Al-Muddaththir

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 hold over others what you grant, deeming it abundant,

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 على الكفرين غير يسير

He has been obstinate toward Our signs.

انه كان لءايتنا 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 looked; 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 ادرىك ما سقر

It leaves nothing and spares nothing,

لا تبقي ولا تذر

visibly altering humans.

لواحة للبشر

Over it, nineteen.

عليها تسعة عشر

And it is nothing but a reminder to humans.

وما هي الا ذكرى للبشر

By no means! By the moon, and the night as it declines, and the morning 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 لاحدى الكبر نذيرا للبشر لمن شاء 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 رهينة الا اصحب اليمين

in gardens, they will ask one another about the severed: "What has led you into Saqar?"

في جنت يتساءلون عن المجرمين ما سلككم في سقر

They will say, "We were not of those who made the 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 حتى اتىنا اليقين

So the intercession of the intercessors will not benefit them.

فما تنفعهم شفعة 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 التذكرة معرضين كانهم حمر مستنفرة فرت من قسورة

Rather, every person among them wants to be given chronicles deployed.

بل يريد كل امري منهم ان يوتى صحفا منشرة

By no means! But they do not fear the last life.

كلا بل لا يخافون الءاخرة

By no means! This is a reminder;

كلا انه تذكرة

so whoever wants may remember it.

فمن شاء ذكره

He is worthy that one guard oneself before Him, and He is worthy to forgive.

هو اهل التقوى واهل المغفرة