A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin
Chapter 70, 44 verses
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAAun
[It is] from Allah, owner 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.
TaAAruju almalaikatu waalrroohu ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfa sanatin
So be patient with gracious patience.
Faisbir sabran jameelan
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan
But We see it [as] near.
Wanarahu qareeban
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
Yawma takoonu alssamao kaalmuhli
And the mountains will be like wool,
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni
And no friend will ask [anything of] a 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
Yubassaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu law yaftadee min AAathabi yawmiithin bibaneehi
And his wife and his brother
Wasahibatihi waakheehi
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
Wafaseelatihi allatee tuweehi
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
Waman fee alardi jameeAAan thumma yunjeehi
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
Kalla innaha latha
A remover of exteriors.
NazzaAAatan lilshshawa
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
TadAAoo man adbara watawalla
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
WajamaAAa faawAAa
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
Inna alinsana khuliqa halooAAan
When evil touches him, impatient,
Itha massahu alshsharru jazooAAan
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
Waitha massahu alkhayru manooAAan
Except the observers of prayer -
Illa almusalleena
Those who are constant in their prayer
Allatheena hum AAala salatihim daimoona
And those within whose wealth is a known right
Waallatheena fee amwalihim haqqun maAAloomun
For the petitioner and the deprived -
Lilssaili waalmahroomi
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
Waallatheena yusaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
Waallatheena hum min AAathabi rabbihim mushfiqoona
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -
Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin
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 -
Illa AAala azwajihim aw ma malakat aymanuhum fainnahum ghayru maloomeena
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
Famani ibtagha waraa thalika faolaika humu alAAadoona
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
Waallatheena hum liamanatihim waAAahdihim raAAoona
And those who are in their testimonies upright
Waallatheena hum bishahadatihim qaimoona
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
Waallatheena hum AAala salatihim yuhafithoona
They will be in gardens, honored.
Olaika fee jannatin mukramoona
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],
Famali allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhtiAAeena
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
AAani alyameeni waAAani alshshimali AAizeena
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
AyatmaAAu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naAAeemin
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
Kalla inna khalaqnahum mimma yaAAlamoona
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqi waalmagharibi inna laqadiroona
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
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 -
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.
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.
KhashiAAatan absaruhum tarhaquhum thillatun thalika alyawmu allathee kanoo yooAAadoona