50:1  Qaf. By the glorious Quran.

50:2  Indeed they consider it odd that a warner from among themselves should have come to them. So the faithless say, ‘This is an odd thing.’

50:3  ‘What! When we are dead and have become dust, [shall we be raised again]? That is a far-fetched return!’

50:4  We know what the earth diminishes from them, and with Us is a preserving Book.

50:5  Indeed, they denied the truth when it came to them; so they are now in a perplexed state of affairs.

50:6  Have they not, then, observed the heaven above them, how We have built it and adorned it, and that there are no cracks in it?

50:7  And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and caused every delightful kind [of vegetation] to grow in it.

50:8  [In this there is] an insight and admonition for every penitent servant.

50:9  We send down from the sky salubrious water, with which We grow gardens and the grain which is harvested,

50:10  and tall date palms with regularly set spathes,

50:11  as a provision for Our servants, and with it We revive a dead country. Likewise will be the rising [from the dead].

50:12  The people of Noah denied before them, and [so did] the people of Rass and Thamud,

50:13  and ‘Ad, Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot,

50:14  and the inhabitants of Aykah and the people of Tubbac. Each [of them] impugned the apostles, and so My threat became due [against them].

50:15  Have We been exhausted by the first creation? No, they are in doubt about a new creation.

50:16  Certainly We have created man and We know to what his soul tempts him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.

50:17  When the twin recorders record [his deeds], seated on the right hand and on the left:

50:18  he says no word but that there is a ready observer beside him.

50:19  The throes of death bring the truth: ‘This is what you used to shun!’

50:20  And the Trumpet will be blown: ‘This is the promised day.’

50:21  Every soul will come accompanied by [two angels], a driver, and a witness:

50:22  [he will be told] ‘You were certainly oblivious of this. We have removed your veil from you, and so today your eyesight is acute.’

50:23  Then his companion [angel] will say, ‘This is what is ready with me [of his record of deeds].’

50:24  [The two angels accompany him will be told,] ‘Cast every obdurate ingrate into hell,

50:25  [every] hinderer of good, transgressor, and skeptic,

50:26  who had set up another god along with Allah and cast him into the severe punishment.’

50:27  His companion [devil] will say, ‘Our Lord! I did not incite him to rebel [against You], but he was [himself] in extreme error.’

50:28  He will say, ‘Do not wrangle in My presence, for I had already warned you in advance.

50:29  The word [of judgement] is unalterable with Me, and I am not tyrannical to My servants.’

50:30  The day when We shall say to hell, ‘Are you full?’ It will say, ‘Is there any more?’

50:31  And paradise will be brought near for the Godwary, it will not be distant [any more]:

50:32  ‘This is what you were promised. [It is] for every penitent and dutiful [servant]

50:33  who fears the All-beneficent in secret and comes with a penitent heart.

50:34  Enter it in peace! This is the day of immortality.’

50:35  There they will have whatever they wish, and with Us there is yet more.

50:36  How many generations We have destroyed before them, who were stronger than these, insomuch that they ransacked the towns?! So, is there any escape [from Allah’s punishment]?

50:37  There is indeed an admonition in that for one who has a heart, or gives ear, being attentive.

50:38  Certainly We created the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them, in six days, and any fatigue did not touch Us.

50:39  So be patient at what they say, and celebrate the praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before the sunset,

50:40  and glorify Him through part of the night and after the prostrations.

50:41  And be on the alert for the day when the caller calls from a close quarter,

50:42  the day when they hear the Cry in all truth. That is the day of rising [from the dead].

50:43  Indeed it is We who give life and bring death, and toward Us is the [final] destination.

50:44  The day the earth is split open for [disentombing] them, [they will come out] hastening. That mustering is easy for Us [to carry out].

50:45  We know well what they say, and you are not there to compel them. So admonish by the Quran those who fear My threat.