سورة المطففين
Here is Surah Al-Mutaffifin (“The Defrauding”) in transliteration: each of its 36 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
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
bis'mi l-lahi l-raḥmāni l-raḥīmi
وَيْلٌ لِّلْمُطَفِّفِينَ ١
waylun lil'muṭaffifīna
1. Woe to those who give less [than due],1878
[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.
ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ٱكْتَالُوا۟ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ يَسْتَوْفُونَ ٢
alladhīna idhā ik'tālū ʿalā l-nāsi yastawfūna
2. Who, when they take a measure from people, take in full.
وَإِذَا كَالُوهُمْ أَو وَّزَنُوهُمْ يُخْسِرُونَ ٣
wa-idhā kālūhum aw wazanūhum yukh'sirūna
3. But if they give by measure or by weight to them, they cause loss.
أَلَا يَظُنُّ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَنَّهُم مَّبْعُوثُونَ ٤
alā yaẓunnu ulāika annahum mabʿūthūna
4. Do they not think that they will be resurrected
لِيَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ ٥
liyawmin ʿaẓīmin
5. For a tremendous Day -
يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلنَّاسُ لِرَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ٦
yawma yaqūmu l-nāsu lirabbi l-ʿālamīna
6. The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the worlds?
كَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَٰبَ ٱلْفُجَّارِ لَفِى سِجِّينٍ ٧
kallā inna kitāba l-fujāri lafī sijjīnin
7. No! Indeed, the record of the wicked is in sijjeen.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ ٨
wamā adrāka mā sijjīnun
8. And what can make you know what is sijjeen?
كِتَٰبٌ مَّرْقُومٌ ٩
kitābun marqūmun
9. It is [their destination1879 recorded in] a register inscribed.
[1879] The lowest depths of Hell.
وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ ١٠
waylun yawma-idhin lil'mukadhibīna
10. Woe, that Day, to the deniers,
ٱلَّذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ ١١
alladhīna yukadhibūna biyawmi l-dīni
11. Who deny the Day of Recompense.
وَمَا يُكَذِّبُ بِهِۦٓ إِلَّا كُلُّ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ ١٢
wamā yukadhibu bihi illā kullu muʿ'tadin athīmin
12. And none deny it except every sinful transgressor.
إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ١٣
idhā tut'lā ʿalayhi āyātunā qāla asāṭīru l-awalīna
13. When Our verses are recited to him, he says, "Legends of the former peoples."
كَلَّا بَلْ رَانَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ ١٤
kallā bal rāna ʿalā qulūbihim mā kānū yaksibūna
14. No! Rather, the stain has covered their hearts of that which they were earning.1880
[1880] i.e., their sins.
كَلَّآ إِنَّهُمْ عَن رَّبِّهِمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَّمَحْجُوبُونَ ١٥
kallā innahum ʿan rabbihim yawma-idhin lamaḥjūbūna
15. No! Indeed, from their Lord, that Day, they will be partitioned.1881
[1881] i.e., they will not be able to see Him.
ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ لَصَالُوا۟ ٱلْجَحِيمِ ١٦
thumma innahum laṣālū l-jaḥīmi
16. Then indeed, they will [enter and] burn in Hellfire.
ثُمَّ يُقَالُ هَٰذَا ٱلَّذِى كُنتُم بِهِۦ تُكَذِّبُونَ ١٧
thumma yuqālu hādhā alladhī kuntum bihi tukadhibūna
17. Then it will be said [to them], "This is what you used to deny."
كَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَٰبَ ٱلْأَبْرَارِ لَفِى عِلِّيِّينَ ١٨
kallā inna kitāba l-abrāri lafī ʿilliyyīna
18. No! Indeed, the record of the righteous is in ʿilliyyūn.
وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ ١٩
wamā adrāka mā ʿilliyyūna
19. And what can make you know what is ʿilliyyūn?
كِتَٰبٌ مَّرْقُومٌ ٢٠
kitābun marqūmun
20. It is [their destination1882 recorded in] a register inscribed
[1882] The highest elevations of Paradise.
