{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq074.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq074.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful\n1. O thou wrapped up\n (In a mantle)!\n2. Arise and deliver thy warning!\n3. And thy Lord\n Do thou magnify!\n4. And thy garments\n Keep free from stain!\n5. And all abomination shun!\n6. Nor expect, in giving,\n Any increase (for thyself)!\n7. But, for thy Lord's (Cause),\n Be patient and constant!\n8. Finally, when the trumpet\n Is sounded,\n9. That will be\u2014that Day\u2014\n A Day of Distress,\u2014\n10. Far from easy\n For those without Faith.\n11. Leave Me alone, (to deal)\n With the (creature) whom\n I created (bare and) alone!\u2014\n12. To whom I granted\n Resources in abundance,\n13. And sons to be\n By his side!\u2014\n14. To whom I made\n (Life) smooth and comfortable!\n15. Yet is he greedy\u2014\n That I should add\n (Yet more);\u2014\n16. By no means!\n For to Our Signs\n He has been refractory!\n17. Soon will I visit him\n With a mount of calamities!\n18. For he thought\n And he plotted;\u2014\n19. And woe to him!\n How he plotted!\u2014\n20. Yea, woe to him:\n How he plotted!\u2014\n21. Then he looked round;\n22. Then he frowned\n And he scowled;\n23. Then he turned back\n And was haughty;\n24. Then said he:\n \"This is nothing but magic,\n Derived from of old;\n25. \"This is nothing but\n The word of a mortal!\"\n26. Soon will I\n Cast him into Hell-Fire!\n27. And what will explain\n To thee what Hell-Fire is?\n28. Naught doth it permit\n To endure, and naught\n Doth it leave alone!\u2014\n29. Darkening and changing\n The colour of man!\n30. Over it are Nineteen.\n31. And We have set none\n But angels as guardians\n Of the Fire; and We\n Have fixed their number\nOnly as a trial\n For Unbelievers,\u2014in order\n That the People of the Book\n May arrive at certainty,\n And the Believers may increase\n In Faith,\u2014and that no doubts\n May be left for the People\n Of the Book and the Believers,\n And that those in whose hearts\n Is a disease and the Unbelievers\n May say, \"What symbol\n Doth God intend by this?\n Thus doth God leave to stray\n Whom He pleaseth, and guide\n Whom He pleaseth: and none\n Can know the forces\n Of thy Lord, except He.\n And this is no other than\n A warning to mankind.\n32. Nay, verily:\n By the Moon,\n33. And by the Night\n As it retreateth,\n34. And by the Dawn\n As it shineth forth,\u2014\n35. This is but one\n Of the mighty (portents),\n36. A warning to mankind,\u2014\n37. To any of you that\n Chooses to press forward,\n Or to follow behind;\u2014\n38. Every soul will be (held)\n In pledge for its deeds.\n39. Except the Companions\n Of the Right Hand.\n40. (They will be) in Gardens\n (Of Delight): they will\n Question each other,\n41. And (ask) of the Sinners:\n42. \"What led you\n Into Hell-Fire?\"\n43. They will say:\n \"We were not of those\n Who prayed;\n44. \"Nor were we of those\n Who fed the indigent;\n45. \"But we used to talk\n Vanities with vain talkers;\n46. \"And we used to deny\n The Day of Judgment,\n47. \"Until there came to us\n (The Hour) that is certain.\"\n48. Then will no intercession\n Of (any) intercessors\n Profit them.\n49. When what is\n The matter with them\n That they turn away\n From admonition?\n50. As if they were\n Affrighted asses,\n51. Fleeing from a lion!\n52. Forsooth, each one of them\n Wants to be given\n Scrolls (of revelation) spread out!\n53. By no means! But\n They fear not the Hereafter.\n54. Nay, this surely\n Is an admonition:\n55. Let any who will,\n Keep it in remembrance!\n56. But none will keep it\n In remembrance except\n As God wills: He\n Is the Lord of Righteousness,\n And the Lord of Forgiveness.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LXXIV. Muddaththir, or One Wrap...","type":"page"}