Surah: 74. al-Muddathir

It burns away the flesh scorching the surface of skin.

Then he frowned he contracted his face and glowered anguished by what he wanted to say and scowled increasing the contracting and the glowering in his face.

Then he turned his back to faith in disdain scornful of following the Prophet s

and said of what he the Prophet had brought ‘This is nothing but handed-down sorcery learnt from sorcerers;

this is nothing but the speech of humans’ similar to what they the idolaters had said ‘It is only a human that is teaching him’ Q. 16103.

and facilitated extended for him greatly his livelihood duration of life and children.

Still he is eager that I should give him more.

Nay! I shall not give him more than that. He is indeed stubborn to Our signs to the Qur’ān.

Soon I shall burden him with a trying chastisement; alternatively sa‘ūdan means a mountain of fire which he will be made to ascend and then fall down from forever.

Indeed he pondered what to say about the Qur’ān which he heard from the Prophet s and decided this in his mind.