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Al-Muṭaffifīn · The Defrauding
سُورَةُ المطففين
About this chapter
Sūrat al-Muṭaffifīn is the eighty-third chapter of the Quran. The scholars regard it as the first surah to be revealed in Medina except for the last eight verses, which are regarded as Meccan. Apparently, it is the eighty-sixth chapter according to the chronological order of revelation, after Sūrat al-ʿAnkabūt (29) and before Sūrat al-Baqarah (2).
The introduction sets out when the chapter came and what it addresses; the merits gather what the narrations say of reading it. Both are written as units of the tafsir, with their own footnotes.
The verses
Each with the first line of its translation
Verses you have read are marked; the one you are on is shaded
- 1 Woe to the defrauders who use short measures.
- 2–3 Who, when they measure [a commodity bought] from the people, take the full measure,
- 4–6 Do they not know that they will be resurrected,
- 7 No indeed! The record of the vicious is indeed in sijjīn.
- 8 And what will show you what is sijjīn?
- 9 It is a written record.
- 10 Woe to the deniers on that day.
- 11 Who deny the Day of Retribution.
- 12 And none denies it except every sinful transgressor.
- 13 When Our signs are recited to him, he says: ‘Myths of the ancients!’
- 14 No indeed! Rather, their hearts have been sullied by what they have been earning.
- 15 No indeed! They will be alienated from their Lord on that day.
- 16–17 Then they will indeed enter hell,
- 18 No indeed! The record of the pious is indeed in ʿilliyyīn.
- 19 And what will show you what is ʿilliyyūn?
- 20 It is a written record.
- 21 Witnessed by the close ones.
- 22 Indeed the pious shall be amid bliss.
- 23 Observing, [as they recline] on couches.
- 24 You will perceive in their faces the freshness of bliss.
- 25–26 As they are served with a sealed wine,
- 27–28 And whose seasoning is from tasnīm,
- 29 Indeed the guilty used to laugh at the faithful.
- 30 And when they passed them by they would wink at each other.
- 31 And when they returned to their folks they would return rejoicing.
- 32–33 And when they saw them they would say: ‘Indeed those are the astray!’
- 34–35 So today the faithful will laugh at the faithless,
- 36 Have the faithless been requited for what they used to do?
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