In the name of Allah,
the Beneficent,
the Merciful.
[70.1]
One demanding,
demanded the chastisement which must befall
[70.2]
The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it--
[70.3]
From Allah,
the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
[70.4]
To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
[70.5]
Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
[70.6]
Surely they think it to be far off,
[70.8]
On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
[70.9]
And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
[70.10]
And friend shall not ask of friend
[70.11]
(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,
[70.12]
And his wife and his brother
[70.13]
And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
[70.14]
And all those that are in the earth,
(wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.
[70.15]
By no means!
Surely it is a flaming fire
[70.17]
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
[70.18]
And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
[70.19]
Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
[70.20]
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
[70.21]
And niggardly when good befalls him
[70.22]
Except those who pray,
[70.23]
Those who are constant at their prayer
[70.24]
And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
[70.25]
For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
[70.26]
And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
[70.27]
And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord--
[70.28]
Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of--
[70.29]
And those who guard their private parts,
[70.30]
Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely are not to be blamed,
[70.31]
But he who seeks to go beyond this,
these it is that go beyond the limits--
[70.32]
And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
[70.33]
And those who are upright in their testimonies,
[70.34]
And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
[70.35]
Those shall be in gardens,
honored.
[70.36]
But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,
[70.37]
On the right hand and on the left,
in sundry parties?
[70.38]
Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?
[70.39]
By no means!
Surely We have created them of what they know.
[70.40]
But nay!
I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
[70.41]
To bring instead (others) better than them,
and We shall not be overcome.
[70.42]
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;
[70.43]
The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste,
as if they were hastening on to a goal,
[70.44]
Their eyes cast down;
disgrace shall overtake them;
that is the day which they were threatened with.