The Holy Qur'an: Chapter 44: Smoke (Dukhãn)

In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

44:1. Ha-Mim.

44:2. By the Book that makes things clear;-

44:3. We sent it down during a Blessed Night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil).

44:4. In the (Night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom,

44:5. By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations),

44:6. As Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things);

44:7. The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith.

44:8. There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death,- The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors.

44:9. Yet they play about in doubt.

44:10. Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible,

44:11. Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous.

44:12. (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us, for we do really believe!"

44:13. How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,-

44:14. Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"

44:15. We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways).

44:16. One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught: We will indeed (then) exact Retribution!

44:17. We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them a messenger most honourable,

44:18. Saying: "Restore to me the Servants of God: I am to you an messenger worthy of all trust;

44:19. "And be not arrogant as against God: for I come to you with authority manifest.

44:20. "For me, I have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me.

44:21. "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."

44:22. (But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."

44:23. (The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.

44:24. "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned."

44:25. How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,

44:26. And corn-fields and noble buildings,

44:27. And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!

44:28. Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!

44:29. And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).

44:30. We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,

44:31. Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.

44:32. And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,

44:33. And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial

44:34. As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:

44:35. "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.

44:36. "Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!"

44:37. What! Are they better than the people of Tubba' and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.

44:38. We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:

44:39. We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.

44:40. Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,-

44:41. The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive,

44:42. Except such as receive God's Mercy: for He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.

44:43. Verily the tree of Zaqqum

44:44. Will be the food of the Sinful,-

44:45. Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides.

44:46. Like the boiling of scalding water.

44:47. (A voice will cry: "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire!

44:48. "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water,

44:49. "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou mighty, full of honour!

44:50. "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!"

44:51. As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security,

44:52. Among Gardens and Springs;

44:53. Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other;

44:54. So; and We shall join them to fair women with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes.

44:55. There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security;

44:56. Nor will they there taste Death, except the first death; and He will preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire,-

44:57. As a Bounty from thy Lord! that will be the supreme achievement!

44:58. Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed.

44:59. So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting.