Chapter 70, 44 verses
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ سَأَلَ سَائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
لِّلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
مِّنَ اللَّهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.
تَعْرُجُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
So be patient with gracious patience.
فَاصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا
Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا
But We see it [as] near.
وَنَرَاهُ قَرِيبًا
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَاءُ كَالْمُهْلِ
And the mountains will be like wool,
وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
وَلَا يَسْأَلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا
They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children
يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ
And his wife and his brother
وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَأَخِيهِ
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
وَفَصِيلَتِهِ الَّتِي تُؤْوِيهِ
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.
وَمَن فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],
كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ
A remover of exteriors.
نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
And collected [wealth] and hoarded.
وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰ
Indeed, mankind was created anxious:
۞ إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا
When evil touches him, impatient,
إِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا
And when good touches him, withholding [of it],
وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا
Except the observers of prayer -
إِلَّا الْمُصَلِّينَ
Those who are constant in their prayer
الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَائِمُونَ
And those within whose wealth is a known right
وَالَّذِينَ فِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ
For the petitioner and the deprived -
لِّلسَّائِلِ وَالْمَحْرُومِ
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
وَالَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -
وَالَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -
إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ
And those who guard their private parts
وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -
إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -
فَمَنِ ابْتَغَىٰ وَرَاءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْعَادُونَ
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَانَاتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ
And those who are in their testimonies upright
وَالَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَادَاتِهِمْ قَائِمُونَ
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:
وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ
They will be in gardens, honored.
أُولَٰئِكَ فِي جَنَّاتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],
فَمَالِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَالْمَغَارِبِ إِنَّا لَقَادِرُونَ
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
عَلَىٰ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -
فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا وَيَلْعَبُوا حَتَّىٰ يُلَاقُوا يَوْمَهُمُ الَّذِي يُوعَدُونَ
The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.
يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.
خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي كَانُوا يُوعَدُونَ