English - Chapter 77 - Al-Mursalat

I swear by (or call to witness) the emissary winds sent one after another for men´s benefit

By the raging hurricanes

Which scatter things far and wide

And separate things one from another

Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation (or message)

To clarify or to warn

Most surely what you are promised must come to pass

So when the stars are made dim

And when the heaven is rent asunder

And when the mountains are carried away as dust

And when the messengers are gathered at their appointed time

To what Day are these signs appointed

To the Day of Decision

And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is

Woe on that day to the rejecters

Did We not destroy the former generations

Then did We follow them up with later ones

Even thus shall We deal with the guilty

Woe on that day to the rejecters

Did We not create you from a fluid regarded contemptible

Which We laid in a safe abode (the womb)

Till an appointed term

Thus We arrange things - how well are We at arranging things

Woe on that day to the rejecters

Have We not made the earth draw together to itself

The living and the dead

And placed therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink sweet water from them

Woe on that day to the rejecters

Go on to that which you used to deny

Go on to the smoke with three branches (or three fold shadow)

Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame

Surely it sends up sparks like palaces

As if they were tawny camels

Woe on that day to the rejecters

Nor are they permitted to make excuses (or pleas)

Woe on that day to the rejecters

This is the Day of Decision: We have gathered you and those of yore

So if you have a plan, plan against Me now

Woe on that day to the rejecters

Surely those who guard against evil shall be amid shades and fountains

And fruits such as they desire

Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did

Surely thus do We reward the doers of good

Woe on that day to the rejecters

Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; surely you are guilty

Woe on that day to the rejecters

And when it is said to them, "Bow down (in humility), they bow not

Woe on that day to the rejecters

In what announcement, then, after this, will they believe