Chapter 70, 44 verses
Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ
Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAAun
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
The unbelievers - - there is none to avert it - -
لِّلْكَٰفِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٌ
Mina Allahi thee almaAAariji
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِى ٱلْمَعَارِجِ
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.
To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
Faisbir sabran jameelan
So be patient with gracious patience.
Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
فَٱصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا
Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
Surely they think it to be far off,
إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا
Wanarahu qareeban
But We see it [as] near.
And We see it nigh.
وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبًا
Yawma takoonu alssamao kaalmuhli
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni
And the mountains will be like wool,
And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ
Wala yasalu hameemun hameeman
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
And friend shall not ask of friend
وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا
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 shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children,
يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ يَوَدُّ ٱلْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِى مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍۭ بِبَنِيهِ
Wasahibatihi waakheehi
And his wife and his brother
And his wife and his brother
وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ
Wafaseelatihi allatee tuweehi
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِى تُـْٔوِيهِ
Waman fee alardi jameeAAan thumma yunjeehi
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.
وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ
Kalla innaha latha
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ
NazzaAAatan lilshshawa
A remover of exteriors.
Dragging by the head,
نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ
TadAAoo man adbara watawalla
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
WajamaAAa faawAAa
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ
Inna alinsana khuliqa halooAAan
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا
Itha massahu alshsharru jazooAAan
When evil touches him, impatient,
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا
Waitha massahu alkhayru manooAAan
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
And niggardly when good befalls him
وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا
Illa almusalleena
Except the observers of prayer -
Except those who pray,
إِلَّا ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ
Allatheena hum AAala salatihim daimoona
Those who are constant in their prayer
Those who are constant at their prayer
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَآئِمُونَ
Waallatheena fee amwalihim haqqun maAAloomun
And those within whose wealth is a known right
And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
وَٱلَّذِينَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ
Lilssaili waalmahroomi
For the petitioner and the deprived -
For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ
Waallatheena yusaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ
Waallatheena hum min AAathabi rabbihim mushfiqoona
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord - -
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ
Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -
Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of - -
إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ
Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoona
And those who guard their private parts
And those who guard their private parts,
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ
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 -
Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess - - for these surely are not to be blamed,
إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ
Famani ibtagha waraa thalika faolaika humu alAAadoona
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits - -
فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ
Waallatheena hum liamanatihim waAAahdihim raAAoona
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَٰنَٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ
Waallatheena hum bishahadatihim qaimoona
And those who are in their testimonies upright
And those who are upright in their testimonies,
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ
Waallatheena hum AAala salatihim yuhafithoona
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ
Olaika fee jannatin mukramoona
They will be in gardens, honored.
Those shall be in gardens, honored.
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ
Famali allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhtiAAeena
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],
But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,
فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ
AAani alyameeni waAAani alshshimali AAizeena
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ
AyatmaAAu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naAAeemin
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?
أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ
Kalla inna khalaqnahum mimma yaAAlamoona
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.
كَلَّآ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ
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 Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَٰدِرُونَ
AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wama nahnu bimasbooqeena
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.
عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ
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 -
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;
فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ
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 on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal,
يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ
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.
Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with.
خَٰشِعَةً أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