English - Chapter 74 - Al-Muddaththir

O you enveloped in your cloak

Arise and warn

And magnify your Lord

And your cloak do purify

And uncleanness do shun

And bestow not favours that you may receive again with increase

And for the sake of your Lord, be patient

For when the trumpet is sounded

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

Far from easy for the unbelievers

Leave Me alone to deal with him whom I created

And gave vast riches

And sons to be by his side

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

And yet he desires that I should add more

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

Will impose on him a fearful doom

Surely he reflected and then plotted

But woe to him for how he plotted

Again, woe to him for how he plotted

Then he looked around

Then he frowned and scowled

Then he turned back and was inflated with pride

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

This is naught but the word of a mortal

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

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

It leaves naught, it spares naught

It scorches (darkens the colour) and shrivels the mortal

Over it are nineteen

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

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

And by the night when it departs

And by the Dawn when it shines forth

Surely, this is but one of the mighty Signs

A warning to mortals

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

Every soul is held in pledge for its own deeds

Except the people of the right hand

In Gardens, they shall ask each other

And ask the guilty

What has brought you into hell

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

And we used not to feed the poor

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

And we used to call the Day of Judgment a lie

Till the inevitable event (death) overtook us

The intercession of no mediators shall avail them then

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

As if they were frightened asses

Fleeing from a lion

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

Nay! This surely is an admonition

Let any who will, pay heed (or remember)

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