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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... !" |