English - Chapter 74 - Al-Muddaththir

O you, enveloped in a mantle

stand up and warn

and pronounce the greatness of your Lord

and purify your clothes

and keep away from filth

and do not do a favour (to anyone merely) to seek more (in return)

And for the sake of your Lord, observe patience

that day will be a difficult day

not easy for the disbelievers

Leave me alone (to deal) with the one whom I created lonely

and gave him extensive wealth

and sons present before (his) eyes

and extended (power and honour) to him pretty well

Still, he aspires that I should give him more

Never! He is inimical towards Our verses

I will force him to climb the mountain Sa‘ud

He pondered and surmised

Death onto him! How (bad) is the surmise he put forward

Again, death unto him! How (bad) is the surmise he put forward

Then he looked (to those around him)

then he frowned and scowled

then turned his back, and waxed proud

then said, .This is nothing but traditional magic

this is nothing but saying of a mortal

I will put him into Saqar (Hell)

And what can let you know what Saqar is

It neither spares (anything inside it from burning) nor leaves (any disbeliever outside)

It will disfigure the skins

Appointed on it are nineteen (wardens)

And We did not make wardens of the Fire but (from) angels, and did not fix their number but as a test for those who disbelieve, so that those who are given the Book may come to believe, and those who believe may improve in belief, and so that those who are given the Book and those who believe may not doubt (its correctness), and so that those having malady in their hearts and the disbelievers say, .What has Allah meant by this strange statement?. Thus Allah lets go astray whomever He wills, and leads to the right path whomever He wills. And no one knows the hosts of your Lord but He. And this is nothing else but a reminder for mankind

Truly, I swear by the moon

and by the night when it goes back

and by the morning when it becomes bright

it (Saqar : Hell) is one of the greatest things

as a warning to the mankind

to the one from among you who wishes to come forward (towards good deeds) or to go back (from them)

Everyone will be detained (in the Hell) because of what he did

except the People of the Right, (i.e. those who will be given their Book of Deeds in their right hands)

who will be in gardens, asking

about the guilty persons

What has brought you to Saqar? (Hell)

They will say, .We were not among those who offered Salah , (obligatory prayer)

and we did not give food to the needy

and we indulged (in mocking at the truth) along with those who indulged

and we used to deny the Day of Requital

until when we were overtaken by that which is certain

Then intercession of intercessors will not benefit them

So what has happened to them that they are turning away from the Reminder

as if they were wild donkeys

fleeing from a lion

Rather, every one of them wishes that he should be given unrolled (divine) scriptures

Never! But they do not fear the Hereafter

Never! Indeed, this is a Reminder

So, whoever so wishes may take advice from it

And they will not take advice unless Allah so wills. He is worthy to be feared, and worthy to forgive