يَشْهَدُهُ ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ ٢١
yashhaduhu l-muqarabūna
21. Which is witnessed by those brought near [to Allāh].
إِنَّ ٱلْأَبْرَارَ لَفِى نَعِيمٍ ٢٢
inna l-abrāra lafī naʿīmin
22. Indeed, the righteous will be in pleasure
عَلَى ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ يَنظُرُونَ ٢٣
ʿalā l-arāiki yanẓurūna
23. On adorned couches, observing.
تَعْرِفُ فِى وُجُوهِهِمْ نَضْرَةَ ٱلنَّعِيمِ ٢٤
taʿrifu fī wujūhihim naḍrata l-naʿīmi
24. You will recognize in their faces the radiance of pleasure.
يُسْقَوْنَ مِن رَّحِيقٍ مَّخْتُومٍ ٢٥
yus'qawna min raḥīqin makhtūmin
25. They will be given to drink [pure] wine1883 [which was] sealed.
[1883] Which is delicious and does not intoxicate.
خِتَٰمُهُۥ مِسْكٌ وَفِى ذَٰلِكَ فَلْيَتَنَافَسِ ٱلْمُتَنَٰفِسُونَ ٢٦
khitāmuhu mis'kun wafī dhālika falyatanāfasi l-mutanāfisūna
26. The last of it1884 is musk. So for this let the competitors compete.
[1884] i.e., its lingering odor.
وَمِزَاجُهُۥ مِن تَسْنِيمٍ ٢٧
wamizājuhu min tasnīmin
27. And its mixture is of Tasneem,1885
[1885] The highest spring in Paradise and the most favored drink of its inhabitants.
عَيْنًا يَشْرَبُ بِهَا ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ ٢٨
ʿaynan yashrabu bihā l-muqarabūna
28. A spring from which those near [to Allāh] drink.
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ أَجْرَمُوا۟ كَانُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ يَضْحَكُونَ ٢٩
inna alladhīna ajramū kānū mina alladhīna āmanū yaḍḥakūna
29. Indeed, those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed.
وَإِذَا مَرُّوا۟ بِهِمْ يَتَغَامَزُونَ ٣٠
wa-idhā marrū bihim yataghāmazūna
30. And when they passed by them, they would exchange derisive glances.
وَإِذَا ٱنقَلَبُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِمُ ٱنقَلَبُوا۟ فَكِهِينَ ٣١
wa-idhā inqalabū ilā ahlihimu inqalabū fakihīna
31. And when they returned to their people, they would return jesting.
وَإِذَا رَأَوْهُمْ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ لَضَآلُّونَ ٣٢
wa-idhā ra-awhum qālū inna hāulāi laḍāllūna
32. And when they saw them, they would say, "Indeed, those are truly lost."
وَمَآ أُرْسِلُوا۟ عَلَيْهِمْ حَٰفِظِينَ ٣٣
wamā ur'silū ʿalayhim ḥāfiẓīna
33. But they had not been sent as guardians over them.
فَٱلْيَوْمَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ مِنَ ٱلْكُفَّارِ يَضْحَكُونَ ٣٤
fal-yawma alladhīna āmanū mina l-kufāri yaḍḥakūna
34. So Today1886 those who believed are laughing at the disbelievers,
[1886] On the Day of Judgement.
عَلَى ٱلْأَرَآئِكِ يَنظُرُونَ ٣٥
ʿalā l-arāiki yanẓurūna
35. On adorned couches, observing.
هَلْ ثُوِّبَ ٱلْكُفَّارُ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْعَلُونَ ٣٦
hal thuwwiba l-kufāru mā kānū yafʿalūna
36. Have the disbelievers [not] been rewarded [this Day] for what they used to do?
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