74. Al-Muddaththir سُورَةُ المُدَّثِّرِ

Yusuf AliO thou wrapped up (in the mantle)

Yusuf AliArise and deliver thy warning

Yusuf AliAnd thy Lord do thou magnify

Yusuf AliAnd thy garments keep free from stain

Yusuf AliAnd all abomination shun

Yusuf AliNor expect, in giving, any increase (for thyself)

Yusuf AliBut, for thy Lord's (Cause), be patient and constant

Yusuf AliFinally, when the Trumpet is sounded

Yusuf AliThat will be- that Day - a Day of Distress

Yusuf AliFar from easy for those without Faith

Yusuf AliLeave Me alone, (to deal) with the (creature) whom I created (bare and) alone

Yusuf AliTo whom I granted resources in abundance

Yusuf AliAnd sons to be by his side

Yusuf AliTo whom I made (life) smooth and comfortable

Yusuf AliYet is he greedy-that I should add (yet more)

Yusuf AliBy no means! For to Our Signs he has been refractory

Yusuf AliSoon will I visit him with a mount of calamities

Yusuf AliFor he thought and he plotted

Yusuf AliAnd woe to him! How he plotted

Yusuf AliYea, Woe to him; How he plotted

Yusuf AliThen he looked round

Yusuf AliThen he frowned and he scowled

Yusuf AliThen he turned back and was haughty

Yusuf AliThen said he: "This is nothing but magic, derived from of old

Yusuf AliThis is nothing but the word of a mortal

Yusuf AliSoon will I cast him into Hell-Fire

Yusuf AliAnd what will explain to thee what Hell-Fire is

Yusuf AliNaught doth it permit to endure, and naught doth it leave alone

Yusuf AliDarkening and changing the colour of man

Yusuf AliOver it are Nineteen

Yusuf AliAnd We have set none but angels as Guardians of the Fire; and We have fixed their number only as a trial for Unbelievers,- in order that the People of the Book may arrive at certainty, and the Believers may increase in Faith,- and that no doub ts may be left for the People of the Book and the Believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the Unbelievers may say, "What symbol doth God intend by this ?" Thus doth God leave to stray whom He pleaseth, and guide whom He pleaseth: an d none can know the forces of thy Lord, except He and this is no other than a warning to mankind

Yusuf AliNay, verily: By the Moon

Yusuf AliAnd by the Night as it retreateth

Yusuf AliAnd by the Dawn as it shineth forth

Yusuf AliThis is but one of the mighty (portents)

Yusuf AliA warning to mankind

Yusuf AliTo any of you that chooses to press forward, or to follow behind

Yusuf AliEvery soul will be (held) in pledge for its deeds

Yusuf AliExcept the Companions of the Right Hand

Yusuf Ali(They will be) in Gardens (of Delight): they will question each other

Yusuf AliAnd (ask) of the Sinners

Yusuf AliWhat led you into Hell Fire

Yusuf AliThey will say: "We were not of those who prayed

Yusuf AliNor were we of those who fed the indigent

Yusuf AliBut we used to talk vanities with vain talkers

Yusuf AliAnd we used to deny the Day of Judgment

Yusuf AliUntil there came to us (the Hour) that is certain

Yusuf AliThen will no intercession of (any) intercessors profit them

Yusuf AliThen what is the matter with them that they turn away from admonition

Yusuf AliAs if they were affrighted asses

Yusuf AliFleeing from a lion

Yusuf AliForsooth, each one of them wants to be given scrolls (of revelation) spread out

Yusuf AliBy no means! But they fear not the Hereafter

Yusuf AliNay, this surely is an admonition

Yusuf AliLet any who will, keep it in remembrance

Yusuf AliBut none will keep it in remembrance except as God wills: He is the Lord of Righteousness, and the Lord of Forgiveness