By the Mount [Sinai]
by the Book inscribe
on an unrolled parchment
by the House greatly frequented
by the vault raised high
by the surging sea
indeed your Lord’s punishment will surely befall
There is none who can avert it
On the day when the sky whirls violently
and the mountains move with an awful motion
woe to the deniers on that da
—those who play around in vain talk
the day when they will be shoved toward the fire of hell forcibly
[and told:] ‘This is the Fire which you used to deny!’
Is this then magic, or is it you who do not perceive
‘Enter it, and whether you are patient or impatient it will be the same for you. You are only being requited for what you used to do.’
Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and bliss
rejoicing because of what their Lord has given them, and that their Lord has saved them from the punishment of hell
[They will be told:] ‘Enjoy your food and drink, [as a reward] for what you used to do.’
They will be reclining on arrayed couches, and We will wed them to big-eyed houris
The faithful and their descendants who followed them in faith —We will make their descendants join them, and We will not stint anything from [the reward of] their deeds. Every man is a hostage to what he has earned
We will provide them with fruits and meat, such as they desire
There they will pass from hand to hand a cup wherein there will be neither any vain talk nor sinful speech
They will be waited upon by youths, their own, as if they were guarded pearls
They will turn to one another, questioning each other
They will say, ‘Indeed, aforetime, we used to be apprehensive about our families
But Allah showed us favour and He saved us from the punishment of the [infernal] miasma
indeed we used to supplicate Him aforetime. Indeed He is the All-benign, the All-merciful.’
So admonish. By your Lord’s blessing, you are not a soothsayer, nor mad
Do they say, ‘[He is] a poet, for whom we await a fatal accident’
Say, ‘Wait! I too am waiting along with you.’
Is it their intellect which prompts them to [say] this, or are they a rebellious lot
Do they say, ‘He has improvised it [himself]?’ Rather they have no faith
Let them bring a discourse like it, if they are truthful
Were they created from nothing? Or are they [their own] creators
Did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather they have no certainty
Do they possess the treasuries of your Lord? Or are they the controllers [of their dispensation]
Do they have a ladder [leading up to heaven] whereby they eavesdrop? If so let their eavesdropper produce a manifest authority
Does He have daughters while you have sons
Do you ask them for a reward, so that they are weighed down with debt
Do they have [access to] the Unseen, which they write down
Do they seek to outmaneuver [Allah]? But it is the faithless who are the outmaneuvered ones
Do they have any god other than Allah? Clear is Allah of any partners that they may ascribe [to Him]
Were they to see a fragment falling from the sky, they would say, ‘A cumulous cloud.’
So leave them until they encounter their day on which they will be thunderstruck
the day when their guile will not avail them in any way, nor will they be helped
Indeed for those who do wrong, there is a punishment besides that, but most of them do not know
So submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord, for indeed you fare before Our eyes. And celebrate the praise of your Lord when you rise [at dawn]
and also glorify Him during the night and at the receding of the stars