What are they asking one another about?

About the Great Event.

About which they disagree.

Surely, they will find out.

Most certainly, they will find out.

Did We not make the earth a cradle?

And the mountains pegs?

And created you in pairs?

And made your sleep for rest?

And made the night a cover?

And made the day for livelihood?

And built above you seven strong ones?

And placed a blazing lamp?

And brought down from the clouds pouring water?

To produce with it grains and vegetation?

And luxuriant gardens?

The Day of Sorting has been appointed.

The Day when the Trumpet is blown, and you will come in droves.

And the sky is opened up, and becomes gateways.

And the mountains are set in motion, and become a mirage.

Hell is lying in ambush.

For the oppressors, a destination.

Where they will remain for eons.

They will taste therein neither coolness, nor drink.

Except boiling water, and freezing hail.

A fitting requital.

For they were not anticipating any reckoning.

And they denied Our signs utterly.

But We have enumerated everything in writing.

So taste! We will increase you only in suffering.

But for the righteous there is triumph.

Gardens and vineyards.

And splendid spouses, well matched.

And delicious drinks.

They will hear therein neither gossip, nor lies.

A reward from your Lord, a fitting gift.

Lord of the heavens and the earth, and everything between them—The Most Merciful—none can argue with Him.

On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in row. They will not speak, unless it be one permitted by the Most Merciful, and he will say what is right.

That is the Day of Reality. So whoever wills, let him take a way back to his Lord.

We have warned you of a near punishment—the Day when a person will observe what his hands have produced, and the faithless will say, “O, I wish I were dust.”

By those who snatch violently.

And those who remove gently.

And those who glide smoothly.

And those who race swiftly.

And those who regulate events.

On the Day when the Quake quakes.

And is followed by the Successor.

Hearts on that Day will be pounding.

Their sights downcast.

They say, “Are we to be restored to the original condition?

When we have become hollow bones?”

They say, “This is a losing proposition.”

But it will be only a single nudge.

And they will be awake.

Has the story of Moses reached you?

When His Lord called out to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa.

“Go to Pharaoh—he has transgressed.”

And say, “Do you care to be cleansed?

And I will guide you to your Lord, and you will turn reverent.”

He showed him the Greatest Miracle.

But he denied and defied.

Then turned his back, and tried.

And gathered and proclaimed.

He said, “I am your Lord, the most high.”

So God seized him with an exemplary punishment, in the last and in the first.

In this is a lesson for whoever fears.

Are you more difficult to create, or the heaven? He constructed it.

He raised its masses, and proportioned it.

And He dimmed its night, and brought out its daylight.

And the earth after that He spread.

And from it, He produced its water and its pasture.

And the mountains, He anchored.

A source of enjoyment for you and for your animals.

But when the Great Cataclysm arrives.

A Day when man will remember what he has endeavored.

And Hell will be displayed to whoever sees.

As for him who was defiant.

And preferred the life of this world.

Then Hell is the shelter.

But as for him who feared the Standing of his Lord, and restrained the self from desires.

Then Paradise is the shelter.

They ask you about the Hour, “When will it take place?”

You have no knowledge of it.

To your Lord is its finality.

You are just a warner for whoever dreads it.

On the Day when they witness it—as though they only stayed an evening, or its morning.

He frowned and turned away.

When the blind man approached him.

But how do you know? Perhaps he was seeking to purify himself.

Or be reminded, and the message would benefit him.

But as for him who was indifferent.

You gave him your attention.

Though you are not liable if he does not purify himself.

But as for him who came to you seeking.

In awe.

To him you were inattentive.

Do not. This is a Lesson.

Whoever wills, shall remember it.

On honorable pages.

Exalted and purified.

By the hands of scribes.

Noble and devoted.

Perish man! How thankless he is!

From what did He create him?

From a sperm drop He created him, and enabled him.

Then He eased the way for him.

Then He puts him to death, and buries him.

Then, when He wills, He will resurrect him.

But no, he did not fulfill what He has commanded him.

Let man consider his food.

We pour down water in abundance.

Then crack the soil open.

And grow in it grains.

And grapes and herbs.

