Sura 52 of the Qur'an

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By Vexen Crabtree 2013

Title: At-tur
English: Mount Sinai
Location: Makkah

Traditional Order:
< Sura 51 (Adh-Dhariyat - The Winnowing Winds)
> Sura 53 (An-Najm - The Star)

Chronological Order:
< Sura 32 (As-Sajda - The Prostration)
> Sura 67 (Al-Mulk - The Sovereignty)

Verses: 49

¹	By the Mount	For more on Sura 52:48-49 see How to Pray in Islam, According to the Qur'an: 4. Qur'an 52:48-49, 73:1-7: Prayer Timings at Night.
²	and a Book inscribed
³	in a parchment unrolled,
⁴	by the House inhabited
⁵	and the roof uplifted
⁶	and the sea swarming,
⁷	surely thy Lord's chastisement is about to fall;
⁸	there is none to avert it.
⁹	Upon the day when heaven spins dizzily
¹⁰	and the mountains are in motion,
¹¹	woe that day unto those that cry lies,
¹²	such as play at plunging,
¹³	the day when they shall be pitched into the fire of Gehenna:
¹⁴	'This is the fire that you cried lies to!
¹⁵	What, is this magic, or is it you that do not see?
¹⁶	Roast in it! And bear you patiently, or bear not patiently, equal it is to you; you are only being recompensed for that you were working.'
¹⁷	Surely the godfearing shall be in gardens and bliss,
¹⁸	rejoicing in that their Lord has given them; and their Lord shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell.
¹⁹	'Eat and drink, with wholesome appetite, for that you were working.
²⁰	Reclining upon couches ranged in rows; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris.
²¹	And those who believed, and their seed followed them in belief, We shall join their seed with them, and We shall not defraud them of aught of their work; every man shall be pledged for what he earned.
²²	And We shall succour them with fruits and flesh such as they desire
²³	while they pass therein a cup one to another wherein is no idle talk, no cause of sin,
²⁴	and there go round them youths, their own, as if they were hidden pearls.
²⁵	They advance one upon another, asking each other questions.
²⁶	They say, 'We were before among our people, ever going in fear,
²⁷	and God was gracious to us, and guarded us against the chastisement of the burning wind;
²⁸	we were before ever calling upon Him; surely He is the All-benign, the All-compassionate.'
²⁹	Therefore remind! by thy Lord's blessing thou art not a soothsayer neither possessed.
³⁰	Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty'?
³¹	Say: 'Await! I shall be awaiting with you.'
³²	Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people?
³³	Or do they say, 'He has invented it?' Nay, but they do not believe.
³⁴	Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly.
³⁵	Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators?
³⁶	Or did they create the heavens and earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith.
³⁷	Or are thy Lord's treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the registrars?
³⁸	Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority.
³⁹	Or has He daughters, and they sons?
⁴⁰	Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt?
⁴¹	Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down?
⁴²	Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted.
⁴³	Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate!
⁴⁴	Even if they saw lumps falling from heaven, they would say, 'A massed cloud!'
⁴⁵	Then leave them, till they encounter their day wherein they shall be thunderstruck,
⁴⁶	the day when their guile shall avail them naught, and they shall not be helped.
⁴⁷	And there surely awaits the evildoers a chastisement beyond even that, but most of them know it not.
⁴⁸	And be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord; surely thou art before Our eyes. And proclaim the praise of thy Lord when thou arisest,
⁴⁹	and proclaim the praise of thy Lord in the night, and at the declining of the stars.