وَالَّذِیْنَ

هُمْ

عَلٰی

صَلَاتِهِمْ

یُحَافِظُوْنَ

۟ؕ

and those who take due care of their Salāh .

Those will be honoured in gardens (of Jannah ).

So what has happened to those who disbelieve that they are rushing towards you

from the right and from the left, in groups?

Does every one of them aspire to be admitted to the garden of bliss?

By no means! We have created them from what they know.

So, I swear by the Lord of the points of sunrise and those of sunset, We are powerful

to bring those better than them in their place, and We are not to be frustrated.

So, leave them involved in pastime and play until they encounter their Day, which they are promised,

the Day they will come out of the graves quickly, as if they were rushing toward idols,

with their eyes downcast, enveloped by ignominy. That is the Day, which they were being promised.

We sent NūH to his people (and said to him): “Warn your people before a painful punishment comes to them.”

He said, “O my people, I openly warn you

that you must worship Allah, and fear Him, and obey me,

and Allah will forgive you your sins, and will respite you to an appointed term. Indeed when Allah’s term comes, it is not deferred, if you only know!”

He said, “My Lord, I have called my people night and day,

but my call added only to their flight (from the truth).

Whenever I called them, so that You might forgive them, they put their fingers into their ears, and wrapped their clothes around themselves, and grew obstinate, and waxed proud in extreme arrogance.