O YOU ENFOLDED in your mantle (of reform)
Arise and warn
Glorify your Lord
Purify your inner self
And banish all trepidation
Do not bestow favours in expectation of return
And persevere in the way of your Lord
For when the trumpet blow
It will be a day of distress
Dolorous for the unbelievers
Leave him to Me whom I created alone
And gave him abundant wealth
And sons always present by his side
And made things easy for them
Yet he wants that I should give him more
Never. He is refractory of Our signs
I shall inflict on him hardship
For he had thought and calculated
May he be accursed, how he planned
May be then be accursed, how he plotted
Then he looked around
And frowned and puckered his brow
Then turned his back and waxed proud
And said: "This is nothing but the magic of old
Nothing more than the speech of a man!"
I will cast him into the fire of Hell
What do you think Hell-fire is
It leaves nothing, nor does it spare
It glows and burns the skin
Over it are nineteen (guards)
We have not appointed any one but angels as keepers of Hell, and their number that We have fixed is to make it a means of contention for disbelievers, so that those who were given the Book may be certain, and the faith of the believers may have greater increase, and the people of the Book and believers may not be deceived, and the sceptics and infidels may say: "What does God mean by this parable?" That is how God leads whosoever He will astray, and guides whosoever He will. None knows the armies of your Lord save Him self. This is no more than reminder for mankind
I say the truth, and call the moon to witness
And the night when on the wane
The morning when it is unveiled
That (Hell) is surely one of the greater (signs)
A warning for people -
Whoever of you desires to progress or lag behind
Every soul is pledged to what it does
Except those of the right han
Sitting in the gardens, asking
Of evil-doers
"What was it that brought you to Hell?"
They will answer: "We did not fulfil our devotional obligations
And did not feed the needy
And plunged into useless things with those who were obstinate
And rejected the Day of Judgement as a li
Until the certainty (of death) had come upon us
So, the intercession of intercessors will not avail them
Why then do they turn away from the admonitio
As though they were frightened asse
Fleeing from a lion
In fact every one of them wants to be given open books (like the prophets)
By no means. In fact they do not fear the Hereafter
Never so, as this is a reminder
Let him then who heeds remember it
But they will not remember except as God wills: He is worthy to be feared, and He is worthy of forgivin