The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)

38: 85
Sad 293
seated; they will call for abundant fruit and drink; 52 they will have
well-matched [wives] with modest gaze. 53 ‘This is what you are
promised for the Day of Reckoning: 54 Our provision for you will
never end.’
55 But the evildoers will have the worst place to return to: 56 Hell to
burn in, an evil place to stay – 57 all this will be theirs: let them taste
it – a scalding, dark, foul fluid, 58 and other such torments. 59 [It
will be said], ‘Here is another crowd of people rushing headlong to
join you.’ [The response will be], ‘They are not welcome! They will
burn in the Fire.’ 60 They will say to them, ‘You are not welcome! It
was you who brought this on us, an evil place to stay,’ 61 adding, ‘Our
Lord, give double punishment to those who brought this upon us.’
62 They will say, ‘Why do we not see those we thought were bad 63 and
took as a laughing-stock? Have our eyes missed them?’ 64 This is how
it will really be: the inhabitants of the Fire will blame one another in
this way.
65 [Prophet] say, ‘I am only here to give warning. There is no god
but God the One, the All Powerful, 66 Lord of the heavens and earth
and everything between, the Almighty, the Most Forgiving.’ 67 Say,
‘This message is a mighty one, 68 yet you ignore it. 69 I have no
knowledge of what those on high discuss: a 70 it is only revealed to me
that I am here to give clear warning.’
71 Your Lord said to the angels, ‘I will create a man from clay.
72 When I have shaped him and breathed from My Spirit into him,
bow down before him.’ 73 The angels all bowed down together, 74 but
not Iblis, who was too proud. He became a rebel. 75 God said, ‘Iblis,
what prevents you from bowing down to the man I have made with
My own hands? Are you too high and mighty?’ 76 Iblis said, ‘I am
better than him: You made me from fire, and him from clay.’ 77 ‘Get
out of here! You are rejected: 78 My rejection will follow you till the
Day of Judgement!’ 79 but Iblis said, ‘My Lord, grant me respite until
the Day when they are raised from the dead,’ 80 so He said, ‘You have
respite 81 till the Appointed Day.’ 82 Iblis said, ‘I swear by Your might!
I will tempt all 83 but Your true servants.’ 84 God said, ‘This is the
truth – I speak only the truth – 85 I will fill Hell with you and all
those that follow you.’
a Cf. 2: 30.