English - Chapter 74 - Al-Muddaththir

O you Al-Muddassir

Take a stand, then warn (your people)

And your Nourisher-Sustainer: so glorify and magnify (Him by establishing the proper status to Allah and His Al-Kitab)

And your garments: so cleanse (them)

And uncleanliness: so avoid (that)

And bestow not favours (on some one with expectations that) you get extra (reward in return)

And regarding (the Code of life prescribed by) your Nourisher-Sustainer: so be steadfast

Then when is blown in the trumpet

Then that, this Day is a distressful day —

for the disbelievers, not (at all) an easy one

Leave Me and that whom I created as one individual

and sanctioned for him extended provision

and sons ever present

and set for him abode in the form of a fine, luxurious resting place

after (all this) he desires that I may (still) increase (his status and possessions)

By no means! Surely he had been, regarding Ayaatina a stubborn opponent

Soon I subject him to an overwhelming hardship

Surely, he thought over and assessed (a plan against Al-Kitab)

So, he has been condemned. How he assessed (and plotted)

Again, he has been destroyed.How he assessed (and plotted)

Then he looked (all around to create a psychological atmosphere through his expressions)

Then he frowned and scowled

Then he took an about-turn and behaved disdainfully

Then he said: “It is nothing but magic being accepted (since times gone-by)

It is nothing but a statement of a human being.”

Soon I cast him in Saqar (Hell-Fire)

And what made you realise what (is meant by) Saqar

It spares not (any condemned person), and nor leaves (him unburnt)

one that completely burns and dissolves the skin of a human being

Over it (are) nineteen

And We did not appoint the guardians of the Fire but angels; and We did not fix their number (which is 19) except as a test for the people who have disbelieved — in order that those who have been given Al-Kitab may develop certainty in Faith; and may increase Faith-wise those who have Believed; and may not harbour doubts and suspicions (in Al-Kitab) those who are given Al-Kitab and those who have already become Believers; and so that those in whose hearts is sickness and the disbelievers may comment: “What is that which Allah intended with the help of this example?” Thus Allah lets one go astray whom He thinks proper and gives guidance whom He thinks proper. And does not comprehend the forces of your Nourisher-Sustainer except He (Himself,). And this is not but zikrah (reminder) for man

The night is a witness when it retreated

Dawn is a witness when it brightened

Surely this (phenomenon of Revelation) is indeed one of the major (events) —

a warning for man —

for that of you who desired that he should advance or he should hang back and await

Every Nafs because of what she earned (remains) mortgaged

except companions of the right (side)

In Gardens — they will ask questions to one another —

unto the sinners

“What has caused you to enter Saqar?”

They said : “We were not of those who offer Prayers regularly

and we used not to feed the indigent

and we used to talk uselessly alongwith those who indulge in senseless talhead of state

and we used to deny the Day of Judgment

until there came to us the Certainty (i.e., the moment of death).”

So, would not benefit them the intercession of the intercessors

Then what (is wrong) with them — from At-Tazkirah (‘The Admonition’.) they are those who remain at a distance

As if they (are) frightened donkeys

who have fled (out of fear) from a group of lions

Nay! Every man of them desires that he may be given Suhuf (booklets) Munashsharah (spread out)

By no means! Nay, they are not mindful of the Hereafter

By no means (it benefits them)! Surely this is Tazkirah

So whosoever desired he reminded it (to himself and to others)

They will not remind (their ownselves or others) except that Allah desires (this). He (Alone is) worthy of (receiving) obedience and worthy for (granting) Forgiveness