وَمَآ أَدۡرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٞ
(83:8) And how would you know what the Record of the prison-house is?
كِتَٰبٞ مَّرۡقُومٞ
(83:9) It is a Book inscribed.
وَيۡلٞ يَوۡمَئِذٖ لِّلۡمُكَذِّبِينَ
(83:10) Woe, then, to those that give the lie,
ٱلَّذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِيَوۡمِ ٱلدِّينِ
(83:11) those that give the lie to the Day of Recompense.
وَمَا يُكَذِّبُ بِهِۦٓ إِلَّا كُلُّ مُعۡتَدٍ أَثِيمٍ
(83:12) Yet none gives the lie to it except the transgressor immersed in
sin;
sin;
إِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالَ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ
(83:13) who, when Our verses are recited to him,6 says: “Mere
tales of olden times!”
tales of olden times!”
كَلَّاۖ بَلۡۜ رَانَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِم مَّا كَانُواْ يَكۡسِبُونَ
(83:14) No indeed! The truth is that their hearts have become rusted on account
of their evil deeds.7
of their evil deeds.7
كَلَّآ إِنَّهُمۡ عَن رَّبِّهِمۡ يَوۡمَئِذٖ لَّمَحۡجُوبُونَ
(83:15) No indeed! On that Day they will be screened off from seeing their
Lord,8
Lord,8