Chapter 70, 44 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سأل سائل بعذاب واقع
Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
للكافرين ليس له دافع
From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
من الله ذي المعارج
(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years.
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.
تعرج الملائكة والروح إليه في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة
But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.
So be patient with gracious patience.
فاصبر صبرا جميلا
Lo! they behold it afar off
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
إنهم يرونه بعيدا
While we behold it nigh:
But We see it [as] near.
ونراه قريبا
The day when the sky will become as molten copper,
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
يوم تكون السماء كالمهل
And the hills become as flakes of wool,
And the mountains will be like wool,
وتكون الجبال كالعهن
And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
ولا يسأل حميم حميما
Though they will be given sight of them. The guilty man will long to be able to ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children
They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children
يبصرونهم ۚ يود المجرم لو يفتدي من عذاب يومئذ ببنيه
And his spouse and his brother
And his wife and his brother
وصاحبته وأخيه
And his kin that harboured him
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
وفصيلته التي تؤويه
And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him.
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
ومن في الأرض جميعا ثم ينجيه
But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
كلا ۖ إنها لظى
Eager to roast;
A remover of exteriors.
نزاعة للشوى
It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
تدعو من أدبر وتولى
And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
وجمع فأوعى
Lo! man was created anxious,
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
۞ إن الإنسان خلق هلوعا
Fretful when evil befalleth him
When evil touches him, impatient,
إذا مسه الشر جزوعا
And, when good befalleth him, grudging;
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
وإذا مسه الخير منوعا
Save worshippers.
Except the observers of prayer -
إلا المصلين
Who are constant at their worship
Those who are constant in their prayer
الذين هم على صلاتهم دائمون
And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged
And those within whose wealth is a known right
والذين في أموالهم حق معلوم
For the beggar and the destitute;
For the petitioner and the deprived -
للسائل والمحروم
And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
والذين يصدقون بيوم الدين
And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom -
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
والذين هم من عذاب ربهم مشفقون
Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure -
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -
إن عذاب ربهم غير مأمون
And those who preserve their chastity
And those who guard their private parts
والذين هم لفروجهم حافظون
Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for thus they are not blameworthy;
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -
إلا على أزواجهم أو ما ملكت أيمانهم فإنهم غير ملومين
But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors;
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
فمن ابتغى وراء ذلك فأولئك هم العادون
And those who keep their pledges and their covenant,
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
والذين هم لأماناتهم وعهدهم راعون
And those who stand by their testimony
And those who are in their testimonies upright
والذين هم بشهاداتهم قائمون
And those who are attentive at their worship.
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
والذين هم على صلاتهم يحافظون
These will dwell in Gardens, honoured.
They will be in gardens, honored.
أولئك في جنات مكرمون
What aileth those who disbelieve, that they keep staring toward thee (O Muhammad), open - eyed,
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],
فمال الذين كفروا قبلك مهطعين
On the right and on the left, in groups ?
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
عن اليمين وعن الشمال عزين
Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight ?
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
أيطمع كل امرئ منهم أن يدخل جنة نعيم
Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know.
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
كلا ۖ إنا خلقناهم مما يعلمون
But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising - places and the setting - places of the planets that We verily are Able
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
فلا أقسم برب المشارق والمغارب إنا لقادرون
To replace them by (others) better than them. And we are not to be outrun.
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
على أن نبدل خيرا منهم وما نحن بمسبوقين
So let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised,
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -
فذرهم يخوضوا ويلعبوا حتى يلاقوا يومهم الذي يوعدون
The day when they come forth from the graves in haste, as racing to a goal,
The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.
يوم يخرجون من الأجداث سراعا كأنهم إلى نصب يوفضون
With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised.
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.
خاشعة أبصارهم ترهقهم ذلة ۚ ذلك اليوم الذي كانوا يوعدون