| 1 | Whereof do they question one another? | |
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| 2 | (It is) of the awful tidings, | |
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| 3 | Concerning which they are in disagreement. | |
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| 4 | Nay, but they will come to know! | |
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| 5 | Nay, again, but they will come to know! | |
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| 6 | Have We not made the earth an expanse, | |
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| 7 | And the high hills bulwarks? | |
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| 8 | And We have created you in pairs, | |
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| 9 | And have appointed your sleep for repose, | |
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| 10 | And have appointed the night as a cloak, | |
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| 11 | And have appointed the day for livelihood. | |
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| 12 | And We have built above you seven strong (heavens), | |
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| 13 | And have appointed a dazzling lamp, | |
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| 14 | And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water, | |
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| 15 | Thereby to produce grain and plant, | |
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| 16 | And gardens of thick foliage. | |
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| 17 | Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time, | |
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| 18 | A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes, | |
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| 19 | And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates, | |
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| 20 | And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage. | |
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| 21 | Lo! hell lurketh in ambush, | |
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| 22 | A home for the rebellious. | |
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| 23 | They will abide therein for ages. | |
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| 24 | Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink | |
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| 25 | Save boiling water and a paralysing cold: | |
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| 26 | Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds). | |
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| 27 | For lo! they looked not for a reckoning; | |
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| 28 | They called Our revelations false with strong denial. | |
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| 29 | Everything have We recorded in a Book. | |
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| 30 | So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment. | |
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| 31 | Lo! for the duteous is achievement - | |
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| 32 | Gardens enclosed and vineyards, | |
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| 33 | And voluptuous women of equal age; | |
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| 34 | And a full cup. | |
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| 35 | There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying - | |
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| 36 | Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment - | |
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| 37 | Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse. | |
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| 38 | On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right. | |
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| 39 | That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord. | |
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| 40 | Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust!" | |
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