Surah Al-Muddaththir · The Cloaked One

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُدَّثِّرُ ۝١

yāayyuhā l-mudathir

O you who covers himself [with a garment],

قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ ۝٢

qum fa-andhir

Arise and warn.

وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ ۝٣

warabbaka fakabbir

And your Lord glorify.

وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرْ ۝٤

wathiyābaka faṭahhir

And your clothing purify.

وَٱلرُّجْزَ فَٱهْجُرْ ۝٥

wal-ruj'za fa-uh'jur

And uncleanliness avoid.

وَلَا تَمْنُن تَسْتَكْثِرُ ۝٦

walā tamnun tastakthir

And do not confer favor to acquire more.

وَلِرَبِّكَ فَٱصْبِرْ ۝٧

walirabbika fa-iṣ'bir

But for your Lord be patient.

فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِى ٱلنَّاقُورِ ۝٨

fa-idhā nuqira fī l-nāqūr

And when the trumpet is blown,

فَذَٰلِكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَوْمٌ عَسِيرٌ ۝٩

fadhālika yawma-idhin yawmun ʿasīr

That Day will be a difficult day

عَلَى ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ غَيْرُ يَسِيرٍ ۝١٠

ʿalā l-kāfirīna ghayru yasīr

For the disbelievers - not easy.

ذَرْنِى وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ۝١١

dharnī waman khalaqtu waḥīdā

Leave Me with the one I created alone

وَجَعَلْتُ لَهُۥ مَالًا مَّمْدُودًا ۝١٢

wajaʿaltu lahu mālan mamdūdā

And to whom I granted extensive wealth

وَبَنِينَ شُهُودًا ۝١٣

wabanīna shuhūdā

And children present [with him]

وَمَهَّدتُّ لَهُۥ تَمْهِيدًا ۝١٤

wamahhadttu lahu tamhīdā

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

ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ ۝١٥

thumma yaṭmaʿu an azīd

Then he desires that I should add more.

كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا عَنِيدًا ۝١٦

kallā innahu kāna liāyātinā ʿanīdā

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

سَأُرْهِقُهُۥ صَعُودًا ۝١٧

sa-ur'hiquhu ṣaʿūdā

I will cover him with arduous torment.

إِنَّهُۥ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ ۝١٨

innahu fakkara waqaddar

Indeed, he thought and deliberated.

فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ ۝١٩

faqutila kayfa qaddar

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

ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيْفَ 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 wabasar

Then he frowned and scowled;

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ ۝٢٣

thumma adbara wa-is'takbar

Then he turned back and was arrogant

فَقَالَ إِنْ هَـٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌ يُؤْثَرُ ۝٢٤

faqāla in hādhā illā siḥ'run yu'thar

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

إِنْ هَـٰذَآ إِلَّا قَوْلُ ٱلْبَشَرِ ۝٢٥

in hādhā illā qawlu l-bashar

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

سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ ۝٢٦

sa-uṣ'līhi saqar

I will drive him into Saqar.

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ ۝٢٧

wamā adrāka mā saqar

And what can make you know what is Saqar?

لَا تُبْقِى وَلَا تَذَرُ ۝٢٨

lā tub'qī walā tadhar

It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned],

لَوَّاحَةٌ لِّلْبَشَرِ ۝٢٩

lawwāḥatun lil'bashar

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

عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ ۝٣٠

ʿalayhā tis'ʿata ʿashar

Over it are nineteen [angels].

