Chapter 70, 44 verses
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
The unbelievers - - there is none to avert it - -
Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAAun
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
Mina Allahi thee almaAAariji
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.
TaAAruju almalaikatu waalrroohu ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfa sanatin
So be patient with gracious patience.
Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
Faisbir sabran jameelan
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
Surely they think it to be far off,
Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan
But We see it [as] near.
And We see it nigh.
Wanarahu qareeban
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
Yawma takoonu alssamao kaalmuhli
And the mountains will be like wool,
And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
And friend shall not ask of friend
Wala yasalu hameemun hameeman
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,
Yubassaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu law yaftadee min AAathabi yawmiithin bibaneehi
And his wife and his brother
And his wife and his brother
Wasahibatihi waakheehi
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
Wafaseelatihi allatee tuweehi
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.
Waman fee alardi jameeAAan thumma yunjeehi
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
Kalla innaha latha
A remover of exteriors.
Dragging by the head,
NazzaAAatan lilshshawa
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
TadAAoo man adbara watawalla
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
WajamaAAa faawAAa
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
Inna alinsana khuliqa halooAAan
When evil touches him, impatient,
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
Itha massahu alshsharru jazooAAan
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
And niggardly when good befalls him
Waitha massahu alkhayru manooAAan
Except the observers of prayer -
Except those who pray,
Illa almusalleena
Those who are constant in their prayer
Those who are constant at their prayer
Allatheena hum AAala salatihim daimoona
And those within whose wealth is a known right
And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
Waallatheena fee amwalihim haqqun maAAloomun
For the petitioner and the deprived -
For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
Lilssaili waalmahroomi
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
Waallatheena yusaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord - -
Waallatheena hum min AAathabi rabbihim mushfiqoona
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 - -
Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin
And those who guard their private parts
And those who guard their private parts,
Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoona
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,
Illa AAala azwajihim aw ma malakat aymanuhum fainnahum ghayru maloomeena
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 - -
Famani ibtagha waraa thalika faolaika humu alAAadoona
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
Waallatheena hum liamanatihim waAAahdihim raAAoona
And those who are in their testimonies upright
And those who are upright in their testimonies,
Waallatheena hum bishahadatihim qaimoona
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
Waallatheena hum AAala salatihim yuhafithoona
They will be in gardens, honored.
Those shall be in gardens, honored.
Olaika fee jannatin mukramoona
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,
Famali allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhtiAAeena
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
AAani alyameeni waAAani alshshimali AAizeena
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?
AyatmaAAu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naAAeemin
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.
Kalla inna khalaqnahum mimma yaAAlamoona
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
Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqi waalmagharibi inna laqadiroona
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.
AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wama nahnu bimasbooqeena
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;
Fatharhum yakhoodoo wayalAAaboo hatta yulaqoo yawmahumu allathee yooAAadoona
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,
Yawma yakhrujoona mina alajdathi siraAAan kaannahum ila nusubin yoofidoona
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.
KhashiAAatan absaruhum tarhaquhum thillatun thalika alyawmu allathee kanoo yooAAadoona