(The Cloaked One) - سورة المدثر

O you who covers himself [with a garment],







Arise and warn






And your Lord glorify






And your clothing purify






And uncleanliness avoid







And do not confer favor to acquire more






But for your Lord be patient.






And when the trumpet is blown,






That Day will be a difficult day






For the disbelievers - not easy.






Leave Me with the one I created alone






And to whom I granted extensive wealth






And children present [with him]






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






Then he desires that I should add more.






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






I will cover him with arduous torment.






Indeed, he thought and deliberated.






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






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






Then he considered [again];

Then he frowned and scowled;

Then he turned back and was arrogant

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






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






I will drive him into Saqar.






And what can make you know what is Saqar?






It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned],






Blackening the skins.






Over it are nineteen [angels].






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 hypocrisy
and the disbelievers will say, "What does Allah intend by this
as an example?" Thus does Allah leave astray whom He wills and
guides whom He wills. And none knows the soldiers of your Lord
except Him. And mention of the Fire is not but a reminder
to humanity.






No! By the moon







And [by] the night when it departs






And [by] the morning when it brightens,






Indeed, the Fire is of the greatest [afflictions]






As a warning to humanity -






To whoever wills among you to proceed or stay behind.






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






Except the companions of the right,






[Who will be] in gardens, questioning each other






About the criminals,






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






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






Nor did we used to feed the poor.






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






And we used to deny the Day of Recompense






Until there came to us the certainty."






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






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






As if they were alarmed donkeys






Fleeing from a lion?






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






No! But they do not fear the Hereafter.






No! Indeed, the Qur'an is a reminder






Then whoever wills will remember it.






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