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The Qur’an · Translated by Marmaduke Pickthall

Surah 77. Al-Mursalat (The Emissaries, Winds Sent Forth) [Makka]

Surah 77. Al-Mursalat (The Emissaries, Winds Sent Forth) [Makka]

77:1 By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another

77:2 By the raging hurricanes,

77:3 By those which cause earth's vegetation to revive;

77:4 By those who winnow with a winnowing,

77:5 By those who bring down the Reminder,

77:6 To excuse or to warn,

77:7 Surely that which ye are promised will befall.

77:8 So when the stars are put out,

77:9 And when the sky is riven asunder,

77:10 And when the mountains are blown away,

77:11 And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed -

77:12 For what day is the time appointed?

77:13 For the Day of Decision.

77:14 And what will convey unto thee what the Day of Decision is! -

77:15 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:16 Destroyed We not the former folk,

77:17 Then caused the latter folk to follow after?

77:18 Thus deal We ever with the guilty.

77:19 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:20 Did We not create you from a base fluid

77:21 Which We laid up in a safe abode

77:22 For a known term?

77:23 Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging!

77:24 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:25 Have We not made the earth a receptacle

77:26 Both for the living and the dead,

77:27 And placed therein high mountains and given you to drink sweet water therein?

77:28 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:29 (It will be said unto them:) Depart unto that (doom) which ye used to deny;

77:30 Depart unto the shadow falling threefold,

77:31 (Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.

77:32 Lo! it throweth up sparks like the castles,

77:33 (Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue.

77:34 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:35 This is a day wherein they speak not,

77:36 Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.

77:37 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:38 This is the Day of Decision, We have brought you and the men of old together.

77:39 If now ye have any wit, outwit Me.

77:40 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:41 Lo! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains,

77:42 And fruits such as they desire.

77:43 (Unto them it is said:) Eat, drink and welcome, O ye blessed, in return for what ye did.

77:44 Thus do We reward the good.

77:45 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:46 Eat and take your ease (on earth) a little. Lo! ye are guilty.

77:47 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:48 When it is said unto them: Bow down, they bow not down!

77:49 Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

77:50 In what statement, after this, will they believe?

Translated by Marmaduke Pickthall. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 16955. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.