And We have not made their number except as a trial for...
And We have not made their number except as a trial for those who disbelieve - that those who were given the Scripture will be convinced and those who have believed will increase in faith and those who were given the Scripture and the believers will not doubt and that those in whose hearts is disease [i.e., hypocrisy] and the disbelievers will say, "What does Allāh intend by this as an example?" Thus does Allāh send astray whom He wills and guide whom He wills. And none knows the soldiers of your Lord except Him. And it [i.e., mention of the Fire] is not but a reminder to humanity. — And [by] the night when it departs. 74:34 وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ
●And [by] the morning when it brightens,
74:35 إِنَّهَا لَإِحْدَى ٱلْكُبَرِ
— Indeed, it [i.e., the Fire] is of the greatest [afflictions]. 74:37 لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَتَقَدَّمَ أَوْ يَتَأَخَّرَ
●To whoever wills among you to proceed 1 or stay behind. 74:38 كُلُّ نَفْسٍۭ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ رَهِينَةٌ
— Every soul, for what it has earned, will be retained 1 . 74:39 إِلَّآ أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلْيَمِينِ
— Except the companions of the right, 1 . 74:40 فِى جَنَّـٰتٍ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ
●[Who will be] in gardens, questioning each other
74:42 مَا سَلَكَكُمْ فِى سَقَرَ
●[And asking them], "What put you into Saqar?"
74:43 قَالُوا۟ لَمْ نَكُ مِنَ ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ
●They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,
74:44 وَلَمْ نَكُ نُطْعِمُ ٱلْمِسْكِينَ
— Nor did we used to feed the poor. 74:45 وَكُنَّا نَخُوضُ مَعَ ٱلْخَآئِضِينَ
●And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who engaged [in it],
74:46 وَكُنَّا نُكَذِّبُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ
●And we used to deny the Day of Recompense
74:47 حَتَّىٰٓ أَتَىٰنَا ٱلْيَقِينُ
●Until there came to us the certainty [i.e., death]."
74:48 فَمَا تَنفَعُهُمْ شَفَـٰعَةُ ٱلشَّـٰفِعِينَ
— So there will not benefit them the intercession of [any] intercessors. 74:49 فَمَا لَهُمْ عَنِ ٱلتَّذْكِرَةِ مُعْرِضِينَ
— Then what is [the matter] with them that they are, from the reminder, turning away. 74:50 كَأَنَّهُمْ حُمُرٌ مُّسْتَنفِرَةٌ
— As if they were alarmed donkeys. 74:52 بَلْ يُرِيدُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُؤْتَىٰ صُحُفًا مُّنَشَّرَةً
●Rather, every person among them desires that he 1 would be given scriptures spread about. 2
74:53 كَلَّا ۖ بَل لَّا يَخَافُونَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةَ
— No! But they do not fear the Hereafter. 74:54 كَلَّآ إِنَّهُۥ تَذْكِرَةٌ
●No! Indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is a reminder. — Then whoever wills will remember it.
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