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