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1.  *     ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another?
 
2.  *     About the awesome tiding [of resurrection],
 
3.  *     on which they [so utterly] disagree. [2]1
 
4.  *     Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]!
 
5.  *     And once again: [3]2 Nay, but in time they will come to understand!
 
6.  *     HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you],
 
7.  *     and the mountains [its] pegs? [4]3
 
8.  *     And We have created you in pairs; [5]4
 
9.  *     and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death [6]5
 
10.  *     and made the night [its] cloak
 
11.  *     and made the day [a symbol of] life. [7]6
 
12.  *     And We have built above you seven firmaments, [8]7
 
13.  *     and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour.
 
14.  *     And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance,
 
15.  *     so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs,
 
16.  *     and gardens dense with follage. [9]8
 
17.  *     VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] [10]9 has indeed its appointed time:
 
18.  *     the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes;
 
19.  *     and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; [11]10
 
20.  *     and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. [12]11
 
21.  *     [On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth] -
 
22.  *     a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right!
 
23.  *     In it shall they remain for a long time. [13]12
 
24.  *     Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink -
 
25.  *     only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: [14]13
 
26.  *     a meet requital [for their sins]!
 
27.  *     Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account,
 
28.  *     having given the lie to Our messages one and all:
 
29.  *     but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did].
 
30.  *     [And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" [15]14
 
31.  *     [But,] verily for the God-conscious there is supreme fulfilment in store: [16]15
 
32.  *     luxuriant gardens and vinyards,
 
33.  *     and splendid companions well matched, [17]16
 
34.  *     and a cup [of happiness] overflowing.
 
35.  *     No empty talk will they hear in that [paradise], nor any lie.
 
36.  *     [All this will be] a reward from thy Sustainer, a gift in accordance with [His Own] reckoning [18]17 -
 
37.  *     [a reward from] the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Most Gracious! [And] none shall have it in their power to raise their voices unto Him
 
38.  *     on the Day when all [human] souls [19]18 and all the angels will stand up in ranks: none will speak but he to whom the Most Gracious will have given leave; and [everyone] will say [only] what is right. [20]19
 
39.  *     That will be the Day of Ultimate Truth: [21]20 whoever wills, then, let him take the path that leads towards his Sustainer!
 
40.  *     Verily, We have warned you of suffering near at hand - [suffering] on the Day when man shall [clearly] see what his hands have sent ahead, and when he who has denied the truth shall say, "Oh, would that I were mere dust... !"