| | Sayyid Qutb rendition of Surah Defrauding, The Defrauders, The Cheats, Cheating(al-Mutaffifin)
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| 83:1 | | Woe to the stinters |
| 83:2 | | who, when others measure for them, exact in full, |
| 83:3 | | but who, when they measure or weigh for others, defraud them. |
| 83:4 | | Do such people not think that they will be raised to life |
| 83:5 | | on a great day, |
| 83:6 | | the day when all mankind shall stand before the Lord of all the worlds? |
| 83:7 | | No indeed! The record of the transgressors is in Sijjīn. |
| 83:8 | | Would that you knew what Sijjīn is! |
| 83:9 | | It is a record inscribed. |
| 83:10 | | Woe on that day to the unbelievers |
| 83:11 | | who deny the Day of Judgement. |
| 83:12 | | None denies it but the guilty aggressors, the evildoers, |
| 83:13 | | who, when Our revelations are recited to them, cry: 'Fables of the ancients!' |
| 83:14 | | No indeed! Their own deeds have cast a layer of rust over their hearts. |
| 83:15 | | No indeed! On that day they shall be shut out from their Lord. |
| 83:16 | | They shall enter the blazing fire, |
| 83:17 | | and will be told: 'This is [the reality] which you denied!' |
| 83:18 | | But the record of the righteous is in `Illiyūn. |
| 83:19 | | Would that you knew what `Illiyūn is! |
| 83:20 | | It is a record inscribed, |
| 83:21 | | witnessed by those who are closest to God. |
| 83:22 | | The righteous will surely be in bliss. |
| 83:23 | | [Reclining] on couches, they will look around them. |
| 83:24 | | In their faces you shall mark the glow of bliss. |
| 83:25 | | They will be given to drink of a pure-drink, securely sealed, |
| 83:26 | | with a seal of musk, for this let the strivers emulously strive. |
| 83:27 | | It is a drink mixed with the waters of Tasnīm, |
| 83:28 | | a fountain at which those who are closest to God will drink. |
| 83:29 | | Those who are given to sinful practices scoff at the faithful |
| 83:30 | | and wink at one another as they pass by them. |
| 83:31 | | When they go back to their folk they speak of them with jests, |
| 83:32 | | and when they see them they say: 'These have indeed gone astray!' |
| 83:33 | | Yet they have not been assigned the mission of being their guardians. |
| 83:34 | | So on this Day [of Judgement] the faithful will laugh at the unbelievers, |
| 83:35 | | as they recline upon their couches and look around them. |
| 83:36 | | Shall the unbelievers be requited for what they were wont to do? |
