Surah 83. Al-Mutaffifeen

In the name of ALLAH, the Benevolent, the Merciful

1. Woe to the defrauders:
2. Those who when they take the measure from mankind demand it full,
3. But if they measure to them or weigh for them, they cause them loss.
4. Do such not consider that they will be again
5. To an awful Day,
6. The day when mankind stand before the Lord of the Worlds?
7. Nay, but the record of the vile is in Sijjin
8. Ah! what will convey to you what Sijjin is!
9. A written record.
10. Woe to the repudiators on that day!
11. Those who deny the Day of Judgment
12. Which none denies save each criminal transgressor,
13. Who, when you read to him Our Revelations, says: old fables.
14. Nay, but that which they have earned is rust upon their hearts.
15. Nay, but surely on that day they will be covered from their Lord.
16. Then Surely they surely will burn in hell,
17. And it will be said: This is that which you used to deny.
18. Nay, but the record of the righteous is in Iliyin
19. Ah, what will convey to you what Iliyin is!
20. A written record,
21. Attested by those who are brought near.
22. Surely the righteous surely are in delight,
23. On couches, gazing,
24. You will know in their faces the radiance of delight
25. They are given to drink of a pure wine, sealed,
26. Whose seal is musk. For this let those strive who strive for bliss
27. And mixed with water of Tasnim,
28. A spring whence those brought near to ALLAH drink
29. Surely the guilty used to laugh at those who believed,
30. And wink one to another when they passed them;
31. And when they returned to their own folk, they returned jetting;
32. And when they saw them they said: Surely these have gone astray.
33. Yet they were not sent as guardians over them.
34. This day it is those who keep faith who have the laugh of deniers,
35. On high couches, gazing.
36. Are not the deniers paid for what they used to do?

Previous

American Idiomatic English rendering
Š2001-2007 Muslim America

Next