وَمَاۤ

اَدْرٰىكَ

مَا

سَقَرُ

۟ؕ

And what can let you know what Saqar is?

It neither spares (anything inside it from burning) nor leaves (any disbeliever outside).

It will disfigure the skins.

Appointed on it are nineteen (wardens).

And We did not make wardens of the Fire but (from) angels, and did not fix their number but as a test for those who disbelieve, so that those who are given the Book may come to believe, and those who believe may improve in belief, and so that those who are given the Book and those who believe may not doubt (its correctness), and so that those having malady in their hearts and the disbelievers say, “What has Allah meant by this strange statement?” Thus Allah lets go astray whomever He wills, and leads to the right path whomever He wills. And no one knows the hosts of your Lord but He. And this is nothing else but a reminder for mankind.

Truly, I swear by the moon,

and by the night when it goes back,

and by the morning when it becomes bright,

it (Saqar : Hell) is one of the greatest things

as a warning to the mankind,

to the one from among you who wishes to come forward (towards good deeds) or to go back (from them).

Everyone will be detained (in the Hell) because of what he did,

except the People of the Right, (i.e. those who will be given their Book of Deeds in their right hands)

who will be in gardens, asking

about the guilty persons,

“What has brought you to Saqar? (Hell)”

They will say, “We were not among those who offered Salāh , (obligatory prayer)

and we did not give food to the needy,