About what are they asking one another?

About the tremendous report

About which they differ.

No, indeed! They will come to know!

Then no, indeed! They will come to know!

Have We not made the earth a resting-place,

And the mountains as stakes?

And We created you in pairs,

And We made your sleep rest,

And We made the night a garment,

And We made the day a living,

And We built above you seven strong ones,

And We made a blazing torch,

And sent down, from the rain clouds, pouring water,

That We might bring forth thereby grain and plants,

And densely growing gardens.

The Day of Decision is an appointed time: —

The day the Trumpet is blown, and you come in crowds,

And the heaven is opened and becomes gates,

And the mountains are set in motion and become a mirage:

Gehenna will be lying in wait,

For those transgressing all bounds, a journey’s end.

They will tarry therein long ages.

They will taste therein neither coolness nor drink

Save scalding water and purulence,

As meet reward.

They expected not a reckoning,

And they denied Our proofs completely,

But everything have We counted in a writ.

“So taste! And We will increase you not save in punishment!”

For those of prudent fear is a place of safety:

Gardens and grapevines,

And well-matched maidens with swelling breasts,

And a cup overflowing.

They hear therein neither vain speech nor denial,

As reward from thy Lord — a gift, a reckoning —

Lord of the Heavens and the Earth and what is between them, the Almighty. They have from Him no power to speak

The day the Spirit and the angels stand in ranks; they speak not save he whom the Almighty grants leave, and he will say what is right.

That is the True Day, so let him who wills take his Lord as a journey’s end.

We have warned you of a near punishment: the day a man will look on what his hands sent ahead, and the false claimer of guidance will say: “Would that I were dust!”