Drivers of the Winds (Al-Dhaareyaat)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By those that winnow with a winnowing 1 by the clouds which are heavily loaded with water, 2 and the smooth runners 3 And those [angels] apportioning [each] matter, 4 What you are threatened with is most surely true, 5 and the recompense shall surely happen. 6 By the heaven full of paths. 7 surely you are deeply at variance [as to what to believe] -- 8 and perverted therefrom are some. 9 Slain be those who mould from their imaginations. 10 and who wander in the abyss of confusion. 11 They ask: “When will the Day of Judgement be?” 12 (It will be) a Day when they will be tried (and tested) over the Fire! 13 "Taste your trial. This is what you sought to hasten." 14 The pious ones will live amidst gardens and springs, 15 Taking that which their Lord giveth them; for lo! aforetime they were doers of good; 16 They used to sleep but little of the night, 17 And ere the dawning of each day would seek forgiveness, 18 and [would assign] in all that they possessed a due share unto such as might ask [for help] and such as might suffer privation. 19 And on the earth there are signs for those who would be convinced. 20 And also in your ownselves. Will you not then see? 21 In the heavens there is your sustenance and that which you were promised (Paradise). 22 So, by the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is certainly true, as true as the fact of your speaking. 23