52:1  By the Mount

52:2  And by an inscribed book

52:3  In a wide-open scroll

52:4  By the oft visited House

52:5  By the ceiling raised high

52:6  By the brimming sea

52:7  Surely, the chastisement of your Rabb is an event certain

52:8  It has none to push it back.

52:9  A day the sky categorically sways

52:10  And the mountains categorically move

52:11  Then, woe that day to the truth-beliers

52:12  The ones who in discourse merely play.

52:13  A day they are pushed toward the fire of Jahannam, in a decisive push.

52:14  “This is the fire which you were denying

52:15  Is this then sorcery or do you not see?

52:16  Fuel it. Then be patient or impatient— all the same to you. You are requited for no more and no less than for what you used to do.”

52:17  Surely, the God-conscious are in gardens and in bliss,

52:18  Beaming with joy because of what their Rabb has given them. And their Rabb did spare them the suffering of Jaḥīm:

52:19  “Eat and drink pleasurably on account of what you were doing.”

52:20  Reclining on well-arranged honored couches. And WE paired them with earnest-eyed heavenly companions.

52:21  And the ones who had embraced Faith and whose progeny followed them in faith— WE joined their progeny with them, and they were not deprived of any of their doings. Each person is pledged to what he has earned.

52:22  WE furnished them with delicious fruits and meats, any of what they desire.

52:23  Therein they exchange between them a cup— no idle talk therein, nor any aspect of sin,

52:24  And pages making the rounds, waiting upon them, as if they were treasured pearls.

52:25  And some approached others, enquiring of each other:

52:26  They said, “Earlier, among our people, we had always been apprehensive [about this day].”

52:27  So, Allah has favored us and spared us the suffering of Samūm.”

52:28  [Said others], “We certainly were beseeching HIM from before. HE indeed is the Grantor of virtue, the ever Merciful!"

52:29  So then, keep reminding. You are not by the grace of your Rabb a soothsayer, nor a man possessed.

52:30  Or do they say, “A poet— we await with him the vagary of Fate.”

52:31  Say, “Wait. Alongside you, I am of the ones who wait.”

52:32  Are their insightful dreams bidding them to this, or are they an unrestrainedly usurping people?

52:33  Or do they say, “He has made up words.” Nay! They do not believe.

52:34  So let them bring a moral discourse the like of it— if they ever are to be the truthful ones.

52:35  Or were they created out of nothingness or are they the very creators [of their own selves]?

52:36  Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay! They do not pursue certainty.

52:37  Are the treasuries of your Rabb with them? Or are they the ones writing the script?

52:38  Or do they have a stairway [to the heavens] by means of which they listen? So then, let their listener come with some clear authority.

52:39  Or is it [in the same manner of speech] that for HIM are daughters and sons for you?

52:40  Or do you ask them for compensation whereby they are heavily burdened with debt?

52:41  Or are they privy to the unseeable Realm, therefore they are busy writing?

52:42  Or do they intend [to devise] a plot? For then, those who have disbelieved will themselves be the targets of the plot.

52:43  Or is there a god for them other than Allah? Limitless glory is Allah’s, transcending whatever they associate with HIM.

52:44  And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling, they would say, “[Just] a heaped cloud.”

52:45  So, let them be until they face their day— a day in which they will be stunned, speechless.

52:46  — a day, their scheming will not avail them in any way, and neither will they be helped

52:47  For the ones who have persisted in wrong, there indeed is a chastisement besides that. But most of them do not realize.

52:48  Persevere patiently for the judgment of your Rabb— you indeed are under OUR sight. And extol the limitless glory of your Rabb with praise, when you rise,

52:49  and within [parts of] the night— extol HIS limitless glory, and upon the retreat of the stars.