In the name of Allah,
tho Beneficent,
the Merciful.
[77.1]
I swear by the emissary winds,
sent one after another (for men's benefit),
[77.2]
By the raging hurricanes,
[77.3]
Which scatter clouds to their destined places,
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Then separate them one from another,
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Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation,
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Most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass.
[77.8]
So when the stars are made to lose their light,
[77.9]
And when the heaven is rent asunder,
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And when the mountains are carried away as dust,
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And when the apostles are gathered at their appointed time li.
To what day is the doom fixed?
[77.13]
To the day of decision.
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And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?
[77.15]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.16]
Did We not destroy the former generations?
17 Then did We follow them up with later ones.
18 Even thus shall We deal with the guilty.
[77.19]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.20]
Did We not create you from contemptible water?
[77.21]
Then We placed it in a secure resting-place,
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Till an appointed term,
[77.23]
So We proportion it-- how well are We at proportioning (things).
[77.24]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.25]
Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,
[77.26]
The living and the dead,
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And made therein lofty mountains,
and given you to drink of sweet water?
[77.28]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.29]
Walk on to that which you called a lie.
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Walk on to the covering having three branches,
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Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.
[77.32]
Surely it sends up sparks like palaces,
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As if they were tawny camels.
[77.34]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
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This is the day on which they shall not speak,
[77.36]
And permission shall not be given to them so that they should offer excuses.
[77.37]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.38]
This is the day of decision:
We have gathered you and those of yore.
[77.39]
So if you have a plan,
plan against Me (now).
[77.40]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.41]
Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be amid shades and fountains,
[77.42]
And fruits such as they desire.
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Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.
[77.44]
Surely thus do We reward the doers of good.
[77.45]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.46]
Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little;
surely you are guilty.
[77.47]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.48]
And where it is said to them:
Bow down,
they do not bow down.
[77.49]
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
[77.50]
In what announcement,
then,
after it,
will they believe?