Quran — Page 534

In both of them will be [all kinds of] fruit, and date-palms and pomegranates.

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

In these [gardens] will be [all] things most excellent and beautiful.

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

[There the blest will live with their] companions pure and modest, in pavilions [splendid] -

which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow? –

[companions] whom neither man nor invisible being will have touched ere then.

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

[In such a paradise will they dwell,] reclining upon meadows green and carpets rich in beauty.

Which, then, of your Sustainer’s powers can you disavow?

HALLOWED be thy Sustainer’s name, full of majesty and glory!

WHEN THAT which must come to pass [at last] comes to pass,

there will be nought that could give the lie to its having come to pass,

abasing [some], exalting [others]!

When the earth is shaken with a shaking [severe],

and the mountains are shattered into [countless] shards,

so that they become as scat­tered dust –

[on that Day,] then, shall you be [divided into] three kinds.

Thus, there shall be such as will have attained to what is right: oh, how [happy] will be they who have attained to what is right!

And there shall be such as will have lost them­selves in evil: oh, how [unhappy] will be they who have lost themselves in evil!

But the foremost shall be [they who in life were] the foremost [in faith and good works]:

they who were [always] drawn close unto God!

In gardens of bliss [will they dwell] -

a good many of those of olden times,

but [only] a few of later times.

[They will be seated] on gold-encrusted thrones of happiness,

reclining upon them, facing one another [in love].