Chapter 70, 44 verses
Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall
Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAAun
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,
Mina Allahi thee almaAAariji
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways
TaAAruju almalaikatu waalrroohu ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfa sanatin
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.
(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years.
Faisbir sabran jameelan
So be patient with gracious patience.
But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.
Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
Lo! they behold it afar off
Wanarahu qareeban
But We see it [as] near.
While we behold it nigh:
Yawma takoonu alssamao kaalmuhli
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
The day when the sky will become as molten copper,
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni
And the mountains will be like wool,
And the hills become as flakes of wool,
Wala yasalu hameemun hameeman
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend
Yubassaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu law yaftadee min AAathabi yawmiithin bibaneehi
They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children
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
Wasahibatihi waakheehi
And his wife and his brother
And his spouse and his brother
Wafaseelatihi allatee tuweehi
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
And his kin that harboured him
Waman fee alardi jameeAAan thumma yunjeehi
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him.
Kalla innaha latha
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell
NazzaAAatan lilshshawa
A remover of exteriors.
Eager to roast;
TadAAoo man adbara watawalla
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),
WajamaAAa faawAAa
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.
Inna alinsana khuliqa halooAAan
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Lo! man was created anxious,
Itha massahu alshsharru jazooAAan
When evil touches him, impatient,
Fretful when evil befalleth him
Waitha massahu alkhayru manooAAan
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
And, when good befalleth him, grudging;
Illa almusalleena
Except the observers of prayer -
Save worshippers.
Allatheena hum AAala salatihim daimoona
Those who are constant in their prayer
Who are constant at their worship
Waallatheena fee amwalihim haqqun maAAloomun
And those within whose wealth is a known right
And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged
Lilssaili waalmahroomi
For the petitioner and the deprived -
For the beggar and the destitute;
Waallatheena yusaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,
Waallatheena hum min AAathabi rabbihim mushfiqoona
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom -
Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -
Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure -
Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoona
And those who guard their private parts
And those who preserve their chastity
Illa AAala azwajihim aw ma malakat aymanuhum fainnahum ghayru maloomeena
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -
Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for thus they are not blameworthy;
Famani ibtagha waraa thalika faolaika humu alAAadoona
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors;
Waallatheena hum liamanatihim waAAahdihim raAAoona
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
And those who keep their pledges and their covenant,
Waallatheena hum bishahadatihim qaimoona
And those who are in their testimonies upright
And those who stand by their testimony
Waallatheena hum AAala salatihim yuhafithoona
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
And those who are attentive at their worship.
Olaika fee jannatin mukramoona
They will be in gardens, honored.
These will dwell in Gardens, honoured.
Famali allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhtiAAeena
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],
What aileth those who disbelieve, that they keep staring toward thee (O Muhammad), open - eyed,
AAani alyameeni waAAani alshshimali AAizeena
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
On the right and on the left, in groups ?
AyatmaAAu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naAAeemin
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight ?
Kalla inna khalaqnahum mimma yaAAlamoona
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know.
Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqi waalmagharibi inna laqadiroona
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising - places and the setting - places of the planets that We verily are Able
AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wama nahnu bimasbooqeena
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
To replace them by (others) better than them. And we are not to be outrun.
Fatharhum yakhoodoo wayalAAaboo hatta yulaqoo yawmahumu allathee yooAAadoona
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -
So let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised,
Yawma yakhrujoona mina alajdathi siraAAan kaannahum ila nusubin yoofidoona
The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.
The day when they come forth from the graves in haste, as racing to a goal,
KhashiAAatan absaruhum tarhaquhum thillatun thalika alyawmu allathee kanoo yooAAadoona
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.
With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised.