Surah Al-Muddaththir (74): Arabic, Transliteration and English

Full text of Surah Al-Muddaththir, verse by verse

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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُدَّثِّرُ ﴿١﴾

Yaaa ayyuhal muddassir

1 O you who covers himself [with a garment],

قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ ﴿٢﴾

Qum fa anzir

2 Arise and warn

وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ ﴿٣﴾

Wa rabbaka fakabbir

3 And your Lord glorify

وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرْ ﴿٤﴾

Wa siyaabaka fatahhir

4 And your clothing purify

وَٱلرُّجْزَ فَٱهْجُرْ ﴿٥﴾

Warrujza fahjur

5 And uncleanliness avoid

وَلَا تَمْنُن تَسْتَكْثِرُ ﴿٦﴾

Wa laa tamnun tastaksir

6 And do not confer favor to acquire more

وَلِرَبِّكَ فَٱصْبِرْ ﴿٧﴾

Wa li Rabbika fasbir

7 But for your Lord be patient.

فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِى ٱلنَّاقُورِ ﴿٨﴾

Fa izaa nuqira fin naaqoor

8 And when the trumpet is blown,

فَذَٰلِكَ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ يَوْمٌ عَسِيرٌ ﴿٩﴾

Fazaalika yawma 'iziny yawmun 'aseer

9 That Day will be a difficult day

عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ غَيْرُ يَسِيرٍۢ ﴿١٠﴾

'Alal kaafireena ghayru yaseer

10 For the disbelievers - not easy.

ذَرْنِى وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًۭا ﴿١١﴾

Zamee wa man khalaqtu waheedaa

11 Leave Me with the one I created alone

وَجَعَلْتُ لَهُۥ مَالًۭا مَّمْدُودًۭا ﴿١٢﴾

Wa ja'altu lahoo maalam mamdoodaa

12 And to whom I granted extensive wealth

وَبَنِينَ شُهُودًۭا ﴿١٣﴾

Wa baneena shuhoodaa

13 And children present [with him]

وَمَهَّدتُّ لَهُۥ تَمْهِيدًۭا ﴿١٤﴾

Wa mahhattu lahoo tamheeda

14 And spread [everything] before him, easing [his life].

ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ ﴿١٥﴾

Summa yat ma'u an azeed

15 Then he desires that I should add more.

كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لِءَايَٰتِنَا عَنِيدًۭا ﴿١٦﴾

Kallaaa innahoo kaana li Aayaatinaa 'aneedaa

16 No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate.

سَأُرْهِقُهُۥ صَعُودًا ﴿١٧﴾

Sa urhiquhoo sa'oodaa

17 I will cover him with arduous torment.

إِنَّهُۥ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ ﴿١٨﴾

Innahoo fakkara wa qaddar

18 Indeed, he thought and deliberated.

فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ ﴿١٩﴾

Faqutila kayfa qaddar

19 So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.

ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ ﴿٢٠﴾

Summa qutila kaifa qaddar

20 Then may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.

ثُمَّ نَظَرَ ﴿٢١﴾

Summa nazar

21 Then he considered [again];

ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَبَسَرَ ﴿٢٢﴾

Summa 'abasa wa basar

22 Then he frowned and scowled;

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ ﴿٢٣﴾

Summaa adbara wastakbar

23 Then he turned back and was arrogant

فَقَالَ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌۭ يُؤْثَرُ ﴿٢٤﴾

Faqaala in haazaaa illaa sihruny yu'sar

24 And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others].

إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا قَوْلُ ٱلْبَشَرِ ﴿٢٥﴾

In haazaaa illaa qawlul bashar

25 This is not but the word of a human being."

سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ ﴿٢٦﴾

Sa usleehi saqar

26 I will drive him into Saqar.

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ ﴿٢٧﴾

Wa maaa adraaka maa saqar

27 And what can make you know what is Saqar?

لَا تُبْقِى وَلَا تَذَرُ ﴿٢٨﴾

Laa tubqee wa laa tazar

28 It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned],

لَوَّاحَةٌۭ لِّلْبَشَرِ ﴿٢٩﴾

Lawwaahatul lilbashar

29 Blackening the skins.

عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ ﴿٣٠﴾

'Alaihaa tis'ata 'ashar

30 Over it are nineteen [angels].

وَمَا جَعَلْنَآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ إِلَّا مَلَٰٓئِكَةًۭ ۙ وَمَا جَعَلْنَا عِدَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا فِتْنَةًۭ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِيَسْتَيْقِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَيَزْدَادَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِيمَٰنًۭا ۙ وَلَا يَرْتَابَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ ۙ وَلِيَقُولَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌۭ وَٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ مَاذَآ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَٰذَا مَثَلًۭا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ ۚ وَمَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ وَمَا هِىَ إِلَّا ذِكْرَىٰ لِلْبَشَرِ ﴿٣١﴾

