Of the mighty tiding whereon they are at variance.
No indeed; they shall soon know!
Again, no indeed; they shall soon know!
Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs?
And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood.
And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rainclouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant.
Surely the Day of Decision is an appointed time, the day the Trumpet is blown, and you shall come in troops, and heaven is opened, and become gates, and the mountains are set in motion, and become a vapour.
Behold, Gehenna has become an ambush, for the insolent a resort, therein to tarry for ages, tasting therein neither coolness nor any drink save boiling water and pus for a suitable recompense.
They indeed hoped not for a reckoning, and they cried loud lies to Our signs; and everything We have numbered in a Book.
'Taste! We shall increase you not save in chastisement.'
Surely for the godfearing awaits a place of security, gardens and vineyards and maidens with swelling breasts, like of age, and a cup overflowing.
Therein they shall hear no idle talk, no cry of lies, for a recompense from thy Lord, a gift, a reckoning, Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, the All-merciful of whom they have no power to speak.
Upon the day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks they shall speak not, save him to whom the All-merciful has given leave, and who speaks aright.
That is the true day; so whosoever wills takes unto his Lord a resort.
Lo, We have warned you of a nigh chastisement, upon the day when a man shall behold what his hands have forwarded, and the unbeliever shall say, 'O would that I were dust!'
By those that pluck out vehemently and those that draw out violently, by those that swim serenely and those that outstrip suddenly by those that direct an affair!
Upon the day when the first blast shivers and the second blast follows it, hearts upon that day shall be athrob and their eyes shall be humbled.
They shall say, 'What, are we being restored as we were before?
What, when we are bones old and wasted?'
They shall say, 'That then were a losing return!'
But it shall be only a single scare, and behold, they are awakened.
Hast thou received the story of Moses?
When his Lord called to him in the holy valley, Towa:
'Go to Pharaoh; he has waxed insolent.
And say, "Hast thou the will to purify thyself; and that I should guide thee to thy Lord, then thou shalt fear?"'
So he showed him the great sign, but he cried lies, and rebelled, then he turned away hastily, then he mustered and proclaimed, and he said, 'I am your Lord, the Most High!'
So God seized him with the chastisement of the Last World and the First.
Surely in that is a lesson for him who fears!
What, are you stronger in constitution or the heaven He built?
He lifted up its vault, and levelled it, and darkened its night, and brought forth its forenoon; and the earth-after that He spread it out, therefrom brought forth its waters and its pastures, and the mountains He set firm, an enjoyment for you and your flocks.
Then, when the Great Catastrophe comes upon the day when man shall remember what he has striven, and Hell is advanced for whoever sees, then as for him who was insolent and preferred the present life, surely Hell shall be the refuge.
But as for him who feared the Station of his Lord and forbade the soul its caprice, surely Paradise shall be the refuge.
They will question thee concerning the Hour, when it shall berth.
What art thou about, to mention it?
Unto thy Lord is the final end of it.
Thou art only the warner of him who fears it.
It shall be as if; on the day they see it, they have but tarried for an evening, or its forenoon.
He frowned and turned away that the blind man came to him.
And what should teach thee? Perchance he would cleanse him, or yet remember, and the Reminder profit him.
But the self-sufficient, to him thou attendest though it is not thy concern, if he does not cleanse himself.
And he who comes to thee eagerly and fearfully, to him thou payest no heed.
No indeed; it is a Reminder (and whoso wills, shall remember it) upon pages high-honoured, uplifted, purified, by the hands of scribes noble, pious.
Perish Man! How unthankful he is!
Of what did He create him?
Of a sperm-drop He created him, and determined him, then the way eased for him, then makes him to die, and buries him, then, when He wills, He raises him.
No indeed! Man has not accomplished His bidding.
Let Man consider his nourishment.
We poured out the rains abundantly, then We split the earth in fissures and therein made the grains to grow and vines, and reeds, and olives, and palms, and dense-tree'd gardens, and fruits, and pastures, an enjoyment for you and your flocks.
And when the Blast shall sound, upon the day when a man shall flee from his brother, his mother, his father, his consort, his sons, every man that day shall have business to suffice him.
Some faces on that day shall shine laughing, joyous; some faces on that day shall be dusty o'erspread with darkness -- those -- they are the unbelievers, the libertines.
When the sun shall be darkened, when the stars shall be thrown down, when the mountains shall be set moving, when the pregnant camels shall be neglected, when the savage beasts shall be mustered, when the seas shall be set boiling, when the souls shall be coupled, when the buried infant shall be asked for what sin she was slain, when the scrolls shall be unrolled, when heaven shall be stripped off; when Hell shall be set blazing, when Paradise shall be brought nigh, then shall a soul know what it has produced.
No! I swear by the slinkers, the runners, the sinkers, by the night swarming, by the dawn sighing, truly this is the word of a noble Messenger having power, with the Lord of the Throne secure, obeyed, moreover trusty.
