Category: Chapters / Surah

O you (Muhammad) who covers himself [with a garment],

Stand up and warn.

Proclaim the greatness of your Lord,

purify your clothes,

keep yourself away from uncleanliness,

And show not favour, seeking wordly gain,

and be patient for the sake of your Lord.

When the Trumpet will be sounded i.e. its second blowing),

that Day will be a very difficult Day,

not easy for the disbelievers.

Leave Me and the one (Walid bin Mughirah, a staunch opponent of the Prophet) whom I created, alone.

And to whom I granted extensive wealth,

And children to be by his side,

and made his life smooth and comfortable.

Yet he hopes that I shall give him more.

By no means! Because he has stubbornly denied Our Ayat.
Meaning:-
Stubborn: A person always thinks he’s right.

Soon I shall make him suffer mounting calamities,

surely he pondered and devised a plot.
Meaning:-
Ponder: think about (something) carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion.
Devise: plan or invent by careful thought.

May he perish, how he plotted!
Meaning:-
Perish: disappear, vanish,

Again, may he perish, how he plotted!

He looked around,

Then he frowned and he looked in a bad tempered way,
Meaning:-
Frowned: make a face, give someone a black look;

Then turned he away in pride

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

this is nothing but the word of a human being.”

I will cast him into Hell-fire

And what will make you know exactly what Hell-fire is?

It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned],

Blackening the skins.

Over it are nineteen (angels as guardians and keepers of Hell).

And We have set none but angels as guardians of the Fire, and We have fixed their number (19) only as a trial for the disbelievers, in order that the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) may arrive at a certainty [that this Quran is the truth as it agrees with their Books i.e. their number (19) is written in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)] and the believers may increase in Faith (as this Quran is the truth) and that no doubts may be left for the people of the Scripture and the believers, and that those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy) and the disbelievers may say: “What Allah intends by this (curious) example ?” Thus Allah leads astray whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And none can know the hosts of your Lord but He. And this (Hell) is nothing else than a (warning) reminder to mankind.
Meaning:-
Hypocrisy: a situation in which someone pretends to believe something that they do not really
Astray: into error, away from the correct path or direction

No! By the moon

And [by] the night when it departs

And [by] the morning when it brightens,

Verily, it (Hell, or their denial of the Prophet Muhammad, or the Day of Resurrection) is but one of the greatest calamities.

A warning to mankind,

To any of you that chooses to go forward (by working righteous deeds), or to remain behind (by commiting sins),
Meaning:-
Righteous: (of a person or conduct) morally right or justifiable; virtuous, very good; excellent.

Every soul is held in pledge for its deeds,
Meaning:-
Pledge: undertaking, guarantee, promise.

except the people of the right hand,

who shall be in paradise. They will ask

About the criminals,

“What brought you into hell?”.

They will say: “We were not of those who used to offer their Salat (prayers)

Nor did we used to feed the poor.

we used to join those who wasted their time in talk
Meaning:-
Vain: useless, pointless, to no purpose, hopeless.

And we used to deny the Day of Judgment,

until death overtook us.”

So there will not benefit them the intercession of [any] intercessors.
Meaning:-
Intercession: the action of intervening on behalf of another.
Intercessors: a person who intervenes on behalf of another, especially by prayer.

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

Like frightened donkeys

fleeing from a lion.
Meaning:-
Flee: run away from a place or situation of danger.

Nay, everyone of them desires that he should be given pages spread out (coming from Allah with a writing that Islam is the right religion, and Muhammad has come with the truth from Allah the Lord of the heavens and earth, etc.).

But no! The fact is that they do not fear the Hereafter.

No! Indeed, the Qur’an is a reminder

Let any who will, keep it in remembrance!

But none takes heed except by the will of Allah. He Alone is worthy to be feared and He Alone is worthy to forgive those who fear Him.
Meaning:-
Heed: pay attention to; take notice of.