Al-Dhariyat (الذاريات, adh-dhāriyāt; meaning: The Winnowing Winds or The Scatterers) is the 51st chapter of the Qur'an with 60 verses
It mentions Abraham, Noah, and the day of judgment, and reiterates the essential Quranic message.
Summary
1-6 Numerous oaths that the judgment will come
7-11 Oaths and curses relating to unbelievers
12-16 Doom of infidels and reward of true believers
17-19 The piety and charity of Muslims
20-22 God reveals himself in his work of providence
23 Muhammad swears by the Lord that the Qurán is true
24-30 The story of Abraham's entertaining angels
31-37 Story of the destruction of Sodom
38-46 Pharaoh, Ád, Thamúd, and the people of Noah destroyed for rejecting their prophets as impostors
47-49 God reveals himself to men in his works of creation
50-51 Makkans warned to leave their idols and to fly to God
52-53 Every apostle of God called a magician or madman
54-55 Muhammad to withdraw from idolaters and yet to admonish them for the sake of true believers
56-58 Men and genii created to serve God
59-60 Woe to unbelievers who injure the apostles of God
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
1 By those scattering broadcast
2 And those bearing the load!
3 And those running easily!
4 And those distributing the Affair! -
5 What you are promised is surely true,
6 And the Judgment will surely come to pass
7 By the heaven full of paths!
8 Surely you are of varying opinion -
9 He is turned away from it who would be turned away
10 Cursed be the liars!
11 Who are in an abyss, neglectful;
12 They ask: When is the day of Judgment?
13 (It is) the day when they are tried at the Fire
14 Taste your persecution! This is what you would hasten on
15 Surely the dutiful are amidst Gardens and fountains,
16 Taking that which their Lord gives them. Surely they were before that the doers of good
17 They used to sleep but little at night
18 And in the morning they asked (Divine) protection
19 And in their wealth there was a due share for the beggar and for one who is denied (good)
20 And in the earth are signs for those who are sure,
21 And in yourselves do you not see?
22 And in the heavens is your sustenance and that which you are promised
23 So by the Lord of the heavens and the earth! it is surely the truth, just as you speak
24 Has the story of Abraham's honoured guests reached thee?
25 When they came to him, they said Peace! Peace! said he. Strangers!
26 Then he turned aside to his family and brought a fat calf
27 So he placed it before them. He said: Will you not eat?
28 So he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not. And they gave him the good news of a boy possessing knowledge
29 Then his wife came up in grief, and she smote her face and said: A barren old woman!
30 They said: Thus says thy Lord. Surely He is the Wise, the Knowing
31 He said: What is your errand, O messengers!
32 They said: We have been sent to a guilty people
33 That we may send upon them stones of clay,
34 Marked from thy Lord for the prodigal
35 Then We brought forth such believers as were there
36 And We found there but a (single) house of Muslims
37 And We left therein a sign for those who fear the painful chastisement
38 And in Moses, when We sent him to Pharaoh with clear authority
39 But he turned away on account of his might and said: An enchanter or a madman!
40 So We seized him and his hosts and hurled them into the sea, and he was blameable
41 And in 'Ad, when We sent upon them the destructive wind
42 It spared naught that it came against, but it made it like ashes
43 And in Thamad, when it was said to them: Enjoy yourselves for a while
44 But they revolted against the commandment of their Lord, so the punishment overtook them, while they saw
45 So they were unable to rise up, nor could they defend themselves;
46 And the people of Noah before. Surely they were a transgressing people
47 And the heaven, We raised it high with power, and We are Makers of the vast extent
