وَأَصۡحَٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ مَآ أَصۡحَٰبُ ٱلشِّمَالِ
And the companions of the Left, what (will become) of the companions of the Left?
فِي سَمُومٖ وَحَمِيمٖ
(They will be) in pestilential wind, and scalding water,
وَظِلّٖ مِّن يَحۡمُومٖ
And the shade of a Smoking Blaze,
لَّا بَارِدٖ وَلَا كَرِيمٍ
Neither cool, nor refreshing (Literally: honorable).
إِنَّهُمۡ كَانُواْ قَبۡلَ ذَٰلِكَ مُتۡرَفِينَ
Surely they were before that (living) in ease and luxury.
وَكَانُواْ يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى ٱلۡحِنثِ ٱلۡعَظِيمِ
And they used to persist in the monstrous vileness;
وَكَانُواْ يَقُولُونَ أَئِذَا مِتۡنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابٗا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبۡعُوثُونَ
And they used to say, "When we die and are dust and bones, will we surely be made to rise again?
أَوَءَابَآؤُنَا ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ
And (also) our earliest fathers?"
قُلۡ إِنَّ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ وَٱلۡأٓخِرِينَ
Say, (This is addressed to the Prophet) "Surely the earliest people and the later.