afterlife

إِنَّ هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ يُحِبُّونَ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ وَيَذَرُونَ وَرَآءَهُمْ يَوْمًا ثَقِيلًا

Indeed, these [disbelievers] love the immediate and leave behind them a grave Day.

أَحْيَآءً وَأَمْوَٰتًا

Of the living and the dead?

ٱنطَلِقُوٓا۟ إِلَىٰ ظِلٍّ ذِى ثَلَـٰثِ شُعَبٍ

Proceed to a shadow [of smoke] having three columns.

لَّا ظَلِيلٍ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِنَ ٱللَّهَبِ

[But having] no cool shade and availing not against the flame."

كَأَنَّهُۥ جِمَـٰلَتٌ صُفْرٌ

As if they were yellowish [black] camels.

هَـٰذَا يَوْمُ ٱلْفَصْلِ ۖ جَمَعْنَـٰكُمْ وَٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

This is the Day of Judgement; We will have assembled you and the former peoples.

إِنَّ يَوْمَ ٱلْفَصْلِ كَانَ مِيقَـٰتًا

Indeed, the Day of Judgement is an appointed time -

لَّا يَذُوقُونَ فِيهَا بَرْدًا وَلَا شَرَابًا

They will not taste therein [any] coolness or drink.

إِلَّا حَمِيمًا وَغَسَّاقًا

Except scalding water and [foul] purulence -

لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغْوًا وَلَا كِذَّٰبًا

No ill speech will they hear therein or any falsehood -

تَتْبَعُهَا ٱلرَّادِفَةُ

There will follow it the subsequent [one].

يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى ٱلْحَافِرَةِ

They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?

قَالُوا۟ تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ

They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."

فَإِنَّمَا هِىَ زَجْرَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ

Indeed, it will be but one shout,

ءَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ ۚ بَنَىٰهَا

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it.

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلطَّآمَّةُ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

ضَاحِكَةٌ مُّسْتَبْشِرَةٌ

Laughing, rejoicing at good news.

كَلَّا بَلْ تُكَذِّبُونَ بِٱلدِّينِ

No! But you deny the Recompense.

وَإِنَّ ٱلْفُجَّارَ لَفِى جَحِيمٍ

And indeed, the wicked will be in Hellfire.

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا يَوْمُ ٱلدِّينِ

And what can make you know what is the Day of Recompense?

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ

And what can make you know what is sijjeen?

ٱلَّذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ

Who deny the Day of Recompense.

كَلَّا ۖ بَلْ ۜ رَانَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ

No! Rather, the stain has covered their hearts of that which they were earning.

كَلَّآ إِنَّ كِتَـٰبَ ٱلْأَبْرَارِ لَفِى عِلِّيِّينَ

No! Indeed, the record of the righteous is in ʿilliyyūn.

يَشْهَدُهُ ٱلْمُقَرَّبُونَ

Which is witnessed by those brought near [to Allāh].

خِتَـٰمُهُۥ مِسْكٌ ۚ وَفِى ذَٰلِكَ فَلْيَتَنَافَسِ ٱلْمُتَنَـٰفِسُونَ

The last of it is musk. So for this let the competitors compete.

وَمِزَاجُهُۥ مِن تَسْنِيمٍ

And its mixture is of Tasneem,

لَتَرْكَبُنَّ طَبَقًا عَن طَبَقٍ

[That] you will surely embark upon [i.e., experience] state after state.

ثُمَّ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحْيَىٰ

Neither dying therein nor living.

وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَىٰٓ

While the Hereafter is better and more enduring.

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Within it are couches raised high

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

And cushions lined up

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And carpets spread around.

كَلَّآ إِذَا دُكَّتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ دَكًّا دَكًّا

No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed

يَقُولُ يَـٰلَيْتَنِى قَدَّمْتُ لِحَيَاتِى

He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

فَيَوْمَئِذٍ لَّا يُعَذِّبُ عَذَابَهُۥٓ أَحَدٌ

So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا هُمْ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلْمَشْـَٔمَةِ

But they who disbelieved in Our signs - those are the companions of the left.

عَلَيْهِمْ نَارٌ مُّؤْصَدَةٌۢ

Over them will be fire closed in.

وَقَدْ خَابَ مَن دَسَّىٰهَا

And he has failed who instills it [with corruption].

وَإِنَّ لَنَا لَلْـَٔاخِرَةَ وَٱلْأُولَىٰ

And indeed, to us belongs the Hereafter and the first [life].

وَمَا لِأَحَدٍ عِندَهُۥ مِن نِّعْمَةٍ تُجْزَىٰٓ

And not [giving] for anyone who has [done him] a favor to be rewarded

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ ٱلرُّجْعَىٰٓ

Indeed, to your Lord is the return.

۞ أَفَلَا يَعْلَمُ إِذَا بُعْثِرَ مَا فِى ٱلْقُبُورِ

But does he not know that when the contents of the graves are scattered

ٱلْقَارِعَةُ

The Striking Calamity -

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

فَأُمُّهُۥ هَاوِيَةٌ

His refuge will be an abyss.

نَارٌ حَامِيَةٌۢ

It is a Fire, intensely hot.

كَلَّا سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ

No! You are going to know.

ٱلَّتِى تَطَّلِعُ عَلَى ٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةِ

Which mounts directed at the hearts.

إِنَّهَا عَلَيْهِم مُّؤْصَدَةٌ

Indeed, it [i.e., Hellfire] will be closed down upon them