Quran

[1]   Ha-Mim.

[2]   By the Book that makes things clear;-

[3]   We sent it down during a Blessed Night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil).

[4]   In the (Night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom,

[5]   By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations),

[6]   As Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things);

[7]   The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith.

[8]   There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death,- The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors.

[9]   Yet they play about in doubt.

[10]   Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible,

[11]   Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous.

[12]   (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us, for we do really believe!"

[13]   How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,-

[14]   Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"

[15]   We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways).

[16]   One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught: We will indeed (then) exact Retribution!

[17]   We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them a messenger most honourable,

[18]   Saying: "Restore to me the Servants of Allah: I am to you an messenger worthy of all trust;

[19]   "And be not arrogant as against Allah: for I come to you with authority manifest.

[20]   "For me, I have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me.

[21]   "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."

[22]   (But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."

[23]   (The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.

[24]   "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned."

[25]   How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,

[26]   And corn-fields and noble buildings,

[27]   And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!

[28]   Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!

[29]   And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).

[30]   We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,

[31]   Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.

[32]   And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,

[33]   And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial

[34]   As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:

[35]   "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.

[36]   "Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!"

[37]   What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.

[38]   We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:

[39]   We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.

[40]   Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,-

[41]   The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive,

[42]   Except such as receive Allah's Mercy: for He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.

[43]   Verily the tree of Zaqqum

[44]   Will be the food of the Sinful,-

[45]   Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides.

[46]   Like the boiling of scalding water.

[47]   (A voice will cry: "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire!

[48]   "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water,

[49]   "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou mighty, full of honour!

[50]   "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!"

[51]   As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security,

[52]   Among Gardens and Springs;

[53]   Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other;

[54]   So; and We shall join them to fair women with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes.

[55]   There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security;

[56]   Nor will they there taste Death, except the first death; and He will preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire,-

[57]   As a Bounty from thy Lord! that will be the supreme achievement!

[58]   Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed.

[59]   So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting.