52:1  By the Mount [Sinai],

52:2  by the Book inscribed

52:3  on an unrolled parchment;

52:4  by the House greatly frequented;

52:5  by the vault raised high,

52:6  by the surging sea:

52:7  indeed your Lord’s punishment will surely befall.

52:8  There is none who can avert it.

52:9  On the day when the sky whirls violently,

52:10  and the mountains move with an awful motion:

52:11  woe to the deniers on that day

52:12  —those who play around in vain talk,

52:13  the day when they will be shoved forcibly toward the fire of hell, [and told:]

52:14  ‘This is the Fire which you used to deny!

52:15  Is this, then, [also] magic, or is it you who do not perceive?

52:16  Enter it, and it will be the same for you whether you are patient or impatient. You are only being requited for what you used to do.’

52:17  Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and bliss,

52:18  rejoicing because of what their Lord has given them, and that their Lord has saved them from the punishment of hell.

52:19  [They will be told:] ‘Enjoy your food and drink, [as a reward] for what you used to do.’

52:20  They will be reclining on arrayed couches, and We will wed them to big-eyed houris.

52:21  The faithful and their descendants who followed them in faith—We will make their descendants join them, and We will not stint anything from [the reward of] their deeds. Every person is hostage to what he has earned.

52:22  We will provide them with fruits and meat, such as they desire.

52:23  There they will pass from hand to hand a cup wherein there will be neither any vain talk nor sinful speech.

52:24  They will be waited upon by their youths, as if they were guarded pearls.

52:25  They will turn to one another, questioning each other.

52:26  They will say, ‘Indeed, aforetime, we used to be apprehensive about our families.

52:27  But Allah showed us favour and He saved us from the punishment of the [infernal] miasma.

52:28  We used to supplicate Him aforetime. Indeed He is the All-benign, the All-merciful.’

52:29  So admonish. By your Lord’s blessing, you are not a soothsayer, nor mad.

52:30  Do they say, ‘[He is] a poet, for whom we await a fatal accident’?

52:31  Say, ‘Wait! I too am waiting along with you.’

52:32  Is it their intellect which prompts them to [say] this, or are they a rebellious lot?

52:33  Do they say, ‘He has improvised it [himself]?’ Rather, they have no faith!

52:34  Let them bring a discourse like it, if they are truthful.

52:35  Were they created from nothing? Or are they [their own] creators?

52:36  Did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they have no certainty!

52:37  Do they possess the treasuries of your Lord? Or do they control [them]?

52:38  Do they have a ladder [leading up to heaven] whereby they eavesdrop? If so, let their eavesdropper produce a manifest authority.

52:39  Does He have daughters while you have sons?

52:40  Do you ask them for a reward, so that they are [wary of] being weighed down with debt?

52:41  Do they have [access to] the Unseen, which they write down?

52:42  Do they seek to outmaneuver [Allah]? But it is the faithless who are the outmaneuvered ones!

52:43  Do they have any god other than Allah? Clear is Allah of any partners that they may ascribe [to Him]!

52:44  Were they to see a fragment falling from the sky, they would say, ‘A cumulous cloud.’

52:45  So leave them until they encounter the day when they will be thunderstruck,

52:46  the day when their guile will not avail them in any way, nor will they be helped.

52:47  Indeed there is a punishment besides that for those who do wrong, but most of them do not know.

52:48  So submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord, for indeed you fare before Our eyes. And celebrate the praise of your Lord when you rise [at dawn],

52:49  and also glorify Him during the night and at the receding of the stars.