Your companion is not possessed; he truly saw him on the clear horizon; he is not niggardly of the Unseen.
And it is not the word of an accursed Satan; where then are you going?
It is naught but a Reminder unto all beings, for whosoever of you who would go straight; but will you shall not, unless God wills, the Lord of all Being.
When heaven is split open, when the stars are scattered, when the seas swarm over, when the tombs are overthrown, then a soul shall know its works, the former and the latter.
O Man! What deceived thee as to thy generous Lord who created thee and shaped thee and wrought thee in symmetry and composed thee after what form He would?
No indeed; but you cry lies to the Doom; yet there are over you watchers noble, writers who know whatever you do.
Surely the pious shall be in bliss, and the libertines shall be in a fiery furnace roasting therein on the Day of Doom, nor shall they ever be absent from it.
And what shall teach thee what is the Day of Doom?
Again, what shall teach thee what is the Day of Doom?
A day when no soul shall possess aught to succour another soul; that day the Command shall belong unto God.
Woe to the stinters who, when they measure against the people, take full measure but, when they measure for them or weigh for them, do skimp.
Do those not think that they shall be raised up unto a mighty day a day when mankind shall stand before the Lord of all Being?
No indeed; the Book of the libertines is in Sijjin; and what shall teach thee what is Sijjin?
A book inscribed.
Woe that day unto those who cry it lies, who cry lies to the Day of Doom; and none cries lies to it but every guilty aggressor.
When our signs are recited to him, he says, 'Fairy-tales of the ancients!'
No indeed; but that they were earning has rusted upon their hearts.
No indeed; but upon that day they shall be veiled from their Lord, then they shall roast in Hell.
Then it shall be said to them, 'This is that you cried lies to.'
No indeed; the book of the pious is in Illiyun; and what shall teach thee what is Illiyun?
A book inscribed, witnessed by those brought nigh.
Surely the pious shall be in bliss, upon couches gazing; thou knowest in their faces the radiancy of bliss as they are given to drink of a wine sealed whose seal is musk -- so after that let the strivers strive -- and whose mixture is Tasnim, a fountain at which do drink those brought nigh.
Behold, the sinners were laughing at the believers, when them passed them by winking at one another, and when they returned to their people they returned blithely, and when they saw them they said, 'Lo, these men are astray!'
Yet they were not sent as watchers over them.
So today the believers are laughing at the unbelievers, upon couches gazing.
Have the unbelievers been rewarded what they were doing?
When heaven is rent asunder and gives ear to its Lord, and is fitly disposed; when earth is stretched out and casts forth what is in it, and voids itself, and gives ear to its Lord, and is fitly disposed!
O Man! Thou art labouring unto thy Lord laboriously, and thou shalt encounter Him.
Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he shall surely receive an easy reckoning and he will return to his family joyfully.
But as for him who is given his book behind his back, he shall call for destruction and he shall roast at a Blaze.
He once lived among his family joyfully; he surely thought he would never revert.
Yes indeed; his Lord had sight of him.
No! I swear by the twilight and the night and what it envelops and the moon when it is at the full, you shall surely ride stage after stage.
Then what ails them, that they believe not, and when the Koran is recited to them they do not bow?
Nay, but the unbelievers are crying lies, and God knows very well what they are secreting.
So give them good tidings of a painful chastisement, except those that believe, and do righteous deeds -- theirs shall be a wage unfailing.
By heaven of the constellations, by the promised day, by the witness and the witnessed, slain were the Men of the Pit, the fire abounding in fuel, when they were seated over it and were themselves witnesses of what they did with the believers.
They took revenge on them only because they believed in the All-mighty, the Al-laudable, God to whom belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and God is Witness over everything.
Those who persecute the believers, men and women, and then have not repented, there awaits them the chastisement of Gehenna, and there awaits them the chastisement of the burning.
Those who believe, and do righteous deeds, for them await gardens underneath which rivers flow; that is the great triumph.
Surely thy Lord's assault is terrible.
Surely it is He who originates, and brings again, and He is the All-forgiving, the All-loving, Lord of the Throne, the All-glorious, Performer of what He desires.
Hast thou received the story of the hosts, Pharaoh and Thamood?
Nay, but the unbelievers still cry lies, and God is behind them, encompassing.
Nay, but it is a glorious Koran, in a guarded tablet.
By heaven and the night-star!
And what shall teach thee what is the night-star?
The piercing star!
Over every soul there is a watcher.
So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.
Surely He is able to bring him back upon the day when the secrets are tried, and he shall have no strength, no helper.
By heaven of the returning rain, by earth splitting with verdure, surely it is a decisive word; it is no merriment.
They are devising guile, and I am devising guile.
So respite the unbelievers; delay with them awhile.
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