7 When they are cast therein, they will hear a loud moaning of it as it heaves, |
8 Almost bursting for fury. Whenever a group is cast into it, its keepers ask them: Did not a warner come to you? |
9 They say: Yea, indeed a warner came to us, but we denied and said: Allāh has revealed nothing; you are only in great error. |
10 And they say: Had we but listened or pondered, we should not have been among the inmates of the burning Fire. |
11 Thus they will confess their sins; so far (from good) are the inmates of the burning Fire. |
12 Those who fear their Lord in secret, for them is surely forgiveness and a great reward. |
13 And conceal your word or manifest it, truly He is Knower of that which is in the hearts. |
14 Does He not know Who created? And He is the Knower of subtleties, the Aware. |
15 He it is Who made the earth subservient to you, so go about in the spacious sides thereof, and eat of His sustenance. And to Him is the rising (after death). |
16 Do you feel secure that He Who is in the heaven will not make the earth to swallow you up? Then lo! it will shake. |
17 Or do you feel secure that He Who is in the heaven will not send on you a violent wind? Then shall you know how (truthful) was My warning! |
18 And certainly those before them denied, then how (terrible) was My disapproval! |
19 Do they not see the birds above them spreading and contracting (their wings)? Naught upholds them save the Beneficent. Surely He is Seer of all things. |
20 Or who is it that will be a host for you to help you against the Beneficent? The disbelievers are in naught but delusion. |
21 Or who is it that will give you sustenance, if He should withhold His sustenance? Nay, they persist in disdain and aversion. |