وَيْلٌ لِّلْمُطَفِّفِينَ ١
1. Woe to those who give less [than due],1878
Notes
[1878] i.e., those who cheat people by giving them less than what they paid for when weighing or measuring - an amount so little as to hardly be noticed.
Memorize Surah Al-Mutaffifin
سورة المطففين
Surah Al-Mutaffifin has 36 verses on 3 pages of the Madinah mushaf (pages 587 to 589), in juz 30. It splits into 3 portions, one per page: learn one, recite it without help, then move on to the next while linking it to the previous one.
Memorization plan for Surah Al-Mutaffifin
3 portions, one per page of the Madinah mushaf. Tap a portion to practise it; its status stays in this browser.
At one page a day, allow 3 days; at half a page a day, 6 days, with reviews in every session.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ٱكْتَالُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ يَسْتَوْفُونَ ٢
2. Who, when they take a measure from people, take in full.
وَإِذَا كَالُوهُمْ أَو وَّزَنُوهُمْ يُخْسِرُونَ ٣
3. But if they give by measure or by weight to them, they cause loss.
أَلَا يَظُنُّ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَنَّهُم مَّبْعُوثُونَ ٤
4. Do they not think that they will be resurrected
لِيَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ ٥
5. For a tremendous Day -
يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلنَّاسُ لِرَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ٦
6. The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds?
كَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَٰبَ ٱلْفُجَّارِ لَفِى سِجِّينٍ ٧
7. No! Indeed, the record of the wicked is in sijjeen.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ ٨
8. And what can make you know what is sijjeen?
كِتَٰبٌ مَّرْقُومٌ ٩
9. It is [their destination1879 recorded in] a register inscribed.
Notes
[1879] The lowest depths of Hell.
وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ ١٠
10. Woe, that Day, to the deniers,
ٱلَّذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ ١١
11. Who deny the Day of Recompense.
وَمَا يُكَذِّبُ بِهِۦٓ إِلَّا كُلُّ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ ١٢
12. And none deny it except every sinful transgressor.
إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ١٣
13. When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."
كَلَّا بَلْ رَانَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ ١٤
14. No! Rather, the stain has covered their hearts of that which they were earning.1880
Notes
[1880] i.e., their sins.
كَلَّآ إِنَّهُمْ عَن رَّبِّهِمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَّمَحْجُوبُونَ ١٥
15. No! Indeed, from their Lord, that Day, they will be partitioned.1881
Notes
[1881] i.e., they will not be able to see Him.
ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ لَصَالُوا۟ ٱلْجَحِيمِ ١٦
16. Then indeed, they will [enter and] burn in Hellfire.
ثُمَّ يُقَالُ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ ١٧
17. Then it will be said [to them], "This is what you used to deny."
كَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَٰبَ ٱلْأَبْرَارِ لَفِى عِلِّيِّينَ ١٨
18. No! Indeed, the record of the righteous is in ʿilliyyūn.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ ١٩
19. And what can make you know what is ʿilliyyūn?
كِتَٰبٌ مَّرْقُومٌ ٢٠
20. It is [their destination1882 recorded in] a register inscribed
Notes
[1882] The highest elevations of Paradise.
يَشْهَدُهُ ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ ٢١
21. Which is witnessed by those brought near [to Allāh].
إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ لَفِى نَعِيمٍ ٢٢
22. Indeed, the righteous will be in pleasure
عَلَى ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ يَنظُرُونَ ٢٣
23. On adorned couches, observing.
تَعْرِفُ فِى وُجُوهِهِمْ نَضْرَةَ ٱلنَّعِيمِ ٢٤
24. You will recognize in their faces the radiance of pleasure.
يُسْقَوْنَ مِن رَّحِيقٍ مَّخْتُومٍ ٢٥
25. They will be given to drink [pure] wine1883 [which was] sealed.
Notes
[1883] Which is delicious and does not intoxicate.
خِتَٰمُهُۥ مِسْكٌ وَفِى ذَٰلِكَ فَلْيَتَنَافَسِ ٱلْمُتَنَٰفِسُونَ ٢٦
26. The last of it1884 is musk. So for this let the competitors compete.
Notes
[1884] i.e., its lingering odor.
وَمِزَاجُهُۥ مِن تَسْنِيمٍ ٢٧
27. And its mixture is of Tasneem,1885
Notes
[1885] The highest spring in Paradise and the most favored drink of its inhabitants.
عَيْنًا يَشْرَبُ بِهَا ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ ٢٨
28. A spring from which those near [to Allāh] drink.
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ أَجْرَمُوا۟ كَانُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ يَضْحَكُونَ ٢٩
29. Indeed, those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed.
وَإِذَا مَرُّوا۟ بِهِمْ يَتَغَامَزُونَ ٣٠
30. And when they passed by them, they would exchange derisive glances.
وَإِذَا ٱنقَلَبُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِمُ ٱنقَلَبُوا۟ فَكِهِينَ ٣١
31. And when they returned to their people, they would return jesting.
وَإِذَا رَأَوْهُمْ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ لَضَآلُّونَ ٣٢
32. And when they saw them, they would say, "Indeed, those are truly lost."
وَمَآ أُرْسِلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ حَٰفِظِينَ ٣٣
33. But they had not been sent as guardians over them.
فَٱلْيَوْمَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلْكُفَّارِ يَضْحَكُونَ ٣٤
34. So Today1886 those who believed are laughing at the disbelievers,
Notes
[1886] On the Day of Judgement.
عَلَى ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ يَنظُرُونَ ٣٥
35. On adorned couches, observing.
هَلْ ثُوِّبَ ٱلْكُفَّارُ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْعَلُونَ ٣٦
36. Have the disbelievers [not] been rewarded [this Day] for what they used to do?
Verses not to confuse
9 verses of Surah Al-Mutaffifin resemble other verses of the Quran: a classic trap when reciting from memory. The closest ones:
-
Al-Mutaffifin 83:13
إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Al-Qalam 68:15إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
-
Al-Mutaffifin 83:22
إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ لَفِى نَعِيمٍ
Al-Infitar 82:13إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ لَفِى نَعِيمٍ
-
Al-Mutaffifin 83:17
ثُمَّ يُقَالُ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ
As-Sajdah 32:20وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ فَسَقُوا۟ فَمَأْوَىٰهُمُ ٱلنَّارُ كُلَّمَآ أَرَادُوٓا۟ أَن يَخْرُجُوا۟ مِنْهَآ أُعِيدُوا۟ فِيهَا وَقِيلَ لَهُمْ ذُوقُوا۟ عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ
-
Al-Mutaffifin 83:10
وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Al-Mursalat 77:40وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
Recite what follows from memory. Next verse:
Did you know it?
The method in five steps
- Read and listen
Read the portion while following a reciter, verse by verse, until you can say it without hesitation.
- Repeat
Repeat each verse several times with a pause to say it after the reciter, then join the verses together.
- Hide
Hide one word in three, then two in three, then keep only the first letters, and finally the whole text.
- Recite
Recite from memory: get tested on what follows a random verse, record yourself or recite to someone.
- Review
Come back to each portion the next day, then at longer and longer intervals, and review before learning something new.