Chapter 74
Surah Al-Muddathir
The Cloaked One
In The Name Of Allah
The Most Gracious
The Most Merciful
1. O you enveloped in garments!
2. Arise and warn!
3. And your Lord magnify!
4. And your garments purify!
5. And keep away from filth of the idols!
6. Do not be overwhelmed
and weaken!
7. And be patient for the sake of your Lord.
8. Then, when the Trumpet is sounded.
9. Truly, that Day will be a Hard Day.
10. Far from easy for the disbelievers.
11. Leave Me Alone with whom I created Alone!
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 Revelation.
17. I shall oblige him 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 scornful 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, nor does it ever stop!
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'an is the truth as it agrees with their Books i.e. their number (19) is written in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and the believers may increase in Faith (as this Qur'an 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 does Allah intend by this (curious) example ?" Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the people of your Lord but He. And this is nothing else than a 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 is but one of the greatest calamities.
36. A warning to mankind,
37. To whoever wills among you to proceed or stay behind.
38. Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained.
39. Except those on the Right, (the pious true believers of Islamic Monotheism);
40. In Gardens (Paradise) they will ask one another,
41. About Al-Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, disbelievers),
42. "What has caused you to enter Hell?"
43. They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer their Salat (prayers)
44. "Nor we used to feed Al-Miskin (the poor);
45. "And we used to talk falsehood with vain talkers .
46. "And we used to deny 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 that they turn away from 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.
53. Nay! But they fear not the Hereafter (from Allah's punishment).
54. Nay, verily, this is an admonition,
55. So whosoever will (let him read it), and receive admonition (from it)!
56. And they will not receive admonition unless Allah wills; He 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.