لِمِثْلِ هَذَا فَلْيَعْمَلْ الْعَامِلُونَ
For the like of this let the workers [on earth] work.
Surat ini menegaskan keesaan dan kekuasaan mutlak Allah melalui sumpah para malaikat serta penciptaan alam semesta. Pesan intinya memperingatkan manusia agar tidak meniru kesombongan kaum musyrik yang mengingkari kebenaran dan hari kebangkitan.
لِمِثْلِ هَذَا فَلْيَعْمَلْ الْعَامِلُونَ
For the like of this let the workers [on earth] work.
أَذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ نُّزُلًا أَمْ شَجَرَةُ الزَّقُّومِ
Is Paradise a better accommodation or the tree of zaqqum?
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهَا فِتْنَةً لِّلظَّالِمِينَ
Indeed, We have made it a torment for the wrongdoers.
إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِي أَصْلِ الْجَحِيمِ
Indeed, it is a tree issuing from the bottom of the Hellfire,
طَلْعُهَا كَأَنَّهُ رُؤُوسُ الشَّيَاطِينِ
Its emerging fruit as if it was heads of the devils.
فَإِنَّهُمْ لَآكِلُونَ مِنْهَا فَمَالِؤُونَ مِنْهَا الْبُطُونَ
And indeed, they will eat from it and fill with it their bellies.
ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِّنْ حَمِيمٍ
Then indeed, they will have after it a mixture of scalding water.
ثُمَّ إِنَّ مَرْجِعَهُمْ لَإِلَى الْجَحِيمِ
Then indeed, their return will be to the Hellfire.
فَهُمْ عَلَى آثَارِهِمْ يُهْرَعُونَ
So they hastened [to follow] in their footsteps.
وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ
And there had already strayed before them most of the former peoples,
فَانظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الْمُنذَرِينَ
Then look how was the end of those who were warned -
وَلَقَدْ نَادَانَا نُوحٌ فَلَنِعْمَ الْمُجِيبُونَ
And Noah had certainly called Us, and [We are] the best of responders.
وَنَجَّيْنَاهُ وَأَهْلَهُ مِنَ الْكَرْبِ الْعَظِيمِ
And We saved him and his family from the great affliction.
وَجَعَلْنَا ذُرِّيَّتَهُ هُمْ الْبَاقِينَ
And We made his descendants those remaining [on the earth]
وَتَرَكْنَا عَلَيْهِ فِي الْآخِرِينَ
And left for him [favorable mention] among later generations: