Who treated the day of judgment as a lie!
None treat it as a lie, save the transgressor, the criminal,
Who, when our signs are rehearsed to him, saith, ‘Tales of the Ancients!’
Yes; but their own works have got the mastery over their hearts.
Yes; they shall be shut out as by a veil from their Lord on that day;
Then shall they be burned in Hell-fire:
Then shall it be said to them, ‘This is what ye deemed a lie.’
Even so. But the register of the righteous is in ʿIllīyūn.
And who shall make thee understand what ʿIllīyūn is?
A book distinctly written.”