Quran — Page 519

NOW, VERILY, it is We who have created man, and We know what his innermost self whispers within him: for We are closer to him than his neck-vein.

[And so,] whenever the two demands [of his nature] come face to face, contending from the right and from the left,

not even a word can he utter but there is a watcher with him, ever-present.

And [then,] the twilight of death brings with it the [full] truth that [very thing, O man,] from which thou wouldst always look away! –

and [in the end] the trumpet [of resurrection] will be blown: that will be the Day of a warning fulfilled.

And every human being will come forward with [his erstwhile] inner urges and [his] conscious mind,

[and will be told:] “Indeed, unmindful hast thou been of this [Day of Judgment]; but now We have lifted from thee thy veil, and sharp is thy sight today!”

And one part of him will say: “This it is that has been ever-present with me!”

[Whereupon God will command:] “Cast, cast into hell every [such] stubborn enemy of the truth,

[every] withholder of good [and] sinful aggressor [and] fomentor of distrust [between man and man – everyone]

who has set up another deity beside God: cast him, then, cast him into suffering severe!”

Man’s other self’ will say: “O our Sustainer! It was not I that led his conscious mind into evil [nay,] but it had gone far astray [of its own accord]!

[And] He will say: “Contend not before Me, [O you sinners,] for I gave you a forewarning [of this Day of Reckoning].

The judgment passed by Me shall not be altered; but never do I do the least wrong unto My creatures!”

On that Day We will ask hell, “Art thou filled?”- and it will answer, “[Nay,] is there yet more [for me]?”

And [on that Day] paradise will be brought within the sight of the God-conscious, and will no longer be far away; [and they will be told:]

“This is what you were promised - [promised] unto every­one who was wont to turn unto God and to keep Him always in mind –

[everyone] who stood in awe of the Most Gracious although He is beyond the reach of human perception, and who has come [unto Him] with a heart full of contrition.

Enter this [paradise] in peace; this is the Day on which life abiding begins!”

In that [paradise] they shall have whatever they may desire - but there is yet more with Us.