In the name of God, the Almighty,¹ the Merciful.

¹ O thou, one covering himself:

² Arise thou and warn thou!

³ And magnify thou thy Lord,

⁴ And purify thou thy garments,

⁵ And forsake thou¹ defilement,

⁶ And show thou not favour seeking gain,

⁷ And, to thy Lord, be thou patient.

⁸ Then when the Trumpet is sounded:

⁹ That¹ — that day — will be a difficult day,²

¹⁰ For the false claimers of guidance¹ not easy.

¹¹ Leave thou Me with him whom I created alone,

¹² And appointed for him wealth extended,¹

¹³ And sons present,

¹⁴ And spread¹ before him ease.²

¹⁵ Then hopes he that I should add more.

¹⁶ No, indeed!¹ He was towards Our proofs² obstinate.

¹⁷ I will burden him with a steep ascent.

¹⁸ He considered and determined,

¹⁹ (Damned be¹ how he determined!

²⁰ Then damned be¹ how he determined!)

²¹ Then looked,

²² Then frowned and scowled,

²³ Then turned away and waxed proud,

²⁴ And said: “This is only sorcery¹ handed down.²

²⁵ “This is only the speech¹ of a mortal.”

²⁶ I will burn him in Saqar.¹

²⁷ And what will convey to thee what Saqar¹ is?

²⁸ It spares not and leaves not,

²⁹ Scorching mortal man.¹

³⁰ Over it¹ are nineteen;²

³¹ And We have made the Guardians of the Fire¹ only angels. And We made their² number³ only as a means of denial⁴ for those who ignore warning,⁵ that those given⁶ the Writ⁷ might be certain,⁸ and those who heed warning⁹ might increase in faith, and those given¹⁰ the Writ¹¹ and the believers¹² might not doubt,¹³ and that those in whose hearts is disease and the false claimers of guidance¹⁴ might say: “What means God by this similitude?”¹⁵ Thus God sends astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills; and there knows the forces of thy Lord only He. And this is only a reminder to mortal man.

³² No, indeed!¹ By the moon,

³³ And the night when it retreats,

³⁴ And the morning when it brightens!

³⁵ (It¹ is one of the greatest

³⁶ As a warning to mortal man,

³⁷ To him who wills among you to advance or to tarry.)

³⁸ Every soul is in pledge¹ for what it earned²

³⁹ Save the companions of the right: —

⁴⁰ In gardens, they will ask each other

⁴¹ About the lawbreakers:

⁴² “What brought you into Saqar?”¹

⁴³ They will say: “We were not among the performers of duty,¹

⁴⁴ “And we fed not the needy.

⁴⁵ “And we discoursed vainly¹ with those who discourse vainly,

⁴⁷ “Until the Certainty came to us.”

⁴⁸ Then no benefit to them is the intercession of intercessors.¹

⁴⁹ Then what ails them that they, from the reminder, turn away