44-1 : Ha - Mim.

44-2 : By the book40 that makes things clear; -

44-3 : We sent it down during a Blessed Night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil).

44-4 : In the (Night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom,

44-5 : By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations),

44-6 : As Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things);

44-7 : The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith.

44-8 : There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death, - The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors.

44-9 : Yet they play about in doubt.

44-10 : Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible,

44-11 : Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous.

44-12 : (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us, for we do really believe!"

44-13 : How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them, -

44-14 : Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"

44-15 : We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways).

44-16 : One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught: We will indeed (then) exact Retribution!

44-17 : We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them a messenger most honourable,

44-18 : Saying: "Restore to me the Servants of Allah: I am to you an messenger worthy of all trust;

44-19 : "And be not arrogant as against Allah: for I come to you with authority manifest.

44-20 : "For me, I have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me.

44-21 : "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."

44-22 : (But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."

44-23 : (The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.

44-24 : "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned."

44-25 : How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,

44-26 : And corn - fields and noble buildings,

44-27 : And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!

44-28 : Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!

44-29 : And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).

44-30 : We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,

44-31 : Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.

44-32 : And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,

44-33 : And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial

44-34 : As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:

44-35 : "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.

44-36 : "Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!"

44-37 : What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.

44-38 : We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:

44-39 : We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.

44-40 : Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them, -

44-41 : The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive,

44-42 : Except such as receive Allah's Mercy: for He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.

44-43 : Verily the tree of Zaqqum

44-44 : Will be the food of the Sinful, -

44-45 : Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides.

44-46 : Like the boiling of scalding water.

44-47 : (A voice will cry: "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire!

44-48 : "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water,

44-49 : "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou mighty, full of honour!

44-50 : "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!"

44-51 : As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security,

44-52 : Among Gardens and Springs;

44-53 : Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other;

44-54 : So; and We shall join them to fair women with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes.

44-55 : There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security;

44-56 : Nor will they there taste Death, except the first death; and He will preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire, -

44-57 : As a Bounty from thy Lord! that will be the supreme achievement!

44-58 : Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed.

44-59 : So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting.