17 Or our fathers of yore? |
18 Say: Yea, and you will be humiliated. |
19 So it will be but one cry, when lo! they will see. |
20 And they will say: O woe to us! This is the day of Requital. |
21 This is the day of Judgment, which you called a lie. |
22 Gather together those who did wrong and their associates, and what they worshipped |
23 Besides Allāh, then lead them to the way to hell. |
24 And stop them, for they shall be questioned: |
25 What is the matter with you that you help not one another? |
26 Nay, on that day they will be submissive. |
27 And some of them will turn to others mutually questioning — |
28 Saying: Surely you used to come to us from the right side. |
29 They will say: Nay, you (yourselves) were not believers. |
30 And we had no authority over you, but you were an inordinate people. |
31 So the word of our Lord has proved true against us: we shall surely taste. |
32 We led you astray, for we ourselves were erring. |
33 So, that day they will be sharers in the chastisement. |
34 Thus do We deal with the guilty. |
35 They indeed were arrogant, when it was said to them: There is no god but Allāh; |
36 And said: Shall we give up our gods for a mad poet? |
37 Nay, he has brought the Truth and verifies the messengers. |
38 Surely you will taste the painful chastisement. |
39 And you are requited naught but for what you did — |
40 Save the servants of Allāh, the purified ones. |
41 For them is a known sustenance: |
42 Fruits. And they are honoured, |