In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

by the dawn (1)

and ten nights (of pilgrimage or the last ten days of ramadan), (2)

by the even, and the odd, (3)

by the night when it journeys on! (4)

is there in that an oath for the mindful? (5)

have you not heard how your lord dealt with aad? (6)

of the columned (city) of iram, (7)

the like of which was never created in the countries? (8)

and thamood, who hewed out the rocks of the valley? (9)

and pharaoh, of the pegs (impaling his victims)? (10)