1-2 They argue about the awful tidings. 4-5 But they'll find out soon enough.
12-13 We [Allah] have built above you seven strong heavens and a dazzling lamp.
17-20 The day of decision is fixed in time. The trumpet will blow and all the people will come. The heaven will open and the hills will move like a mirage.
21 The rebels in hell will be there for ages. 24-25 They'll have nothing cool to drink, only boiling water and a paralyzing cold.
28 They denied our revelations and called them false. 29 We wrote it all down in a book. 30 So taste the torment that you've earned. It will only get worse with time.
31-34 But the dutiful will live in gardens, with maidens for companions. And a full cup.
40 But a doom is coming. Disbelievers will cry: "I wish I were dust."
15-26 Moses went to the Pharaoh and showed him the tremendous token. But the Pharaoh denied and disobeyed. So Allah seized him and made him an example for the afterlife and the former life. That's a lesson for those who are fearful.
27-30 Which is harder to create: you or heaven? First he raised heaven and then he spread the earth.
34-39 When the great disaster happens, everyone will see hell.
18-19 From what did he [Allah] create him? From a drop of seed.
21-22 Then he makes him die and buries him. Then, when he wants to, he brings him back to life.
33-42 When the shout comes some faces will be bright and happy, while the faces of disbelievers will be covered with dust and veiled in darkness.
1-14 When the sun is overthrown, the stars fall, the hills move, the seas rise, souls are reunited, the girl that was buried alive is asked for what sin she was slain, the sky is torn away, hell is lit up, and the garden is brought near, everyone will know they're ready.
19-21 This is the truth of an honored messenger, who is to be obeyed.
22 Your comrade isn't mad.
26 These aren't the words of a devil who should be stoned. Where are you going?
1-6 When heaven splits, the planets are scattered, the seas flood, and the graves overturned, everyone will know what they have and what they've left behind.
10-12 There are guardians above you that record everything you do.
13-14 The righteous will be happy, but the wicked will be in hell.
15-16 They'll burn there on judgment day, and forever after.
1 Woe to the defrauders. 5-6 On the awful day, everyone will stand before the Lord of the Worlds
79 A written record.
10 Woe to the deniers on that day! 11-13 Those who deny the judgment day, who, when our revelations are read to them, say, “Those are merely old fables.”
16 They will burn in hell.
17 Someone will say to them, “This is what you used to deny.”
18 There's a record of the righteous in 'Illiyin. 19 A written record.
22-27 The righteous lounge on couches, drinking wine, mixed with the water of Tasnim.
29-30 Lo! The guilty used to laugh at believers, and wink at one another when they passed them. 34 But on this day, believers will laugh at the disbelievers, on their high couches, gazing.
36 Aren't the disbelievers being paid for what they used to do?
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