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    English - Chapter 74

    Translation by Hamid S Aziz

    Verse 1

    O you enveloped in your cloak

    Verse 2

    Arise and warn

    Verse 3

    And magnify your Lord

    Verse 4

    And your cloak do purify

    Verse 5

    And uncleanness do shun

    Verse 6

    And bestow not favours that you may receive again with increase

    Verse 7

    And for the sake of your Lord, be patient

    Verse 8

    For when the trumpet is sounded

    Verse 9

    That, at that time, shall be a Day of distress

    Verse 10

    Far from easy for the unbelievers

    Verse 11

    Leave Me alone to deal with him whom I created

    Verse 12

    And gave vast riches

    Verse 13

    And sons to be by his side

    Verse 14

    And I adjusted the affairs of life to go smoothly and appropriately for him

    Verse 15

    And yet he desires that I should add more

    Verse 16

    By no means! For lo! He stubbornly opposes Our revelations

    Verse 17

    Will impose on him a fearful doom

    Verse 18

    Surely he reflected and then plotted

    Verse 19

    But woe to him for how he plotted

    Verse 20

    Again, woe to him for how he plotted

    Verse 21

    Then he looked around

    Verse 22

    Then he frowned and scowled

    Verse 23

    Then he turned back and was inflated with pride

    Verse 24

    Then he said, "This is naught but enchantment, narrated of olden days

    Verse 25

    This is naught but the word of a mortal

    Verse 26

    Soon will I cast him into the burning (Hell-fire)

    Verse 27

    And what will make you understand what the burning (Hell-fire) is

    Verse 28

    It leaves naught, it spares naught

    Verse 29

    It scorches (darkens the colour) and shrivels the mortal

    Verse 30

    Over it are nineteen

    Verse 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 (scriptures) may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, an

    Verse 32

    Nay; I swear by (or call to witness) the moon

    Verse 33

    And by the night when it departs

    Verse 34

    And by the Dawn when it shines forth

    Verse 35

    Surely, this is but one of the mighty Signs

    Verse 36

    A warning to mortals

    Verse 37

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

    Verse 38

    Every soul is held in pledge for its own deeds

    Verse 39

    Except the people of the right hand

    Verse 40

    In Gardens, they shall ask each other

    Verse 41

    And ask the guilty

    Verse 42

    What has brought you into hell

    Verse 43

    They shall say, "We were not of those who prayed

    Verse 44

    And we used not to feed the poor

    Verse 45

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

    Verse 46

    And we used to call the Day of Judgment a lie

    Verse 47

    Till the inevitable event (death) overtook us

    Verse 48

    The intercession of no mediators shall avail them then

    Verse 49

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

    Verse 50

    As if they were frightened asses

    Verse 51

    Fleeing from a lion

    Verse 52

    Nay; every one of them desires that he may be given pages spread out (or open)

    Verse 53

    Nay! But they do not fear the Hereafter

    Verse 54

    Nay! This surely is an admonition

    Verse 55

    Let any who will, pay heed (or remember)

    Verse 56

    But none will remember (or heed) unless Allah wills. He is the source of fear (or righteousness) and the source of Mercy