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Ayah 1

O you who is covered with his clothes (this refers to the Prophet (peace be upon him)

Ayah 2

Arise and warn of Allah’s punishment.

Ayah 3

Declare the greatness of your Lord.

Ayah 4

Purify yourself from sins and your clothes from impurities.

Ayah 5

Keep away from the worship of idols.

Ayah 6

Do not think that you have done a favour to your Lord by regarding your righteous actions to be plenty.

Ayah 7

Be patient for Allah’s sake over the harm that you incur.

Ayah 8

When the trumpet will be blown a second time.

Ayah 9

That day will be a severe day.

Ayah 10

For those who reject Allah and His messengers it will not be easy.

Ayah 11

Leave me, O Messenger, and the one whom I created alone in the womb of his mother without wealth or children (This refers to Walid bin Al Mughira).

Ayah 12

I gave him plenty wealth.

Ayah 13

I gave him children who were present with him, who attended gatherings with him and who did not leave him on account of travel due to the abundance of his wealth.

Ayah 14

I extended to him his livelihood, provision and children profusely.

Ayah 15

Then despite his denial of Me he desires that I give him more after I gave him all of that.

Ayah 16

The matter is not as he thinks. He was opposed to My verses that I revealed to My messenger denying them.

Ayah 17

I will impose on him difficulty from a punishment that he will not be able to bear.

Ayah 18

This disbeliever whom I bestowed with those favours thought about what he should say in order to refute the Qur’ān, and planned this within himself.

Ayah 19

So may he be cursed and punished. How did he plan!

Ayah 20

Again, may he be cursed and punished. How did he plan!

Ayah 21

Then he reconsidered and carefully thought about what he should say.

Ayah 22

The he frowned and scowled when he did not find anything to challenge the Qur’ān with.

Ayah 23

Then he turned away from faith and was too proud to follow the Prophet (peace be upon him).

Ayah 24

He said: This what Muhammad brought is not Allah’s speech, but it is sorcery that he relates from others.

Ayah 25

This is not Allah’s speech, but it is the speech of man.

Ayah 26

I will enter this disbeliever into one of the levels of the Fire, which is Saqar, to suffer from its heat.

Ayah 27

What will tell you, O Muhammad, what Saqar is?!

Ayah 28

It does not spare any person that is punished in it except that it comes on him and does not leave him. Then he returns to how it was and it comes to him, again and again.

Ayah 29

It severely burns and alters skins.

Ayah 30

There are nineteen angels over it who are its wardens.

Ayah 31

I did not make the wardens of the Fire except angels, so humans do not have the power to face them. Abu Jahl was lying when he and his people claimed that they have the ability to attack them and then they will come out of the Fire. I did not make this number of theirs except to test those who reject Allah, so that the Jews who were given the Torah and the Christians who were given the Gospel will become certain when the Qur’ān that confirms what is in their scriptures is revealed, so that the faith of the believers increases when the people of the scripture agree with them and the Jews, Christians and the believers do not have any doubt, and so that those who waver in faith and those who are disbelievers say: What does Allah intend by this strange number?! Just as those who deny this number are misguided and those who accept it are guided, Allah misguides whoever He wishes to misguide and He guides whoever He wishes to guide. No one knows the forces of your Lord, because of their huge number, besides Him, may He be glorified. So let Abu Jahl who, mockingly and dismissively, said, “Does Muhammad only have nineteen aides?!” know this. The Fire is only a reminder for human beings, through which they can come to know of Allah’s greatness, may He be glorified.

Ayah 32

The statement is not as claimed by some idolaters that he will suffice his companions against the wardens of Hell and take them out of it. Allah took an oath by the moon.

Ayah 33

He took an oath by the night when it departs.

Ayah 34

He took an oath by the morning when it lights up.

Ayah 35

The fire of Hell is one the great calamities.

Ayah 36

In order to strike terror and fear in people.

Ayah 37

Whoever from amongst you, O people, wishes to go forward with faith in Allah and righteous actions, or to lag behind by disbelief and sins.

Ayah 38

Every soul will be taken to task for the actions that it did. Either its actions will destroy it or they will release and rescue it from destruction.

Ayah 39

Except for the believers, who wont be taken to task for their sins. Instead, these will be overlooked because of their righteous actions.

Ayah 40

On the Day of Judgement, they will be in gardens asking one another.

Ayah 41

About the disbelievers who destroyed themselves by the sins they committed.

Ayah 42

They will say to them: What entered you into Hell?

Ayah 43

The disbelievers will answer them saying: We were not of those who discharged the obligatory prayer in the worldly life.

Ayah 44

We did not feed the poor from what Allah gave us.

Ayah 45

We used to be with the people of falsehood and go wherever they go. We used to speak to the people of misguidance and deviation.

Ayah 46

We used to deny the day of recompense.

Ayah 47

We persisted in this denial until death came to us and prevented us from repenting.

Ayah 48

On the Day of Judgment, the mediation of intercessors from the angels, prophets and pious ones, will not benefit them, because the requirement for the acceptance of intercession is that the thing for which intercession is made must be approved.

Ayah 49

What has made these idolaters turn away from the Qur’ān?!

Ayah 50

As if they, in their turning away from and aversion to it, are wild donkeys that are extremely resistant.

Ayah 51

That have fled from a lion out of fear for it.

Ayah 52

Instead, each one of these idolaters wants for there to be an open book by his head side that tells him that Muhammad is a messenger from Allah. The reason for this is not the lack of proof or weakness of evidence. It is only obstinacy and pride.

Ayah 53

The matter is not like that. In fact, the reason for their persistence in their misguidance is that they do not have faith in the punishment of the afterlife, so they remained in their disbelief.

Ayah 54

Indeed, this Qur’ān is an admonition and a reminder.

Ayah 55

Whoever wishes to read the Qur’ān and take lesson from it does so.

Ayah 56

None takes lesson from it besides those whom Allah wills to take lesson. He (may He be glorified) is worthy of being mindful of by the fulfilment of His instructions and the avoidance of His prohibitions. He is worthy of forgiving the sins of His servants when they repent to Him.

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