Surah Al-Qamar

وَلَقَدْجَآءَءَالَفِرْعَوْنَٱلنُّذُرُ

Now surely, unto Pharaoh’s folk [too] came such warnings;

كَذَّبُوا۟بِـَٔايَٰتِنَاكُلِّهَافَأَخَذْنَٰهُمْأَخْذَعَزِيزٍۢمُّقْتَدِرٍ

they, too, gave the lie to all Our messages: and thereupon We took them to task as only the Almighty, who determines all things, can take to task.

أَكُفَّارُكُمْخَيْرٌۭمِّنْأُو۟لَٰٓئِكُمْأَمْلَكُمبَرَآءَةٌۭفِىٱلزُّبُرِ

ARE, THEN, those of you who [now] deny the truth better than those others - or have you, per­chance, [been promised] immunity in the [ancient] books of [divine] wisdom?

أَمْيَقُولُونَنَحْنُجَمِيعٌۭمُّنتَصِرٌۭ

Or do they say, “We are a group united, [and therefore] bound to prevail”?

سَيُهْزَمُٱلْجَمْعُوَيُوَلُّونَٱلدُّبُرَ

[Yet] the hosts [of those who deny the truth] shall be routed, and they shall turn their backs [in flight]!

بَلِٱلسَّاعَةُمَوْعِدُهُمْوَٱلسَّاعَةُأَدْهَىٰوَأَمَرُّ

But nay - the Last Hour is the time when they shall truly meet their fate; and that Last Hour will be most calamitous, and most bitter:

إِنَّٱلْمُجْرِمِينَفِىضَلَٰلٍۢوَسُعُرٍۢ

for, behold, those who are lost in sin [will at that time come to know that it is they who] were sunk in error and folly!

يَوْمَيُسْحَبُونَفِىٱلنَّارِعَلَىٰوُجُوهِهِمْذُوقُوا۟مَسَّسَقَرَ

On the Day when they shall be dragged into the fire on their faces, [they will be told:] “Taste now the touch of hell-fire!”

إِنَّاكُلَّشَىْءٍخَلَقْنَٰهُبِقَدَرٍۢ

BEHOLD, everything have We created in due measure and proportion;

وَمَآأَمْرُنَآإِلَّاوَٰحِدَةٌۭكَلَمْحٍۭبِٱلْبَصَرِ

and Our ordaining [a thing and its coming into being] is but one [act], like the twinkling of an eye.

وَلَقَدْأَهْلَكْنَآأَشْيَاعَكُمْفَهَلْمِنمُّدَّكِرٍۢ

Thus, indeed, did We destroy people like you [in the past]: who, then, is willing to take it to heart?

وَكُلُّشَىْءٍۢفَعَلُوهُفِىٱلزُّبُرِ

[They were truly guilty] because all [the evil] that they ever did had been [revealed to them as such] in the [ancient] books of [divine] wisdom;

وَكُلُّصَغِيرٍۢوَكَبِيرٍۢمُّسْتَطَرٌ

and everything [that man does], be it small or great, is recorded [with God].

إِنَّٱلْمُتَّقِينَفِىجَنَّٰتٍۢوَنَهَرٍۢ

[Hence, too,] behold, the God-conscious will find themselves in [a paradise of] gardens and running waters,

فِىمَقْعَدِصِدْقٍعِندَمَلِيكٍۢمُّقْتَدِرٍۭ

in a seat of truth, in the presence of a Sovereign who determines all things.