English - Chapter 70 - Al-Maarij

A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fall

from God, the Lord of the Stairways

To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up, in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years

So be thou patient with a sweet patience

behold, they see it as if far off

but We see it is nigh

Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten copper

and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts

no loyal friend shall question loyal friend

as they are given sight of them. The sinner will wish that he might ransom himself from the chastisement of that day even by his sons

his companion wife, his brother

his kin who sheltered him

and whosoever is in the earth, all together, so that then it might deliver him

Nay, verily it is a furnace

snatching away the scalp

calling him who drew back and turned away

who amassed and hoarded

Surely man was created fretful

when evil visits him, impatient

when good visits him, grudging

save those that pray

and continue at their prayers

those in whose wealth is a right known

for the beggar and the outcast

who confirm the Day of Doom

and go in fear of the chastisement of their Lord

from their Lord's chastisement none feels secure

and guard their private parts

save from their wives and what their right hands own, then not being blameworthy

but whoso seeks after more than that, they are the transgressors

and who preserve their trusts and their covenant

and perform their witnessings

and who observe their prayers

Those shall be in Gardens, high-honoured

What ails the unbelievers, running with outstretched necks

towards thee on the right hand and on the left hand in knots

What, is every man of them eager to be admitted to a Garden of Bliss

Not so; for We have created them of what they know

No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are able

to substitute a better than they; We shall not be outstripped

Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised

the day they shall come forth from the tombs hastily, as if they were hurrying unto a waymark

humbled their eyes, overspreading them abasement. That is the day which they were promised