English - Chapter 70 - Al-Maarij

One who supplicates asked for a punishment that will fall

on the ones who are ungrateful for which there will be no one to avert

from God, the Possessor of the Stairways of Ascent

The angels and the Spirit go up to Him on a Day whose measure had been fifty thousand years

So have thou patience with a graceful patience

Truly, they see it as distant

but We see it as near at hand

On a Day the heaven will become as molten copper

and the mountains be as wool clusters

and no loyal friend will ask a loyal friend

although they are given sight of them. One who sins would wish that he offer for ransom —from the punishment of that day—his children

or his companion wife, or his brother

or his relatives who gave him refuge

or whoever is on the earth altogether, again, if that would rescue him

No indeed. Truly, it is the furnace of hell

removing their scalps

calling whoever drew back and turned away

and gathered wealth and amassed

Truly, the human being was created fretful

When the worst afflicted him, he is impatient

And when the good afflicted him, begrudging

But the ones who formally pray

those, they are ones who continue with their formal prayers

and those who in their wealth there is a known obligation towards

the one who begs and the one who is deprived

and those who sincerely validate the Day of Judgment

And those, they are ones who are apprehensive of the punishment of their Lord

Truly, as to the punishment of their Lord, there is no one who is safe from it

Those, they are ones who guard their private parts

but not from their spouses or what their right hands possessed. Truly, they are not ones who will be reproached

But whoever was looking beyond that, those, they are ones who turn away

And those, they who in their trusts and to their compacts are ones who shepherd

And those, they who, giving their testimony, are ones who uphold

And those, they who over their formal prayers are watchful

Those will be in Gardens, ones who are honored

What is with those who were ungrateful—ones who run forward towards thee, eyes fixed in horror

to the right and the left, tied in knots

Is not every man of them desirous of being caused to enter into a Garden of Bliss

No indeed. Truly, We created them out of what they know

So I swear an oath by the Lord of the rising places and the setting places, that We certainly are ones who have power

to substitute better for them. And We are not ones who are outrun

So let them engage in idle talk and play until they encounter the Day of theirs that they are promised

the Day when they will go forth swiftly from their tombs as though they had been hurrying to a goal

with their sight, that which is humbled. Abasement will come over them. That is the Day which they had been promised