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Ayah 1بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُدَّثِّرُ
English Translation
O THOU [in thy solitude] enfolded!
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Surah 74
Al-Muddaththir
The Cloaked One
56 VersesMeccan RevelationMishary Rashid Alafasy
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Ayah 2قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ
English Translation
Arise and warn!
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Ayah 3وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ
English Translation
And thy Sustainer's greatness glorify!
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Ayah 4وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرْ
English Translation
And thine inner self purify!
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Ayah 5وَٱلرُّجْزَ فَٱهْجُرْ
English Translation
And all defilement shun!
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Ayah 6وَلَا تَمْنُن تَسْتَكْثِرُ
English Translation
And do not through giving seek thyself to gain,
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Ayah 7وَلِرَبِّكَ فَٱصْبِرْ
English Translation
but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience.
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Ayah 8فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِى ٱلنَّاقُورِ
English Translation
And [warn all men that] when the trumpet-call [of resurrection] is sounded,
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Ayah 9فَذَٰلِكَ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَوْمٌ عَسِيرٌ
English Translation
that very Day shall be a day of anguish,
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Ayah 10عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ غَيْرُ يَسِيرٍۢ
English Translation
not of ease, for all who [now] deny the truth!
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Ayah 11ذَرْنِى وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًۭا
English Translation
LEAVE Me alone [to deal] with him whom I have created alone,
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Ayah 12وَجَعَلْتُ لَهُۥ مَالًۭا مَّمْدُودًۭا
English Translation
and to whom I have granted resources vast,
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Ayah 13وَبَنِينَ شُهُودًۭا
English Translation
and children as [love's] witnesses,
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Ayah 14وَمَهَّدتُّ لَهُۥ تَمْهِيدًۭا
English Translation
and to whose life I gave so wide a scope:
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Ayah 15ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ
English Translation
and yet, he greedily desires that I give yet more!
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Ayah 16كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لِءَايَٰتِنَا عَنِيدًۭا
English Translation
Nay, verily, it is against Our messages that he knowingly, stubbornly sets himself
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Ayah 17سَأُرْهِقُهُۥ صَعُودًا
English Translation
[and so] I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb!
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Ayah 18إِنَّهُۥ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ
English Translation
Behold, [when Our messages are conveyed to one who is bent on denying the truth,] he reflects and meditates [as to how to disprove them] –
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Ayah 19فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ
English Translation
and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates:
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Ayah 20ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ
English Translation
yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates!
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Ayah 21ثُمَّ نَظَرَ
English Translation
and then he looks [around for new arguments],
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Ayah 22ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَبَسَرَ
English Translation
and then he frowns and glares,
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Ayah 23ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ
English Translation
and in the end he turns his back [on Our message], and glories in his arrogance,
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Ayah 24فَقَالَ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌۭ يُؤْثَرُ
English Translation
and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down [from olden times]!
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Ayah 25إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا قَوْلُ ٱلْبَشَرِ
English Translation
This is nothing but the word of mortal man!"
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Ayah 26سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ
English Translation
[Hence,] I shall cause him to endure hell-fire [in the life to come]!
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Ayah 27وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ
English Translation
And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is?
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Ayah 28لَا تُبْقِى وَلَا تَذَرُ
English Translation
It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die],
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Ayah 29لَوَّاحَةٌۭ لِّلْبَشَرِ
English Translation
making [all truth] visible to mortal man.
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Ayah 30عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ
English Translation
Over it are nineteen [powers].
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Ayah 31وَمَا جَعَلْنَآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ إِلَّا مَلَٰٓئِكَةًۭ ۙ وَمَا جَعَلْنَا عِدَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا فِتْنَةًۭ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِيَسْتَيْقِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَيَزْدَادَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِيمَٰنًۭا ۙ وَلَا يَرْتَابَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ ۙ وَلِيَقُولَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌۭ وَٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ مَاذَآ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَٰذَا مَثَلًۭا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ ۚ وَمَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ وَمَا هِىَ إِلَّا ذِكْرَىٰ لِلْبَشَرِ
English Translation
For We have caused none but angelic powers to lord over the fire [of hell]; and We have not caused their number to be aught but a trial for those who are bent on denying the truth - to the end that they who have been granted revelation aforetime might be convinced [of the truth of this divine writ]; and that they who have attained to faith [in it] might grow yet more firm in their faith; and that [both] they who have been granted the earlier revelation and they who believe [in this one] might be freed of all doubt; and that they in whose hearts is disease and the who deny the truth outright might ask, "What does [your] God mean by this parable?" In this way God lets go astray him that wills [to go astray], and guides aright him that wills [to be guided]. And none can comprehend thy Sustainers forces save Him alone: and all this is but a reminder to mortal man.
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Ayah 32كَلَّا وَٱلْقَمَرِ
English Translation
NAY, but consider the moon!
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Ayah 33وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ
English Translation
Consider the night when it departs,
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Ayah 34وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ
English Translation
and the morn when it dawns!
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Ayah 35إِنَّهَا لَإِحْدَى ٱلْكُبَرِ
English Translation
Verily, that [hell-fire) is Indeed one of the great [forewarnings] –
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Ayah 36نَذِيرًۭا لِّلْبَشَرِ
English Translation
a warning to mortal man –
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Ayah 37لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَتَقَدَّمَ أَوْ يَتَأَخَّرَ
English Translation
to everyone of you, whether he chooses to come forward or to hang back!
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Ayah 38كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ
English Translation
[On the Day of Judgment,] every human being will be held in pledge for whatever [evil] he has wrought –
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Ayah 39إِلَّآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْيَمِينِ
English Translation
save those who shall have attained to righteousness:
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Ayah 40فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ
English Translation
[dwelling] In gardens [of paradise], they will inquire
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Ayah 41عَنِ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ
English Translation
of those who were lost in sin:
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Ayah 42مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِى سَقَرَ
English Translation
"What has brought you into hell-fire?"
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Ayah 43قَالُوا۟ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ
English Translation
They will answer: "We were not among those who prayed;
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Ayah 44وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ ٱلْمِسْكِينَ
English Translation
and neither did we feed the needy;
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Ayah 45وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ ٱلْخَآئِضِينَ
English Translation
and we were wont to indulge in sinning together with all [the others] who indulged in it;
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Ayah 46وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ
English Translation
and the Day of Judgment we were wont to call a lie –
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Ayah 47حَتَّىٰٓ أَتَىٰنَا ٱلْيَقِينُ
English Translation
until certainty came upon us [in death]."
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Ayah 48فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ شَفَٰعَةُ ٱلشَّٰفِعِينَ
English Translation
And so, of no benefit to them could be the intercession of any that would intercede for them.
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Ayah 49فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلتَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ
English Translation
WHAT, THEN, is amiss with them that they turn away from all admonition
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Ayah 50كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌۭ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌۭ
English Translation
as though they were terrified asses
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Ayah 51فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍۭ
English Translation
fleeing from a lion?
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Ayah 52بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًۭا مُّنَشَّرَةًۭ
English Translation
Yea, everyone of them claims that he [himself] ought to have been given revelations unfolded!
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Ayah 53كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ
English Translation
Nay, but they do not [believe in and, hence, do not] fear the life to come.
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Ayah 54كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ تَذْكِرَةٌۭ
English Translation
Nay, verily, this is an admonition –
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Ayah 55فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ
English Translation
and whoever wills may take it to heart.
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Ayah 56وَمَا يَذْكُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ هُوَ أَهْلُ ٱلتَّقْوَىٰ وَأَهْلُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ
English Translation
But they [who do not believe in the life to come] will not take it to heart unless God so wills: [for] He is the Fount of all God-consciousness, and the Fount of all forgiveness.
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