The letter Qaaf

Qãf. By the glorious Quran!

˹All will be resurrected,˺ yet the deniers are astonished that a warner has come to them from among themselves ˹warning of resurrection˺. So the disbelievers say, “This is an astonishing thing!

˹Will we be returned to life,˺ when we are dead and reduced to dust? Such a return is impossible.”

We certainly know what the earth consumes of them ˹after their death˺, and with us is a well-preserved Record.

In fact, they reject the truth when it has come to them, so they are in a confused state.

Have they not then looked at the sky above them: how We built it and adorned it ˹with stars˺, leaving it flawless?

As for the earth, We spread it out and placed upon it firm mountains, and produced in it every type of pleasant plant—

˹all as˺ an insight and a reminder to every servant who turns ˹to Allah˺.

And We send down blessed rain from the sky, bringing forth gardens and grains for harvest

and towering palm trees ˹loaded˺ with clustered fruit

˹as˺ a provision for ˹Our˺ servants. And with this ˹rain˺ We revive a lifeless land. Similar is the emergence ˹from the graves˺.

Before them, the people of Noah denied ˹the truth,˺ as did the people of the Water-pit, Thamûd

’Ȃd, Pharaoh, the kinfolk of Lot

the residents of the Forest, and the people of Tubba’. Each rejected ˹their˺ messenger, so My warning was fulfilled.

Were We incapable of creating ˹them˺ the first time? In fact, they are in doubt about ˹their˺ re-creation.

Indeed, ˹it is˺ We ˹Who˺ created humankind and ˹fully˺ know what their souls whisper to them, and We are closer to them than ˹their˺ jugular vein.

As the two recording-angels—˹one˺ sitting to the right, and ˹the other to˺ the left—note ˹everything˺

not a word does a person utter without having a ˹vigilant˺ observer ready ˹to write it down˺.

˹Ultimately,˺ with the throes of death will come the truth. This is what you were trying to escape!

And the Trumpet will be blown. This is the Day ˹you were˺ warned of.