Surah As-Sajda

وَلَنُذِيقَنَّهُممِّنَٱلْعَذَابِٱلْأَدْنَىٰدُونَٱلْعَذَابِٱلْأَكْبَرِلَعَلَّهُمْيَرْجِعُونَ

However, ere [We condemn them to] that supreme suffering, We shall most certainly let them taste of a suffering closer at hand, so that they might [repent and] mend their ways.

وَمَنْأَظْلَمُمِمَّنذُكِّرَبِـَٔايَٰتِرَبِّهِۦثُمَّأَعْرَضَعَنْهَآإِنَّامِنَٱلْمُجْرِمِينَمُنتَقِمُونَ

And who could be more wicked than he to whom his Sustainer’s messages are conveyed and who thereupon turns away from them? Verily, We shall inflict Our retribution on those who are [thus] lost in sin!

وَلَقَدْءَاتَيْنَامُوسَىٱلْكِتَٰبَفَلَاتَكُنفِىمِرْيَةٍۢمِّنلِّقَآئِهِۦوَجَعَلْنَٰهُهُدًۭىلِّبَنِىٓإِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ

AND, INDEED, [O Muhammad,] We did vouchsafe revelation unto Moses [as well]: so be not in doubt of [thy] having met with the same [truth in the revelation vouchsafed to thee]. And [just as] We caused that [earlier revelation] to be a guidance for the children of Israel,

وَجَعَلْنَامِنْهُمْأَئِمَّةًۭيَهْدُونَبِأَمْرِنَالَمَّاصَبَرُوا۟وَكَانُوا۟بِـَٔايَٰتِنَايُوقِنُونَ

and [as] We raised among them leaders who, so long as they bore themselves with patience and had sure faith in Our messages, guided [their people] in accordance with Our behest [so, too, shall it be with the divine writ revealed unto thee, O Muhammad.]

إِنَّرَبَّكَهُوَيَفْصِلُبَيْنَهُمْيَوْمَٱلْقِيَٰمَةِفِيمَاكَانُوا۟فِيهِيَخْتَلِفُونَ

VERILY, it is God alone who will decide between men on Resurrection Day with regard to all on which they were wont to differ.

أَوَلَمْيَهْدِلَهُمْكَمْأَهْلَكْنَامِنقَبْلِهِممِّنَٱلْقُرُونِيَمْشُونَفِىمَسَٰكِنِهِمْإِنَّفِىذَٰلِكَلَءَايَٰتٍأَفَلَايَسْمَعُونَ

[But] can, then, they [who deny the truth] learn no lesson by recalling how many a generation We have destroyed before their time? [people] in whose dwelling-places they [themselves now] walk about? In this, behold, there are messages indeed: will they not, then, listen?

أَوَلَمْيَرَوْا۟أَنَّانَسُوقُٱلْمَآءَإِلَىٱلْأَرْضِٱلْجُرُزِفَنُخْرِجُبِهِۦزَرْعًۭاتَأْكُلُمِنْهُأَنْعَٰمُهُمْوَأَنفُسُهُمْأَفَلَايُبْصِرُونَ

Are they not aware that it is We who drive the rain onto dry land devoid of herbage, and thereby bring forth herbage of which their cattle and they themselves do eat? Can they not, then, see [the truth of resurrection]?

وَيَقُولُونَمَتَىٰهَٰذَاٱلْفَتْحُإِنكُنتُمْصَٰدِقِينَ

But they answer: “When will that final decision take place, if what you [believers] say is true?”

قُلْيَوْمَٱلْفَتْحِلَايَنفَعُٱلَّذِينَكَفَرُوٓا۟إِيمَٰنُهُمْوَلَاهُمْيُنظَرُونَ

Say: “On the Day of the Final Decision, their [newly-found] faith will be of no use to those who [in their lifetime] were bent on denying the truth, nor will they be granted respite!” –

فَأَعْرِضْعَنْهُمْوَٱنتَظِرْإِنَّهُممُّنتَظِرُونَ

and then leave them alone, and wait [for the truth to unfold as] they, behold, are waiting.