and mark out those who were tainted with hypocrisy and, when they were told, "Come, fight in God's cause" - or, "Defend yourselves"* - answered, "If we but knew [that it would come to a] fight, we would indeed follow you." Unto apostasy were they nearer on that day than unto faith, uttering with their mouths something which was not in their hearts,* the while God knew fully well what they were trying to conceal:

Those who were bent on denying the truth and paid no heed to the Apostle will on that Day wish that the earth would swallow them:* but they shall not [be able to] conceal from God anything that has happened.

Upon him who shall be spared on that Day, He will indeed have bestowed His grace: and this will be a manifest triumph.

And true will be the weighing on that Day; and those whose weight [of good deeds] is heavy in the balance -it is they, they who shall attain to a happy state;

for, whoever on that day turns his back on them-unless it be in a battle manoeuvre or in an endeavour to join another troop [of the believers] - shall indeed have earned the burden of God's condemnation, and his goal shall be hell: and how vile a journey's end!

And so, when Our judgment came to pass, by Our grace We saved Salih and those who shared his faith; and [We saved them, too,] from the ignominy of [Our rejection on] that Day [of Resurrection]. Verily, thy Sustainer alone is powerful, almighty!

For on that Day thou wilt see all who were lost in sin linked together in fetters,*

And on that Day will they [who had thus been sinning, belatedly] proffer their surrender to God; and all their false imagery will have forsaken them.

AND ON that Day"* We shall [call forth all mankind and] leave them to surge like waves [that dash] against one another; and the trumpet [of judgment] will be blown, and We shall gather them all together.

And on that Day We shall place hell, for all to see, before those who denied the truth-

on the Day when the trumpet is blown: for on that Day We will assemble all such as had been lost in sin, their eyes dimmed* [by terror],

On that Day, all will. follow the summoning Voice from which there will be no escape;* and all sounds will be hushed before the Most Gracious, and thou wilt hear nothing but a faint sough in the air.

On that Day, intercession shall be of no avail [to any] save him in whose case the Most Gracious will have granted leave therefor, and whose word [of faith) He will have accepted:*

On that Day, all dominion shall [visibly] belong to God, He shall judge [all men and make a distinction] between them: thus, all who had attained to faith and did righteous deeds shall find themselves in gardens of bliss,

Then, when the trumpet [of resurrection] is blown, no ties of kinship will on that Day prevail among them, and neither will they ask about one another.

On that day God will pay them in full their just due, and they will come to know that God alone is the Ultimate Truth, manifest, and manifesting [the true nature of all that has ever been done].*

[Yet] on that Day - the Day on which they shall see the angels* there will be no glad tiding for those who were lost in sin; and they will exclaim, “By a forbidding ban [are we from God's grace debarred]!" –

[whereas] on that same Day those who are destined for paradise will be graced with the best of abodes and the fairest place of repose.*

on that Day [it will become obvious to all that] true sover­eignty belongs to the Most Gracious [alone]: hence, a Day of distress will it be for all who deny the truth,

Whoever shall come [before Him] with a good deed will gain [further] good there from;* and they will be secure from the terror of that Day.

but all arguments and excuses will by then have been erased from their minds,* and they will not [be able to] obtain any [helpful] answer from one another.*

within a few years: [for] with God rests all power of decision, first and last.* And on that day will the believers [too, have cause to] rejoice

And when the Last Hour dawns - on that Day will all [men] be sorted out:

Set, then, thy face steadfastly towards the one ever-true faith,* ere there come from God a Day [of reckoning - the Day] which cannot be averted. On that Day all will be sundered:

And so, on that Day their excuse will be of no avail to those who were bent on evildoing, nor will they be allowed to make amends.

And, verily, on that Day they all will share in their common suffering.

and preserve them from [doing] evil deeds: for anyone whom on that Day [of Judgment] Thou wilt have preserved from [the taint of] evil deeds, him wilt Thou have graced with Thy mercy: and that, that will be the triumph supreme!"

[Hence, O men,] respond to your Sustainer before there comes, at God's behest,* a Day on which there will be no turning back: [for] on that Day you will have no place of refuge, and neither will you be able to deny aught [of the wrong that you have done].

On that Day, [erstwhile] friends will be foes unto one another* - [all] save the God-conscious.

For, God's is the dominion over the heavens and the earth; and on the Day when the Last Hour dawns - on that Day will be lost all who [in their lifetime] tried to reduce to nothing [whatever they could not understand].*

Woe, then, on that Day to all who give the lie to the truth –

For on that Day neither man nor invisible being will be asked about his sins.*

And so, that which must come to pass* will on that day have come to pass;

and the sky will be rent asunder* - for, frail will it have become on that Day - ;

and the angels [will appear] at its ends,* and, above them, eight will bear aloft on that Day the throne of thy Sustainer's almightiness…*

On that Day you shall be brought to judgment: not [even] the most hidden of your deeds will remain hidden.

though they may be in one another's sight: [for,] everyone who was lost in sin will on that Day but desire to ransom himself from suffering at the price of his own children,

that very Day shall be a day of anguish,

on that Day will man exclaim "Whither to flee?"

With thy Sustainer, on that Day, the journey's end will be!

Man will be apprised, on that Day, of what he has done and what he has left undone:*

Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

and some faces will on that Day be overcast with despair,

at that time towards thy Sustainer does he feel impelled to turn!*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[but] woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!

[But] woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth,

woe on that Day unto those who give the to the truth!

On that Day will [men's] hearts be throbbing,

on that Day, to every one of them will his own state be of sufficient concern.

Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

And some faces will on that Day with dust be covered,

[It will be] a Day when no human being shall be of the least avail to another human being: for on that Day [it will become manifest that] all sovereignty is God's alone.

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

Nay, verily, from [the grace of] their Sustainer shall they on that Day be debarred;

Some faces will on that Day be downcast,

[And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss,

And on that Day hell will be brought [within sight]; on that Day man will remember [all that he did and failed to do]: but what will that remembrance avail him?

For, none can make suffer as He will make suffer [the sinners] on that Day,

on that Day will she recount all her tidings,

On that Day will all men come forward, cut off from one another,* to be shown their [past] deeds.

that on that Day their Sustainer [will show that He] has always been fully aware of them?

and on that Day you will most surely be called to account for [what you did with] the boon of life!