12 They ask: When is the day of Judgment? |
13 (It is) the day when they are tried at the Fire. |
14 Taste your persecution! This is what you would hasten on. |
15 Surely the dutiful are amidst Gardens and fountains, |
16 Taking that which their Lord gives them. Surely they were before that the doers of good. |
17 They used to sleep but little at night. |
18 And in the morning they asked (Divine) protection. |
19 And in their wealth there was a due share for the beggar and for one who is denied (good). |
20 And in the earth are signs for those who are sure, |
21 And in yourselves — do you not see? |
22 And in the heavens is your sustenance and that which you are promised. |
23 So by the Lord of the heavens and the earth! it is surely the truth, just as you speak. |
24 Has the story of Abraham’s honoured guests reached thee? |
25 When they came to him, they said: Peace! Peace! said he. Strangers! |
26 Then he turned aside to his family and brought a fat calf. |
27 So he placed it before them. He said: Will you not eat? |
28 So he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not. And they gave him the good news of a boy possessing knowledge. |
29 Then his wife came up in grief, and she smote her face and said: A barren old woman! |
30 They said: Thus says thy Lord. Surely He is the Wise, the Knowing. |
31 He said: what is your errand, O messengers! |
32 They said: We have been sent to a guilty people |
33 That we may send upon them stones of clay, |