English - Chapter 52 - At-Tur

By the Mount

and an Inscribed Book

on an Unfurled Scroll

by the Visited House

by the Raised Canopy

by the Overflowing Ocean

your Lord´s punishment will certainly take place

No one can ward it off

On the Day when heaven sways to and fro

and the mountains shift about

who play at frivolous games

the Day they are shoved roughly into the Fire of Hell

´This is the Fire which you denied

So is this magic? Or is it that you do not see

Roast in it! And bear it patiently or do not bear it patiently. It makes no difference either way. You are simply being repaid for what you did.´

The people who have taqwa will be in Gardens of Delight

savouring what their Lord has given them. Their Lord will safeguard them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire

´Eat and drink with relish for what you did.´

They will recline on couches ranged in rows and We will marry them to dark-eyed maidens

And We will unite those who had iman with their offspring, who followed them in iman, and We will not undervalue their own actions in any way. Every man is in pledge for what he earned

We will supply them with any kind of fruit and meat that they desire

They will pass round there a drinking cup to one another with no foolish talk and no wrong action in it

Circulating among them there will be youths like hidden pearls

Some of them will come up to others and they will question one another

They will say, ´Beforehand we used to live in fear among our families

But Allah was gracious to us and safeguarded us from the punishment of the searing wind

Beforehand we certainly used to call on Him because He is the All-Good, the Most Merciful.´

Remind them then! For, by the blessing of your Lord, you are neither a soothsayer nor a madman

Or do they say, ´He is a poet and We are waiting for something bad to happen to him´

Say: ´Wait then! I am waiting with you.´

Is it their intellects that direct them to say this or is it that they are an unbridled people

Or do they say, ´He has simply made it up´? No, the truth is they have no iman

Let them produce a discourse like it if they are telling the truth

Or were they created out of nothing, or are they the creators

Or did they create the heavens and the earth? No, in truth they have no certainty

Or do they possess the treasuries of your Lord or do they have control of them

Or do they have a ladder on which they listen? Then let their listener bring clear evidence

Or does He have daughters whereas you have sons

Or do you ask them for a wage so they are weighed down with debt

Or is the Unseen in their hands so they can write out what is to happen

Or do they desire to dupe you? But the duped ones are those who are kafir

Or do they have some god other than Allah? Glory be to Allah above any idol they propose

If they saw a lump of heaven falling down, they would just say, ´Banked-up clouds!´

Leave them then until they meet their Day when they will be struck down by the Blast

the Day their ploys will not profit them at all and they will not be helped

And those who do wrong will have a punishment besides that but most of them do not know it

So wait steadfastly for the judgement of your Lord — you are certainly before Our eyes. And glorify and praise your Lord when you get up

And glorify Him in the night and when the stars fade out