Al-Mursalaat

CONSIDER these [messages,] sent forth in waves

and then storming on with a tempest's force!

Consider these [messages] that spread [the truth] far and wide,

thus separating [right and wrong] with all clarity,

and then giving forth a reminder,

[promising] freedom from blame or [offering] a warning!

BEHOLD, all that you are told to expect will surely come to pass.

Thus, [it will come to pass] when the stars are effaced,

and when the sky is rent asunder,

and when the mountains are scattered like dust,

and when all the apostles are called together at a time appointed...

For what day has the term [of all this] been set?

For the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false]!

And what could make thee conceive what that Day of Distinction will be?

Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!