54:1 The Hour draws near; the moon is split in two.

54:2 Yet when they see a sign, the unbelievers turn their backs and say, 'This is an ingenious magic.'

54:3 They rejected (the truth), and followed their own whims. All matters will (surely) come to conclusion (at the appropriate time).

54:4 Stories (of the punishment to earlier people) to warn them have already come, that should have restrained them.

54:5 (This Quran is indeed) profound (in) wisdom, but warnings are of no benefit (to the disbelievers).

54:6 So turn away from them (O Prophet  ﷺ), (and wait for) the Day (when) the caller will summon (them) for something horrifying.

54:7 With downcast eyes, they will emerge from their burial places (graves) as if they were swarming locusts,

54:8 scrambling towards the Caller. The unbelievers will cry, 'This is a disastrous Day.'

54:9 Long before them, the people of Nooh (عليه السلام) disbelieved. They rejected Our servant (Prophet Nooh  عليه السلام), called him insane and rebuked him.

54:10 So he called upon his Lord, 'I am overwhelmed, (My Lord, kindly) help me.

54:11 So We opened the floodgates of sky with torrential rain,

54:12 and caused the earth to burst with springs, so the waters met for a fate already set.

54:13 We carried him on that (Ark made) of planks and nails,

54:14 floating under Our care, a reward for him (Nooh  عليه السلام) who was rejected (by the disbelievers)!

54:15 We have left that Ark as a sign, so is there any who would take admonition?

54:16 How dreadful was My punishment and My warning.

54:17 And We have indeed made the Quran easy to understand and remember, and is there anyone who will remember (and benefit from it)?

54:18 The people of A'ad also rejected the truth. How (dreadful) was My punishment and (the fulfillment of) My warnings!

54:19 We unleashed upon them a screaming wind, on a day of continuous catastrophe,

54:20 snatching out the people as if they were uprooted stems of date-palms.

54:21 How dreadful was My punishment and My warning.

54:22 And We have indeed made the Quran easy to understand and remember, and is there anyone who will remember (and benefit from it)?

54:23 The people of Thamud rejected the warnings,

54:24 saying, 'Are we to follow a man who stands alone among us? That would surely be an error and madness.

54:25 'Why should he (Prophet Saleh -  عليه السلام) alone from among all of us be chosen to receive the message? He is nothing but a wicked liar.'

54:26 (It was revealed to Ṣaleḥ  عليه السلام), 'They will  know tomorrow who the boastful liar is.'

54:27 We are sending the she-camel as a test for them. Just watch them and be patient.

54:28 Inform them that the water is to be shared between them (and she-camel). Each (one’s right) to drink is being established (by turns).

54:29 But they roused a companion of theirs, so he dared to kill (her).

54:30 How dreadful was My punishment and My warning.

54:31 Surely, We sent against them a single punishment (awful shriek) and they became like the dry stubble (crushed twigs) of a fence-builder.

54:32  And We have indeed made the Quran easy to understand and remember, and is there anyone who will remember (and benefit from it)?

54:33 The people of Loot (عليه السلام) rejected the warnings.

54:34 We let loose on them a stone-charged tornado which spared none except Loot’s (عليه السلام) household, whom We saved by early dawn,

54:35 as a blessing from Us. Thus do We reward those who are grateful.

54:36 (Loot  عليه السلام) had certainly warned them of our severe punishment but  they doubted the warnings!

54:37 They even sought to snatch away his guests (the two angels who visited him in form of human beings) from him but We blinded their eyes, and said : 'Now taste My punishment and the result of disbelieving My warning.'

54:38 And indeed, by the early morning they were punished by an unrelenting torment.

54:39 (They were told), Taste My punishment and warnings.

54:40 And We have indeed made the Quran easy to understand and remember, and is there anyone who will remember (and benefit from it)?

54:41 And indeed, the warnings came to the people of Pharaoh.

54:42 They disbelieved all Our signs. Consequently, We seized them with a seizure of the Mighty, and Powerful.

54:43 Are your disbelievers (of Makka)  better than these (nations of Nooh, Loot, Saleh (عليهم السلام) and the people of Pharaoh who were destroyed)? Or have you (O' people of Makka)  been granted immunity (against Our punishment) in the divine Scriptures?

54:44 Or do they say, 'We are united (and are great in numbers) and bound to win?'

54:45 (Soon) their united front will be defeated and (forced to) flee.

54:46 Nay, but the Hour (of Judgement) is their appointed time (for retribution), and the Hour will be more grievous and more bitter.

54:47 Indeed the criminals are (lost) in error, and are (engrossed) in a frenzied state (of denying the truth).

54:48 The Day when they will be dragged into the  Fire with their faces downwards, (it will be said to them) : 'You taste the touch of Hell.'

54:49 Indeed, We have created all things in precise measure.

54:50 Our command is but one word, like a twinkling of an eye.

54:51 O disbelievers, We have already destroyed many like you. Will you not take admonition?

54:52 Whatever they do is (recorded) in their book (of deeds).

54:53 Every action, small and big is being noted.

54:54 Surely, the pious will be in the midst of gardens and rivers,

54:55 in a seat of truth (Paradise), near by the Most Powerful King (Allah).