وَٱلْفَجْرِ ١
wal-fajri
1. By the dawn
Surah Al-Fajr transliteration
سورة الفجر
Here is Surah Al-Fajr (“The Dawn”) in transliteration: each of its 30 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.
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Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ ٢
walayālin ʿashrin
2. And [by] ten nights1913
Notes
[1913] Usually interpreted as the first ten nights of the month of Dhul-Ḥijjah.
وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ ٣
wal-shafʿi wal-watri
3. And [by] the even [number] and the odd
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ ٤
wa-al-layli idhā yasri
4. And [by] the night when it passes,
هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ ٥
hal fī dhālika qasamun lidhī ḥij'rin
5. Is there [not] in [all] that an oath [sufficient] for one of perception?1914
Notes
[1914] Based upon the following verses, what has been sworn to by Allāh is that He will certainly punish the disbelievers.
أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ ٦
alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʿādin
6. Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ʿAad -
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ ٧
irama dhāti l-ʿimādi
7. [With] Iram1915 - who had lofty pillars,1916
Notes
[1915] Another name for the first people of ʿAad, to whom Prophet Hūd was sent.
[1916] Supporting their tents or buildings.
ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ ٨
allatī lam yukh'laq mith'luhā fī l-bilādi
8. The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ ٩
wathamūda alladhīna jābū l-ṣakhra bil-wādi
9. And [with] Thamūd, who carved out the rocks in the valley?
وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ ١٠
wafir'ʿawna dhī l-awtādi
10. And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes?1917
Notes
[1917] By which he tortured people.
ٱلَّذِينَ طَغَوْا۟ فِى ٱلْبِلَٰدِ ١١
alladhīna ṭaghaw fī l-bilādi
11. [All of] whom oppressed within the lands
فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ ١٢
fa-aktharū fīhā l-fasāda
12. And increased therein the corruption.
فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ ١٣
faṣabba ʿalayhim rabbuka sawṭa ʿadhābin
13. So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِٱلْمِرْصَادِ ١٤
inna rabbaka labil-mir'ṣādi
14. Indeed, your Lord is in observation.
فَأَمَّا ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَأَكْرَمَهُۥ وَنَعَّمَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَكْرَمَنِ ١٥
fa-ammā l-insānu idhā mā ib'talāhu rabbuhu fa-akramahu wanaʿʿamahu fayaqūlu rabbī akramani
15. And as for man, when his Lord tries him and [thus] is generous to him and favors him, he says, "My Lord has honored me."1918
Notes
[1918] He is proud rather than grateful, attributing the favor to his own merit.
وَأَمَّآ إِذَا مَا ٱبْتَلَىٰهُ فَقَدَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِزْقَهُۥ فَيَقُولُ رَبِّىٓ أَهَٰنَنِ ١٦
wa-ammā idhā mā ib'talāhu faqadara ʿalayhi riz'qahu fayaqūlu rabbī ahānani
16. But when He tries him and restricts his provision, he says, "My Lord has humiliated me."
كَلَّا بَل لَّا تُكْرِمُونَ ٱلْيَتِيمَ ١٧
kallā bal lā tuk'rimūna l-yatīma
17. No!1919 But you do not honor the orphan
Notes
[1919] It is not like you imagine. Rather, Allāh tries people through prosperity and hardship and rewards both gratitude and patience with honor in the Hereafter.
وَلَا تَحَٰٓضُّونَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ ١٨
walā taḥāḍḍūna ʿalā ṭaʿāmi l-mis'kīni
18. And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor.
وَتَأْكُلُونَ ٱلتُّرَاثَ أَكْلًا لَّمًّا ١٩
watakulūna l-turātha aklan lamman
19. And you consume inheritance, devouring [it] altogether,1920
Notes
[1920] Not caring whether it is lawful or unlawful.
وَتُحِبُّونَ ٱلْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا ٢٠
watuḥibbūna l-māla ḥubban jamman
20. And you love wealth with immense love.
كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا ٢١
kallā idhā dukkati l-arḍu dakkan dakkan
21. No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed
وَجَآءَ رَبُّكَ وَٱلْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا ٢٢
wajāa rabbuka wal-malaku ṣaffan ṣaffan
22. And your Lord has come1921 and the angels, rank upon rank,
Notes
[1921] To pass judgement. See footnote to 2:19.
وَجِا۟ىٓءَ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِجَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ وَأَنَّىٰ لَهُ ٱلذِّكْرَىٰ ٢٣
wajīa yawma-idhin bijahannama yawma-idhin yatadhakkaru l-insānu wa-annā lahu l-dhik'rā
23. And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but how [i.e., what good] to him will be the remembrance?
يَقُولُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى ٢٤
yaqūlu yālaytanī qaddamtu liḥayātī
24. He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."1922
Notes
[1922] The everlasting life of the Hereafter.
فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ٢٥
fayawma-idhin lā yuʿadhibu ʿadhābahu aḥadun
25. So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,
وَلَا يُوثِقُ وَثَاقَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ ٢٦
walā yūthiqu wathāqahu aḥadun
26. And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].
يَٰٓأَيَّتُهَا ٱلنَّفْسُ ٱلْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ٢٧
yāayyatuhā l-nafsu l-muṭ'ma-inatu
27. [To the righteous it will be said], "O reassured soul,
ٱرْجِعِىٓ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَّرْضِيَّةً ٢٨
ir'jiʿī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatan marḍiyyatan
28. Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
فَٱدْخُلِى فِى عِبَٰدِى ٢٩
fa-ud'khulī fī ʿibādī
29. And enter among My [righteous] servants
وَٱدْخُلِى جَنَّتِى ٣٠
wa-ud'khulī jannatī
30. And enter My Paradise."
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