As-Saaffat
مَا لَكُمْ لَا تَنَاصَرُونَ25
“Why do you not support each other now?” ’––
بَلْ هُمُ الْيَوْمَ مُسْتَسْلِمُونَ26
no indeed! They will be in complete submission on that Day––
وَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ27
and they will turn on one another accusingly
قَالُوا إِنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ تَأْتُونَنَا عَنِ الْيَمِينِ28
They will say, ‘You came to us from a position of power.’
قَالُوا بَلْ لَمْ تَكُونُوا مُؤْمِنِينَ29
They will say, ‘No! It was you who would not believe
وَمَا كَانَ لَنَا عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ سُلْطَانٍ ۖ بَلْ كُنْتُمْ قَوْمًا طَاغِينَ30
we had no power over you- and you were already exceeding all limits
فَحَقَّ عَلَيْنَا قَوْلُ رَبِّنَا ۖ إِنَّا لَذَائِقُونَ31
Our Lord’s sentence on us is just and we must all taste the punishment
فَأَغْوَيْنَاكُمْ إِنَّا كُنَّا غَاوِينَ32
We led you astray as we ourselves were astray.’
فَإِنَّهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ فِي الْعَذَابِ مُشْتَرِكُونَ33
On that Day they will all share the torment
إِنَّا كَذَٰلِكَ نَفْعَلُ بِالْمُجْرِمِينَ34
this is how We deal with the guilty
إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا إِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ لَا إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ يَسْتَكْبِرُونَ35
Whenever it was said to them, ‘There is no deity but God,’ they became arrogant
وَيَقُولُونَ أَئِنَّا لَتَارِكُو آلِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرٍ مَجْنُونٍ36
and said, ‘Are we to forsake our gods for a mad poet?’
بَلْ جَاءَ بِالْحَقِّ وَصَدَّقَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ37
‘No: he brought the truth and confirmed the earlier messengers
إِنَّكُمْ لَذَائِقُو الْعَذَابِ الْأَلِيمِ38
you will taste the painful torment
وَمَا تُجْزَوْنَ إِلَّا مَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ39
and be repaid only according to your deeds.’
إِلَّا عِبَادَ اللَّهِ الْمُخْلَصِينَ40
Not so God’s true servants
أُولَـٰئِكَ لَهُمْ رِزْقٌ مَعْلُومٌ41
They will have familiar provisions––
فَوَاكِهُ ۖ وَهُمْ مُكْرَمُونَ42
fruits- and will be honoured
فِي جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ43
in gardens of delight
عَلَىٰ سُرُرٍ مُتَقَابِلِينَ44
seated on couches, facing one another
يُطَافُ عَلَيْهِمْ بِكَأْسٍ مِنْ مَعِينٍ45
A drink will be passed round among them from a flowing spring
بَيْضَاءَ لَذَّةٍ لِلشَّارِبِينَ46
white, delicious to those who taste it
لَا فِيهَا غَوْلٌ وَلَا هُمْ عَنْهَا يُنْزَفُونَ47
causing no headiness or intoxication
وَعِنْدَهُمْ قَاصِرَاتُ الطَّرْفِ عِينٌ48
With them will be spouses- modest of gaze and beautiful of eye
كَأَنَّهُنَّ بَيْضٌ مَكْنُونٌ49
like protected eggs
فَأَقْبَلَ بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ يَتَسَاءَلُونَ50
They will turn to one another with questions
قَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْهُمْ إِنِّي كَانَ لِي قَرِينٌ51
one will say, ‘I had a close companion on earth