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[1] Whereof do they question one another?
[2] (It is) of the awful tidings,
[3] Concerning which they are in disagreement.
[4] Nay, but they will come to know!
[5] Nay, again, but they will come to know!
[6] Have We not made the earth an expanse,
[7] And the high hills bulwarks?
[8] And We have created you in pairs,
[9] And have appointed your sleep for repose,
[10] And have appointed the night as a cloak,
[11] And have appointed the day for livelihood.
[12] And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
[13] And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
[14] And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
[15] Thereby to produce grain and plant,
[16] And gardens of thick foliage.
[17] Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
[18] A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
[19] And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
[20] And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
[21] Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
[22] A home for the rebellious.
[23] They will abide therein for ages.
[24] Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
[25] Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
[26] Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
[27] For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
[28] They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
[29] Everything have We recorded in a Book.
[30] So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
[31] Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
[32] Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
[33] And voluptuous women of equal age;
[34] And a full cup.
[35] There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
[36] Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
[37] Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
[38] On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
[39] That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
[40] Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust!"