ٱلْفُرْقَان : ٢٢

  • يَوۡمَ (The) Day
  • يَرَوۡنَ they see
  • ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ the Angels
  • لَا no
  • بُشۡرَىٰ glad tidings
  • يَوۡمَئِذٖ (will be) that Day
  • لِّلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ for the criminals
  • وَيَقُولُونَ and they will say
  • حِجۡرٗا A partition
  • مَّحۡجُورٗا forbidden
The day they see the angels1 - no good tidings will there be that day for the criminals, and [the angels] will say, "Prevented and inaccessible."2
Footnotes
1 i.e., at the time of death.
2 Referring to any good tidings.
The day when they see the angels, [while they stand] together with the rest of creation, namely, on the Day of Resurrection (yawma is in the accusative because of an implied [preceding] udhkur, 'mention'), there will be no good tidings on that day for the guilty, that is, the disbelievers, in contrast to the believers for whom there shall be the good tidings of the Paradise, and they will say, 'A forbidding ban!', as was their [the pagan] custom in this world whenever a misfortune befell them; in other words [they mean] 'awdhan ma'aadhan, seeking refuge from the angels [who will chastise them]. God, exalted be He, says: