English - Chapter 83 - Al-Mutaffifin

WOE BETIDE the unjust

who, when people measure for them, exact in full

Do they not think they will be raised to life

upon a fateful day

the day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the Universe

No! The record of the sinners is in Sijjīn

Would that you knew what Sijjīn is

It is a sealed book

On that day woe betide the disbelievers

who deny the Last Judgement

None denies it except the sinful transgressor

who, when Our revelations are recited to him, says: ‘Fables of the ancients!‘

No! But their own deeds have drawn a veil over their hearts

No! On a screen shall on that day be set between them and their Lord

Then shall they burn in Hell

and shall be told: ‘This is what you denied!‘

No! But the record of the righteous shall be in ‘Illiyyūn

Would that you knew what ‘Illiyyūn is

It is a sealed book

seen only by the favoured ones

The righteous will surely be in bliss

Reclining upon soft couches they will gaze around

and in their faces you shall mark the glow of joy

They shall be served with pure nectar to drink

securely sealed, whose very dregs are musk: for this let all contenders emulously strive

tempered with the waters of Tasnīm

a spring at which the favoured will refresh themselves

Those who transgress laugh at the faithful

and wink at one another as they pass by them

When they meet their own kin they speak of them with jests

and when they see them say: ‘These have surely lost their way.‘

Yet they were not sent to be their keepers

But on that day the faithful will at the infidels laugh

as they recline upon their couches and gaze around

Shall not the infidels be rewarded according to what they did