الفجر

وَٱلْفَجْرِ ١

Wal-fajri

By the Daybreak,

وَلَيَالٍ عَشْرٍ ٢

Walayālin ʿashrin

By the Ten Nights,

وَٱلشَّفْعِ وَٱلْوَتْرِ ٣

Wal-shafʿi wal-watri

By the even and the odd,

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ ٤

Wa-al-layli idhā yasri

By the passing night––

هَلْ فِى ذَٰلِكَ قَسَمٌ لِّذِى حِجْرٍ ٥

Hal fī dhālika qasamun lidhī ḥij'rin

Is this oath strong enough for a rational person?

أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِعَادٍ ٦

Alam tara kayfa faʿala rabbuka biʿādin

Have you [Prophet] considered how your Lord dealt with [the people] of 'Ad,

إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلْعِمَادِ ٧

Irama dhāti l-ʿimādi

Of Iram, [the city] of lofty pillars,

ٱلَّتِى لَمْ يُخْلَقْ مِثْلُهَا فِى ٱلْبِلَـٰدِ ٨

Allatī lam yukh'laq mith'luhā fī l-bilādi

Whose like has never been made in any land,

وَثَمُودَ ٱلَّذِينَ جَابُوا۟ ٱلصَّخْرَ بِٱلْوَادِ ٩

Wathamūda alladhīna jābū l-ṣakhra bil-wādi

And the Thamud, who hewed into the rocks in the valley,

وَفِرْعَوْنَ ذِى ٱلْأَوْتَادِ ١٠

Wafir'ʿawna dhī l-awtādi

And the mighty and powerful Pharaoh?