34 Lo! these, forsooth, are saying:
35 There is naught but our first death, and we shall not be raised again.
36 Bring back our fathers, if ye speak the truth!
Trivia:
Surah 44
SMOKE (Al-Dukhan)
44:34-42
Some people are saying,
There's no life after death.
37 Are they better, or the folk of Tubb'a and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.
38 And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in play.
39 We created them not save with truth; but most of them know not.
Are they better than the folk of Tubb'a? [1]
We destroyed them because they were guilty.
40 Assuredly the Day of Decision is the term for all of them,
41 A day when friend can in naught avail friend, nor can they be helped,
42 Save him on whom Allah hath mercy. Lo! He is the Mighty, the Merciful.
The day of decision is the day when friends won't be able to help their friends.
44:43-50
43 Lo! the tree of Zaqqum,
44 The food of the sinner!
45 Like molten brass, it seetheth in their bellies
46 As the seething of boiling water.
47 (And it will be said): Take him and drag him to the midst of hell,
48 Then pour upon his head the torment of boiling water.
49 (Saying): Taste! Lo! thou wast forsooth the mighty, the noble!
50 Lo! this is that whereof ye used to doubt.
Someone will say,
Drag him to the bottom of hell.
Then torment him by pouring boiling water on his head.
Lo! This is what you used to doubt.
44:51-59
51 Lo! those who kept their duty will be in a place secured.
52 Amid gardens and watersprings,
53 Attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another.
Those who kept their duty will be dressed in silk,
and placed in a garden.
54 Even so (it will be). And We shall wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.
55 They call therein for every fruit in safety.
We will wed them to fair maidens with lovely wide eyes. [3]
56 They taste not death therein, save the first death. And He hath saved them from the doom of hell,
57 A bounty from thy Lord. That is the supreme triumph.
He has saved them from the doom of hell.
58 And We have made (this Scripture) easy in thy language only that they may heed.
59 Wait then (O Muhammad). Lo! they (too) are waiting.
We've made this scripture in your language
so it'll be easy to read.
Notes
- The folk of Tubb'a (v.37)
No one knows who Tubb'a's folk were, but whoever they were, Allah destroyed them.
- The tree of Zaqqum (v.43)
This is a tree that grows in the bottom of hell. Its fruits are shaped like the heads of devils.
The inhabitants of hell are forced to eat its fruits and then drink boiling water.
- Fair ones with wide, lovely eyes (v.54)
Allah will provide beautiful wives for the men in the garden. He doesn't say what the women will get.