The Qur'an, 77. al-Mursalat
77. al-Mursalat: The Emissaries
1 By the emissary winds, (sent)
one after another
2 By the raging hurricanes,
3 By those which cause earth's
vegetation to revive;
4 By those who winnow with a
winnowing,
5 By those who bring down the
Reminder,
6 To excuse or to warn,
7 Surely that which ye are promised
will befall.
8 So when the stars are put
out,
9 And when the sky is riven
asunder,
10 And when the mountains are
blown away,
11 And when the messengers are
brought unto their time appointed -
12 For what day is the time
appointed ?
13 For the Day of Decision.
14 And what will convey unto
thee what the Day of Decision is! -
15 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
16 Destroyed We not the former
folk,
17 Then caused the latter folk
to follow after ?
18 Thus deal We ever with the
guilty.
19 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
20 Did We not create you from
a base fluid
21 Which We laid up in a safe
abode
22 For a known term ?
23 Thus We arranged. How excellent
is Our arranging!
24 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
25 Have We not made the earth
a receptacle
26 Both for the living and the
dead,
27 And placed therein high mountains
and given you to drink sweet water therein ?
28 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
29 (It will be said unto them:)
Depart unto that (doom) which ye used to deny;
30 Depart unto the shadow falling
threefold,
31 (Which yet is) no relief
nor shelter from the flame.
32 Lo! it throweth up sparks
like the castles,
33 (Or) as it might be camels
of bright yellow hue.
34 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
35 This is a day wherein they
speak not,
36 Nor are they suffered to
put forth excuses.
37 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
38 This is the Day of Decision,
We have brought you and the men of old together.
39 If now ye have any wit, outwit
Me.
40 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
41 Lo! those who kept their
duty are amid shade and fountains,
42 And fruits such as they desire.
43 (Unto them it is said:) Eat,
drink and welcome, O ye blessed, in return for what ye did.
44 Thus do We reward the good.
45 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
46 Eat and take your ease (on
earth) a little. Lo! ye are guilty.
47 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
48 When it is said unto them:
Bow down, they bow not down!
49 Woe unto the repudiators
on that day!
50 In what statement, after
this, will they believe ?
