Defrauding, The Defrauders, The Cheats, Cheating — Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali Translation – Parallel Quran

1 Default in Duty

وَيْلٌ لِّلْمُطَفِّفِينَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Woe to the stinters

Waylun lilmutaffifeena

الَّذِينَ إِذَا اكْتَالُوا عَلَى النَّاسِ يَسْتَوْفُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Who, when they measure against mankind, (i.e., when they take from others) take full (measure)

Allatheena itha iktaloo AAala alnnasi yastawfoona

وَإِذَا كَالُوهُمْ أَو وَّزَنُوهُمْ يُخْسِرُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And when they measure for them or weigh for them, (i.e., when they give to others) they cause them loss

Wa-itha kaloohum aw wazanoohum yukhsiroona

أَلَا يَظُنُّ أُولَٰئِكَ أَنَّهُم مَّبْعُوثُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Do those not expect that they will be made to rise again

Ala yathunnu ola-ika annahum mabAAoothoona

لِيَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

To a tremendous Day

Liyawmin AAatheemin

يَوْمَ يَقُومُ النَّاسُ لِرَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

The Day when mankind will rise up before The Lord of the worlds

Yawma yaqoomu alnnasu lirabbi alAAalameena

كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Not at all! Surely the Book of the constantly impious is indeed in Sijjin

Kalla inna kitaba alfujjari lafee sijjeenin

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And what makes you realize what Sijjin is

Wama adraka ma sijjeenun

كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

(It is) a Book imprinted

Kitabun marqoomun

وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Woe upon that Day to the beliers

Waylun yawma-ithin lilmukaththibeena

الَّذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Who cry lies to the Day of Doom

Allatheena yukaththiboona biyawmi alddeeni

وَمَا يُكَذِّبُ بِهِ إِلَّا كُلُّ مُعْتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And in no way does anyone cry lies to it except every constantly vicious transgressor

Wama yukaththibu bihi illa kullu muAAtadin atheemin

إِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِ آيَاتُنَا قَالَ أَسَاطِيرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

When Our ayat (Verses, signs) are recited to him, he says, "Myths of the earliest (people)!"

Itha tutla AAalayhi ayatuna qala asateeru al-awwaleena

كَلَّا بَلْ رَانَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِم مَّا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Not at all! No indeed, (but) whatever they were earning has overlaid on their hearts

Kalla bal rana AAala quloobihim ma kanoo yaksiboona

كَلَّا إِنَّهُمْ عَن رَّبِّهِمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَّمَحْجُوبُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Not at all! Surely upon that Day they will indeed be curtained from their Lord

Kalla innahum AAan rabbihim yawma-ithin lamahjooboona

ثُمَّ إِنَّهُمْ لَصَالُو الْجَحِيمِ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Thereafter surely they will indeed be roasting in Hell-Fire

Thumma innahum lasaloo aljaheemi

ثُمَّ يُقَالُ هَٰذَا الَّذِي كُنتُم بِهِ تُكَذِّبُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Thereafter it will be said (to them), "This is what you cried lies to."

Thumma yuqalu hatha allathee kuntum bihi tukaththiboona

كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْأَبْرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Not at all! Surely the Book of the constantly-benign is indeed in cIlliyyin (i.e., the most exalted places

Kalla inna kitaba al-abrari lafee AAilliyyeena

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And what makes you realize what cIlliyyin is

Wama adraka ma AAilliyyoona

كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

(It is) a Book imprinted

Kitabun marqoomun

يَشْهَدُهُ الْمُقَرَّبُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

The near-stationed (i.e., the Angels stationed near to Allah) witness it

Yashhaduhu almuqarraboona

إِنَّ الْأَبْرَارَ لَفِي نَعِيمٍ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Surely the constantly-benign will indeed be in Bliss

Inna al-abrara lafee naAAeemin

عَلَى الْأَرَائِكِ يَنظُرُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

On couches looking (about)

AAala al-ara-iki yanthuroona

تَعْرِفُ فِي وُجُوهِهِمْ نَضْرَةَ النَّعِيمِ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

You recognize in their faces the bloom of Bliss

TaAArifu fee wujoohihim nadrata alnnaAAeemi

يُسْقَوْنَ مِن رَّحِيقٍ مَّخْتُومٍ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

They will be given to drink of sealed nectar

Yusqawna min raheeqin makhtoomin

خِتَامُهُ مِسْكٌ وَفِي ذَٰلِكَ فَلْيَتَنَافَسِ الْمُتَنَافِسُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Whose sealing is musk; for this then let the competitors compete

Khitamuhu miskun wafee thalika falyatanafasi almutanafisoona

وَمِزَاجُهُ مِن تَسْنِيمٍ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And whose blend is of Tasnim

Wamizajuhu min tasneemin

عَيْنًا يَشْرَبُ بِهَا الْمُقَرَّبُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

A spring at which drink the near-stationed (i.e., the Angles stationed near Allah)

AAaynan yashrabu biha almuqarraboona

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ أَجْرَمُوا كَانُوا مِنَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا يَضْحَكُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Surely the ones who are (guilty of) crimes used to laugh at the ones who believed

Inna allatheena ajramoo kanoo mina allatheena amanoo yadhakoona

وَإِذَا مَرُّوا بِهِمْ يَتَغَامَزُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And when they passed by them (they used) to wink one to another

Wa-itha marroo bihim yataghamazoona

وَإِذَا انقَلَبُوا إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهِمُ انقَلَبُوا فَكِهِينَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And when they turned over (to their families), they turned over jesting

Wa-itha inqalaboo ila ahlihimu inqalaboo fakiheena

وَإِذَا رَأَوْهُمْ قَالُوا إِنَّ هَٰؤُلَاءِ لَضَالُّونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And when they saw them, they said, "Surely these (people) are indeed erring."

Wa-itha raawhum qaloo inna haola-i ladalloona

وَمَا أُرْسِلُوا عَلَيْهِمْ حَافِظِينَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And in no way were they sent preservers over them

Wama orsiloo AAalayhim hafitheena

فَالْيَوْمَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنَ الْكُفَّارِ يَضْحَكُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

So Today the ones who believed are laughing at the steadfast disbelievers

Faalyawma allatheena amanoo mina alkuffari yadhakoona

عَلَى الْأَرَائِكِ يَنظُرُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

On couches, looking (down upon them)

AAala al-ara-iki yanthuroona

هَلْ ثُوِّبَ الْكُفَّارُ مَا كَانُوا يَفْعَلُونَ

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Have the steadfast disbelievers been requited for what they were performing

Hal thuwwiba alkuffaru ma kanoo yafAAaloona

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