Every nation hath its set time.  And when their time is come, they shall not retard it an hour; and they shall not advance it.

O children of Adam! there shall come to you Apostles from among yourselves, rehearsing my signs to you; and whoso shall fear God and do good works, no fear shall be upon them, neither shall they be put to grief.

But they who charge our signs with falsehood, and turn away from them in their pride, shall be inmates of the fire:  for ever shall they abide therein.

And who is worse than he who deviseth a lie of God, or treateth our signs as lies?  To them shall a portion here below be assigned in accordance with the Book of our decrees, until the time when our messengers,7 as they receive their souls, shall say, “Where are they on whom ye called beside God?” They shall say:  “Gone from us.”  And they shall witness against themselves that they were infidels.

He shall say, “Enter ye into the Fire with the generations of Djinn and men who have preceded you.  So oft as a fresh generation entereth, it shall curse its sister, until when they have all reached it, the last comers shall say to the former, ’O our Lord! these are they who led us astray:  assign them therefore a double torment of the fire:"’ He will say, “Ye shall all have double.”  But of this are ye ignorant.

And the former of them shall say to the latter, “What advantage have ye over us?  Taste ye therefore the torment for that which ye have done.”

Verily, they who have charged our signs with falsehood and have turned away from them in their pride, Heaven’s gates shall not be opened to them, nor shall they enter Paradise, until the camel8 passeth through the eye of the needle.  After this sort will we recompense the transgressors.

They shall make their bed in Hell, and above them shall be coverings of fire!  After this sort will we recompense the evil doers.

But as to those who have believed and done the things which are right (we will lay on no one a burden beyond his power) These shall be inmates of Paradise:  for ever shall they abide therein;

And we will remove whatever rancour was in their bosoms:  rivers shall roll at their feet:  and they shall say, “Praise be to God who hath guided us hither!  We had not been guided had not God guided us!  Of a surety the Apostles of our Lord came to us with truth.”  And a voice shall cry to them, “This is Paradise, of which, as the meed of your works, ye are made heirs.”

And the inmates of Paradise shall cry to the inmates of the fire, “Now have we found what our Lord promised us to be true.  Have ye too found what your Lord promised you to be true?” And they shall answer, “Yes.”  And a Herald shall proclaim between them:  “The curse of God be upon the evil doers,

Who turn men aside from the way of God, and seek to make it crooked, and who believe not in the life to come!”

And between them shall be a partition; and on the wall al Araf9 shall be men who will know all,10 by their tokens, and they shall cry to the inmates of Paradise, “Peace be on you!” but they shall not yet enter it, although they long to do so.