Quran

[1]   The Sure Reality!

[2]   What is the Sure Reality?

[3]   And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?

[4]   The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!

[5]   But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!

[6]   And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;

[7]   He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!

[8]   Then seest thou any of them left surviving?

[9]   And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.

[10]   And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.

[11]   We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),

[12]   That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.

[13]   Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,

[14]   And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,-

[15]   On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.

[16]   And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,

[17]   And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.

[18]   That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.

[19]   Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!

[20]   "I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"

[21]   And he will be in a life of Bliss,

[22]   In a Garden on high,

[23]   The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.

[24]   "Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"

[25]   And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!

[26]   "And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!

[27]   "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!

[28]   "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!

[29]   "My power has perished from me!"...

[30]   (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,

[31]   "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.

[32]   "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!

[33]   "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.

[34]   "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!

[35]   "So no friend hath he here this Day.

[36]   "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,

[37]   "Which none do eat but those in sin."

[38]   So I do call to witness what ye see,

[39]   And what ye see not,

[40]   That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;

[41]   It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!

[42]   Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.

[43]   (This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.

[44]   And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,

[45]   We should certainly seize him by his right hand,

[46]   And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:

[47]   Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).

[48]   But verily this is a Message for the Allah-fearing.

[49]   And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).

[50]   But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.

[51]   But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.

[52]   So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.