Surah “Defrauding, The Defrauders, The Cheats, Cheating”

as rendered by Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali — 36 verses

83:1
Woe to the stinters
83:2
Who, when they measure against mankind, (i.e., when they take from others) take full (measure)
83:3
And when they measure for them or weigh for them, (i.e., when they give to others) they cause them loss
83:4
Do those not expect that they will be made to rise again
83:5
To a tremendous Day
83:6
The Day when mankind will rise up before The Lord of the worlds
83:7
Not at all! Surely the Book of the constantly impious is indeed in Sijjin
83:8
And what makes you realize what Sijjin is
83:9
(It is) a Book imprinted
83:10
Woe upon that Day to the beliers
83:11
Who cry lies to the Day of Doom
83:12
And in no way does anyone cry lies to it except every constantly vicious transgressor
83:13
When Our ayat (Verses, signs) are recited to him, he says, "Myths of the earliest (people)!"
83:14
Not at all! No indeed, (but) whatever they were earning has overlaid on their hearts
83:15
Not at all! Surely upon that Day they will indeed be curtained from their Lord
83:16
Thereafter surely they will indeed be roasting in Hell-Fire
83:17
Thereafter it will be said (to them), "This is what you cried lies to."
83:18
Not at all! Surely the Book of the constantly-benign is indeed in cIlliyyin (i.e., the most exalted places
83:19
And what makes you realize what cIlliyyin is
83:20
(It is) a Book imprinted
83:21
The near-stationed (i.e., the Angels stationed near to Allah) witness it
83:22
Surely the constantly-benign will indeed be in Bliss
83:23
On couches looking (about)
83:24
You recognize in their faces the bloom of Bliss
83:25
They will be given to drink of sealed nectar
83:26
Whose sealing is musk; for this then let the competitors compete
83:27
And whose blend is of Tasnim
83:28
A spring at which drink the near-stationed (i.e., the Angles stationed near Allah)
83:29
Surely the ones who are (guilty of) crimes used to laugh at the ones who believed
83:30
And when they passed by them (they used) to wink one to another
83:31
And when they turned over (to their families), they turned over jesting
83:32
And when they saw them, they said, "Surely these (people) are indeed erring."
83:33
And in no way were they sent preservers over them
83:34
So Today the ones who believed are laughing at the steadfast disbelievers
83:35
On couches, looking (down upon them)
83:36
Have the steadfast disbelievers been requited for what they were performing