And olives and dates.

And luscious gardens.

And fruits and vegetables.

Enjoyment for you, and for your livestock.

But when the Deafening Noise comes to pass.

The Day when a person will flee from his brother.

And his mother and his father.

And his consort and his children.

Every one of them, on that Day, will have enough to preoccupy him.

Faces on that Day will be radiant.

Laughing and rejoicing.

And Faces on that Day will be covered with misery.

Overwhelmed by remorse.

These are the faithless, the vicious.

When the sun is rolled up.

When the stars are dimmed.

When the mountains are set in motion.

When the relationships are suspended.

When the beasts are gathered.

When the oceans are set aflame.

When the souls are paired.

When the girl, buried alive, is asked:

For what crime was she killed?

When the records are made public.

When the sky is peeled away.

When the Fire is set ablaze.

When Paradise is brought near.

Each soul will know what it has readied.

I swear by the galaxies.

Precisely running their courses.

And by the night as it recedes.

And by the morn as it breathes.

This is the speech of a noble messenger.

Endowed with power, eminent with the Lord of the Throne.

Obeyed and honest.

Your friend is not possessed.

He saw him on the luminous horizon.

And He does not withhold knowledge of the Unseen.

And it is not the word of an accursed devil.

So where are you heading?

It is only a Reminder to all mankind.

To whoever of you wills to go straight.

But you cannot will, unless God wills—The Lord of the Worlds.

When the sky breaks apart.

When the planets are scattered.

When the oceans are exploded.

When the tombs are strewn around.

Each soul will know what it has advanced, and what it has deferred.

O man! What deluded you concerning your Lord, the Most Generous?

He Who created you, and formed you, and proportioned you?

In whatever shape He willed, He assembled you.

But you reject the religion.

Though over you are watchers.

Honest recorders.

They know everything you do.

The virtuous will be in bliss.

While the wicked will be in Hell.

They will enter it on the Day of Justice.

And they will not be absent from it.

But what will convey to you what the Day of Justice is?

Then again, what will convey to you what the Day of Justice is?

The Day when no soul will avail another soul anything; and the decision on that Day is God’s.

Woe to the defrauders.

Those who, when they take a measure from people, they take in full.

But when they measure or weigh to others, they cheat.

Do these not know that they will be resurrected?

For a Great Day?

The Day when mankind will stand before the Lord of the Worlds?

Not at all. The record of the wicked is in Sijjeen.

But how can you know what Sijjeen is?

A numerical book.

Woe on that Day to the deniers.

Those who deny the Day of Reckoning.

But none denies it except the sinful aggressor.

When Our revelations are recited to him, he says, “Legends of the ancients.”

Not at all. Their hearts have become corroded by what they used to earn.

Not at all. On that Day, they will be screened from their Lord.

Then they will roast in Hell.

Then it will be said, “This is what you used to deny.”

No indeed; the record of the righteous is in Elliyyeen.

But how can you know what Elliyyoon is?

A numerical book.

Witnessed by those brought near.

Indeed, the righteous will be amid bliss.

On thrones, looking on.

You will recognize on their faces the radiance of bliss.

They will be given to drink a sealed wine.

Whose seal is musk—this is what competitors should compete for.

Its mixture is of Tasneem.

A spring from which those brought near drink.

Those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed.

And when they passed by them, they would wink at one another.

And when they went back to their families, they would go back exulting.

And if they saw them, they would say, “These people are lost.”

Yet they were not sent as guardians over them.

But on that Day, those who believed will laugh at the unbelievers.

On luxurious furnishings, looking on.

Have the unbelievers been repaid for what they used to do?

When the sky is ruptured.

And hearkens to its Lord, as it must.

And when the earth is leveled out.

And casts out what is in it, and becomes empty.

And hearkens to its Lord, as it must.

O man! You are laboring towards your Lord, and you will meet Him.

As for him who is given his book in his right hand.

He will have an easy settlement.

And will return to his family delighted.

But as for him who is given his book behind his back.

He will call for death.

And will enter the Blaze.

He used to be happy among his family.

He thought he would never return.

