Al-Mutaffifin

WOE UNTO THOSE who give short measure:

those who, when they are to receive their due from [other] people, demand that it be given in full –

but when they have to measure or weigh whatever they owe to others, give less than what is due!

Do they not know that they are bound to be raised from the dead

[and called to account] on an awesome Day –

the Day when all men shall stand before the Sustainer of all the worlds?

NAY, VERILY, the record of the wicked is indeed [set down] in a mode inescapable!

And what could make thee conceive what that that mode inescapable will be?

A record [indelibly] inscribed!

Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth –

those who give the lie to the [coming of] Judgment Day:

for, none gives the lie to it but such as are wont to transgress against all that is [and are] immersed in sin:

[and so,] whenever Our messages are conveyed to them, they but say, "Fables of ancient times!"

Nay, but their hearts are corroded by all [the evil] that they were wont to do!

Nay, verily, from [the grace of] their Sustainer shall they on that Day be debarred;