Al-Muzzammil
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O you who wraps himself [in clothing],
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Arise [to pray] the night, except for a little -
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Half of it - or subtract from it a little
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Or add to it, and recite the Qur'an with measured recitation.
( 5 )
Indeed, We will cast upon you a heavy word.
( 6 )
Indeed, the hours of the night are more effective for concurrence [of heart and
tongue] and more suitable for words.
( 7 )
Indeed, for you by day is prolonged occupation.
( 8 )
And remember the name of your Lord and devote yourself to Him with [complete]
devotion.
( 9 )
[He is] the Lord of the East and the West; there is no deity except Him, so
take Him as Disposer of [your] affairs.
( 10 )
And be patient over what they say and avoid them with gracious
avoidance.
( 11 )
And leave Me with [the matter of] the deniers, those of ease [in life],
and allow them respite a little.
( 12 )
Indeed, with Us [for them] are shackles and burning fire
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And food that chokes and a painful punishment -
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On the Day the earth and the mountains will convulse and the mountains
will become a heap of sand pouring down.
( 15 )
Indeed, We have sent to you a Messenger as a witness upon you just as We
sent to Pharaoh a messenger.
( 16 )
But Pharaoh disobeyed the messenger, so We seized him with a ruinous
seizure.
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Then how can you fear, if you disbelieve, a Day that will make the
children white- haired?
( 18 )
The heaven will break apart therefrom; ever is His promise fulfilled.
( 19 )
Indeed, this is a reminder, so whoever wills may take to his Lord a way.
( 20 )
Indeed, your Lord knows, [O Muhammad], that you stand [in prayer] almost
two thirds of the night or half of it or a third of it, and [so do] a group of
those with you. And Allah determines [the extent of] the night and the day. He
has known that you [Muslims] will not be able to do it and has turned to you in
forgiveness, so recite what is easy [for you] of the Qur'an. He has known that
there will be among you those who are ill and others traveling throughout the
land seeking [something] of the bounty of Allah and others fighting for the
cause of Allah. So recite what is easy from it and establish prayer and give
zakah and loan Allah a goodly loan. And whatever good you put forward for
yourselves - you will find it with Allah. It is better and greater in reward.
And seek forgiveness of Allah. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
Al-Muddaththir
( 1 )
O you who covers himself [with a garment],
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Arise and warn
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And your Lord glorify
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And your clothing purify
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And uncleanliness avoid
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And do not confer favor to acquire more
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But for your Lord be patient.
( 8 )
And when the trumpet is blown,
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That Day will be a difficult day
( 10 )
For the disbelievers - not easy.
( 11 )
Leave Me with the one I created alone
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And to whom I granted extensive wealth
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And children present [with him]
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And spread [everything] before him, easing [his life].
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Then he desires that I should add more.
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No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate.
( 17 )
I will cover him with arduous torment.
( 18 )
Indeed, he thought and deliberated.
( 19 )
So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.
( 20 )
Then may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.
( 21 )
Then he considered [again];
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Then he frowned and scowled;
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Then he turned back and was arrogant
( 24 )
And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others].
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This is not but the word of a human being."
( 26 )
I will drive him into Saqar.
( 27 )
And what can make you know what is Saqar?
( 28 )
It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned],
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Blackening the skins.
( 30 )
Over it are nineteen [angels].
( 31 )
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.
( 32 )
No! By the moon
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And [by] the night when it departs
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And [by] the morning when it brightens,
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Indeed, the Fire is of the greatest [afflictions]
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As a warning to humanity -
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To whoever wills among you to proceed or stay behind.
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Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained
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Except the companions of the right,
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[Who will be] in gardens, questioning each other
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About the criminals,
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[And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?"
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They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,
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Nor did we used to feed the poor.
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And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who engaged [in it],
( 46 )
And we used to deny the Day of Recompense
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Until there came to us the certainty."
( 48 )
So there will not benefit them the intercession of [any] intercessors.
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Then what is [the matter] with them that they are, from the reminder,
turning away
( 50 )
As if they were alarmed donkeys
( 51 )
Fleeing from a lion?
( 52 )
Rather, every person among them desires that he would be given
scriptures spread about.
( 53 )
No! But they do not fear the Hereafter.
( 54 )
No! Indeed, the Qur'an is a reminder
( 55 )
Then whoever wills will remember it.
( 56 )
And they will not remember except that Allah wills. He is worthy of fear
and adequate for [granting] forgiveness.
Al-Qiyamat
( 1 )
I swear by the Day of Resurrection
( 2 )
And I swear by the reproaching soul [to the certainty of resurrection].
( 3 )
Does man think that We will not assemble his bones?
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Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips.
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But man desires to continue in sin.
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He asks, "When is the Day of Resurrection?"
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So when vision is dazzled
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And the moon darkens
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And the sun and the moon are joined,
( 10 )
Man will say on that Day, "Where is the [place of] escape?"
( 11 )
No! There is no refuge.
( 12 )
To your Lord, that Day, is the [place of] permanence.
( 13 )
Man will be informed that Day of what he sent ahead and kept back.
( 14 )
Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness,
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Even if he presents his excuses.
( 16 )
Move not your tongue with it, [O Muhammad], to hasten with recitation of
the Qur'an.
( 17 )
Indeed, upon Us is its collection [in your heart] and [to make possible]
its recitation.
( 18 )
So when We have recited it [through Gabriel], then follow its
recitation.
( 19 )
Then upon Us is its clarification [to you].
( 20 )
No! But you love the immediate
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And leave the Hereafter.
( 22 )
[Some] faces, that Day, will be radiant,
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Looking at their Lord.
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And [some] faces, that Day, will be contorted,
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Expecting that there will be done to them [something] backbreaking.
( 26 )
No! When the soul has reached the collar bones
( 27 )
And it is said, "Who will cure [him]?"
( 28 )
And the dying one is certain that it is the [time of] separation
( 29 )
And the leg is wound about the leg,
( 30 )
To your Lord, that Day, will be the procession.
( 31 )
And the disbeliever had not believed, nor had he prayed.
( 32 )
But [instead], he denied and turned away.
( 33 )
And then he went to his people, swaggering [in pride].
( 34 )
Woe to you, and woe!
( 35 )
Then woe to you, and woe!
( 36 )
Does man think that he will be left neglected?
( 37 )
Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted?
( 38 )
Then he was a clinging clot, and [Allah] created [his form] and
proportioned [him]
( 39 )
And made of him two mates, the male and the female.
( 40 )
Is not that [Creator] Able to give life to the dead?
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