In fact, his Lord was watching him.

I swear by the twilight.

And by the night, and what it covers.

And by the moon, as it grows full.

You will mount stage by stage.

What is the matter with them that they do not believe?

And when the Quran is read to them, they do not bow down?

In fact, those who disbelieve are in denial.

But God knows what they hide inside.

So inform them of a painful punishment.

Except those who believe and do good deeds; they will have an undiminished reward.

By the sky with the constellations.

And by the Promised Day.

And by the witness and the witnessed.

Destroyed were the People of the Trench.

The fire supplied with fuel.

While they sat around it.

And were witnessing what they did to the believers.

They begrudged them only because they believed in God the Almighty, the Praiseworthy.

To Whom belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth. God is witness over everything.

Those who tempt the believers, men and women, then do not repent; for them is the punishment of Hell; for them is the punishment of Burning.

Those who believe and do righteous deeds will have Gardens beneath which rivers flow. That is the great triumph.

The onslaught of your Lord is severe.

It is He who begins and repeats.

And He is the Forgiving, the Loving.

Possessor of the Glorious Throne.

Doer of whatever He wills.

Has there come to you the story of the legions?

Of Pharaoh and Thamood?

In fact, those who disbelieve are in denial.

And God encloses them from beyond.

In fact, it is a Glorious Quran.

In a Preserved Tablet.

By the sky and at-Tariq.

But what will let you know what at-Tariq is?

The Piercing Star.

There is no soul without a Protector over it.

Let man consider what he was created from.

He was created from gushing liquid.

Issuing from between the backbone and the breastbones.

He is certainly able to return him.

On the Day when the secrets are disclosed.

He will have no strength, and no supporter.

By the sky that returns.

And the earth that cracks open.

It is a Decisive Word.

It is no joke.

They plot and scheme.

But I plot and scheme.

Therefore, give the blasphemers respite, a brief respite.

Praise the Name of your Lord, the Most High.

He who creates and regulates.

He who measures and guides.

He who produces the pasture.

And then turns it into light debris.

We will make you read, so do not forget.

Except what God wills. He knows what is declared, and what is hidden.

We will ease you into the Easy Way.

So remind, if reminding helps.

The reverent will remember.

But the wretched will avoid it.

He who will enter the Gigantic Fire.

Where he will neither die, nor live.

Successful is he who purifies himself.

And mentions the name of his Lord, and prays.

But you prefer the present life.

Though the Hereafter is better, and more lasting.

This is in the former scriptures.

The Scriptures of Abraham and Moses.

Has there come to you the news of the overwhelming?

Faces on that Day will be shamed.

Laboring and exhausted.

Roasting in a scorching Fire.

Given to drink from a flaming spring.

They will have no food except thorns.

That neither nourishes, nor satisfies hunger.

Faces on that Day will be joyful.

Satisfied with their endeavor.

In a lofty Garden.

In it you will hear no nonsense.

In it is a flowing spring.

In it are raised beds.

And cups set in place.

And cushions set in rows.

And carpets spread around.

Do they not look at the camels—how they are created?

And at the sky—how it is raised?

And at the mountains—how they are installed?

And at the earth—how it is spread out?

So remind. You are only a reminder.

You have no control over them.

But whoever turns away and disbelieves.

God will punish him with the greatest punishment.

To Us is their return.

Then upon Us rests their reckoning.

By the daybreak.

And ten nights.

And the even and the odd.

And the night as it recedes.

Is there in this an oath for a rational person?

Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with Aad?

Erum of the pillars.

The like of which was never created in the land.

And Thamood—those who carved the rocks in the valley.

And Pharaoh of the Stakes.

Those who committed excesses in the lands.

And spread much corruption therein.

So your Lord poured down upon them a scourge of punishment.

Your Lord is on the lookout.

As for man, whenever his Lord tests him, and honors him, and prospers him, he says, “My Lord has honored me.”

But whenever He tests him, and restricts his livelihood for him, he says, “My Lord has insulted me.”

Not at all. But you do not honor the orphan.

And you do not urge the feeding of the poor.

And you devour inheritance with all greed.

