Al-Muddatstsir

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡمُدَّثِّرُ ١

Yāʾayyuhal-muddaththir.

O you who covers himself [with a garment],¹

قُمۡ فَأَنذِرۡ ٢

Qum fa andhir.

Arise and warn

وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرۡ ٣

Wa rabbaka fakabbir.

And your Lord glorify

وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرۡ ٤

Wa thiyābaka faṭahhir.

And your clothing purify

وَٱلرُّجۡزَ فَٱهۡجُرۡ ٥

War-rujza fahjur.

And uncleanliness¹ avoid

وَلَا تَمۡنُن تَسۡتَكۡثِرُ ٦

Wa lā tamnun tastakthir.

And do not confer favor to acquire more¹

وَلِرَبِّكَ فَٱصۡبِرۡ ٧

Walirabbika faṣbir.

But for your Lord be patient.

فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِي ٱلنَّاقُورِ ٨

Fa idhā nuqira fin-nāqūr.

And when the trumpet is blown,

فَذَٰلِكَ يَوۡمَئِذٖ يَوۡمٌ عَسِيرٌ ٩

Fadhālika yawmaʾidhiy yawmun ʿasīr.

That Day will be a difficult day

عَلَى ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ غَيۡرُ يَسِيرٖ ١٠

ʿAlal-kāfirīna ghayru yasīr.

For the disbelievers - not easy.

ذَرۡنِي وَمَنۡ خَلَقۡتُ وَحِيدٗا ١١

Dharnī wa man khalaqtu waḥīdā.

Leave Me with the one I created alone¹

وَجَعَلۡتُ لَهُۥ مَالٗا مَّمۡدُودٗا ١٢

Wa jaʿaltu lahū mālam mamdūdā.

And to whom I granted extensive wealth

وَبَنِينَ شُهُودٗا ١٣

Wa banīna shuhūdā.

And children present [with him]

وَمَهَّدتُّ لَهُۥ تَمۡهِيدٗا ١٤

Wa mahhadttu lahū tamhīdā.

And spread [everything] before him, easing [his life].

ثُمَّ يَطۡمَعُ أَنۡ أَزِيدَ ١٥

Thumma yaṭmaʿu an azīd.

Then he desires that I should add more.

كـَلَّآۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لِأٓيَٰتِنَا عَنِيدٗا ١٦

Kallā, innahū kāna liʾāyātinā ʿanīdā.

No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate.

سَأُرۡهِقُهُۥ صَعُودًا ١٧

Saʾurhiquhū ṣaʿūdā.

I will cover him with arduous torment.

إِنَّهُۥ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ ١٨

Innahū fakkara wa qaddar.

Indeed, he thought and deliberated.¹

فَقُتِلَ كَيۡفَ قَدَّرَ ١٩

Faqutila kayfa qaddar.

So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.

ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيۡفَ قَدَّرَ ٢٠

Thumma qutila kayfa qaddar.

Then may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.

ثُمَّ نَظَرَ ٢١

Thumma naẓar.

Then he considered [again];

ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَبَسَرَ ٢٢

Thumma ʿabasa wa basar.

Then he frowned and scowled;

ثُمَّ أَدۡبَرَ وَٱسۡتَكۡبَرَ ٢٣

Thumma adbara wastakbar.

Then he turned back and was arrogant

فَقَالَ إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحۡرٞ يُؤۡثَرُ ٢٤

Faqāla in hādhā illā siḥruy yuʾthar.

And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others].

إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا قَوۡلُ ٱلۡبَشَرِ ٢٥

In hādhā illā qawlul-bashar.

This is not but the word of a human being."

سَأُصۡلِيهِ سَقَرَ ٢٦

Saʾuṣlīhi saqar.

I will drive him into Saqar.¹

وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ ٢٧

Wa mā adrāka mā saqar.

And what can make you know what is Saqar?

لَا تُبۡقِي وَلَا تَذَرُ ٢٨

Lā tubqī wa lā tadhar.

It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned],

لَوَّاحَةٞ لِّلۡبَشَرِ ٢٩

Lawwāḥatul lil-bashar.

Altering [i.e., blackening] the skins.

عَلَيۡهَا تِسۡعَةَ عَشَرَ ٣٠

ʿAlayhā tisʿata ʿashar.

Over it are nineteen [angels].

وَمَا جَعَلۡنَآ أَصۡحَٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ إِلَّا مَلَٰٓئِكَةٗۖ وَمَا جَعَلۡنَا عِدَّتَهُمۡ إِلَّا فِتۡنَةٗ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لِيَسۡتَيۡقِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ وَيَزۡدَادَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِيمَٰنٗا وَلَا يَرۡتَابَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ وَٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ وَلِيَقُولَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٞ وَٱلۡكَٰفِرُونَ مَاذَآ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَٰذَا مَثَلٗاۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَهۡدِي مَن يَشَآءُۚ وَمَا يَعۡلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَۚ وَمَا هِيَ إِلَّا ذِكۡرَىٰ لِلۡبَشَرِ ٣١

Wa mā jaʿalnā aṣḥāban-nāri illā malāʾikah, wa mā jaʿalnā ʿiddatahum illā fitnatal lil-ladhīna kafarū liyastayqinal-ladhīna ūtul-kitāba wa yazdādal-ladhīna āmanū īmānaw wa lā yartābal-ladhīna ūtul-kitāba wal-muʾminūna waliyaqūlal-ladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍuw wal-kāfirūna mādhā arādallāhu bihādhā mathalā, kadhālika yuḍillullāhu may yashāʾu wa yahdī may yashāʾ, wa mā yaʿlamu junūda rabbika illā huw, wa mā hiya illā dhikrā lil-bashar.

