Dialogue between the Righteous and the Al-Mujrimun (Disbelievers) in the Akhirah

Al-Muddaththir — Verses 38–53 | Explore this Quran theme on Muallim

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ ٣٨

Every person is a pledge for what he has earned,

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ
Every person
بِمَا كَسَبَتْ
for what he has earned
رَهِينَةٌ
is a pledge

إِلَّا أَصْحَابَ الْيَمِينِ ٣٩

Except those on the Right, (i.e. the pious true believers of Islamic Monotheism);

إِلَّا أَصْحَابَ الْيَمِينِ
Except those on the Right
those on the Right
the Right
(i.e.
the pious true believers
of Islamic Monotheism

فِي جَنَّاتٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ ٤٠

In Gardens (Paradise) they will ask one another,

فِي جَنَّاتٍ
In Gardens (Paradise)
يَتَسَاءَلُونَ
they will ask one another

عَنِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ ٤١

About Al-Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, disbelievers, etc.), (And they will say to them):

عَنِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ
About Al-Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, disbelievers, etc.)

مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِي سَقَرَ ٤٢

"What has caused you to enter Hell?"

مَا سَلَكَكُمْ
What has caused you
فِي سَقَرَ
to enter Hell?

قَالُوا لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ ٤٣

They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer their Salat (prayers)

قَالُوا
They will say:
لَمْ نَكُ
We were not
مِنَ الْمُصَلِّينَ
of those who used to offer their Salat (prayers)

وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ الْمِسْكِينَ ٤٤

"Nor we used to feed Al-Miskin (the poor);

وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ
Nor we used to feed
الْمِسْكِينَ
Al-Miskin (the poor)

وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ الْخَائِضِينَ ٤٥

"And we used to talk falsehood (all that which Allah hated) with vain talkers.

وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ
And we used to talk
مَعَ الْخَائِضِينَ
with vain talkers
talk falsehood with vain talkers
And we used to talk falsehood with vain talkers

وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ ٤٦

"And we used to belie the Day of Recompense

وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ
And we used to belie
بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ
the Day of Recompense

حَتَّىٰ أَتَانَا الْيَقِينُ ٤٧

"Until there came to us (the death) that is certain."

حَتَّىٰ
Until
أَتَانَا
there came to us
الْيَقِينُ
(the death) that is certain

فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ شَفَاعَةُ الشَّافِعِينَ ٤٨

So no intercession of intercessors will be of any use to them.

فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ
So no benefit to them
شَفَاعَةُ الشَّافِعِينَ
the intercession of intercessors

فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ التَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ ٤٩

Then what is wrong with them (i.e. the disbelievers) that they turn away from (receiving) admonition?

فَمَا لَهُمْ
Then what is wrong with them
عَنِ التَّذْكِرَةِ
from (receiving) admonition
مُعْرِضِينَ
(i.e. the disbelievers) that they turn away

كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌ ٥٠

As if they were frightened (wild) donkeys.

كَأَنَّهُمْ
As if they were
حُمُرٌ
wild donkeys
مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌ
frightened

فَرَّتْ مِن قَسْوَرَةٍ ٥١

Fleeing from a hunter, or a lion, or a beast of prey.

فَرَّتْ
Fleeing
مِن قَسْوَرَةٍ
from a hunter, or a lion, or a beast of prey

بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًا مُّنَشَّرَةً ٥٢

Nay, everyone of them desires that he should be given pages spread out (coming from Allah with a writing that Islam is the right religion, and Muhammad SAW has come with the truth from Allah the Lord of the heavens and earth, etc.).

بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ
Nay, everyone of them desires
أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًا مُّنَشَّرَةً
that he should be given pages spread out

كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ الْآخِرَةَ ٥٣

Nay! But they fear not the Hereafter (from Allah's punishment).

كَلَّا ۖ
Nay!
بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ
But they fear not
الْآخِرَةَ
the Hereafter (from Allah's punishment)