When the Trumpet is blown, it shall be a very hard Day,8 not easy for the disbelievers.9 Leave Me and the person10 whom I created alone.11 I gave him ample wealth and sons to be present by his side,12 and smoothed for him the way to his leadership (and prosperity). Yet he desires that I should give him more.13 No, never! He is hostile to Our Revelations. I shall soon make him ascend a hard ascent. He pondered and tried to devise a plan. May God destroy him: what he tried to devise! Yes, may God destroy him, what he tried to devise! Then he looked around, then he frowned and scowled, then he turned his back and showed arrogance. At last, he said, "This is nothing but magic, handed down from the past; nothing but the word of a mere mortal.14 Very soon I shall cast him into Hell. And what do you know what Hell is? It leaves nothing and it spares none.15 It scorches the skin.16 Nineteen keepers are appointed over it. We17 have appointed only angels as the keepers of Hell,18 and have made their number a trial for the disbelievers,19 so that the people of the Book are convinced20 and the believers are increased in their faith,21 and the people of the Book and the believers may have no doubts, and the sick of the heart22 and the disbelievers may say, "What could Allah mean by this strange parable?"23 In this way Allah leads astray whom He wills and gives guidance to whom He wills,24 and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He Himself.25 And Hell has been mentioned so that the people may take heed.26 No, never!27 By the moon and by the night when it withdraws, and by the morning when it dawns, this Hell too, is one of the mighty things,28 a warning to mankind, a warning to every one of you, who desires to go forward, or to lag behind.29 Every person is a pledge for his own deeds,30 except the people of the right hand, who shall be in Gardens.31 There they will ask the culprits,32 "what has brought you into Hell?" They will reply, "We were not of those who offered the salat,33 and we did not feed the poor,34 and we used to join with those who indulged in idle talk against the Truth, and we used to belie the Day of Recompense, till the inevitable overtook us."35 At that time, no intercession of the intercessors shall avail them anything.36 What then is the matter with these people that they are turning away from this Admonition as though they were wild asses fleeing away from a lion?37 Nay, each one of them desires that he should be sent open letters.38 No, never! The fact is that they do not fear the Hereafter.39 No, never!40 This indeed is an Admonition. So, let him who wills, take heed. But they will never take heed unless Allah so wills.41 He alone is worthy that he should be feared,42 and He alone is worthy to forgive (those who fear Him).43