43 In Gardens of delight, |
44 On thrones, facing each other. |
45 A bowl of running water will be made to go round them, |
46 White, delicious to those who drink. |
47 It deprives not of reason, nor are they exhausted therewith. |
48 And with them are those modest in gaze, having beautiful eyes, |
49 As if they were eggs, carefully protected. |
50 Then some of them will turn to others, questioning mutually. |
51 A speaker of them will say: Surely I had a comrade, |
52 Who said: Art thou indeed of those who accept? |
53 When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then be requited? |
54 He will say: Will you look? |
55 Then he looked down and saw him in the midst of hell. |
56 He will say: By Allāh! thou hadst almost caused me to perish; |
57 And had it not been for the favour of my Lord, I should have been among those brought up. |
58 Are we not to die, |
59 Except our previous death? And are we not to be chastised? |
60 Surely this is the mighty achievement. |
61 For the like of this, then, let the workers work. |
62 Is this the better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqūm? |
63 Surely We have made it a trial for the wrongdoers. |
64 It is a tree that grows in the bottom of hell — |
65 Its produce is as it were the heads of serpents. |
66 Then truly they will eat of it and fill (their) bellies with it. |
67 Then surely they shall have after it a drink of boiling water. |
68 Then their return is surely to the flaming Fire. |
69 They indeed found their fathers astray, |
70 So in their footsteps they are hastening on. |