English - Chapter 77 - Al-Mursalat

By those sent in a series

And by those who speed swiftly

And by the dispensers abroad

And by the separators apart

And by those who instil the reminder

as an excuse or warning

Verily, what ye are threatened with shall surely happen

And when the stars shall be erased

And when the heaven shall be cleft

And when the mountains shall be winnowed

And when the apostles shall have a time appointed for them

For what day is the appointment made

For the day of decision

and what shall make thee know what the decision is

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

Have we not destroyed those of yore

and then followed them up with those of the latter day

Thus do we with the sinners

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

Did we not create you from contemptible water

and place it in a sure depository

unto a certain decreed term

for we are able and well able too

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

Have we not made for them the earth

to hold the living and the dead

and set thereon firm mountains reared aloft? and given you to drink water in streams

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

Go off to that which ye did call a lie

Go off to the shadow of three columns

that shall not shade nor avail against the flame

Verily, it throws off sparks like towers

as though they were yellow camels

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

This is the day when they may not speak

when they are not permitted to excuse themselves

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

This is the day of decision! We have assembled you with those of yore

if ye have any stratagem employ it now

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

Verily, the pious are amid shades and springs

and fruit such as they love

Eat and drink with good digestion, for that which ye have done

Verily, thus do we reward those who do well

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; verily, ye are sinners

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

And when it is said to them bow down, they bow not down

Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie

And in what new discourse after it will they believe