But no. You love this transient life,
(20)
And neglect the Hereafter.
(21)
How many faces will be refulgent on that Day,
(22)
Waiting for their Lord.
(23)
And how many faces on that Day will be woe-begone
(24)
Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them.
(25)
Never so, for when life withdraws into the clavicula,
(26)
And it is asked: "Is there any reciter of charms and amulets?"
(27)
He will then realise it is the parting,
(28)
And anguish will be heaped upon anguish:
(29)
To your Lord then will be the driving.
(30)
For he neither believed nor prayed,
(31)
But only disavowed and turned away;
(32)
Then he strutted back to his people.
(33)
Alas the woe for you, alas!
(34)
Alas, the woe for you!
(35)
Does man think that he will be left alone to himself, free?
(36)
Was he not an emitted drop of semen,
(37)
Then formed into an embryo? Then He fashioned, shaped and proportioned
(38)
And assigned it sexes, male and female.
(39)
Cannot such as He bring the dead to life?
(40)
WAS THERE NOT a time in the life of man when he was not even a mentionable thing?
(1)
Verily We created man from a sperm yoked (to the ovum) to bring out his real substance, then gave him hearing and sight.
(2)
We surely showed him the way that he may either be grateful or deny.
(3)
We have prepared for unbelievers chains and collars and a blazing fire.
(4)
Surely the devotees will drink cups flavoured with palm blossoms
(5)