Surah 77

1 By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another

2 By the raging hurricanes,

3 By those which cause earth’s vegetation to revive;

4 By those who winnow with a winnowing,

5 By those who bring down the Reminder,

6 To excuse or to warn,

7 Surely that which you are promised will befall.

8 So when the stars are put out,

9 And when the sky is riven asunder,

10 And when the mountains are blown away,

11 And when the messengers are brought to their time appointed -

12 For what day is the time appointed ?

13 For the Day of Decision.

14 And what will convey to you what the Day of Decision is! -

15 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

16 Destroyed We not the former folk,

17 Then caused the latter folk to follow after ?

18 Thus deal We ever with the guilty.

19 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

20 Did We not create you from a base fluid

21 Which We laid up in a safe abode

22 For a known term ?

23 Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging!

24 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

25 Have We not made the earth a receptacle

26 Both for the living and the dead,

27 And placed therein high mountains and given you to drink sweet water therein ?

28 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

29 (It will be said to them:) Depart to that (doom) which you used to deny;

30 Depart to the shadow falling threefold,

31 (Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.

32 See! it throweth up sparks like the castles,

33 (Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue.

34 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

35 This is a day wherein they speak not,

36 Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.

37 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

38 This is the Day of Decision, We have brought you and the men of old together.

39 If now you have any wit, outwit Me.

40 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

41 See! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains,

42 And fruits such as they desire.

43 (Unto them it is said:) Eat, drink and welcome, O you blessed, in return for what you did.

44 Thus do We reward the good.

45 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

46 Eat and take your ease (on earth) a little. See! you are guilty.

47 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

48 When it is said to them: Bow down, they bow not down!

49 Woe to the repudiators on that day!

50 In what statement, after this, will they believe ?