وَمَا جَعَلْنَآ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ إِلَّا مَلَـٰٓئِكَةً ۙ وَمَا جَعَلْنَا عِدَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا فِتْنَةً لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِيَسْتَيْقِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ وَيَزْدَادَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِيمَـٰنًا ۙ وَلَا يَرْتَابَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ ۙ وَلِيَقُولَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ وَٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ مَاذَآ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَـٰذَا مَثَلًا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ ۚ وَمَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ وَمَا هِىَ إِلَّا ذِكْرَىٰ لِلْبَشَرِ ۝٣١

wamā jaʿalnā aṣḥāba l-nāri illā malāikatan wamā jaʿalnā ʿiddatahum illā fit'natan lilladhīna kafarū liyastayqina alladhīna ūtū l-kitāba wayazdāda alladhīna āmanū īmānan walā yartāba alladhīna ūtū l-kitāba wal-mu'minūna waliyaqūla alladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun wal-kāfirūna mādhā arāda l-lahu bihādhā mathalan kadhālika yuḍillu l-lahu man yashāu wayahdī man yashāu wamā yaʿlamu junūda rabbika illā huwa wamā hiya illā dhik'rā 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.

كَلَّا وَٱلْقَمَرِ ۝٣٢

kallā wal-qamar

No! By the moon.

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ ۝٣٣

wa-al-layli idh adbar

And [by] the night when it departs.

وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ ۝٣٤

wal-ṣub'ḥi idhā asfar

And [by] the morning when it brightens,

إِنَّهَا لَإِحْدَى ٱلْكُبَرِ ۝٣٥

innahā la-iḥ'dā l-kubar

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

نَذِيرًا لِّلْبَشَرِ ۝٣٦

nadhīran lil'bashar

As a warning to humanity -

لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَتَقَدَّمَ أَوْ يَتَأَخَّرَ ۝٣٧

liman shāa minkum an yataqaddama aw yata-akhar

To whoever wills among you to proceed or stay behind.

كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ ۝٣٨

kullu nafsin bimā kasabat rahīnah

Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained.

إِلَّآ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلْيَمِينِ ۝٣٩

illā aṣḥāba l-yamīn

Except the companions of the right,.

فِى جَنَّـٰتٍ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ ۝٤٠

fī jannātin yatasāalūn

[Who will be] in gardens, questioning each other

عَنِ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ ۝٤١

ʿani l-muj'rimīn

About the criminals,

مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِى سَقَرَ ۝٤٢

mā salakakum fī saqar

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

قَالُوا۟ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ ۝٤٣

qālū lam naku mina l-muṣalīn

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

وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ ٱلْمِسْكِينَ ۝٤٤

walam naku nuṭ'ʿimu l-mis'kīn

Nor did we used to feed the poor.

وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ ٱلْخَآئِضِينَ ۝٤٥

wakunnā nakhūḍu maʿa l-khāiḍīn

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

وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ ۝٤٦

wakunnā nukadhibu biyawmi l-dīn

And we used to deny the Day of Recompense

حَتَّىٰٓ أَتَىٰنَا ٱلْيَقِينُ ۝٤٧

ḥattā atānā l-yaqīn

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

فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ شَفَـٰعَةُ ٱلشَّـٰفِعِينَ ۝٤٨

famā tanfaʿuhum shafāʿatu l-shāfiʿīn

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

فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلتَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ ۝٤٩

famā lahum ʿani l-tadhkirati muʿ'riḍīn

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

كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌ ۝٥٠

ka-annahum ḥumurun mus'tanfirah

As if they were alarmed donkeys.

فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍۭ ۝٥١

farrat min qaswarah

Fleeing from a lion?

بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًا مُّنَشَّرَةً ۝٥٢

bal yurīdu kullu im'ri-in min'hum an yu'tā ṣuḥufan munasharah

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

كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةَ ۝٥٣

kallā bal lā yakhāfūna l-ākhirah

No! But they do not fear the Hereafter.

كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ تَذْكِرَةٌ ۝٥٤

kallā innahu tadhkirah

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

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ۝٥٥

faman shāa dhakarah

Then whoever wills will remember it.

وَمَا يَذْكُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ هُوَ أَهْلُ ٱلتَّقْوَىٰ وَأَهْلُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ ۝٥٦

wamā yadhkurūna illā an yashāa l-lahu huwa ahlu l-taqwā wa-ahlu l-maghfirah

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