And you love wealth with immense love.

No—when the earth is leveled, pounded, and crushed.

And your Lord comes, with the angels, row after row.

And on that Day, Hell is brought forward. On that Day, man will remember, but how will remembrance avail him?

He will say, “If only I had forwarded for my life.”

On that Day, none will punish as He punishes.

And none will shackle as He shackles.

But as for you, O tranquil soul.

Return to your Lord, pleased and accepted.

Enter among My servants.

Enter My Paradise.

I swear by this land.

And you are a resident of this land.

And by a father and what he fathered.

We created man in distress.

Does he think that no one has power over him?

He says, “I have used up so much money.”

Does he think that no one sees him?

Did We not give him two eyes?

And a tongue, and two lips?

And We showed him the two ways?

But he did not brave the ascent.

And what will explain to you what the ascent is?

The freeing of a slave.

Or the feeding on a day of hunger.

An orphan near of kin.

Or a destitute in the dust.

Then he becomes of those who believe, and advise one another to patience, and advise one another to kindness.

These are the people of happiness.

But as for those who defy Our revelations—these are the people of misery.

Upon them is a padlocked Fire.

By the sun and its radiance.

And the moon as it follows it.

And the day as it reveals it.

And the night as it conceals it.

And the sky and He who built it.

And the earth and He who spread it.

And the soul and He who proportioned it.

And inspired it with its wickedness and its righteousness.

Successful is he who purifies it.

Failing is he who corrupts it.

Thamood denied in its pride.

When it followed its most wicked.

The messenger of God said to them, “This is the she-camel of God, so let her drink.”

But they called him a liar, and hamstrung her. So their Lord crushed them for their sin, and leveled it.

And He does not fear its sequel.

By the night as it covers.

And the day as it reveals.

And He who created the male and the female.

Your endeavors are indeed diverse.

As for him who gives and is righteous.

And confirms goodness.

We will ease his way towards ease.

But as for him who is stingy and complacent.

And denies goodness.

We will ease his way towards difficulty.

And his money will not avail him when he plummets.

It is upon Us to guide.

And to Us belong the Last and the First.

I have warned you of a Fierce Blaze.

None will burn in it except the very wicked.

He who denies and turns away.

But the devout will avoid it.

He who gives his money to become pure.

Seeking no favor in return.

Only seeking the acceptance of his Lord, the Most High.

And he will be satisfied.

By the morning light.

And the night as it settles.

Your Lord did not abandon you, nor did He forget.

The Hereafter is better for you than the First.

And your Lord will give you, and you will be satisfied.

Did He not find you orphaned, and sheltered you?

And found you wandering, and guided you.

And found you in need, and enriched you?

Therefore, do not mistreat the orphan.

Nor rebuff the seeker.

But proclaim the blessings of your Lord.

Did We not soothe your heart?

And lift from you your burden.

Which weighed down your back?

And raised for you your reputation?

With hardship comes ease.

With hardship comes ease.

When your work is done, turn to devotion.

And to your Lord turn for everything.

By the fig and the olive.

And Mount Sinai.

And this safe land.

We created man in the best design.

Then reduced him to the lowest of the low.

Except those who believe and do righteous deeds; for them is a reward without end.

So why do you still reject the religion?

Is God not the Wisest of the wise?

Read: In the Name of your Lord who created.

Created man from a clot.

Read: And your Lord is the Most Generous.

He who taught by the pen.

Taught man what he never knew.

In fact, man oversteps all bounds.

When he considers himself exempt.

But to your Lord is the return.

Have you seen him who prevents?

A servant when he prays?

Do you think he is upon guidance?

Or advocates righteousness?

Do you see how he disbelieved and turned away?

Does he not know that God sees?

No. If he does not desist, We will drag him by the forelock.

A deceitful, sinful forelock.

Let him call on his gang.

We will call the Guards.

No, do not obey him; but kneel down, and come near.

We sent it down on the Night of Decree.

But what will convey to you what the Night of Decree is?

The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months.

In it descend the angels and the Spirit, by the leave of their Lord, with every command.

Peace it is; until the rise of dawn.

Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture, and the Polytheists, were not apart, until the Clear Evidence came to them.

A messenger from God reciting purified scripts.

In them are valuable writings.

Those who were given the Scripture did not splinter, except after the Clear Evidence came to them.

They were commanded only to worship God, devoting their faith to Him alone, and to practice regular prayer, and to give alms. That is the upright religion.

Those who disbelieve among the People of the Scripture, and the Polytheists, will be in the Fire of Hell, where they will abide forever. These are the worst of creatures.

As for those who believe and lead a righteous life—these are the best of creatures.

Their reward is with their Lord: Gardens of Eternity beneath which rivers flow, where they will abide forever. God is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him. That is for whoever fears His Lord.

When the earth is shaken with its quake.

And the earth brings out its loads.

And man says, “What is the matter with it?”

On that Day, it will tell its tales.

For your Lord will have inspired it.

On that Day, the people will emerge in droves, to be shown their works.

Whoever has done an atom's weight of good will see it.

And whoever has done an atom's weight of evil will see it.

By the racers panting.

Igniting sparks.

Raiding at dawn.

Raising clouds of dust.

Storming into the midst.

Indeed, the human being is ungrateful to his Lord.

And he bears witness to that.

And he is fierce in his love of wealth.

Does he not know? When the contents of the graves are scattered around.

And the contents of the hearts are obtained.

Their Lord, on that Day, is fully informed of them.

The Shocker.

What is the Shocker?

What will explain to you what the Shocker is?

The Day when the people will be like scattered moths.

And the mountains will be like tufted wool.

As for he whose scales are heavy.

He will be in a pleasant life.

But as for he whose scales are light.

His home is the Abyss.

Do you know what it is?

A Raging Fire.

Abundance distracts you.

Until you visit the graveyards.

Indeed, you will know.

Certainly, you will know.

If you knew with knowledge of certainty.

You would see the Inferno.

Then you will see it with the eye of certainty.

Then, on that Day, you will be questioned about the Bliss.

By time.

The human being is in loss.

Except those who believe, and do good works, and encourage truth, and recommend patience.

Woe to every slanderer backbiter.

Who gathers wealth and counts it over.

Thinking that his wealth has made him immortal.

By no means. He will be thrown into the Crusher.

And what will make you realize what the Crusher is?

God's kindled Fire.

That laps to the hearts.

It closes in on them.

In extended columns.

Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with the People of the Elephant?

Did He not make their plan go wrong?

He sent against them swarms of birds.

Throwing at them rocks of baked clay.

Leaving them like chewed-up leaves.

For the security of Quraish.

Their security during winter and summer journeys.

Let them worship the Lord of this House.

Who has fed them against hunger, and has secured them against fear.

Have you considered him who denies the religion?

It is he who mistreats the orphan.

And does not encourage the feeding of the poor.

So woe to those who pray.

Those who are heedless of their prayers.

Those who put on the appearance.

And withhold the assistance.

We have given you plenty.

So pray to your Lord and sacrifice.

He who hates you is the loser.

Say, “O disbelievers.

I do not worship what you worship.

Nor do you worship what I worship.

Nor do I serve what you serve.

Nor do you serve what I serve.

You have your way, and I have my way.”

When there comes God’s victory, and conquest.

And you see the people entering God’s religion in multitudes.

Then celebrate the praise of your Lord, and seek His forgiveness. He is the Accepter of Repentance.

Condemned are the hands of Abee Lahab, and he is condemned.

His wealth did not avail him, nor did what he acquired.

He will burn in a Flaming Fire.

And his wife—the firewood carrier.

Around her neck is a rope of thorns.

Say, “He is God, the One.

God, the Absolute.

He begets not, nor was He begotten.

And there is nothing comparable to Him.”

Say, “I take refuge with the Lord of Daybreak.

From the evil of what He created.

And from the evil of the darkness as it gathers.

And from the evil of those who practice sorcery.

And from the evil of an envious when he envies.”

Say, “I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind.

The King of mankind.

The God of mankind.

From the evil of the sneaky whisperer.

Who whispers into the hearts of people.

From among jinn and among people.”