Chapter 70, 44 verses
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
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سأل سائل بعذاب واقع
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,
للكافرين ليس له دافع
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways
من الله ذي المعارج
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.
تعرج الملائكة والروح إليه في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة
So be patient with gracious patience.
But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.
فاصبر صبرا جميلا
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
Lo! they behold it afar off
إنهم يرونه بعيدا
But We see it [as] near.
While we behold it nigh:
ونراه قريبا
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
The day when the sky will become as molten copper,
يوم تكون السماء كالمهل
And the mountains will be like wool,
And the hills become as flakes of wool,
وتكون الجبال كالعهن
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend
ولا يسأل حميم حميما
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
يبصرونهم ۚ يود المجرم لو يفتدي من عذاب يومئذ ببنيه
And his wife and his brother
And his spouse and his brother
وصاحبته وأخيه
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
And his kin that harboured him
وفصيلته التي تؤويه
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.
ومن في الأرض جميعا ثم ينجيه
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell
كلا ۖ إنها لظى
A remover of exteriors.
Eager to roast;
نزاعة للشوى
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),
تدعو من أدبر وتولى
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.
وجمع فأوعى
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Lo! man was created anxious,
۞ إن الإنسان خلق هلوعا
When evil touches him, impatient,
Fretful when evil befalleth him
إذا مسه الشر جزوعا
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
And, when good befalleth him, grudging;
وإذا مسه الخير منوعا
Except the observers of prayer -
Save worshippers.
إلا المصلين
Those who are constant in their prayer
Who are constant at their worship
الذين هم على صلاتهم دائمون
And those within whose wealth is a known right
And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged
والذين في أموالهم حق معلوم
For the petitioner and the deprived -
For the beggar and the destitute;
للسائل والمحروم
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,
والذين يصدقون بيوم الدين
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom -
والذين هم من عذاب ربهم مشفقون
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 -
إن عذاب ربهم غير مأمون
And those who guard their private parts
And those who preserve their chastity
والذين هم لفروجهم حافظون
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;
إلا على أزواجهم أو ما ملكت أيمانهم فإنهم غير ملومين
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors;
فمن ابتغى وراء ذلك فأولئك هم العادون
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
And those who keep their pledges and their covenant,
والذين هم لأماناتهم وعهدهم راعون
And those who are in their testimonies upright
And those who stand by their testimony
والذين هم بشهاداتهم قائمون
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
And those who are attentive at their worship.
والذين هم على صلاتهم يحافظون
They will be in gardens, honored.
These will dwell in Gardens, honoured.
أولئك في جنات مكرمون
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,
فمال الذين كفروا قبلك مهطعين
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
On the right and on the left, in groups ?
عن اليمين وعن الشمال عزين
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight ?
أيطمع كل امرئ منهم أن يدخل جنة نعيم
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know.
كلا ۖ إنا خلقناهم مما يعلمون
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
فلا أقسم برب المشارق والمغارب إنا لقادرون
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.
على أن نبدل خيرا منهم وما نحن بمسبوقين
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,
فذرهم يخوضوا ويلعبوا حتى يلاقوا يومهم الذي يوعدون
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,
يوم يخرجون من الأجداث سراعا كأنهم إلى نصب يوفضون
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.
خاشعة أبصارهم ترهقهم ذلة ۚ ذلك اليوم الذي كانوا يوعدون