"They indeed were arrogant, when it was said to them: There is no god but Allah; And said: Shall we give up our gods for a mad poet? Nay, he has brought the Truth and verifies the messengers. Surely you will taste the painful chastisement. And you are requited naught but for what you did -- Save the servants of Allah, the purified ones. For them is a known sustenance: Fruits. And they are honoured, In Gardens of delight, On thrones, facing each other. A bowl of running water will be made to go round them, White, delicious to those who drink. It deprives not of reason, nor are they exhausted therewith. And with them are those modest in gaze, having beautiful eyes, As if they were eggs, carefully protected. Then some of them will turn to others, questioning mutually. A speaker of them will say: Surely I had a comrade, Who said: Art thou indeed of those who accept? When we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then be requited? He will say: Will you look? Then he looked down and saw him in the midst of hell. He will say: By Allah! thou hadst almost caused me to perish And had it not been for favour of my Lord, I should have been among those brought up. Are we not to die, Except our previous death? And are we not to be chastised? Surely this is the mighty achievement. For the like of this, then, let the workers work. Is this the better entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum? Surely We have made it a trial for the wrongdoers. It is a tree that grows in the bottom of hell -- Its produce is as it were the heads of serpents. Then truly they will eat of it and fill (their) bellies with it. Then surely they shall have after it a drink of boiling water. Then their return is surety to the flaming Fire. They indeed found their fathers astray, So in their footsteps they are hastening on. And most of the ancients surely went astray before them,"