- By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another
- By the raging hurricanes,
- By those which cause earth's vegetation to revive;
- By those who winnow with a winnowing,
- By those who bring down the Reminder,
- To excuse or to warn,
- Surely that which ye are promised will befall.
- So when the stars are put out,
- And when the sky is riven asunder,
- And when the mountains are blown away,
- And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed
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- For what day is the time appointed ?
- For the Day of Decision.
- And what will convey unto thee what the Day of Decision is! -
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- Destroyed We not the former folk,
- Then caused the latter folk to follow after ?
- Thus deal We ever with the guilty.
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- Did We not create you from a base fluid
- Which We laid up in a safe abode
- For a known term ?
- Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging!
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- Have We not made the earth a receptacle
- Both for the living and the dead,
- And placed therein high mountains and given you to drink sweet
water therein ?
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- (It will be said unto them:) Depart unto that (doom) which ye
used to deny;
- Depart unto the shadow falling threefold,
- (Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.
- Lo! it throweth up sparks like the castles,
- (Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue.
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- This is a day wherein they speak not,
- Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- This is the Day of Decision, We have brought you and the men
of old together.
- If now ye have any wit, outwit Me.
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- Lo! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains,
- And fruits such as they desire.
- (Unto them it is said:) Eat, drink and welcome, O ye blessed,
in return for what ye did.
- Thus do We reward the good.
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- Eat and take your ease (on earth) a little. Lo! ye are guilty.
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- When it is said unto them: Bow down, they bow not down!
- Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
- In what statement, after this, will they believe ?