Lo! for the duteous is achievement - 31 Gardens and grapes. 32 And full-breasted [companions] of equal age 33 And flasks full and flowing. 34 There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying - 35 for a recompense from thy Lord, a gift, a reckoning, 36 [From] the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them, the Most Merciful. They possess not from Him [authority for] speech. 37 The Day when the Spirit and the angels are ranged row on row. None shall speak save he whom the Merciful Lord will permit; and he too will speak what is right. 38 That day is certain. So whosoever likes may prepare a way to his Lord. 39 We warn you of a punishment that has come near; a day on which man will see what his own hands have sent ahead, and the disbeliever will say, “Alas – if only I were dust!” 40