بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ عَمَّ يَتَسَآءَلُونَ

ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another?

عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

About the awesome tiding [of resurrection],

ٱلَّذِى هُمْ فِيهِ مُخْتَلِفُونَ

on which they [so utterly] disagree.

كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ

Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]!

ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ

And once again: Nay, but in time they will come to understand!

أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَٰدًۭا

HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you],

وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَوْتَادًۭا

and the mountains [its] pegs?

وَخَلَقْنَٰكُمْ أَزْوَٰجًۭا

And We have created you in pairs;

وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًۭا

and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًۭا

and made the night [its] cloak

وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًۭا

and made the day [a symbol of] life.

وَبَنَيْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعًۭا شِدَادًۭا

And We have built above you seven firmaments,

وَجَعَلْنَا سِرَاجًۭا وَهَّاجًۭا

and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour.

وَأَنزَلْنَا مِنَ ٱلْمُعْصِرَٰتِ مَآءًۭ ثَجَّاجًۭا

And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance,

لِّنُخْرِجَ بِهِۦ حَبًّۭا وَنَبَاتًۭا

so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs,

وَجَنَّٰتٍ أَلْفَافًا

and gardens dense with follage.

إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَٰتًۭا

VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] has indeed its appointed time:

يَوْمَ يُنفَخُ فِى ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأْتُونَ أَفْوَاجًۭا

the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes;

وَفُتِحَتِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ فَكَانَتْ أَبْوَٰبًۭا

and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates;

وَسُيِّرَتِ ٱلْجِبَالُ فَكَانَتْ سَرَابًا

and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage.

إِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ كَانَتْ مِرْصَادًۭا

[On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth] –

لِّلطَّٰغِينَ مَـَٔابًۭا

a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right!

لَّٰبِثِينَ فِيهَآ أَحْقَابًۭا

In it shall they remain for a long time.

لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًۭا وَلَا شَرَابًا

Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink –

إِلَّا حَمِيمًۭا وَغَسَّاقًۭا

only burning despair and ice-cold darkness:

جَزَآءًۭ وِفَاقًا

a meet requital [for their sins]!

إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَرْجُونَ حِسَابًۭا

Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account,

وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا كِذَّابًۭا

having given the lie to Our messages one and all:

وَكُلَّ شَىْءٍ أَحْصَيْنَٰهُ كِتَٰبًۭا

but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did].

فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا

[And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!"

إِنَّ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ مَفَازًا

[But,] verily for the God-conscious there is supreme fulfilment in store:

حَدَآئِقَ وَأَعْنَٰبًۭا

luxuriant gardens and vinyards,

وَكَوَاعِبَ أَتْرَابًۭا

and splendid companions well matched,

وَكَأْسًۭا دِهَاقًۭا

and a cup [of happiness] overflowing.

لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًۭا وَلَا كِذَّٰبًۭا

No empty talk will they hear in that [paradise], nor any lie.

جَزَآءًۭ مِّن رَّبِّكَ عَطَآءً حِسَابًۭا

[All this will be] a reward from thy Sustainer, a gift in accordance with [His Own] reckoning –

رَّبِّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ۖ لَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِنْهُ خِطَابًۭا

[a reward from] the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Most Gracious! [And] none shall have it in their power to raise their voices unto Him

يَوْمَ يَقُومُ ٱلرُّوحُ وَٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ صَفًّۭا ۖ لَّا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًۭا

on the Day when all [human] souls and all the angels will stand up in ranks: none will speak but he to whom the Most Gracious will have given leave; and [everyone] will say [only] what is right.

ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلْحَقُّ ۖ فَمَن شَآءَ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ مَـَٔابًا

That will be the Day of Ultimate Truth: whoever wills, then, let him take the path that leads towards his Sustainer!

إِنَّآ أَنذَرْنَٰكُمْ عَذَابًۭا قَرِيبًۭا يَوْمَ يَنظُرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ ٱلْكَافِرُ يَٰلَيْتَنِى كُنتُ تُرَٰبًۢا

Verily, We have warned you of suffering near at hand - [suffering] on the Day when man shall [clearly] see what his hands have sent ahead, and when he who has denied the truth shall say, "Oh, would that I were mere dust...!"