unless
Allah wills it,
because he is knowing and wise, you will not succeed.
You will receive
his
mercy if he chooses to give it, but he has prepared a terrible punishment for the wicked.
50:1 KAF. By the glorious Koran: They [the Meccans] wonder that one of their own people
should come to warn them. “This,” say the unbelievers, “is a strange thing. What? When we
are dead and turned to dust will we be resurrected? That is not possible.”
50:4 We know how many have been consumed by the earth; we have a record of accounts.
They are confused, because they have denied the truth. Why do they not look at the sky and
notice how We raised it and decorated it and made it without any cracks?
50:7 And the earth, We have spread it out and built the mountains and grew every kind of
beautiful plant to be a vision and a reminder for every servant who turns to Allah. We sent
down the rain with its blessings from heaven to irrigate the gardens and grow the harvest,
and the tall palm trees, thick with date-bearing branches, for man’s sustenance. This is how
We give life to a dead country. The resurrection will happen the same way.
50:12 Other men before these rejected their prophets: the people of Noah and the men of Ar-
Rass [unknown city] and the tribe of Thamud [the people of a ruined Nabatean city near
Medina] and Ad [an ancient people of southern Arabia] and Pharaoh and the brethren of Lot
and the people of the forest and the people of Tubba [the people of Himyar in Arabia]. All
rejected their prophets; therefore, they were justly punished.
50:15 Were We so fatigued by the first creation that they doubted that We could make
another? We created man, and We know what his soul says to him because We are closer to
him than his jugular vein.
50:17 When the two angels [one angel will drive the person, and the other angel recorded
the deeds of life] receive him for his accounting, one will sit on the right hand, the other on
the left. He will not say a word that escapes a nearby watcher, and the stupor of certain death
will bring him to a realization: “This is what you were trying to escape.”
50:20 And a trumpet will sound. This is the threatened day! Every soul will come, each
accompanied by an angel to drive [like cattle] and another to bear witness. (It will be said)
“You paid no attention to your warnings, but your vision will be sharp today because We
have removed the veil from your eyes.” And his witnessing angel will say, “His record is
here with me.” And Allah will say, “Throw into Hell every ungrateful, rebellious, hinderer
of the good, and every transgressor and doubter who worshiped other gods besides Allah.
Throw them into the terrible torment.”
50:27 His companion [the devil chained to the unbeliever] will say, “Allah, I did not lead
him astray, but he was already in great error.” Allah will say, “Do not argue in front of Me. I
had warned you before. My sentence cannot be changed, and I am not unjust to man.”
50:30 We will cry out to Hell that day, “Are you full?” And it will respond, “Are there
more?” And Paradise will be brought close to the righteous. “For those who have repented
and kept Allah’s laws, this is what you have been promised. Those who secretly feared
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