Dispatched (Al-Mursalaat)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
CONSIDER these [messages,] sent forth in waves 1 And by the winds that blow violently, 2 And by the winds that scatter clouds and rain; 3 and the severally severing 4 By those who bring down the Reminder, 5 to provide excuses for some and to give warnings to others: 6 What is promised will surely come to pass. 7 So when the stars are extinguished, 8 And when the sky is split apart. 9 and the mountains are blown away, 10 and when the Messengers' time is set, 11 For what Day are these (portents) deferred? 12 For the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false]! 13 What do you know what the Day of Judgement is? 14 Woe that Day to the deniers (of the Day of Resurrection)! 15 Did We not destroy the ancients 16 and then follow them with the later folk? 17 Thus do We deal with the criminals. 18 Woe that day unto those who cry it lies! 19 Did We not create you from a weak water, 20 Then We placed it in a place of safety (womb), 21 For a known calculated term. 22 We determined; excellent determiners are We. 23 Woe on that day unto the beliers! 24 Have We not made the earth a receptacle? 25 Both for the living and the dead, 26 And made therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink of sweet water? 27 Alas the woe that day for those who deny! 28 [They will be told], "Proceed to that which you used to deny. 29 "Depart ye to a Shadow (of smoke ascending) in three columns, 30 Neither shady nor protecting against the blazing Fire. 31 and throwing up sparks as huge as towers 32 (Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue. 33 Ah woe, that Day, to the Rejecters of Truth! 34 That will be a Day when they shall not speak (during some part of it), 35 Nor will it be permitted for them to make an excuse. 36 Alas the woe that day for those who deny! 37 That is the Day of Judgement on which We have assembled you as well as all those who went before you. 38 If you have any plans, use them. 39 Woe unto the repudiators on that day! 40