49 This is a lesson. The devout will have a good place to return to:
50 Gardens of lasting bliss with gates wide open. 51 They will be comfortably seated; they will call for abundant fruit and drink; 52 they will have well-matched [wives] with modest gaze. 53 ‘This is what you are promised for the Day of Reckoning: 54 Our provision for you will never end.’
55 But the evildoers will have the worst place to return to: 56 Hell to burn in, an evil place to stay– 57 all this will be theirs: let them taste it– a scalding, dark, foul fluid, 58 and other such torments. 59 [It will be said], ‘Here is another crowd of people rushing headlong to join you.’ [The response will be], ‘They are not welcome! They will burn in the Fire.’ 60 They will say to them, ‘You are not welcome! It was you who brought this on us, an evil place to stay,’ 61 adding, ‘Our Lord, give double punishment to those who brought this upon us.’ 62 They will say, ‘Why do we not see those we thought were bad 63 and took as a laughing-stock? Have our eyes missed them?’ 64 This is how it will really be: the inhabitants of the Fire will blame one another in this way.
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65 [Prophet] say, ‘I am only here to give warning. There is no god but God the One, the All Powerful, 66 Lord of the heavens and earth and everything between, the Almighty, the Most Forgiving.’ 67 Say, ‘This message is a mighty one, 68 yet you ignore it. 69 I have no knowledge of what those on high discuss: [a] 70 it is only revealed to me that I am here to give clear warning.’
71 Your Lord said to the angels, ‘I will create a man from clay. 72 When I have shaped him and breathed from My Spirit into him, bow down before him.’ 73 The angels all bowed down together, 74 but not Iblis, who was too proud. He became a rebel. 75 God said, ‘Iblis, what prevents you from bowing down to the man I have made with My own hands? Are you too high and mighty?’ 76 Iblis said, ‘I am better than him: You made me from fire, and him from clay.’ 77 ‘Get out of here! You are rejected: 78 My rejection will follow you till the Day of Judgement!’ 79 but Iblis said, ‘My Lord, grant me respite until the Day when they are raised from the dead,’ 80 so He said, ‘You have respite 81 till the Appointed Day.’ 82 Iblis said, ‘I swear by Your might! I will tempt all 83 but Your true servants.’ 84 God said, ‘This is the truth– I speak only the truth– 85 I will fill Hell with you and all those that follow you.’
86 [Prophet], say, ‘I ask no reward from you for this, nor do I claim to be what I am not: 87 this is only a warning for all people. 88 In time you will certainly come to know its truth.’
Footnotes
a. Cf. 2: 30.
The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)
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