The Emissaries · Surah 77

By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another

By the raging hurricanes

By those which cause earth's vegetation to revive

By those who winnow with a winnowing

By those who bring down the Reminder

To excuse or to warn

Surely that which ye are promised will befall

So when the stars are put out

And when the sky is riven asunder

And when the mountains are blown away

And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed

For what day is the time appointed

For the Day of Decision

And what will convey unto thee what the Day of Decision is

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

Destroyed We not the former folk

Then caused the latter folk to follow after

Thus deal We ever with the guilty

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

Did We not create you from a base fluid

Which We laid up in a safe abode

For a known term

Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

Have We not made the earth a receptacle

Both for the living and the dead

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

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

(It will be said unto them:) Depart unto that (doom) which ye used to deny

Depart unto the shadow falling threefold

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

Lo! it throweth up sparks like the castles

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

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

This is a day wherein they speak not

Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

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

If now ye have any wit, outwit Me

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

Lo! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains

And fruits such as they desire

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

Thus do We reward the good

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

Eat and take your ease (on earth) a little. Lo! ye are guilty

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

When it is said unto them: Bow down, they bow not down

Woe unto the repudiators on that day

In what statement, after this, will they believe