Dispatched (Al-Mursalaat)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another 1 which then blow tempestuously 2 Consider these [messages] that spread [the truth] far and wide, 3 Then separate them, one from another, 4 And those [angels] who deliver a message 5 By way of excuse or warning. 6 Indeed, what you are promised is to occur. 7 So when the lights of the stars are put out. 8 And when the sky is riven asunder, 9 And when the mountains are carried away as dust, 10 and when the messengers are brought together at the appointed time -- 11 For what day is it timed? 12 To the Day of Decision. 13 Would that you knew what the Day of Decision is! 14 Woe on that day unto the beliers 15 Did We not destroy the earlier people? 16 We shall then send the latter after them. 17 Even thus shall We deal with the guilty. 18 Ruin is for the deniers on that day! 19 Did We not create you from contemptible water? 20 which We then let remain in [the womb's] firm keeping 21 Till a limit known? 22 Thus have We determined [the nature of man's creation]: and excellent indeed is Our power to determine [what is to be]! 23 Woe on that Day to those who reject the truth! 24 Have We not made the earth a container 25 for both the living and the dead? 26 and have We not set on it proud, firm mountains, and given you sweet water to drink? 27 Ruin is for the deniers on that day! 28 Proceed to that (the Day of Judgment) which you have rejected. 29 Go on towards the threefold shadow 30 Neither shady nor protecting against the blazing Fire. 31 which - behold! - will throw up sparks like [burning] logs, 32 as black camels. 33 Woe that day unto those who cry it lies! 34 This is a day in which they will not be able to speak. 35 Nor shall they be permitted so that they might excuse themselves. 36 Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth 37 Such is the Day of Decision. We will gather you with the ancients. 38 If you now have any conspiracy, carry it out on Me. 39 Alas the woe that day for those who deny! 40