Chapter 70, 44 verses
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سأل سائل بعذاب واقع
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
The unbelievers - - there is none to avert it - -
للكافرين ليس له دافع
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
من الله ذي المعارج
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.
تعرج الملائكة والروح إليه في يوم كان مقداره خمسين ألف سنة
So be patient with gracious patience.
Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
فاصبر صبرا جميلا
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
Surely they think it to be far off,
إنهم يرونه بعيدا
But We see it [as] near.
And We see it nigh.
ونراه قريبا
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
يوم تكون السماء كالمهل
And the mountains will be like wool,
And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
وتكون الجبال كالعهن
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
And friend shall not ask of 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 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
And his wife and his brother
And his wife and his brother
وصاحبته وأخيه
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
وفصيلته التي تؤويه
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.
ومن في الأرض جميعا ثم ينجيه
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
كلا ۖ إنها لظى
A remover of exteriors.
Dragging by the head,
نزاعة للشوى
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
تدعو من أدبر وتولى
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
وجمع فأوعى
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
۞ إن الإنسان خلق هلوعا
When evil touches him, impatient,
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
إذا مسه الشر جزوعا
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
And niggardly when good befalls him
وإذا مسه الخير منوعا
Except the observers of prayer -
Except those who pray,
إلا المصلين
Those who are constant in their prayer
Those who are constant at their prayer
الذين هم على صلاتهم دائمون
And those within whose wealth is a known right
And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
والذين في أموالهم حق معلوم
For the petitioner and the deprived -
For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
للسائل والمحروم
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
والذين يصدقون بيوم الدين
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord - -
والذين هم من عذاب ربهم مشفقون
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 - -
إن عذاب ربهم غير مأمون
And those who guard their private parts
And those who guard their private parts,
والذين هم لفروجهم حافظون
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,
إلا على أزواجهم أو ما ملكت أيمانهم فإنهم غير ملومين
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 - -
فمن ابتغى وراء ذلك فأولئك هم العادون
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
والذين هم لأماناتهم وعهدهم راعون
And those who are in their testimonies upright
And those who are upright in their testimonies,
والذين هم بشهاداتهم قائمون
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
والذين هم على صلاتهم يحافظون
They will be in gardens, honored.
Those shall be in gardens, honored.
أولئك في جنات مكرمون
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,
فمال الذين كفروا قبلك مهطعين
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
عن اليمين وعن الشمال عزين
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?
أيطمع كل امرئ منهم أن يدخل جنة نعيم
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
By no means! Surely We have created them of 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 Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
فلا أقسم برب المشارق والمغارب إنا لقادرون
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.
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 -
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
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,
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.
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