About what are they asking (one another)?
About the great news (Islam),
about which they disagree.
Nay, they will come to know,
nay, again, they will come to know (very soon).
Have not We made the earth like a bed,
the mountains as pegs,
created you in pairs,
made your sleep for rest,
made the night as a covering,
made the day (to work) for livelihood,
built above you 7 strong (heavens),
placed in it a shinning lamp (sun),
sent down abundant water from the clouds,
thereby to produce corn and vegetation in it,
and gardens of thick growth?
Surely, the Day of decision is a fixed time.
On that Day, the trumpet will be blown in and you shall come forth in crowds.
The sky will be opened, as if there were doors.
The mountains will be moved away, as if they were a mirage.
Truly, hell is a place of ambush,
a living place for the transgressors.
They will live in it for ages,
they will neither taste cool nor any drink in it,
except boiling water and pus (dirty wound discharges):
as a fitting recompense (for their evil deeds).
Surely, they never expected a reckoning (for their deeds),
and denied Our revelations with strong denial.
But We have recorded every thing in a book.
(It will be said): “So you taste (the results of evil actions). We shall give you nothing but increase in punishment.”
Surely, there will be a success (Paradise) for the righteous:
gardens and grape yards,
young mature maidens of equal age,
full cups (of wine to the brim);
they will neither hear vain talk nor any lying in it;
a reward from your Lord and a gift beyond their account (for good deeds
from the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them; the Gracious, before Whom no one will be able to speak (on the Day of Resurrection).
On that Day, the spirit (Gabriel) and the angels will stand in rows; none will speak except the one to whom the Gracious (Allah) will allow to speak, and he will speak what is right.
That is (without doubt) the true Day. Let those who wish, seek a Way back to their Lord (by obeying Him in this world).
Surely, We have warned you of an imminent punishment, on the Day when people will see (the deeds) what their hands have sent forth, and the disbeliever will cry: “Woe to me! Would that I were dust!”