يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمُدَّثِّرُ ١
yāayyuhā l-mudathiru
1. O you who covers himself [with a garment],1788
Notes
[1788] Referring to the Prophet (ﷺ).
Surah Al-Muddaththir transliteration
سورة المدثر
Here is Surah Al-Muddaththir (“The Cloaked One”) in transliteration: each of its 56 verses in Arabic, then in Latin letters (one Latin word for each Arabic word) and translated into English. Start the recitation: each word lights up as it is pronounced.
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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
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
قُمْ فَأَنذِرْ ٢
qum fa-andhir
2. Arise and warn
وَرَبَّكَ فَكَبِّرْ ٣
warabbaka fakabbir
3. And your Lord glorify
وَثِيَابَكَ فَطَهِّرْ ٤
wathiyābaka faṭahhir
4. And your clothing purify
وَٱلرُّجْزَ فَٱهْجُرْ ٥
wal-ruj'za fa-uh'jur
5. And uncleanliness1789 avoid
Notes
[1789] Specifically, idols or generally, bad conduct and morals.
وَلَا تَمْنُن تَسْتَكْثِرُ ٦
walā tamnun tastakthiru
6. And do not confer favor to acquire more1790
Notes
[1790] An alternative meaning is "Do not consider any favor you have conferred to be great."
وَلِرَبِّكَ فَٱصْبِرْ ٧
walirabbika fa-iṣ'bir
7. But for your Lord be patient.
فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِى ٱلنَّاقُورِ ٨
fa-idhā nuqira fī l-nāqūri
8. And when the trumpet is blown,
فَذَٰلِكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَوْمٌ عَسِيرٌ ٩
fadhālika yawma-idhin yawmun ʿasīrun
9. That Day will be a difficult day
عَلَى ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ غَيْرُ يَسِيرٍ ١٠
ʿalā l-kāfirīna ghayru yasīrin
10. For the disbelievers - not easy.
ذَرْنِى وَمَنْ خَلَقْتُ وَحِيدًا ١١
dharnī waman khalaqtu waḥīdan
11. Leave Me with the one I created alone1791
Notes
[1791] i.e., without wealth or children. The reference is to al-Waleed bin al-Mugheerah, who after inclining toward the Qur’ān, denied it publicly in order to win the approval of the Quraysh.
وَجَعَلْتُ لَهُۥ مَالًا مَّمْدُودًا ١٢
wajaʿaltu lahu mālan mamdūdan
12. And to whom I granted extensive wealth
وَبَنِينَ شُهُودًا ١٣
wabanīna shuhūdan
13. And children present [with him]
وَمَهَّدتُّ لَهُۥ تَمْهِيدًا ١٤
wamahhadttu lahu tamhīdan
14. And spread [everything] before him, easing [his life].
ثُمَّ يَطْمَعُ أَنْ أَزِيدَ ١٥
thumma yaṭmaʿu an azīda
15. Then he desires that I should add more.
كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ لِـَٔايَٰتِنَا عَنِيدًا ١٦
kallā innahu kāna liāyātinā ʿanīdan
16. No! Indeed, he has been toward Our verses obstinate.
سَأُرْهِقُهُۥ صَعُودًا ١٧
sa-ur'hiquhu ṣaʿūdan
17. I will cover him with arduous torment.
إِنَّهُۥ فَكَّرَ وَقَدَّرَ ١٨
innahu fakkara waqaddara
18. Indeed, he thought and deliberated.1792
Notes
[1792] About what he would say concerning the Qur’ān and how he might discredit the Prophet (ﷺ).
فَقُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ ١٩
faqutila kayfa qaddara
19. So may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.
ثُمَّ قُتِلَ كَيْفَ قَدَّرَ ٢٠
thumma qutila kayfa qaddara
20. Then may he be destroyed [for] how he deliberated.
ثُمَّ نَظَرَ ٢١
thumma naẓara
21. Then he considered [again];
ثُمَّ عَبَسَ وَبَسَرَ ٢٢
thumma ʿabasa wabasara
22. Then he frowned and scowled;
ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ وَٱسْتَكْبَرَ ٢٣
thumma adbara wa-is'takbara
23. Then he turned back and was arrogant
فَقَالَ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا سِحْرٌ يُؤْثَرُ ٢٤
faqāla in hādhā illā siḥ'run yu'tharu
24. And said, "This is not but magic imitated [from others].
إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا قَوْلُ ٱلْبَشَرِ ٢٥
in hādhā illā qawlu l-bashari
25. This is not but the word of a human being."
سَأُصْلِيهِ سَقَرَ ٢٦
sa-uṣ'līhi saqara
26. I will drive him into Saqar.1793
Notes
[1793] One of the proper names of Hell.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سَقَرُ ٢٧
