Chapter 70, 44 verses
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin
One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAAun
The unbelievers - - there is none to avert it - -
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
Mina Allahi thee almaAAariji
From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
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
To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
So be patient with gracious patience.
Faisbir sabran jameelan
Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan
Surely they think it to be far off,
But We see it [as] near.
Wanarahu qareeban
And We see it nigh.
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
Yawma takoonu alssamao kaalmuhli
On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
And the mountains will be like wool,
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni
And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
Wala yasalu hameemun hameeman
And friend shall not ask of 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 shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children,
And his wife and his brother
Wasahibatihi waakheehi
And his wife and his brother
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
Wafaseelatihi allatee tuweehi
And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
Waman fee alardi jameeAAan thumma yunjeehi
And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
Kalla innaha latha
By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
A remover of exteriors.
NazzaAAatan lilshshawa
Dragging by the head,
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
TadAAoo man adbara watawalla
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
WajamaAAa faawAAa
And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Inna alinsana khuliqa halooAAan
Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
When evil touches him, impatient,
Itha massahu alshsharru jazooAAan
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
Waitha massahu alkhayru manooAAan
And niggardly when good befalls him
Except the observers of prayer -
Illa almusalleena
Except those who pray,
Those who are constant in their prayer
Allatheena hum AAala salatihim daimoona
Those who are constant at their prayer
And those within whose wealth is a known right
Waallatheena fee amwalihim haqqun maAAloomun
And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
For the petitioner and the deprived -
Lilssaili waalmahroomi
For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
Waallatheena yusaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni
And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
Waallatheena hum min AAathabi rabbihim mushfiqoona
And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord - -
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -
Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin
Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of - -
And those who guard their private parts
Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoona
And those who guard their private parts,
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
Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess - - for these surely are not to be blamed,
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
Famani ibtagha waraa thalika faolaika humu alAAadoona
But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits - -
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
Waallatheena hum liamanatihim waAAahdihim raAAoona
And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
And those who are in their testimonies upright
Waallatheena hum bishahadatihim qaimoona
And those who are upright in their testimonies,
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
Waallatheena hum AAala salatihim yuhafithoona
And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
They will be in gardens, honored.
Olaika fee jannatin mukramoona
Those shall be in gardens, honored.
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],
Famali allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhtiAAeena
But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
AAani alyameeni waAAani alshshimali AAizeena
On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
AyatmaAAu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naAAeemin
Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
Kalla inna khalaqnahum mimma yaAAlamoona
By no means! Surely We have created them of 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 Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wama nahnu bimasbooqeena
To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.
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
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;
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 on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on 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
Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with.