Al Muddathth

1 O you who are clothed!

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O you (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) enveloped in garments!

2 Arise and warn,

2 Arise and warn!

3 And your Lord do magnify,

3 And magnify your Lord (Allah)!

4 And your garments do purify,

4 And purify your garments!

5 And uncleanness do shun,

5 And keep away from Ar-Rujz (the idols)!

6 And bestow not favors that you may receive again with increase,

6 And give not a thing in order to have more (or consider not your deeds of obedience to Allah as a favour to Him).

7 And for the sake of your Lord, be patient.

7 And be patient for the sake of your Lord (i.e. perform your duty to Allah)!

8 For when the trumpet is sounded,

8 Then, when the Trumpet is sounded (i.e. the second blowing of the horn).

9 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day,

9 Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day -

10 For the unbelievers, anything but easy.

10 Far from easy for the disbelievers.

11 Leave Me and him whom I created alone,

11 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)!

12 And give him vast riches,

12 And then granted him resources in abundance.

13 And sons dwelling in his presence,

13 And children to be by his side.

14 And I adjusted affairs for him adjustably;

14 And made life smooth and comfortable for him.

15 And yet he desires that I should add more!

15 After all that he desires that I should give more;

16 By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications.

16 Nay! Verily, he has been opposing Our Ayat (proofs, evidence, verses, lessons, signs, revelations).

17 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him.

17 I shall oblige him to (climb a slippery mountain in the Hell-fire called As-Sa'ud, or) face a severe torment!

18 Surely he reflected and guessed,

18 Verily, he thought and plotted.

19 But may he be cursed how he plotted;

19 So let him be cursed: how he plotted!

20 Again, may he be cursed how he plotted;

20 And once more let him be cursed: how he plotted!

21 Then he looked,

21 Then he thought.

22 Then he frowned and scowled,

22 Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way;

23 Then he turned back and was big with pride,

23 Then he turned back, and was proud.

24 ~Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others);

24 Then he said: "This is nothing but magic from that of old,

25 This is naught but the word of a mortal.

25 "This is nothing but the word of a human being!"

26 I will cast him into hell.

26 I will cast him into Hell-fire.

27 And what will make you realize what hell is?

27 And what will make you know (exactly) what Hell-fire is?

28 It leaves naught nor does it spare aught.

28 It spares not (any sinner), nor does it leave (anything unburnt)!

29 It scorches the mortal.

29 Burning and blackening the skins!

30 Over it are nineteen.

30 Over it are nineteen (angels as guardians and keepers of Hell).

31 And We have not made the wardens of the fire others than angels, and We have not made their number but as a trial for those who disbelieve, that those who have been given the book may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, and those who have been given the book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the unbelievers may say: What does Allah mean by this parable? Thus does Allah make err whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases, and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He Himself; and this is naught but a reminder to the mortals.

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'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.

32 Nay; I swear by the moon,

32 Nay! And by the moon

33 And the night when it departs,

33 And by the night when it withdraws.

34 And the daybreak when it shines;

34 And by the dawn when it brightens.

35 Surely it (hell) is one of the gravest (misfortunes),

35 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).

36 A warning to mortals,

36 A warning to mankind -

37 To him among you who wishes to go forward or remain behind.

37 To any of you that chooses to go forward (by working righteous deeds), or to remain behind (by committing sins).

38 Every soul is held in pledge for what it earns,

38 Every person is a pledge for what he has earned,

39 Except the people of the right hand,

39 Except those on the Right, (i.e. the pious true believers of Islamic Monotheism).

40 In gardens, they shall ask each other

40 In Gardens (Paradise) they will ask one another,

41 About the guilty:

41 About Al-Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, disbelievers), (And they will say to them):

42 What has brought you into hell?

42 "What has caused you to enter Hell?"

43 They shall say: We were not of those who prayed;

43 They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer the Salat (prayers),

44 And we used not to feed the poor;

44 "Nor we used to feed Al-Miskin (the poor);

45 And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who entered into vain discourses.

45 "And we used to talk falsehood (all that which Allah hated) with vain talkers.

46 And we used to call the day of judgment a lie;

46 And we used to belie the Day of Recompense,

47 Till death overtook us.

47 "Until there came to us (the death) that is certain."

48 So the intercession of intercessors shall not avail them.

48 So no intercession of intercessors will be of any use to them.

49 What is then the matter with them, that they turn away from the admonition

49 Then what is wrong with them (i.e. the polytheists, the disbelievers) that they turn away from (receiving) admonition?

50 As if they were asses taking fright

50 As if they were (frightened) wild donkeys.

51 That had fled from a lion?

51 Fleeing from a hunter, or a lion, or a beast of prey.

52 Nay; every one of them desires that he may be given pages spread out;

52 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).

53 Nay! but they do not fear the hereafter.

53 Nay! But they fear not the Hereafter (from Allah's punishment).

54 Nay! it is surely an admonition.

54 Nay, verily, this (Qur'an) is an admonition,

55 So whoever pleases may mind it.

55 So whosoever will (let him read it), and receive admonition (from it)!

56 And they will not mind unless Allah please. He is worthy to be feared and worthy to forgive.

56 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).