Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)
40 and a multitude from the latter [ones].
41 And the People of the Left Hand
— what are the People of the Left Hand?
42 Amid infernal miasma and boiling water
43 and the shadow of a dense black smoke,
44 neither cool nor beneficial.1
45 Indeed they had been affluent before this,
46 and they used to persist in the great sin.2
47 And they used to say,
‘What! When we are dead and become dust and bones,
shall we be resurrected?
48 And our forefathers too?’
49 Say, ‘Indeed the former and latter generations
50 will all be gathered
for the tryst of a known day.
51 Then indeed,
you, astray deniers,
52 will surely eat from the Zaqqūm tree
53 and stuff your bellies with it,
54 and drink boiling water on top of it,
55 drinking like thirsty camels.’
56 Such will be the hospitality they receive
on the Day of Retribution.3
57 We created you.
Then why do you not acknowledge it?
