| | T.B.Irving rendition of Surah Defrauding, The Defrauders, The Cheats, Cheating(al-Mutaffifin)
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| 83:1 | | It will be too bad for cheats |
| 83:2 | | who insist on receiving everything when they have people measure something out for them; |
| 83:3 | | yet whenever they measure or weigh things for others, they give (them) less than their due. |
| 83:4 | | Do not such persons suppose they will be raised up again |
| 83:5 | | [to render accounts] on a tremendous day, |
| 83:6 | | a day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the Universe? |
| 83:7 | | Indeed not, the loose-livers´ book will be [kept] in a vault. |
| 83:8 | | What will make you realize what such a dungeon is like? |
| 83:9 | | An annotated book! |
| 83:10 | | It will be too bad for rejectors on that day, |
| 83:11 | | those who deny the Day for Repayment! |
| 83:12 | | Each vicious transgressor will plainly reject it; |
| 83:13 | | when Our signs are recited to him, he will say: "[These are] legends by primitive men!" |
| 83:14 | | Of course not; rather whatever they used to do lies like rust on their hearts. |
| 83:15 | | Indeed they will be screened off from their Lord on that day; |
| 83:16 | | next they will roast in Hades. |
| 83:17 | | Then someone will say: "This is what you have been rejecting." |
| 83:18 | | Of course the book for the virtuous will rest in the Highest [Heavens]. |
| 83:19 | | What will make you realize what the Highest [Heavens] are? |
| 83:20 | | An annotated book |
| 83:21 | | which those closest [to God] will bear witness to. |
| 83:22 | | The virtuous will [dwell] in Bliss, |
| 83:23 | | on couches watching. |
| 83:24 | | You will recognize a blissful splendor on their faces. |
| 83:25 | | They will be offered a scaled potion to drink |
| 83:26 | | whose seal will be musk. For that let rivals compete! |
| 83:27 | | It will be blended with a beverage |
| 83:28 | | from a spring where those close [to God] will drink. |
| 83:29 | | Those who commit crimes used to laugh at those who believe. |
| 83:30 | | Whenever they pass by them, they nod to one another. |
| 83:31 | | Then when they go back to their own people, they return exultant. |
| 83:32 | | Whenever they see them, they say: "Those (men) are far astray!" |
| 83:33 | | They have not been sent as overseers (to be) set up over them, |
| 83:34 | | so today those who believe will laugh at disbelievers, |
| 83:35 | | from couches where they [lie] watching. |
| 83:36 | | Are not disbelievers being compensated for just what they have been doing? |
