Chapter 77, 50 verses
I swear by the emissary winds, sent one after another (for men's benefit),
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another
By the raging hurricanes,
By the raging hurricanes,
Which scatter clouds to their destined places,
By those which cause earth's vegetation to revive;
Then separate them one from another,
By those who winnow with a winnowing,
Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation,
By those who bring down the Reminder,
To clear or to warn.
To excuse or to warn,
Most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass.
Surely that which ye are promised will befall.
So when the stars are made to lose their light,
So when the stars are put out,
And when the heaven is rent asunder,
And when the sky is riven asunder,
And when the mountains are carried away as dust,
And when the mountains are blown away,
And when the apostles are gathered at their appointed time
And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed -
To what day is the doom fixed?
For what day is the time appointed ?
To the day of decision.
For the Day of Decision.
And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?
And what will convey unto thee what the Day of Decision is! -
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
Did We not destroy the former generations?
Destroyed We not the former folk,
Then did We follow them up with later ones.
Then caused the latter folk to follow after ?
Even thus shall We deal with the guilty.
Thus deal We ever with the guilty.
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
Did We not create you from contemptible water?
Did We not create you from a base fluid
Then We placed it in a secure resting - place,
Which We laid up in a safe abode
Till an appointed term,
For a known term ?
So We proportion it - - how well are We at proportioning (things).
Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging!
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,
Have We not made the earth a receptacle
The living and the dead,
Both for the living and the dead,
And made therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink of sweet water?
And placed therein high mountains and given you to drink sweet water therein ?
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
Walk on to that which you called a lie.
(It will be said unto them:) Depart unto that (doom) which ye used to deny;
Walk on to the covering having three branches,
Depart unto the shadow falling threefold,
Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.
(Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.
Surely it sends up sparks like palaces,
Lo! it throweth up sparks like the castles,
As if they were tawny camels.
(Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue.
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
This is the day on which they shall not speak,
This is a day wherein they speak not,
And permission shall not be given to them so that they should offer excuses.
Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
This is the day of decision: We have gathered you and those of yore.
This is the Day of Decision, We have brought you and the men of old together.
So if you have a plan, plan against Me (now).
If now ye have any wit, outwit Me.
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be amid shades and fountains,
Lo! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains,
And fruits such as they desire.
And fruits such as they desire.
Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.
(Unto them it is said:) Eat, drink and welcome, O ye blessed, in return for what ye did.
Surely thus do We reward the doers of good.
Thus do We reward the good.
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; surely you are guilty.
Eat and take your ease (on earth) a little. Lo! ye are guilty.
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
And where it is said to them: Bow down, they do not bow down.
When it is said unto them: Bow down, they bow not down!
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
In what announcement, then, after it, will they believe?
In what statement, after this, will they believe ?