{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sbe09/083.htm","path":"isl/sbe09/083.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sbe09/083.htm","text":"The Qur'\u00e2n, part II (Sacred Books of the East volume 9), Palmer edition [1880];\nIN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.\nWoe to those who give short weight! who when\nthey measure against others take full measure; but when they measure to them or weigh to them, diminish!\nDo not these think that they shall be raised again [5] at the mighty day? the day when men shall stand before the Lord of the worlds!\nNay, verily, the book of the wicked is in Sigg\u00een 1; and what shall make thee know what Sigg\u00een is?--a book inscribed!\n[10] Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie!\nWho call the judgment day a lie! but none shall call it a lie except every sinful transgressor, who, when our signs are read to him, says, 'Old folks' tales!'\nNay, but that which they have gained has settled upon their hearts.\nNay, verily, [15] from their Lord on that day are they veiled; and then, verily, they shall broil in hell; then it shall be said, 'This is what ye once did call a lie!'\nNay, verily, the book of the righteous is in \u2018Illiy\u00fbn 2; and what shall make thee know what \u2018Illiy\u00fbn is?--[20] a book inscribed! those nigh to God shall witness it.\nVerily, the righteous shall be in pleasure; upon couches shall they gaze; thou mayest recognise in their faces the brightness of pleasure; [25] they shall be given to drink wine that is sealed, whose seal is musk; for that then let the aspirants aspire!\n[paragraph continues] --and it shall be tempered with Tasn\u00eem 1,--a spring from which those nigh to God shall drink.\nVerily, those who sin do laugh at those who believe; [30] and when they pass by they wink at one another, and when they return to their family they return ridiculing them; and when they see them they say, 'Verily, these do go astray!'--but they are not sent as guardians over them!\nBut to-day those who believe shall at the misbelievers laugh! [35] Upon couches shall they gaze; are the misbelievers rewarded for what they have done?\n324:1 Sigg\u00een, the 'prison' of hell, whence the register of the wicked is named.\n324:2 \u2018Illiy\u00fbn means 'high places.'\n325:1 Name of a fountain in Paradise, so called because it is conveyed to the highest apartments there.","title":"The Qur'\u00e2n, ed. Palmer (SBE9): LXXXIII. The Chapter...","type":"page"}