and how many a luxury they used to rejoice in!

This is how it happened. And We made other people inherit all this.

So, neither the sky and earth wept over them, nor were they given a respite.

And We delivered the children of Isrā’īl from the humiliating punishment,

from Fir‘aun. Indeed, he was haughty, one of the transgressors.

And We chose them, with knowledge, above all the worlds.

And We gave them the clear signs in which there was a manifest blessing.

These people say,

“There is nothing more than our first death, and we are not going to be resurrected.

So, (O believers,) bring our fathers, if you are true (in your belief in resurrection.)”

Are they better or the people of Tubba‘ and those who were before them? We have destroyed them. They were guilty indeed.

And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them just as players.

We did not create them but with true purpose, but most of them do not know.

The Day of Decision is the appointed time for all of them-

the day when no close relation will be of any use to any close relation, nor will they be helped,

except the One on whom Allah has mercy. Of course, He is the All-Mighty, the Very-Merciful.

Indeed the tree of zaqqūm

is the food of the sinful,

like dregs of oil. It will boil in the bellies

like the boiling of hot water.

(It will be said to angels,) “Seize him, and drag him into the midst of the Hell.

Then pour on his head some torment of boiling water.”

“Have a taste! You are the ‘man of might’, the ‘man of honour’.

This is the thing about which you used to be skeptic.”

Indeed the God-fearing will be in a place free from fear,

in gardens and fountains.