English - Chapter 74 - Al-Muddaththir

O Muddaththir (the one enveloped - one of the nicknames of Prophet Muhammad)

Stand up and warn

Proclaim the greatness of your Lord

purify your clothes

keep yourself away from uncleanliness

do not favor others to expect a gain

and be patient for the sake of your Lord

that Day will be a very difficult Day

not easy for the disbelievers

Leave Me and the one (Walid bin Mughirah, a staunch opponent of the Prophet) whom I created, alone

I gave him abundant resources

thriving sons

and made his life smooth and comfortable

Yet he hopes that I shall give him more

By no means! Because he has stubbornly denied Our revelations

Soon I shall make him suffer mounting calamities

surely he pondered and devised a plot

May he perish, how he plotted

Again, may he perish, how he plotted

He looked around

frowned and scowled

then he turned his back in scornful pride

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

this is nothing but the word of a human being

Soon I shall cast him into Saqar

What will make you understand, what Saqar is

It is burning fire which leaves nothing and spares none

It shrivels human flesh

It is guarded by nineteen guards

We have appointed none but angels as wardens of the fire; and We have made their number a trial for the unbelievers, so that the People of the Book may be convinced and the faith of the true believers may be increased, and that no doubts will be left for the People of the Book and the believers, and that those in whose hearts there is a disease and the disbelievers may say: "What could Allah mean by this parable?" Thus, Allah leaves to stray whom He wills and guides whom He pleases. No one knows the forces of your Lord except Himself, and this (Qur'an) is nothing but a reminder to mankind

Nay! By the moon

by the departing night

and by the coming of dawn

surely this hellfire is one of mighty scourge

a warning to mankind

to any of you who chooses to go forward or to lag behind

Every soul is held in pledge for its deeds

except the people of the right hand

who shall be in paradise. They will ask

from the culprits

What brought you into hell

They will answer: "We did not use to offer the Salah (prayers)

we did not use to feed the poor

we used to join those who wasted their time in vain talk

and we used to deny the Day of Judgment

until death overtook us

On that Day, no intercession of any intercessors shall profit them

Then what is the matter with them that they turn away from this admonition

Like frightened donkeys

fleeing from a lion

Nay, each of them wants a scripture of his own to be unrolled before them

But no! The fact is that they do not fear the Hereafter

But no! Surely this Qur’an is an admonition

Let him who wills take heed

But none takes heed except by the will of Allah. He Alone is worthy to be feared and He Alone is worthy to forgive those who fear Him