English - Chapter 74 - Al-Muddaththir

O THOU, ENWRAPPED in thy mantle

Arise and warn

Thy Lord - magnify Him

Thy raiment - purify it

The abomination - flee it

And for thy Lord wait thou patiently

For when there shall be a trump on the trumpet

That shall be a distressful day

A day, to the Infidels, devoid of ease

Leave me alone to deal with him whom I have created

And on whom I have bestowed vast riches

And sons dwelling before him

And for whom I have smoothed all things smoothly down

Yet desireth he that I should add more

But no! because to our signs he is a foe

I will lay grievous woes upon him

For he plotted and he planned

May he be cursed! How he planned

Again, may he be cursed! How he planned

Then looked he around him

Then frowned and scowled

Then turned his back and swelled with disdain

And said, "This is merely magic that will be wrought

It is merely the word of a mortal

We will surely cast him into Hell-fire

And who shall teach thee what Hell-fire is

It leaveth nought, it spareth nought

Blackening the skin

Over it are nineteen angels

None but angels have we made guardians of the fire: nor have we made this to be their number but to perplex the unbelievers, and that they who possess the Scriptures may be certain of the truth of the Koran, and that they who believe may increase their faith; And that they to whom the Scriptures have been given, and the believers, may not doubt; And that the infirm of heart and the unbelievers may say, What meaneth God by this parable? Thus God misleadeth whom He will, and whom He will doth He guide aright: and none knoweth the armies of thy Lord but Himself: and this is no other than a warning to mankind

Nay, by the Moon

By the Night when it retreateth

By the Morn when it brighteneth

Hell is one of the most grievous woes

Fraught with warning to man

To him among you who desireth to press forward, or to remain behind

For its own works lieth every soul in pledge

But they of God's right hand

In their gardens

shall ask of the wicked

What hath cast you into Hell-fire

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

And we were not of those who fed the poor

And we plunged into vain disputes with vain disputers

And we rejected as a lie, the day of reckoning

Till the certainty came upon us

And intercession of the interceders shall not avail them

Then what hath come to them that they turn aside from the Warning

As if they were affrighted asses

fleeing from a lion

And every one of them would fain have open pages given to him out of Heaven

It shall not be. They fear not the life to come

It shall not be. For this Koran is warning enough

And whoso will, it warneth him

But not unless God please, shall they be warned. Meet is He to be feared. Meet is forgiveness in Him