English - Chapter 52

By the Mount

and a Book inscribed

in a parchment unrolled

by the House inhabited

and the roof uplifted

and the sea swarming

surely thy Lord's chastisement is about to fall

there is none to avert it

Upon the day when heaven spins dizzily

and the mountains are in motion

woe that day unto those that cry lies

such as play at plunging

the day when they shall be pitched into the fire of Gehenna

This is the fire that you cried lies to

What, is this magic, or is it you that do not see

Roast in it! And bear you patiently, or bear not patiently, equal it is to you; you are only being recompensed for that you were working

Surely the godfearing shall be in gardens and bliss

rejoicing in that their Lord has given them; and their Lord shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell

Eat and drink, with wholesome appetite, for that you were working

Reclining upon couches ranged in rows; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris

And those who believed, and their seed followed them in belief, We shall join their seed with them, and We shall not defraud them of aught of their work; every man shall be pledged for what he earned

And We shall succour them with fruits and flesh such as they desire

while they pass therein a cup one to another wherein is no idle talk, no cause of sin

and there go round them youths, their own, as if they were hidden pearls

They advance one upon another, asking each other questions

They say, 'We were before among our people, ever going in fear

and God was gracious to us, and guarded us against the chastisement of the burning wind

we were before ever calling upon Him; surely He is the All-benign, the All-compassionate

Therefore remind! by thy Lord's blessing thou art not a soothsayer neither possessed

Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty

Say: 'Await! I shall be awaiting with you

Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people

Or do they say, 'He has invented it?' Nay, but they do not believe

Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly

Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators

Or did they create the heavens and earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith

Or are thy Lord's treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the registrars

Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority

Or has He daughters, and they sons

Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt

Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down

Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted

Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate

Even if they saw lumps falling from heaven, they would say, 'A massed cloud

Then leave them, till they encounter their day wherein they shall be thunderstruck

the day when their guile shall avail them naught, and they shall not be helped

And there surely awaits the evildoers a chastisement beyond even that, but most of them know it not

And be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord; surely thou art before Our eyes. And proclaim the praise of thy Lord when thou arisest

and proclaim the praise of thy Lord in the night, and at the declining of the stars