wamā adrāka mā saqaru
27. And what can make you know what is Saqar?
لَا تُبْقِى وَلَا تَذَرُ ٢٨
lā tub'qī walā tadharu
28. It lets nothing remain and leaves nothing [unburned],
لَوَّاحَةٌ لِّلْبَشَرِ ٢٩
lawwāḥatun lil'bashari
29. Altering [i.e., blackening] the skins.
عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ ٣٠
ʿalayhā tis'ʿata ʿashara
30. Over it are nineteen [angels].
وَمَا جَعَلْنَآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ إِلَّا مَلَٰٓئِكَةً وَمَا جَعَلْنَا عِدَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا فِتْنَةً لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لِيَسْتَيْقِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَيَزْدَادَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ إِيمَٰنًا وَلَا يَرْتَابَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَلِيَقُولَ ٱلَّذِينَ فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ وَٱلْكَٰفِرُونَ مَاذَآ أَرَادَ ٱللَّهُ بِهَٰذَا مَثَلًا كَذَٰلِكَ يُضِلُّ ٱللَّهُ مَن يَشَآءُ وَيَهْدِى مَن يَشَآءُ وَمَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَمَا هِىَ إِلَّا ذِكْرَىٰ لِلْبَشَرِ ٣١
wamā jaʿalnā aṣḥāba l-nāri illā malāikatan wamā jaʿalnā ʿiddatahum illā fit'natan lilladhīna kafarū liyastayqina alladhīna ūtū l-kitāba wayazdāda alladhīna āmanū īmānan walā yartāba alladhīna ūtū l-kitāba wal-mu'minūna waliyaqūla alladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun wal-kāfirūna mādhā arāda l-lahu bihādhā mathalan kadhālika yuḍillu l-lahu man yashāu wayahdī man yashāu wamā yaʿlamu junūda rabbika illā huwa wamā hiya illā dhik'rā lil'bashari
31. And We have not made the keepers of the Fire except angels. And We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disbelieve - that those who were given the Scripture will be convinced and those who have believed will increase in faith and those who were given the Scripture and the believers will not doubt and that those in whose hearts is disease [i.e., hypocrisy] and the disbelievers will say, "What does Allāh intend by this as an example?" Thus does Allāh send astray whom He wills and guide whom He wills. And none knows the soldiers of your Lord except Him. And it [i.e., mention of the Fire] is not but a reminder to humanity.
كَلَّا وَٱلْقَمَرِ ٣٢
kallā wal-qamari
32. No! By the moon
وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ ٣٣
wa-al-layli idh adbara
33. And [by] the night when it departs
وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ ٣٤
wal-ṣub'ḥi idhā asfara
34. And [by] the morning when it brightens,
إِنَّهَا لَإِحْدَى ٱلْكُبَرِ ٣٥
innahā la-iḥ'dā l-kubari
35. Indeed, it [i.e., the Fire] is of the greatest [afflictions]
نَذِيرًا لِّلْبَشَرِ ٣٦
nadhīran lil'bashari
36. As a warning to humanity -
لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَتَقَدَّمَ أَوْ يَتَأَخَّرَ ٣٧
liman shāa minkum an yataqaddama aw yata-akhara
37. To whoever wills among you to proceed1794 or stay behind.
Notes
[1794] To righteousness by acceptance of the warning.
كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ ٣٨
kullu nafsin bimā kasabat rahīnatun
38. Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained1795
Notes
[1795] i.e., subject or held responsible.
إِلَّآ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلْيَمِينِ ٣٩
illā aṣḥāba l-yamīni
39. Except the companions of the right,1796.
Notes
[1796] i.e., the righteous who receive their records in their right hands.
فِى جَنَّٰتٍ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ ٤٠
fī jannātin yatasāalūna
40. [Who will be] in gardens, questioning each other
عَنِ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ ٤١
ʿani l-muj'rimīna
41. About the criminals,
مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِى سَقَرَ ٤٢
mā salakakum fī saqara
42. [And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?"
قَالُوا۟ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ ٤٣
qālū lam naku mina l-muṣalīna
43. They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,
وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ ٱلْمِسْكِينَ ٤٤
walam naku nuṭ'ʿimu l-mis'kīna
44. Nor did we used to feed the poor.
وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ ٱلْخَآئِضِينَ ٤٥
wakunnā nakhūḍu maʿa l-khāiḍīna
45. And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who engaged [in it],
وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ ٤٦
wakunnā nukadhibu biyawmi l-dīni
46. And we used to deny the Day of Recompense
حَتَّىٰٓ أَتَىٰنَا ٱلْيَقِينُ ٤٧
ḥattā atānā l-yaqīnu
47. Until there came to us the certainty [i.e., death]."
فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ شَفَٰعَةُ ٱلشَّٰفِعِينَ ٤٨
famā tanfaʿuhum shafāʿatu l-shāfiʿīna
48. So there will not benefit them the intercession of [any] intercessors.
فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلتَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ ٤٩
famā lahum ʿani l-tadhkirati muʿ'riḍīna
49. Then what is [the matter] with them that they are, from the reminder, turning away
كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌ ٥٠
ka-annahum ḥumurun mus'tanfiratun
50. As if they were alarmed donkeys
فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍۭ ٥١
farrat min qaswaratin
51. Fleeing from a lion?
بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًا مُّنَشَّرَةً ٥٢
bal yurīdu kullu im'ri-in min'hum an yu'tā ṣuḥufan munasharatan
52. Rather, every person among them desires that he1797 would be given scriptures spread about.1798
Notes
[1797] Instead of Muḥammad (ﷺ).
[1798] i.e., made public. Much of their refusal of his message was due to envy and jealousy of the Prophet (ﷺ).
كَلَّا بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةَ ٥٣
kallā bal lā yakhāfūna l-ākhirata
53. No! But they do not fear the Hereafter.
كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ تَذْكِرَةٌ ٥٤
kallā innahu tadhkiratun
54. No! Indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is a reminder
فَمَن شَآءَ ذَكَرَهُۥ ٥٥
faman shāa dhakarahu
55. Then whoever wills will remember it.
وَمَا يَذْكُرُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ هُوَ أَهْلُ ٱلتَّقْوَىٰ وَأَهْلُ ٱلْمَغْفِرَةِ ٥٦
wamā yadhkurūna illā an yashāa l-lahu huwa ahlu l-taqwā wa-ahlu l-maghfirati
56. And they will not remember except that Allāh wills. He is worthy of fear and adequate for [granting] forgiveness.
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