About what do they question one another
About the Great Tiding
regarding which they differ
Nay, but they will know
Then indeed they will know
Did We not make the earth a resting place
and the mountains stakes
and create you in pairs
and make your sleep repose
and make the night a garment
and the day for livelihood
And [did We not] build above you seven firmaments
and make a radiant lamp
and send down water pouring from the rain clouds
that We might produce grain and plants thereby
and luxuriant gardens
Truly the Day of Division is a Moment Appointed
a day when the trumpet is blown and you come forth in throngs
and the sky is opened as if it were gates
and the mountains are set in motion as if they were a mirage
Truly Hell lies in ambush
a place unto which the rebellious return
to tarry therein for ages
They taste therein neither coolness nor drink
save boiling liquid and a cold, murky fluid
a fitting recompense
Truly they anticipated not a reckoning
and denied Our signs with utter denial
And everything have We recorded in a book
So taste! For We shall not increase you in aught but punishment
Truly the reverent shall have a place of triumph
gardens and vineyards
buxom maidens of like age
and an overflowing cup
They hear therein neither idle talk nor lying
a recompense from thy Lord, a gift abounding
the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and whatsoever is between them, the Compassionate, Whom they have no power to address
That Day the Spirit and the angels stand in rows, none speaking, save one whom the Compassionate permits and who speaks aright
That is the True Day. So let whosoever will, take a path of return unto his Lord
Truly We have warned you of a punishment nigh, on a day when a man beholds what his hands have sent forth, and the disbeliever says, “Oh, would that I were dust!