74:1  O YOU ENFOLDED in your mantle (of reform)

74:2  Arise and warn

74:3  Glorify your Lord

74:4  Purify your inner self

74:5  And banish all trepidation

74:6  Do not bestow favours in expectation of return

74:7  And persevere in the way of your Lord

74:8  For when the trumpet blow

74:9  It will be a day of distress

74:10  Dolorous for the unbelievers

74:11  Leave him to Me whom I created alone

74:12  And gave him abundant wealt

74:13  And sons always present by his side

74:14  And made things easy for them

74:15  Yet he wants that I should give him more

74:16  Never. He is refractory of Our signs

74:17  I shall inflict on him hardship

74:18  For he had thought and calculated

74:19  May he be accursed, how he planned

74:20  May be then be accursed, how he plotted

74:21  Then he looked around

74:22  And frowned and puckered his brow

74:23  Then turned his back and waxed proud

74:24  And said: "This is nothing but the magic of old

74:25  Nothing more than the speech of a man!"

74:26  I will cast him into the fire of Hell

74:27  What do you think Hell-fire is

74:28  It leaves nothing, nor does it spare

74:29  It glows and burns the skin

74:30  Over it are nineteen (guards)

74:31  We have not appointed any one but angels as keepers of Hell, and their number that We have fixed is to make it a means of contention for disbelievers, so that those who were given the Book may be certain, and the faith of the believers may have greater increase, and the people of the Book and believers may not be deceived, and the sceptics and infidels may say: "What does God mean by this parable?" That is how God leads whosoever He will astray, and guides whosoever He will. None knows the armies of your Lord save Him self. This is no more than reminder for mankind

74:32  I say the truth, and call the moon to witness

74:33  And the night when on the wane

74:34  The morning when it is unveiled

74:35  That (Hell) is surely one of the greater (signs)

74:36  A warning for people -

74:37  Whoever of you desires to progress or lag behind

74:38  Every soul is pledged to what it does

74:39  Except those of the right han

74:40  Sitting in the gardens, askin

74:41  Of evil-doers

74:42  "What was it that brought you to Hell?"

74:43  They will answer: "We did not fulfil our devotional obligations

74:44  And did not feed the needy

74:45  And plunged into useless things with those who were obstinate

74:46  And rejected the Day of Judgement as a li

74:47  Until the certainty (of death) had come upon us

74:48  So, the intercession of intercessors will not avail them

74:49  Why then do they turn away from the admonitio

74:50  As though they were frightened asse

74:51  Fleeing from a lion

74:52  In fact every one of them wants to be given open books (like the prophets)

74:53  By no means. In fact they do not fear the Hereafter

74:54  Never so, as this is a reminder

74:55  Let him then who heeds remember it

74:56  But they will not remember except as God wills: He is worthy to be feared, and He is worthy of forgivin