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52. At-Tur - The Mountain
| 1 | By the Mount |
| 2 | and a Book inscribed |
| 3 | in a parchment unrolled, |
| 4 | by the House inhabited |
| 5 | and the roof uplifted |
| 6 | and the sea swarming, |
| 7 | surely thy Lord's chastisement is about to fall; |
| 8 | there is none to avert it. |
| 9 | Upon the day when heaven spins dizzily |
| 10 | and the mountains are in motion, |
| 11 | woe that day unto those that cry lies, |
| 12 | such as play at plunging, |
| 13 | the day when they shall be pitched into the fire of Gehenna: |
| 14 | 'This is the fire that you cried lies to! |
| 15 | What, is this magic, or is it you that do not see? |
| 16 | Roast in it! And bear you patiently, or bear not patiently, equal it is to you; you are only being recompensed for that you were working.' |
| 17 | Surely the godfearing shall be in gardens and bliss, |
| 18 | rejoicing in that their Lord has given them; and their Lord shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell. |
| 19 | 'Eat and drink, with wholesome appetite, for that you were working. |
| 20 | Reclining upon couches ranged in rows; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris. |
| 21 | And those who believed, and their seed followed them in belief, We shall join their seed with them, and We shall not defraud them of aught of their work; every man shall be pledged for what he earned. |
| 22 | And We shall succour them with fruits and flesh such as they desire |
| 23 | while they pass therein a cup one to another wherein is no idle talk, no cause of sin, |
| 24 | and there go round them youths, their own, as if they were hidden pearls. |
| 25 | They advance one upon another, asking each other questions. |
| 26 | They say, 'We were before among our people, ever going in fear, |
| 27 | and God was gracious to us, and guarded us against the chastisement of the burning wind; |
| 28 | we were before ever calling upon Him; surely He is the All-benign, the All-compassionate.' |
| 29 | Therefore remind! by thy Lord's blessing thou art not a soothsayer neither possessed. |
| 30 | Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty'? |
| 31 | Say: 'Await! I shall be awaiting with you.' |
| 32 | Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people? |
| 33 | Or do they say, 'He has invented it?' Nay, but they do not believe. |
| 34 | Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly. |
| 35 | Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators? |
| 36 | Or did they create the heavens and earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith. |
| 37 | Or are thy Lord's treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the registrars? |
| 38 | Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority. |
| 39 | Or has He daughters, and they sons? |
| 40 | Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt? |
| 41 | Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down? |
| 42 | Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted. |
| 43 | Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate! |
| 44 | Even if they saw lumps falling from heaven, they would say, 'A massed cloud!' |
| 45 | Then leave them, till they encounter their day wherein they shall be thunderstruck, |
| 46 | the day when their guile shall avail them naught, and they shall not be helped. |
| 47 | And there surely awaits the evildoers a chastisement beyond even that, but most of them know it not. |
| 48 | And be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord; surely thou art before Our eyes. And proclaim the praise of thy Lord when thou arisest, |
| 49 | and proclaim the praise of thy Lord in the night, and at the declining of the stars. |