Surah information

Name

سُورَةُ الفَجۡرِ

English name

Al-Fajr

Translation

The Dawn

Number

89

Ayahs

30

Revelation

Meccan

Translations

بِسْمِ ٱللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

1

وَٱلۡفَجۡرِ 

CONSIDER the daybreak

2

وَلَیَالٍ عَشۡرࣲ 

and the ten nights!

3

وَٱلشَّفۡعِ وَٱلۡوَتۡرِ 

Consider the multiple and the One!

4

وَٱلَّیۡلِ إِذَا یَسۡرِ 

Consider the night as it runs its course!

5

هَلۡ فِی ذَ ٰلِكَ قَسَمࣱ لِّذِی حِجۡرٍ 

Considering all this - could there be, to anyone endowed with reason, a [more] solemn evidence of the truth?

6

أَلَمۡ تَرَ كَیۡفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ 

ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer has dealt with [the tribe of] ‘Ad,

7

إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلۡعِمَادِ 

[the people of] Iram the many-pillared,

8

ٱلَّتِی لَمۡ یُخۡلَقۡ مِثۡلُهَا فِی ٱلۡبِلَـٰدِ 

the like of whom has never been reared in all the land? –

9

وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِینَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخۡرَ بِٱلۡوَادِ 

and with [the tribe of] Thamud, who hollowed out rocks in the valley? –

10

وَفِرۡعَوۡنَ ذِی ٱلۡأَوۡتَادِ 

and with Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles?