relaxing on lined up couches”. And We will marry them with big-eyed houris.

And those who believed and their children followed them in belief, We will join their children with them, and will not curtail (the reward of) any of their deeds at all. Every person will be pledged for what he earned.

And We will go on giving them whatever they desire of fruits and meat.

They will snatch from one another (in a friendly manner) a glass (of wine) carrying neither absurd talk, nor something leading to sin.

And their own serving boys will rotate around them, (who will be as neat and clean) as if they were hidden pearls.

And they will advance to one another, asking (about each other’s welfare).

They will say, “Indeed we were afraid (of Allah’s punishment) when we were amidst our family,

but Allah did favour to us and saved us from the torment of Fire’s scorching breath.

We used to pray to Him before. He is surely the Most-Kind, the Very-Merciful.

So keep reminding (them), because by the grace of your Lord, you are neither a soothsayer, nor a mad man.

Do they rather say, “He is a poet for whom we are awaiting the accident of death?”

Say, “Wait! I am waiting with you, too.”

Is it their intellects that direct them to (say) this, or are they a rebellious people?

Do they rather say, “He has forged it (the Qur’ān.)”? No, but they do not believe.

So, let them bring a discourse like this, if they are truthful.

Is it that they are created by none, or are they themselves the creators?

Or have they created the heavens and the earth? No, but they are sure of nothing.

Or do they have the treasures of your Lord, or have they acquired control (over them)?

Or have they a stairway (to the heavens) by means of which they listen (to the divine decrees)? If so, their listener must bring a clear proof.