يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَّثِّرُ (1)
O you who are garbed from head to foot in heavy cloth |
قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ (2)
Rise and warn the people of neglecting their duties toward Allah |
وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ (3)
Advance the glory of Allah and ascribe glory in adoration to His Name |
وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرْ (4)
Cleanse your clothes and your heart and mind and imprint your deeds with wisdom and piety and resolution |
وَالرُّجْزَ فَاهْجُرْ (5)
Refuse to recognize idolatry and things not pertaining to Allah, so that you be free from spiritual and moral pollution |
وَلَا تَمْنُن تَسْتَكْثِرُ (6)
Do not give, expecting to take more than what you have given |
وَلِرَبِّكَ فَاصْبِرْ (7)
and in the cause of Allah exercise patience and bear with others their faults, for in patience possess you your soul |
فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِي النَّاقُورِ (8)
For when finally the h trumpet is sounded |
فَذَٰلِكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَوْمٌ عَسِيرٌ (9)
Then it is a momentous Day of heavy consequence, a Day of constraint and constriction |
عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ غَيْرُ يَسِيرٍ (10)
So distressful to those who refused to acknowledge Allah and conform to His blessed will; a day fraught with pain and affliction |
ذَرْنِي وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا (11)
Now leave to Me the one whom I brought into being and ushered him into this world helpless, empty, with no progeny and never less alone than when he was alone |
وَجَعَلْتُ لَهُ مَالًا مَّمْدُودًا (12)
Then in affluence did I accord him wealth and abounding resources |
وَبَنِينَ شُهُودًا (13)
and a progeny by his side, who would bear witness to the considerable position he enjoys and the will he enforces |
وَمَهَّدتُّ لَهُ تَمْهِيدًا (14)
I made him lead an easy life with success and prosperity wherever he set his courses |
ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ (15)
But his greed is never satisfied and he has always asked for more |
كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّهُ كَانَ لِآيَاتِنَا عَنِيدًا (16)
Yet how obstinate to Our signs, revelations and ordinances he has been; holding no opinions but they held him and reign in his core |
سَأُرْهِقُهُ صَعُودًا (17)
Such persons I will afflict with endless calamities and make the like unable to hold his own |
إِنَّهُ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ (18)
He pondered and he planned |
فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ (19)
Woe be he, for how he pondered and how he planned |
ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ (20)
and woe indeed will he be for the way he pondered and planned |
ثُمَّ نَظَرَ (21)
Then he directed his intellectual eye and analyzed and scanned |
ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَبَسَرَ (22)
Then he ended with knitting his brows in displeasure and his look expressed disapproval |
ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَاسْتَكْبَرَ (23)
Then he concluded to turn a deaf ear and to continue in his inordinate self- esteem |
فَقَالَ إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ يُؤْثَرُ (24)
Then he said "This is nothing but sorcery assumed by Muhammad from the fables of those of old |
إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا قَوْلُ الْبَشَرِ (25)
Then he added, "it is nothing but words expressed by mortals; words which to our beliefs do not accord |
سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ (26)
There I will cast him into the pit of Hell named "Saqar |
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سَقَرُ (27)
and you just do not know what "Saqar" is like |
لَا تُبْقِي وَلَا تَذَرُ (28)
Its fiercely fiery infernal flames simply consume anything coming their way, but the wicked shall neither die nor live therein |
لَوَّاحَةٌ لِّلْبَشَرِ (29)
Unkind to mankind; it blackens, then burns their skin, but as often as their integument is consumed it is replaced by a fresh new skin |
عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ (30)
It " Saqar " is guarded by a body of angels numerically nineteen, massive, robust mighty and severe on strangers |
وَمَا جَعَلْنَا أَصْحَابَ النَّارِ إِلَّا مَلَائِكَةً ۙ وَمَا جَعَلْنَا عِدَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا فِتْنَةً لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِيَسْتَيْقِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ وَيَزْدَادَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِيمَانًا ۙ وَلَا يَرْتَابَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ وَالْمُؤْمِنُونَ ۙ وَلِيَقُولَ الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ وَالْكَافِرُونَ مَاذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِهَٰذَا مَثَلًا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ اللَّهُ مَن يَشَاءُ وَيَهْدِي مَن يَشَاءُ ۚ وَمَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ وَمَا هِيَ إِلَّا ذِكْرَىٰ لِلْبَشَرِ (31)
(We assigned to no one but the angels the guardianship of the Fire and We stated their number a) to try those infidels' unsatisfied desire, b) to assure Ahl AL-Kitab, of the Divine Nature of Muhammad's mission, c) to give the faithful reason to consume their wisdom in confidence, d) to give neither party Ahl AL-Kitab and the faithful- an occasion to doubt, e) and to induce the hypocrites, the ill-disposed whose seats of intellect melt away in disease and lassitude as well as the infidels to speak out; and indeed they did. They said: What has Allah meant when He mentioned the Angels' number and what does He mean to fulfill?.Thus does Allah mislead whom He pleases and guides whom He will. and no one knows the number of your Creator's forces but He, and the description portraying « Saqar » is only a reminder to mankind |
كَلَّا وَالْقَمَرِ (32)
No, but I swear by the moon |
وَاللَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ (33)
and by the night as it retreats and falls into a swoon |
وَالصُّبْحِ إِذَا أَسْفَرَ (34)
By the apparent ascent of the sun above the horizon at the beginning of the day |
إِنَّهَا لَإِحْدَى الْكُبَرِ (35)
That "Saqar" is one of many pits of Hell that is. ghastly and immense |
نَذِيرًا لِّلْبَشَرِ (36)
Portrayed to warn mankind |
لِمَن شَاءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَتَقَدَّمَ أَوْ يَتَأَخَّرَ (37)
So that he who wishes to proceed to the right path may still have a chance, and he who wishes to lag behind, err and stray will have been warned |
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ (38)
Every soul shall be pledged for its deeds |
إِلَّا أَصْحَابَ الْيَمِينِ (39)
Except those destined to hold he position on the right |
فِي جَنَّاتٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ (40)
Beheld in bliss, they will convey their thoughts reciprocally in talk |
عَنِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ (41)
With the wicked in their infernal abyss |
مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ (42)
They will ask them: “ What brought you to "Saqar" ? ” |
قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ (43)
We were not among those who engaged in worship. " they will admit |
وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ الْمِسْكِينَ (44)
Nor did we feed the indigent nor to benevolence did we submit |
وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ الْخَائِضِينَ (45)
We always joined those who delighted in idle talk and we were given to indulging in personal vanity and drowned ourselves in the nonsensical |
وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ (46)
We obstinately refused to acknowledge the truth of Day of Judgment and actuality |
حَتَّىٰ أَتَانَا الْيَقِينُ (47)
Until we were caught in the jaws of death and were affronted with reality |
فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ شَفَاعَةُ الشَّافِعِينَ (48)
There and then, no intercession can profit them or afford them help |
فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ التَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ (49)
But why would they reject admonition and refuse to take heed |
كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌ (50)
As if they were zebras |
فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍ (51)
Rushing away from a lion in a stampede |
بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًا مُّنَشَّرَةً (52)
Ironically every one of these infidels wants a Scripture to be revealed to him and alone |
كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ الْآخِرَةَ (53)
But no, they deny the Hereafter and their denial of it drives them to seek pleasure in vices instead of virtues and they think what they will is fate |
كَلَّا إِنَّهُ تَذْكِرَةٌ (54)
Yet this Quran is the spirit of truth guiding into all truth and inducing those whose hearts' ears are open to lift to Allah their inward sight and keep Him always in mind |
فَمَن شَاءَ ذَكَرَهُ (55)
He who wishes to do so is left to his conscience to bind |
وَمَا يَذْكُرُونَ إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ ۚ هُوَ أَهْلُ التَّقْوَىٰ وَأَهْلُ الْمَغْفِرَةِ (56)
But no wish would be fulfilled until Allah has so willed, He is Reverence personified. He is the Creator Who merits profound reverence and He is the Absolute Source of forgiveness, and to those who repent, perhaps He will relent and quit them all His debt |
