الْقَمَر

The Hour (of Judgment) is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder.

But if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is (but) transient magic."

They reject (the warning) and follow their (own) lusts but every matter has its appointed time.

There have already come to them Recitals wherein there is (enough) to check (them),

Mature wisdom;- but (the preaching of) Warners profits them not.

Therefore, (O Prophet,) turn away from them. The Day that the Caller will call (them) to a terrible affair,

They will come forth,- their eyes humbled - from (their) graves, (torpid) like locusts scattered abroad,

Hastening, with eyes transfixed, towards the Caller!- "Hard is this Day!", the Unbelievers will say.

Before them the People of Noah rejected (their messenger): they rejected Our servant, and said, "Here is one possessed!", and he was driven out.

Then he called on his Lord: "I am one overcome: do Thou then help (me)!"

So We opened the gates of heaven, with water pouring forth.

And We caused the earth to gush forth with springs, so the waters met (and rose) to the extent decreed.

But We bore him on an (Ark) made of broad planks and caulked with palm-fibre:

She floats under our eyes (and care): a recompense to one who had been rejected (with scorn)!

And We have left this as a Sign (for all time): then is there any that will receive admonition?

But how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning?

And We have indeed made the Qur´an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?

The ´Ad (people) (too) rejected (Truth): then how terrible was My Penalty and My Warning?

For We sent against them a furious wind, on a Day of violent Disaster,

Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).