Sura LXXIV (74)
The Enwrapped
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
O
Thou, enwrapped in thy mantle!
Arise
and warn!
Thy
Lord -- magnify Him!
Thy
raiment -- purify it!
The
abomination -- flee it!
And
bestow not favours that thou mayest receive again with increase;
And
for thy Lord wait thou patiently.
For
when there shall be a trump on the trumpet,
That
shall be a distressful day,
74:10 A day, to the Infidels, devoid of
ease.
Leave
me alone to deal with him whom I have created,
And on
whom I have bestowed vast riches,
And
sons dwelling before him,
And
for whom I have smoothed all things smoothly down; --
Yet
desireth he that I shall add more!
But
no! because to our signs he is a foe
I will
lay grievous woes upon him.
For he
plotted and he planned!
May he
be cursed! How he planned!
74:20 Again, may be be cursed! How he
planned!
Then
looked he around him,
Then
frowned and scowled,
Then
turned his back and swelled with disdain,
And
said, "This is merely magic that will be wrought;
It is
merely the word of a mortal."
We
will surely cast him in Hell-fire.
And
who shall teach thee what Hell-fire is?
It
leaveth nought, it spareth nought,
Blackening
the skin.
74:30 Over it are nineteen angels.
None
but angels have we made guardians of the fire:
nor have we made this to be their number but to perplex the unbelievers, and
that they who possess the Scriptures may be certain of the truth of the Koran,
and that they who believe may increase their faith;
And
that they to whom the Scriptures have been given, and the believers,may not
doubt;
And
that the infirm of heart and the unbelievers may say, What meaneth God by this
parable?
Thus
God misleadeth whom He will, and whom He will doth He guide aright: and none knoweth the armies of thy Lord but
Himself: and this is no other than a warning
to mankind.
Nay,
by the Moon!
By the
Night when it retreateth!
By the
Morn when it brighteneth!
Hell
is one of the most grievous woes,
Fraught
with warning toman,
74:40 To him among you who desireth to press
forward, or to remain behind.
For
its own works lieth every soul in pledge. But they of God's right hand
In
their gardens shall ask of the wicked; --
"What
hath cast you into Hell-fire?"
They
will say, "We were not of those who prayed,
And we
were not of those who fed the poor,
And we
plunged into vain disputes with vain disputers,
And we
rejected as a lie, the day of reckoning,
Till
the certainty came upon us" --
And
intercession of the interceders shall not avail them.
74:50 Then what hath come to them that they
turn aside from the Warning
As if
they affrighted asses fleeing from a lion?
And
every one of them would fain have open pages given to him out of Heaven.
It
shall not be. They fear not the life to come.
It
shall not be. For this Koran is warning enough. And whoso will, it warneth him.
But
not unless God please, shall they be warned. Meet is He to be feared. Meet is
forgiveness in Him.