqū fit'natakum hādhā alladhī kuntum bihi tastaʿjilūn

The righteous have deserved gardens and springs.

إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍ وَعُيُونٍ

inna l-mutaqīna fī jannātin waʿuyūni

They receive their Lord's rewards, for they used to be pious.

ءَاخِذِينَ مَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَبْلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُحْسِنِينَ

ākhidhīna mā ātāhum rabbuhum innahum kānū qabla dhālika muḥ'sinīn

Rarely did they sleep the whole night.

كَانُوا۟ قَلِيلًا مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ

kānū qalīlan mina al-layli mā yahjaʿūn

At dawn, they prayed for forgiveness.

وَبِٱلْأَسْحَارِ هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ

wabil-asḥāri hum yastaghfirūn

A portion of their money was set aside for the beggar and the needy.

وَفِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ

wafī amwālihim ḥaqqun lilssāili wal-maḥrūm

The earth is full of signs for those who are certain.

وَفِى ٱلْأَرْضِ ءَايَٰتٌ لِّلْمُوقِنِينَ

wafī l-arḍi āyātun lil'mūqinīn

And within yourselves; can you see?

وَفِىٓ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَفَلَا تُبْصِرُونَ

wafī anfusikum afalā tub'ṣirūn

In the heaven is your provision, and everything that is promised to you.

وَفِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ رِزْقُكُمْ وَمَا تُوعَدُونَ

wafī l-samāi riz'qukum wamā tūʿadūn

By the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is as true as the fact that you speak.

فَوَرَبِّ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ إِنَّهُۥ لَحَقٌّ مِّثْلَ مَآ أَنَّكُمْ تَنطِقُونَ

fawarabbi l-samāi wal-arḍi innahu laḥaqqun mith'la mā annakum tanṭiqūn

Have you noted the history of Abraham's honorable guests?

هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ضَيْفِ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ ٱلْمُكْرَمِينَ

hal atāka ḥadīthu ḍayfi ib'rāhīma l-muk'ramīn

They visited him, saying, "Peace." He said, "Peace to you, strangers!"

إِذْ دَخَلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا۟ سَلَٰمًا قَالَ سَلَٰمٌ قَوْمٌ مُّنكَرُونَ

idh dakhalū ʿalayhi faqālū salāman qāla salāmun qawmun munkarūn

He asked his family to prepare a fat calf.

فَرَاغَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ فَجَآءَ بِعِجْلٍ سَمِينٍ

farāgha ilā ahlihi fajāa biʿij'lin samīni

When he offered it to them, he remarked, "Do you not eat?"

فَقَرَّبَهُۥٓ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالَ أَلَا تَأْكُلُونَ

faqarrabahu ilayhim qāla alā takulūn

He harbored fear of them. They said, "Have no fear," and they gave good news of a knowledgeable son.

فَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةً قَالُوا۟ لَا تَخَفْ وَبَشَّرُوهُ بِغُلَٰمٍ عَلِيمٍ

fa-awjasa min'hum khīfatan qālū lā takhaf wabasharūhu bighulāmin ʿalīmi

His wife was astonished. Noting her wrinkled face: "I am a sterile old woman."

فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌ

fa-aqbalati im'ra-atuhu fī ṣarratin faṣakkat wajhahā waqālat ʿajūzun ʿaqīmu

They said, "Thus said your Lord. He is the Most Wise, the Omniscient."

قَالُوا۟ كَذَٰلِكِ قَالَ رَبُّكِ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلْحَكِيمُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ

qālū kadhāliki qāla rabbuki innahu huwa l-ḥakīmu l-ʿalīm

He said, "What are you up to, O messengers?"

قَالَ فَمَا خَطْبُكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ

qāla famā khaṭbukum ayyuhā l-mur'salūn

They said, "We have been dispatched to criminal people.

قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّآ أُرْسِلْنَآ إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ مُّجْرِمِينَ

qālū innā ur'sil'nā ilā qawmin muj'rimīn

"We will shower them with rocks of clay.

لِنُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةً مِّن طِينٍ

linur'sila ʿalayhim ḥijāratan min ṭīni

"Marked by your Lord for the transgressors."

مُّسَوَّمَةً عِندَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ

musawwamatan ʿinda rabbika lil'mus'rifīn

We then delivered all the believers.

فَأَخْرَجْنَا مَن كَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

fa-akhrajnā man kāna fīhā mina l-mu'minīn

We did not find in it except one house of submitters.

فَمَا وَجَدْنَا فِيهَا غَيْرَ بَيْتٍ مِّنَ ٱلْمُسْلِمِينَ

famā wajadnā fīhā ghayra baytin mina l-mus'limīn

We set it up as a lesson for those who fear the painful retribution.

وَتَرَكْنَا فِيهَآ ءَايَةً لِّلَّذِينَ يَخَافُونَ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَلِيمَ

wataraknā fīhā āyatan lilladhīna yakhāfūna l-ʿadhāba l-alīm

In Moses (there is a lesson). We sent him to Pharaoh with manifest signs.

وَفِى مُوسَىٰٓ إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَٰهُ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ بِسُلْطَٰنٍ مُّبِينٍ

wafī mūsā idh arsalnāhu ilā fir'ʿawna bisul'ṭānin mubīni

But he turned away, in arrogance, and said, "Magician, or crazy."

