For what day is the
appointment made?
For the day of decision!
and what shall make thee know what the decision is?
[15] 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!
[20] 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!
[25] 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! [30] 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!
[15] 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!
[40] 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.
[45] 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!
[50] And in what new
discourse after it will they believe?