Verses 45–55

سَيُهْزَمُ ٱلْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّونَ ٱلدُّبُرَ﴿٤٥﴾

54:45The league will be routed and turn its back [to flee].

بَلِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ مَوْعِدُهُمْ وَٱلسَّاعَةُ أَدْهَىٰ وَأَمَرُّ﴿٤٦﴾

54:46Indeed, the Hour is their tryst; and the Hour will be most calamitous and bitter.

إِنَّ ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍۢ وَسُعُرٍۢ﴿٤٧﴾

54:47Indeed the guilty are steeped in error and madness.

يَوْمَ يُسْحَبُونَ فِى ٱلنَّارِ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمْ ذُوقُوا۟ مَسَّ سَقَرَ﴿٤٨﴾

54:48The day when they are dragged on their faces into the Fire, [it will be said to them,] ‘Taste the touch of hell!’

إِنَّا كُلَّ شَىْءٍ خَلَقْنَٰهُ بِقَدَرٍۢ﴿٤٩﴾

54:49Indeed We have created everything in a measure,

وَمَآ أَمْرُنَآ إِلَّا وَٰحِدَةٌۭ كَلَمْحٍۭ بِٱلْبَصَرِ﴿٥٠﴾

54:50and Our command is but a single [word], like the twinkling of an eye.

وَلَقَدْ أَهْلَكْنَآ أَشْيَاعَكُمْ فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍۢ﴿٥١﴾

54:51Certainly We have destroyed your likes. So is there anyone who will be admonished?¹

وَكُلُّ شَىْءٍۢ فَعَلُوهُ فِى ٱلزُّبُرِ﴿٥٢﴾

54:52Everything they have done is in the books,²

وَكُلُّ صَغِيرٍۢ وَكَبِيرٍۢ مُّسْتَطَرٌ﴿٥٣﴾

54:53and everything big and small is committed to writing.³

إِنَّ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍۢ وَنَهَرٍۢ﴿٥٤﴾

54:54Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and streams,⁴

فِى مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ عِندَ مَلِيكٍۢ مُّقْتَدِرٍۭ﴿٥٥﴾

54:55in the abode of truthfulness with an omnipotent King.