فَتَوَلَّىٰ بِرُكْنِهِۦ وَقَالَ سَٰحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ

fatawallā biruk'nihi waqāla sāḥirun aw majnūnu

Consequently, we punished him and his troops. We threw them into the sea, and he is the one to blame.

فَأَخَذْنَٰهُ وَجُنُودَهُۥ فَنَبَذْنَٰهُمْ فِى ٱلْيَمِّ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌ

fa-akhadhnāhu wajunūdahu fanabadhnāhum fī l-yami wahuwa mulīmu

In 'Ãd (there is a lesson). We sent upon them disastrous wind.

وَفِى عَادٍ إِذْ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ ٱلرِّيحَ ٱلْعَقِيمَ

wafī ʿādin idh arsalnā ʿalayhimu l-rīḥa l-ʿaqīm

Anything that it came upon was utterly destroyed.

مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَىْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا جَعَلَتْهُ كَٱلرَّمِيمِ

mā tadharu min shayin atat ʿalayhi illā jaʿalathu kal-ramīm

In Thamûd (there is a lesson). They were told, "Enjoy temporarily."

وَفِى ثَمُودَ إِذْ قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَمَتَّعُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ حِينٍ

wafī thamūda idh qīla lahum tamattaʿū ḥattā ḥīni

They rebelled against the command of their Lord. Consequently, the lightning struck them as they looked.

فَعَتَوْا۟ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّٰعِقَةُ وَهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ

faʿataw ʿan amri rabbihim fa-akhadhathumu l-ṣāʿiqatu wahum yanẓurūn

They could never get up, nor were they helped.

فَمَا ٱسْتَطَٰعُوا۟ مِن قِيَامٍ وَمَا كَانُوا۟ مُنتَصِرِينَ

famā is'taṭāʿū min qiyāmin wamā kānū muntaṣirīn

And the people of Noah before that; they were wicked people.

وَقَوْمَ نُوحٍ مِّن قَبْلُ إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ قَوْمًا فَٰسِقِينَ

waqawma nūḥin min qablu innahum kānū qawman fāsiqīn

We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.

وَٱلسَّمَآءَ بَنَيْنَٰهَا بِأَيْي۟دٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ

wal-samāa banaynāhā bi-aydin wa-innā lamūsiʿūn

And we made the earth habitable; a perfect design.

وَٱلْأَرْضَ فَرَشْنَٰهَا فَنِعْمَ ٱلْمَٰهِدُونَ

wal-arḍa farashnāhā faniʿ'ma l-māhidūn

We created a pair (male and female) of everything, that you may take heed.

وَمِن كُلِّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقْنَا زَوْجَيْنِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ

wamin kulli shayin khalaqnā zawjayni laʿallakum tadhakkarūn

You shall escape to GOD. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.

فَفِرُّوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ إِنِّى لَكُم مِّنْهُ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ

fafirrū ilā l-lahi innī lakum min'hu nadhīrun mubīnu

Do not set up besides GOD any other god. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.

وَلَا تَجْعَلُوا۟ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ إِنِّى لَكُم مِّنْهُ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ

walā tajʿalū maʿa l-lahi ilāhan ākhara innī lakum min'hu nadhīrun mubīnu

Consistently, when a messenger went to the previous generations, they said, "Magician," or, "Crazy."

كَذَٰلِكَ مَآ أَتَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِم مِّن رَّسُولٍ إِلَّا قَالُوا۟ سَاحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌ

kadhālika mā atā alladhīna min qablihim min rasūlin illā qālū sāḥirun aw majnūnu

Did they make an agreement with each other? Indeed, they are transgressors.

أَتَوَاصَوْا۟ بِهِۦ بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ

atawāṣaw bihi bal hum qawmun ṭāghūn

You may disregard them; you cannot be blamed.

فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ فَمَآ أَنتَ بِمَلُومٍ

fatawalla ʿanhum famā anta bimalūmi

And remind, for the reminder benefits the believers.

وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ تَنفَعُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

wadhakkir fa-inna l-dhik'rā tanfaʿu l-mu'minīn

I did not create the jinns and the humans except to worship Me alone.

وَمَا خَلَقْتُ ٱلْجِنَّ وَٱلْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ

wamā khalaqtu l-jina wal-insa illā liyaʿbudūn

I need no provisions from them, nor do I need them to feed Me.

مَآ أُرِيدُ مِنْهُم مِّن رِّزْقٍ وَمَآ أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونِ

mā urīdu min'hum min riz'qin wamā urīdu an yuṭ'ʿimūn

GOD is the Provider, the Possessor of all power, the Supreme.

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ هُوَ ٱلرَّزَّاقُ ذُو ٱلْقُوَّةِ ٱلْمَتِينُ

inna l-laha huwa l-razāqu dhū l-quwati l-matīn

The transgressors have incurred the same fate as their previous counterparts; they should not challenge.

فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ

fa-inna lilladhīna ẓalamū dhanūban mith'la dhanūbi aṣḥābihim falā yastaʿjilūn

Woe to those who disbelieved from the day that is awaiting them.

فَوَيْلٌ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِن يَوْمِهِمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

fawaylun lilladhīna kafarū min yawmihimu alladhī yūʿadūn