Wa maaja''alnaaa As haaban naari illaa malaaa 'ikatanw wa maa ja'alnaa 'iddatahum illaa fitnatal lillazeena kafaroo liyastayqinal lazeena ootul kitaaba wa yazdaadal lazeena aamanooo eemaananw wa laa yartaabal lazeena ootul kitaaba walmu'minoona wa liyaqoolal lazeena fee quloo bihim maradunw walkaafiroona maazaaa araadal laahu bihaazaa masalaa; kazaalika yudillul laahu many yashaaa'u wa yahdee many yashaaa'; wa maa ya'lamu junooda rabbika illaa hoo; wa maa hiya illaa zikraa lil bashar

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.

كَلَّا وَٱلْقَمَرِ ﴿٣٢﴾

Kallaa walqamar

32 No! By the moon

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ ﴿٣٣﴾

Wallaili adbar

33 And [by] the night when it departs

وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ ﴿٣٤﴾

Wassub hi izaaa asfar

34 And [by] the morning when it brightens,

إِنَّهَا لَإِحْدَى ٱلْكُبَرِ ﴿٣٥﴾

Innahaa la ihdal kubar

35 Indeed, the Fire is of the greatest [afflictions]

نَذِيرًۭا لِّلْبَشَرِ ﴿٣٦﴾

Nazeeral lilbashar

36 As a warning to humanity -

لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَتَقَدَّمَ أَوْ يَتَأَخَّرَ ﴿٣٧﴾

Liman shaaa'a minkum any yataqaddama aw yata akhkhar

37 To whoever wills among you to proceed or stay behind.

كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ ﴿٣٨﴾

Kullu nafsim bim kasabat raheenah

38 Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained

إِلَّآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْيَمِينِ ﴿٣٩﴾

Illaaa as haabal yameen

39 Except the companions of the right,

فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ ﴿٤٠﴾

Fee jannaatiny yata saaa'aloon

40 [Who will be] in gardens, questioning each other

عَنِ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ ﴿٤١﴾

'Anil mujrimeen

41 About the criminals,

مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِى سَقَرَ ﴿٤٢﴾

Maa salakakum fee saqar

42 [And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?"

قَالُوا۟ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ ﴿٤٣﴾

Qaaloo lam naku minal musalleen

43 They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,

وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ ٱلْمِسْكِينَ ﴿٤٤﴾

Wa lam naku nut'imul miskeen

44 Nor did we used to feed the poor.

وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ ٱلْخَآئِضِينَ ﴿٤٥﴾

Wa kunnaa nakhoodu ma'al khaaa'ideen

45 And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who engaged [in it],

وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ ﴿٤٦﴾

Wa kunnaa nukazzibu bi yawmid Deen

46 And we used to deny the Day of Recompense

حَتَّىٰٓ أَتَىٰنَا ٱلْيَقِينُ ﴿٤٧﴾

Hattaaa ataanal yaqeen

47 Until there came to us the certainty."

فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ شَفَٰعَةُ ٱلشَّٰفِعِينَ ﴿٤٨﴾

Famaa tanfa'uhum shafaa'atush shaafi'een

48 So there will not benefit them the intercession of [any] intercessors.

فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلتَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ ﴿٤٩﴾

Famaa lahum 'anittazkirati mu'rideen

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

كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌۭ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌۭ ﴿٥٠﴾

Ka annahum humurum mustanfirah

50 As if they were alarmed donkeys

فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍۭ ﴿٥١﴾

Farrat min qaswarah

51 Fleeing from a lion?

بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍۢ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًۭا مُّنَشَّرَةًۭ ﴿٥٢﴾

Bal yureedu kullum ri'im minhum any yu'taa suhufam munashsharah

52 Rather, every person among them desires that he would be given scriptures spread about.

كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ ﴿٥٣﴾

Kallaa bal laa yakhaafoonal aakhirah

53 No! But they do not fear the Hereafter.

كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ تَذْكِرَةٌۭ ﴿٥٤﴾

Kallaaa innahoo tazkirah

54 No! Indeed, the Qur'an is a reminder

فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ﴿٥٥﴾

Fa man shaaa'a zakarah

55 Then whoever wills will remember it.

وَمَا يَذْكُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ ۚ هُوَ أَهْلُ ٱلتَّقْوَىٰ وَأَهْلُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ ﴿٥٦﴾

Wa maa yazkuroona illaaa any yashaaa'al laah; Huwa ahlut taqwaa wa ahlul maghfirah

56 And they will not remember except that Allah wills. He is worthy of fear and adequate for [granting] forgiveness.

Sources: Arabic text in Uthmani script (Tanzil edition); English translation: Saheeh International; transliteration in standard Latin letters. Transliteration helps with pronunciation but cannot render every Arabic letter.