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| 1. * | By the mountain of Sinai; |
| 2. * | and by the book written |
| 3. * | in an expanded scroll; |
| 4. * | and by the visited house; |
| 5. * | and by the elevated roof of heaven; |
| 6. * | and by the swelling ocean: |
| 7. * | Verily the punishment of thy Lord will surely descend; |
| 8. * | there shall be none to with-hold it. |
| 9. * | On that day the heaven shall be shaken, and shall reel; |
| 10. * | and the mountains shall walk and pass away. |
| 11. * | And on that day woe be unto those who accused God's Apostles of imposture; |
| 12. * | who amused themselves in wading in vain disputes! |
| 13. * | On that day shall they be driven and thrust into the fire of hell; |
| 14. * | and it shall be said unto them, this is the fire which ye denied as a fiction. |
| 15. * | Is this a magic illusion? Or do ye not see? |
| 16. * | Enter the same to be scorched: Whether ye bear your torments patiently, or impatiently, it will be equal unto you: Ye shall surely receive the reward of that which ye have wrought. |
| 17. * | But the pious shall dwell amidst gardens and pleasures; |
| 18. * | delighting themselves in what their Lord shall have given them: And their Lord shall deliver them from the pains of hell. |
| 19. * | And it shall be said unto them, eat and drink with easy digestion; because of that which ye have wrought: |
| 20. * | Leaning on couches disposed in order: And We will espouse them unto virgins having large black eyes. |
| 21. * | And unto those who believe, and whose off-spring follow them in the faith, We will join their off-spring in paradise: And We will not diminish unto them ought of the merit of their works. -- Every man is given in pledge for that which he shall have wrought. -- |
| 22. * | And we will give them fruits in abundance, and flesh of the kinds which they shall desire. |
| 23. * | They shall present unto one another therein a cup of wine, wherein there shall be no vain discourse, nor any incitement unto wickedness. |
| 24. * | And youths appointed to attend them, shall go round them: Beautiful as pearls hidden in their shell. |
| 25. * | And they shall approach unto one another, and shall ask mutual questions. |
| 26. * | And they shall say, verily we were heretofore amidst our family, in great dread with regard to our state after death: |
| 27. * | But God hath been gracious unto us, and hath delivered us from the pain of burning fire: |
| 28. * | For we called on him heretofore; and he is the beneficent, the merciful. |
| 29. * | Wherefore do thou, O prophet, admonish thy people. Thou art not, by the grace of thy Lord, a soothsayer, or a madman. |
| 30. * | Do they say, he is a poet: We wait, concerning him, some adverse turn of fortune? |
| 31. * | Say, wait ye my ruin: Verily I wait, with you, the time of your destruction. |
| 32. * | Do their mature understandings bid them say this; or are they people who perversely transgress? |
| 33. * | Do they say, he hath forged the Koran? Verily they believe not. |
| 34. * | Let them produce a discourse like unto it, if they speak truth. |
| 35. * | Were they created by nothing; or were they the creators of themselves? |
| 36. * | Did they create the heavens and the earth? Verily they are not firmly persuaded that God hath created them. |
| 37. * | Are the stores of thy Lord in their hands? Are they the supreme dispensers of all things? |
| 38. * | Have they a ladder, whereby they may ascend to heaven, and hear the discourses of the angels? Let one, therefore, who hath heard them, produce an evident proof thereof. |
| 39. * | Hath God daughters, and have ye sons? |
| 40. * | Dost thou ask them a reward for thy preaching? But they are laden with debts. |
| 41. * | Are the secrets of futurity with them; and do they transcribe the same from the table of God's decrees? |
| 42. * | Do they seek to lay a plot against thee? But the unbelievers are they who shall be circumvented. |
| 43. * | Have they any god, besides God? Far be God exalted above the idols which they associate with Him! |
| 44. * | If they should see a fragment of the heaven falling down upon them, they would say, it is only a thick cloud. |
| 45. * | Wherefore leave them, until they arrive at their day wherein they shall swoon for fear: |
| 46. * | A day, in which their subtle contrivances shall not avail them at all, neither shall they be protected. |
| 47. * | And those who act unjustly shall surely suffer another punishment besides this: But the greater part of them do not understand. |
| 48. * | And wait thou patiently the judgement of thy Lord concerning them; for thou art in our eye: And celebrate the praise of thy Lord, when thou risest up; |
| 49. * | and praise Him in the night-season, and when the stars begin to disappear. |