Al-Muddaththir
The Cloaked One
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
O you who are covered in a cloak! Arise and warn,
يايها المدثر قم فانذر
and your Guardian, proclaim His greatness,
وربك فكبر
and your clothes, purify them,
وثيابك فطهر
and defilement, keep away from it,
والرجز فاهجر
and do not grace others seeking abundant return,
ولا تمنن تستكثر
and for your Guardian, be patient.
ولربك فاصبر
Then, when the trumpet is sounded, that Day will be a difficult day, not easy for the disowners.
فاذا نقر في الناقور فذلك يوميذ يوم عسير علي الكفرين غير يسير
Leave Me with the one I created alone, and made for him extensive goods, and sons present with him, and spread everything before him, easing his life — then he covets that I should give more. By no means!
ذرني ومن خلقت وحيدا وجعلت له مالا ممدودا وبنين شهودا ومهدت له تمهيدا ثم يطمع ان ازيد كلا
He has been obstinate toward Our signs.
انه كان لايتنا عنيدا
I will crush him with a steep ascent.
سارهقه صعودا
He thought and determined. So may he perish, how he determined! Again, may he perish, how he determined! Then he considered; then he frowned and scowled; then he turned back and grew proud, and said, "This is nothing but illusion passed down; this is nothing but the saying of a human."
انه فكر وقدر فقتل كيف قدر ثم قتل كيف قدر ثم نظر ثم عبس وبسر ثم ادبر واستكبر فقال ان هذا الا سحر يوثر ان هذا الا قول البشر
I will make him burn in Saqar.
ساصليه سقر
And what will give you an idea of what Saqar is?
وما ادريك ما سقر
It leaves nothing and spares nothing,
لا تبقي ولا تذر
visibly altering humans.
لواحه للبشر
Over it, nineteen.
عليها تسعه عشر
And We have not made the companions of the Fire except Agents,
وما جعلنا اصحب النار الا مليكه
and We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disown — that those given the Writ may be certain, and those who believe may increase in faith, and those given the Writ and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose cores is a sickness and the disowners may say, "What did God intend by this image?"
وما جعلنا عدتهم الا فتنه للذين كفروا ليستيقن الذين اوتوا الكتب ويزداد الذين امنوا ايمنا ولا يرتاب الذين اوتوا الكتب والمومنون وليقول الذين في قلوبهم مرض والكفرون ماذا اراد الله بهذا مثلا
Thus does God send astray whom He wills and guide whom He wills.
كذلك يضل الله من يشا ويهدي من يشا
And none knows the armies of your Guardian except Him.
وما يعلم جنود ربك الا هو
And it is not but a reminder to humans.
وما هي الا ذكري للبشر
By no means! By the moon, and the night as it departs, and the dawn as it shines forth — surely, it is one of the greatest, a warning to humans, to whoever among you wills to advance or to remain behind.
كلا والقمر واليل اذ ادبر والصبح اذا اسفر انها لاحدي الكبر نذيرا للبشر لمن شا منكم ان يتقدم او يتاخر
Every Self is a pledge for what it has earned, except the companions of the right,
كل نفس بما كسبت رهينه الا اصحب اليمين
in gardens, they will ask one another about the severed: "What has led you into Saqar?"
في جنت يتسالون عن المجرمين ما سلككم في سقر
They will say, "We were not of those who made contact, nor did we use to feed the destitute, and we used to immerse ourselves with those who immersed themselves, and we used to deny the Day of the Due, until certainty came to us."
قالوا لم نك من المصلين ولم نك نطعم المسكين وكنا نخوض مع الخايضين وكنا نكذب بيوم الدين حتي اتينا اليقين
So the intercession of the intercessors will not benefit them.
فما تنفعهم شفعه الشفعين
So what is with them that they turn away from the reminder, as if they were terrified donkeys, fleeing from a lion?
فما لهم عن التذكره معرضين كانهم حمر مستنفره فرت من قسوره
Rather, every person among them desires that he would be given chronicles deployed.
بل يريد كل امري منهم ان يوتي صحفا منشره
By no means! But they do not fear the last life.
كلا بل لا يخافون الاخره
By no means! This is a reminder;
كلا انه تذكره
so whoever wants may remember it.
فمن شا ذكره
And they will not remember except that God wills.
وما يذكرون الا ان يشا الله
He is worthy that one guard oneself before Him, and He is worthy to forgive.
هو اهل التقوي واهل المغفره