Detailed descriptions of the afterlife

We have not created the heavens and earth and all that is between them for amusement.

We have not created them except for a true purpose, but most of them do not know.

Indeed, the Day of Judgment is the time appointed for them all,

the Day when no friend will avail another in the least, nor will they be helped,

except those to whom Allah shows mercy. He is indeed the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful.

ndeed, the tree of Zaqqūm.

will be the food of the sinful,

like molten metal that will boil in their bellies

like the boiling of scalding water.

[It will be said], “Seize him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire.

Then pour over his head the torment of scalding water.”

“Taste this. You are surely the mighty and honorable!

This is what you [all] used to doubt.”

Indeed, the righteous will be in a safe place,

in gardens and springs,

wearing fine silk and heavy brocade, facing one another.

So it will be, and We will marry them to maidens with gorgeous eyes.

They will call therein for every kind of fruit, safe and secure.

They will not taste death therein except the first death, and He will protect them from the punishment of the Blazing Fire,

as a grace from your Lord. That is the supreme triumph.

We have made this [Qur’an] easy in your own language, so that they may take heed.

Then wait; they too are waiting.