English - Chapter 74 - Al-Muddaththir

O you (Muhammad) enveloped (in garments)

Arise and warn

Proclaim (the greatness of) your Lord (Allah)

and keep away from filth (idols)

and don’t give a thing to have more (obey Allah not as a Favor to Him)

and be patient for the sake of your Lord

When the trumpet will be sounded

surely, that Day will be a hard Day

not easy for the disbelievers

Leave Me alone to deal with whom I created alone (without any means, including Al-Walid bin Al-Mughirah, a bitter opponent of the prophet)

and Allah granted him abundant resources

and children by his side

and made life smooth and comfortable for him

Yet, he desires that I should give more

Nay! Surely, he has been stubborn and opposing to Our revelations

I shall soon oblige him to face (climb a slippery mountain in the hellfire) a severe punishment

surely, he thought and plotted

So let him be cursed, how he plotted

And (again) let him be cursed, how he plotted

Then he thought

then frowned and looked in a bad tempered way

then he turned his back and was proud

and he said: “This is nothing but a magic from the old

this is nothing but the word of a human being.”

I will burn him in hellfire

And what will make you know exactly what hellfire is

It does not spare (any sinner), nor does it leave (anything not burnt)

Fire burns the skins

Over it are 19 (angels as guardians and keepers of hell)

And We have set none but angels as guardians of the fire. We have not fixed their numbers (19) except as a trial for those who disbelieve in order that those who were given the Scripture may be convinced (Qur’an is the truth as it agrees with their books i.e. number (19) is written in the Torah and the Gospel). Those who believe may increase in faith (in Qur’an). Those who were given the Scripture and believers may say to those in whose hearts there is a disease (hypocrisy) and the disbelievers say: “What Allah means by this example?” Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. No one knows the forces of your Lord but He. This (Qur’an) is nothing but a reminder to mankind

Nay, by the moon

and by the night when it withdraws

and by the dawn when it brightens

surely, it (hell) is one of the greatest signs

and a warning to mankind

to any of you that chooses to go forward (by righteous deeds), or remain behind (by sins)

Every person is held in a pledge for what he has earned

except those on the right (true believers)

in gardens (Paradise) they will ask one another

about the criminals. (They will say to them)

“What has caused you to enter into hell?”

They will say: “We were not of those who used to offer prayers

nor we used to feed the poor

we used to talk falsehood with vain talkers

and we used to deny the Day of recompense

until there came to us the certainty (death).”

(On that Day) no intercession of intercessors will be of any use to them

Then what is wrong with them (disbelievers) that they turn away from receiving the admonition

As if they were frightened donkeys

fleeing from a hunter, or a lion, or a beast of prey

Nay, everyone of them desires that he should be given pages spread out (writing from Allah that Islam is the right religion)

Nay! But they don’t fear the Hereafter (Allah’s punishment)

Nay, surely, this (Qur’an) is an admonition

So whoever wills (let him read it), will reflect on it

And they will not take heed unless Allah wills. He is the One deserves that mankind should be afraid of Him. He is the One Who forgives