Ad-Dukhan

By the clear Book, sent down on a blessed night, when every wise matter is made clear, as a mercy from your Lord. Yet they doubt and play about. So watch for the Day when the sky brings a smoke plain to see, covering the people. They will say, “Our Lord, remove the punishment from us; we will believe.” But a messenger had already come, and they called him taught by others and a madman. Before them, Pharaoh’s people were tested. A noble messenger came, saying, “Hand over the servants of Allah to me,” and sought refuge from being stoned. He was told to travel by night and leave the sea parted, for the army would drown. They left behind gardens, springs, crops and comforts, and neither the sky nor the earth wept for them. The deniers say, “There is nothing but our first death,” and “Bring back our forefathers.” Are they better than the people of Tubba‘, who were destroyed? The heavens and the earth were not created in play, and the Day of Sorting is the appointed time, when no friend can help a friend. The tree of Zaqqum is the food of the sinner, boiling in the belly like molten metal. The righteous will be among gardens and springs, in safety, tasting no death there after the first. The Quran has been made easy in your tongue. So watch; they too are watching.