The Holy Quran, Chapter As-Saffat - الصافات

Verse
53
أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَاباً وَعِظَاماً أَئِنَّا لَمَدِينُونَ
Can we, when we are dead and have become mere dust and bones, can we (then) verily be brought to book?
54
قَالَ هَلْ أَنتُم مُّطَّلِعُونَ
He saith: Will ye look?
55
فَاطَّلَعَ فَرَآهُ فِي سَوَاء الْجَحِيمِ
Then looketh he and seeth him in the depth of hell.
56
قَالَ تَاللَّهِ إِنْ كِدتَّ لَتُرْدِينِ
He saith: By Allah, thou verily didst all but cause my ruin,
57
وَلَوْلَا نِعْمَةُ رَبِّي لَكُنتُ مِنَ الْمُحْضَرِينَ
And had it not been for the favor of my Lord, I too had been of those haled forth (to doom).
58
أَفَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَيِّتِينَ
Are we then not to die
59
إِلَّا مَوْتَتَنَا الْأُولَى وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينَ
Saving our former death, and are we not to he punished?
60
إِنَّ هَذَا لَهُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ
Lo! this is the supreme triumph.
61
لِمِثْلِ هَذَا فَلْيَعْمَلْ الْعَامِلُونَ
For the like of this, then, let the workers work.
62
أَذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ نُّزُلاً أَمْ شَجَرَةُ الزَّقُّومِ
Is this better as a welcome, or the tree of Zaqqam?
63
إِنَّا جَعَلْنَاهَا فِتْنَةً لِّلظَّالِمِينَ
Lo! We have appointed it a torment for wrong doers.
64
إِنَّهَا شَجَرَةٌ تَخْرُجُ فِي أَصْلِ الْجَحِيمِ
Lo! it is a tree that springeth in the heart of hell
65
طَلْعُهَا كَأَنَّهُ رُؤُوسُ الشَّيَاطِينِ
Its crop is as it were the heads of devils
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