# Sura  77 - Those Sent

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> THE CHAPTER OF THOSE SENT
> (LXXVII. Mecca.)
> IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
> By those sent in a series!
> And by those who speed swiftly!
> And by the dispensers abroad!
> And by the separators apart!
> And by those who instil the reminder, as an excuse
> or warning!
> Verily, what ye are threatened with shall surely happen!
> And when the stars shall be erased!
> And when the heaven shall be cleft!
> And when the mountains shall be winnowed!
> And when the apostles shall have a time appointed
> for them!
> For what day is the appointment made?
> For the day of decision! and what shall make thee
> know what the decision is?
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> Have we not destroyed those of yore, and then followed
> them up with those of the latter day? Thus do we with the sinners.
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> Did we not create you from contemptible water, and place
> it in a sure depository unto a certain. decreed term? for we are able and well able too!
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> Have we not made for them the earth to hold the living
> and the dead? and set thereon firm mountains reared aloft? and given you to drink water in streams?
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> Go off to that which ye did call a lie! Go off to the
> shadow of three columns, that shall not shade nor avail against the flame! Verily, it throws off sparks like towers,-as though they were yellow camels!
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> This is the day when they may not speak,- when they are
> not permitted to excuse themselves!
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> This is the day of decision! We have assembled you with
> those of yore; if ye have any stratagem employ it now!
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> Verily, the pious are amid shades and springs and
> fruit such as they love.-'Eat and drink with good digestion, for that which ye have done!'
> Verily, thus do we reward those who do well.
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> 'Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; verily, ye are
> sinners!'
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> And when it is said to them bow down, they bow not down.
> Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!
> And in what new discourse after it will they believe?
>
> — *Sura  77 - Those Sent*