23:99 [al Muminun, Mecca 74]


[AS FOR THOSE who will not believe in the life to come, they go on lying to themselves] 5 ' until, when death approaches any of them, he prays: "O my Sustainer! Let me return, let me return 60 [to life],


(23:100) so that I might act righteously in whatever I have failed [aforetime]!""

Nay, it is indeed but a [meaningless] word that he utters: for behind those [who leave the world] there is a barrier [of death] until the Day when all will be raised from the dead!


23:101 Then, when the trumpet [of resurrection] is blown, no ties of kinship will on that Day prevail among them, and neither will they ask about one another.

(23: 102) And they whose weight [of righteousness] is heavy in the balance - it is they, they who will have attained to a happy state;

(23:103) whereas they whose weight is light in the balance - it is they who will have

squandered their own selves, [destined] to abide in hell: