Chapter 70, 44 verses
One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سأل سائل بعذاب واقع
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
The unbelievers - - there is none to avert it - -
للكافرين ليس له دافع
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
من الله ذي المعارج
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
تعرج الملائكة والروح إليه في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.
Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
فاصبر صبرا جميلا
So be patient with gracious patience.
Surely they think it to be far off,
إنهم يرونه بعيدا
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
And We see it nigh.
ونراه قريبا
But We see it [as] near.
On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
يوم تكون السماء كالمهل
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
وتكون الجبال كالعهن
And the mountains will be like wool,
And friend shall not ask of friend
ولا يسأل حميم حميما
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
(Though) they shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children,
يبصرونهم ۚ يود المجرم لو يفتدي من عذاب يومئذ ببنيه
They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children
And his wife and his brother
وصاحبته وأخيه
And his wife and his brother
And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
وفصيلته التي تؤويه
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.
ومن في الأرض جميعا ثم ينجيه
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
كلا ۖ إنها لظى
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
Dragging by the head,
نزاعة للشوى
A remover of exteriors.
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
تدعو من أدبر وتولى
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
وجمع فأوعى
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
۞ إن الإنسان خلق هلوعا
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
إذا مسه الشر جزوعا
When evil touches him, impatient,
And niggardly when good befalls him
وإذا مسه الخير منوعا
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
Except those who pray,
إلا المصلين
Except the observers of prayer -
Those who are constant at their prayer
الذين هم على صلاتهم دائمون
Those who are constant in their prayer
And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
والذين في أموالهم حق معلوم
And those within whose wealth is a known right
For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
للسائل والمحروم
For the petitioner and the deprived -
And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
والذين يصدقون بيوم الدين
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord - -
والذين هم من عذاب ربهم مشفقون
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of - -
إن عذاب ربهم غير مأمون
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -
And those who guard their private parts,
والذين هم لفروجهم حافظون
And those who guard their private parts
Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess - - for these surely are not to be blamed,
إلا على أزواجهم أو ما ملكت أيمانهم فإنهم غير ملومين
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -
But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits - -
فمن ابتغى وراء ذلك فأولئك هم العادون
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
والذين هم لأماناتهم وعهدهم راعون
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
And those who are upright in their testimonies,
والذين هم بشهاداتهم قائمون
And those who are in their testimonies upright
And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
والذين هم على صلاتهم يحافظون
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
Those shall be in gardens, honored.
أولئك في جنات مكرمون
They will be in gardens, honored.
But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,
فمال الذين كفروا قبلك مهطعين
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],
On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
عن اليمين وعن الشمال عزين
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?
أيطمع كل امرئ منهم أن يدخل جنة نعيم
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.
كلا ۖ إنا خلقناهم مما يعلمون
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
فلا أقسم برب المشارق والمغارب إنا لقادرون
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.
على أن نبدل خيرا منهم وما نحن بمسبوقين
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
Therefore leave them alone to go on with the false discourses and to sport until they come face to face with that day of theirs with which they are threatened;
فذرهم يخوضوا ويلعبوا حتى يلاقوا يومهم الذي يوعدون
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -
The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal,
يوم يخرجون من الأجداث سراعا كأنهم إلى نصب يوفضون
The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.
Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with.
خاشعة أبصارهم ترهقهم ذلة ۚ ذلك اليوم الذي كانوا يوعدون
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.