Chapter 74, 56 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O you (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) enveloped in garments!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا أيها المدثر
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. O thou enveloped in thy cloak,
Arise and warn!
قم فأنذر
Arise and warn!
And magnify your Lord (Allah)!
وربك فكبر
Thy Lord magnify,
And purify your garments!
وثيابك فطهر
Thy raiment purify,
And keep away from Ar-Rujz (the idols)!
والرجز فاهجر
Pollution shun!
And give not a thing in order to have more (or consider not your deeds of obedience to Allah as a favour to Him).
ولا تمنن تستكثر
And show not favour, seeking wordly gain!
And be patient for the sake of your Lord (i.e. perform your duty to Allah)!
ولربك فاصبر
For the sake of thy Lord, be patient!
Then, when the Trumpet is sounded (i.e. the second blowing of the horn).
فإذا نقر في الناقور
For when the trumpet shall sound,
Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day -
فذلك يومئذ يوم عسير
Surely that day will be a day of anguish,
Far from easy for the disbelievers.
على الكافرين غير يسير
Not of ease, for disbelievers.
Leave Me Alone (to deal) with whom I created lonely (without any wealth or children etc, i.e. Al-Walid bin Al-Mughirah Al-Makhzumi)!
ذرني ومن خلقت وحيدا
Leave Me (to deal) with him whom I created lonely,
And then granted him resources in abundance.
وجعلت له مالا ممدودا
And then bestowed upon him ample means,
And children to be by his side.
وبنين شهودا
And sons abiding in his presence
And made life smooth and comfortable for him.
ومهدت له تمهيدا
And made (life) smooth for him.
After all that he desires that I should give more;
ثم يطمع أن أزيد
Yet he desireth that I should give more.
Nay! Verily, he has been opposing Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations).
كلا ۖ إنه كان لآياتنا عنيدا
Nay! For lo! he hath been stubborn to Our revelations.
I shall oblige him to (climb a slippery mountain in the Hell-fire called As-Sa'ud, or) face a severe torment!
سأرهقه صعودا
On him I shall impose a fearful doom.
Verily, he thought and plotted.
إنه فكر وقدر
For lo! he did consider; then he planned -
So let him be cursed: how he plotted!
فقتل كيف قدر
(Self - )destroyed is he, how he planned!
And once more let him be cursed: how he plotted!
ثم قتل كيف قدر
Again (self - )destroyed is he, how he planned! -
Then he thought.
ثم نظر
Then looked he,
Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way;
ثم عبس وبسر
Then frowned he and showed displeasure.
Then he turned back, and was proud.
ثم أدبر واستكبر
Then turned he away in pride
Then he said: "This is nothing but magic from that of old,
فقال إن هذا إلا سحر يؤثر
And said: This is naught else than magic from of old;
"This is nothing but the word of a human being!"
إن هذا إلا قول البشر
This is naught else than speech of mortal man.
I will cast him into Hell-fire.
سأصليه سقر
Him shall I fling unto the burning.
And what will make you know (exactly) what Hell-fire is?
وما أدراك ما سقر
- Ah, what will convey unto thee what that burning is! -
It spares not (any sinner), nor does it leave (anything unburnt)!
لا تبقي ولا تذر
It leaveth naught; it spareth naught
Burning and blackening the skins!
لواحة للبشر
It shrivelleth the man.
Over it are nineteen (angels as guardians and keepers of Hell).
عليها تسعة عشر
Above it are nineteen.
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'an is the truth as it agrees with their Books regarding the number (19) which is written in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and that the believers may increase in Faith (as this Qur'an is the truth), and that no doubt 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 Allah intends by this (curious) example ?" Thus Allah 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.
وما جعلنا أصحاب النار إلا ملائكة ۙ وما جعلنا عدتهم إلا فتنة للذين كفروا ليستيقن الذين أوتوا الكتاب ويزداد الذين آمنوا إيمانا ۙ ولا يرتاب الذين أوتوا الكتاب والمؤمنون ۙ وليقول الذين في قلوبهم مرض والكافرون ماذا أراد الله بهذا مثلا ۚ كذلك يضل الله من يشاء ويهدي من يشاء ۚ وما يعلم جنود ربك إلا هو ۚ وما هي إلا ذكرى للبشر
We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling - block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude ? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals.
Nay! And by the moon
كلا والقمر
Nay, by the Moon
And by the night when it withdraws.
والليل إذ أدبر
And the night when it withdraweth
And by the dawn when it brightens.
والصبح إذا أسفر
And the dawn when it shineth forth,
Verily, it (Hell, or their denial of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم, or the Day of Resurrection) is but one of the greatest (signs).
إنها لإحدى الكبر
Lo! this is one of the greatest (portents)
A warning to mankind -
نذيرا للبشر
As a warning unto men,
To any of you that chooses to go forward (by working righteous deeds), or to remain behind (by committing sins).
لمن شاء منكم أن يتقدم أو يتأخر
Unto him of you who will advance or hang back.
Every person is a pledge for what he has earned,
كل نفس بما كسبت رهينة
Every soul is a pledge for its own deeds;
Except those on the Right, (i.e. the pious true believers of Islamic Monotheism).
إلا أصحاب اليمين
Save those who will stand on the right hand.
In Gardens (Paradise) they will ask one another,
في جنات يتساءلون
In gardens they will ask one another
About Al-Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, disbelievers), (And they will say to them):
عن المجرمين
Concerning the guilty:
"What has caused you to enter Hell?"
ما سلككم في سقر
What hath brought you to this burning ?
They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer the Salat (prayers),
قالوا لم نك من المصلين
They will answer: We were not of those who prayed
"Nor we used to feed Al-Miskin (the poor);
ولم نك نطعم المسكين
Nor did we feed the wretched.
"And we used to talk falsehood (all that which Allah hated) with vain talkers.
وكنا نخوض مع الخائضين
We used to wade (in vain dispute) with (all) waders,
And we used to belie the Day of Recompense,
وكنا نكذب بيوم الدين
And we used to deny the Day of Judgment,
"Until there came to us (the death) that is certain."
حتى أتانا اليقين
Till the Inevitable came unto us.
So no intercession of intercessors will be of any use to them.
فما تنفعهم شفاعة الشافعين
The mediation of no mediators will avail them then.
Then what is wrong with them (i.e. the polytheists, the disbelievers) that they turn away from (receiving) admonition?
فما لهم عن التذكرة معرضين
Why now turn they away from the Admonishment,
As if they were (frightened) wild donkeys.
كأنهم حمر مستنفرة
As they were frightened asses
Fleeing from a hunter, or a lion, or a beast of prey.
فرت من قسورة
Fleeing from a lion ?
Nay, everyone of them desires that he should be given pages spread out (coming from Allah with a writing that Islam is the right religion, and Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم has come with the truth from Allah, the Lord of the heavens and earth).
بل يريد كل امرئ منهم أن يؤتى صحفا منشرة
Nay, but everyone of them desireth that he should be given open pages (from Allah).
Nay! But they fear not the Hereafter (from Allah's punishment).
كلا ۖ بل لا يخافون الآخرة
Nay, verily. They fear not the Hereafter.
Nay, verily, this (Qur'an) is an admonition,
كلا إنه تذكرة
Nay, verily. Lo! this is an Admonishment.
So whosoever will (let him read it), and receive admonition (from it)!
فمن شاء ذكره
So whosoever will may heed.
And they will not receive admonition unless Allah wills; He (Allah) is the One, deserving that mankind should be afraid of, and should be dutiful to Him, and should not take any Ilah (god) along with Him, and He is the One Who forgives (sins).
وما يذكرون إلا أن يشاء الله ۚ هو أهل التقوى وأهل المغفرة
And they will not heed unless Allah willeth (it). He is the fount of fear. He is the fount of Mercy.