| Surah Al-Muddathir | |||
| In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. | |||
| 1 | O you ( Muhammad ) enveloped ( in garments )! | ||
| 2 | Arise and warn! | ||
| 3 | And your Lord ( Allâh ) magnify! | ||
| 4 | And your garments purify! | ||
| 5 | And keep away from Ar-Rujz ( the idols )! | ||
| 6 | And give not a thing in order to have more ( or consider not your deeds of Allâh's obedience as a favour to Allâh ). | ||
| 7 | And be patient for the sake of your Lord ( i. e. perform your duty to Allâh )! | ||
| 8 | Then, when the Trumpet is sounded ( i. e. its second blowing ); | ||
| 9 | Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day. | ||
| 10 | Far from easy for the disbelievers. | ||
| 11 | Leave Me Alone ( to deal ) with whom I created Alone ( without any means, i. e. Al-Walîd bin Al-Mughîrah Al-Makhzûmî )! | ||
| 12 | And then granted him resources in abundance. | ||
| 13 | And children to be by his side! | ||
| 14 | And made life smooth and comfortable for him! | ||
| 15 | After all that he desires that I should give more; | ||
| 16 | Nay! Verily, he has been stubborn and opposing Our Ayât ( proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc. ). | ||
| 17 | I shall oblige him to ( climb a slippery mountain in the Hell-fire called AsSa'ûd, or to ) face a severe torment! | ||
| 18 | Verily, he thought and plotted; | ||
| 19 | So let him be cursed! How he plotted! | ||
| 20 | And once more let him be cursed, how he plotted! | ||
| 21 | Then he thought; | ||
| 22 | Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way; | ||
| 23 | Then he turned back and was proud; | ||
| 24 | Then he said: " This is nothing but magic from that of old; | ||
| 25 | " This is nothing but the word of a human being! " | ||
| 26 | I will cast him into Hell-fire | ||
| 27 | And what will make you know exactly what Hell-fire is? | ||
| 28 | It spares not ( any sinner ), nor does it leave ( anything unburnt )! | ||
| 29 | Burning the skins! | ||
| 30 | Over it are nineteen ( angels as guardians and keepers of Hell ). | ||
| 31 | And We have set none but angels as guardians of the Fire, and We have fixed their number ( 19 ) only as a trial for the disbelievers, in order that the people of the Scripture ( Jews and Christians ) may arrive at a certainty [ that this Qur'ân is the truth as it agrees with their Books i. e. their number ( 19 ) is written in the Taurât ( Torah ) and the Injeel ( Gospel ) ] and the believers may increase in Faith ( as this Qur'ân is the truth ) and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Scripture and the believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease ( of hypocrisy ) and the disbelievers may say: " What Allâh intends by this ( curious ) example? " Thus Allâh leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He. And this ( Hell ) is nothing else than a ( warning ) reminder to mankind. | ||
| 32 | Nay, and by the moon, | ||
| 33 | And by the night when it withdraws, | ||
| 34 | And by the dawn when it brightens, | ||
| 35 | Verily, it ( Hell, or their denial of the Prophet Muhammad, or the Day of Resurrection ) is but one of the greatest calamities. | ||
| 36 | A warning to mankind, | ||
| 37 | To any of you that chooses to go forward ( by working righteous deeds ), or to remain behind ( by commiting sins ), | ||
| 38 | Every person is a pledge for what he has earned, | ||
| 39 | Except those on the Right, ( i. e. the pious true believers of Islâmic Monotheism ); | ||
| 40 | In Gardens ( Paradise ) they will ask one another, | ||
| 41 | About Al-Mujrimûn ( polytheists, criminals, disbelievers, etc. ), ( And they will say to them ): | ||
| 42 | " What has caused you to enter Hell? " | ||
| 43 | They will say: " We were not of those who used to offer their Salât ( prayers ) | ||
| 44 | " Nor we used to feed Al-Miskin ( the poor ); | ||
| 45 | " And we used to talk falsehood ( all that which Allâh hated ) with vain talkers. | ||
| 46 | " And we used to belie the Day of Recompense | ||
| 47 | " Until there came to us ( the death ) that is certain. " | ||
| 48 | So no intercession of intercessors will be of any use to them. | ||
| 49 | Then what is wrong with them ( i. e. the disbelievers ) that they turn away from ( receiving ) admonition? | ||
| 50 | As if they were frightened ( wild ) donkeys. | ||
| 51 | Fleeing from a hunter, or a lion, or a beast of prey. | ||
| 52 | Nay, everyone of them desires that he should be given pages spread out ( coming from Allâh with a writing that Islâm is the right religion, and Muhammad has come with the truth from Allâh the Lord of the heavens and earth, etc. ). | ||
| 53 | Nay! But they fear not the Hereafter ( from Allâh's punishment ). | ||
| 54 | Nay, verily, this ( Qur'ân ) is an admonition, | ||
| 55 | So whosoever will ( let him read it ), and receive admonition ( from it )! | ||
| 56 | And they will not receive admonition unless Allâh wills; He ( Allâh ) is the One, deserving that mankind should be afraid of, and should be dutiful to Him, and should not take any Ilâh ( God ) along with Him, and He is the One Who forgives ( sins ). | ||