The Emissaries

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

[77:1]

By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another

[77:2]

By the raging hurricanes,

[77:3]

By those which cause earth’s vegetation to revive;

[77:4]

By those who winnow with a winnowing,

[77:5]

By those who bring down the Reminder,

[77:6]

To excuse or to warn,

[77:7]

Surely that which ye are promised will befall.

[77:8]

So when the stars are put out,

[77:9]

And when the sky is riven asunder,

[77:10]

And when the mountains are blown away,

[77:11]

And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed –

[77:12]

For what day is the time appointed ?

[77:13]

For the Day of Decision.

[77:14]

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

[77:15]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:16]

Destroyed We not the former folk,

[77:17]

Then caused the latter folk to follow after ?

[77:18]

Thus deal We ever with the guilty.

[77:19]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:20]

Did We not create you from a base fluid

[77:21]

Which We laid up in a safe abode

[77:22]

For a known term ?

[77:23]

Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging!

[77:24]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:25]

Have We not made the earth a receptacle

[77:26]

Both for the living and the dead,

[77:27]

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

[77:28]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:29]

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

[77:30]

Depart unto the shadow falling threefold,

[77:31]

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

[77:32]

Lo! it throweth up sparks like the castles,

[77:33]

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

[77:34]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:35]

This is a day wherein they speak not,

[77:36]

Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.

[77:37]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:38]

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

[77:39]

If now ye have any wit, outwit Me.

[77:40]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:41]

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

[77:42]

And fruits such as they desire.

[77:43]

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

[77:44]

Thus do We reward the good.

[77:45]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:46]

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

[77:47]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:48]

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

[77:49]

Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

[77:50]

In what statement, after this, will they believe ?