Read the Quran
- What are they asking each other about?
- About the awesome tidings [of resurrection]
- concerning which they are in disagreement!
- But they will soon come to know.
- Surely, they will soon find out the truth!
- Have We not spread the earth like a bed,
- and raised the mountains like supporting poles?
- We created you in pairs,
- and gave you repose in sleep,
- and the night as a cover,
- and made the day for earning a livelihood.
- We have built above you seven mighty heavens,
- and We have set therein a glowing lamp.
- From the rain clouds We send waters pouring down in abundance,
- so that We may bring forth thereby grain and a variety of plants,
- and gardens dense with foliage.
- Surely, the Day of Judgement has an appointed time.
- On that Day when the trumpet shall be sounded, you shall come in droves,
- and the heaven shall be opened, and become gates,
- and the mountains shall be made to vanish, as if they had been a mirage.
- Surely, Hell lies in wait,
- a home for the transgressors,
- where they shall remain for ages,
- and where they will taste neither coolness nor any drink
- save boiling water and a stinking fluid—
- a fitting requital,
- for they never expected to be called to account,
- and they rejected outright Our signs;
- but We have recorded everything in a Book.
- [So We shall say], ‘Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!’
- As for those who are mindful of God, they shall surely triumph:
- theirs shall be gardens and vineyards,
- and young maidens of equal age,
- and overflowing cups.
- There they shall not hear any idle talk, or any untruth:
- all this will be a recompense, a gift, that will suffice them, from your Lord,
- the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them, the most Gracious [and] none shall have it in their power to raise their voices to Him.
- On the Day when the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks, no one will speak, except for those to whom the Lord of Mercy gives permission, and who will say only what is right.
- That Day is sure to come, so whoever wishes to, let him take the path that leads towards his Lord.
- We have warned you of a chastisement which is near at hand, on the Day when man shall [clearly] see what his hands have sent ahead, and when he who has denied the truth shall say, ‘Oh, would that I were dust!’
78:1-17
The Arab people were not disbelievers in the Hereafter. But they did not believe in a Hereafter of such a nature as is mentioned in the Quran. In other words, they doubted that by rejecting Muhammad, they would face degradation and humiliation in the world of the Hereafter.
The physical events of the present world are indicative of the nature of the Hereafter. The ‘present’ of our world implies that it should have a ‘future’ consistent with it. Considered from this point of view, it must be accepted that there is going to be a great end to match a great beginning. This world is not going to finish without a befitting end.
78:18-30
In this world arrogance appears pleasurable to a man because it satisfies his ego. But, when man’s ego appears in its real shape in the Hereafter, the position will be entirely different. Whatever seemed delightful in the world will become a horrible torture for him in the Hereafter.
78:31-40
The atmosphere of Paradise will be free of all vain talk and falsehood. Therefore, only those who can prove that they have the inclination to live their lives in this world without indulging in trivialities and deceit, will be chosen to inhabit the pure and sublime atmosphere of Paradise.
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