And We have not made the keepers of the Fire except angels. And We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disbelieve - that those who were given the Scripture will be convinced and those who have believed will increase in faith and those who were given the Scripture and the believers will not doubt and that those in whose hearts is disease [i.e., hypocrisy] and the disbelievers will say, "What does Allāh intend by this as an example?" Thus does Allāh send astray whom He wills and guide whom He wills. And none knows the soldiers of your Lord except Him. And it [i.e., mention of the Fire] is not but a reminder to humanity.

كـَلَّا وَٱلۡقَمَرِ ٣٢

Kallā wal-qamar.

No! By the moon

وَٱلَّيۡلِ إِذۡ أَدۡبَرَ ٣٣

Wal-layli idh adbar.

And [by] the night when it departs

وَٱلصُّبۡحِ إِذَآ أَسۡفَرَ ٣٤

Waṣ-ṣubḥi idhā asfar.

And [by] the morning when it brightens,

إِنَّهَا لَإِحۡدَى ٱلۡكُبَرِ ٣٥

Innahā laʾiḥdal-kubar.

Indeed, it [i.e., the Fire] is of the greatest [afflictions]

نَذِيرٗا لِّلۡبَشَرِ ٣٦

Nadhīral lil-bashar.

As a warning to humanity -

لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمۡ أَن يَتَقَدَّمَ أَوۡ يَتَأَخَّرَ ٣٧

Liman shāʾa minkum ay yataqaddama aw yataʾakhkhar.

To whoever wills among you to proceed¹ or stay behind.

كُلُّ نَفۡسِۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتۡ رَهِينَةٌ ٣٨

Kullu nafsim bimā kasabat rahīnah.

Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained¹

إِلَّآ أَصۡحَٰبَ ٱلۡيَمِينِ ٣٩

Illā aṣḥābal-yamīn.

Except the companions of the right,¹.

فِي جَنَّٰتٖ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ ٤٠

Fī jannātiy yatasāʾalūn.

[Who will be] in gardens, questioning each other

عَنِ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ ٤١

ʿAnil-mujrimīn.

About the criminals,

مَا سَلَكَكُمۡ فِي سَقَرَ ٤٢

Mā salakakum fī saqar.

[And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?"

قَالُواْ لَمۡ نَكُ مِنَ ٱلۡمُصَلِّينَ ٤٣

Qālū lam naku minal-muṣallīn.

They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,

وَلَمۡ نَكُ نُطۡعِمُ ٱلۡمِسۡكِينَ ٤٤

Wa lam naku nuṭʿimul-miskīn.

Nor did we used to feed the poor.

وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ ٱلۡخَآئِضِينَ ٤٥

Wa kunnā nakhūḍu maʿal-khāʾiḍīn.

And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who engaged [in it],

وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوۡمِ ٱلدِّينِ ٤٦

Wa kunnā nukadhdhibu biyawmid-dīn.

And we used to deny the Day of Recompense

حَتَّىٰٓ أَتَىٰنَا ٱلۡيَقِينُ ٤٧

Ḥattā atānal-yaqīn.

Until there came to us the certainty [i.e., death]."

فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمۡ شَفَٰعَةُ ٱلشَّٰفِعِينَ ٤٨

Famā tanfaʿuhum shafāʿatush-shāfiʿīn.

So there will not benefit them the intercession of [any] intercessors.

فَمَا لَهُمۡ عَنِ ٱلتَّذۡكِرَةِ مُعۡرِضِينَ ٤٩

Famā lahum ʿanit-tadhkirati muʿriḍīn.

Then what is [the matter] with them that they are, from the reminder, turning away

كَأَنَّهُمۡ حُمُرٞ مُّسۡتَنفِرَةٞ ٥٠

Kaʾannahum ḥumurum mustanfirah.

As if they were alarmed donkeys

فَرَّتۡ مِن قَسۡوَرَةِۭ ٥١

Farrat min qaswarah.

Fleeing from a lion?

بَلۡ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ ٱمۡرِيٕٖ مِّنۡهُمۡ أَن يُؤۡتَىٰ صُحُفٗا مُّنَشَّرَةٗ ٥٢

Bal yurīdu kullumriʾim minhum ay yuʾtā ṣuḥufam munashsharah.

Rather, every person among them desires that he¹ would be given scriptures spread about.²

كـَلَّاۖ بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةَ ٥٣

Kallā, bal lā yakhāfūnal-ākhirah.

No! But they do not fear the Hereafter.

كـَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ تَذۡكِرَةٞ ٥٤

Kallā innahū tadhkirah.

No! Indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is a reminder

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ٥٥

Faman shāʾa dhakarah.

Then whoever wills will remember it.

وَمَا يَذۡكُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُۚ هُوَ أَهۡلُ ٱلتَّقۡوَىٰ وَأَهۡلُ ٱلۡمَغۡفِرَةِ ٥٦

Wa mā yadhkurūna illā ay yashāʾallāh, huwa ahlut-taqwā wa ahlul-maghfirah.

And they will not remember except that Allāh wills. He is worthy of fear and adequate for [granting] forgiveness.