English - Chapter 70 - Al-Maarij

One demanded and called for vengeance to fall on the unbelievers

There shall be none to avert the same

from being inflicted by God, the possessor of the steps

by which the angels ascend unto Him, and the spirit Gabriel also, in a day whose space is fifty thousand years

Wherefore bear the insults of the Meccans with becoming patience

for they see their punishment afar off

but We see it nigh at hand

On a certain day the heaven shall become like molten brass

and the mountains like wool of various colours, scattered abroad by the wind

And a friend shall not ask a friend concerning his condition, although

they see one another. The wicked shall wish to redeem himself from the punishment of that day, by giving up his children

and his wife, and his brother

and his kindred who shewed kindness unto him

and all who are in the earth; and that this might deliver him

By no means: For hell fire

dragging them by their scalps

shall call him who shall have turned his back, and fled from the faith

and shall have amassed riches, and covetously hoarded them

Verily man is created extremely impatient

When evil toucheth him, he is full of complaint

but when good befalleth him, he becometh niggardly

Except those who are devoutly given

and who persevere in their prayers

and those of whose substance a due and certain portion is ready to be given

unto him who asketh, and him who is forbidden by shame to ask

And those who sincerely believe the day of judgment

and who dread the punishment of their Lord

For there is none secure from the punishment of their Lord

And who abstain from the carnal knowledge

of women other than their wives, or the slaves which their right hands possess; -- for as to them they shall be blameless

but whoever coveteth any woman besides these, they are transgressors

And those who faithfully keep what they are intrusted with, and their covenant

and who are upright in their testimonies

and who carefully observe the requisite rites in their prayers

These shall dwell amidst gardens, highly honoured

What aileth the unbelievers, that they run before thee

in companies, on the right hand and on the left

Doth every man of them wish to enter into a garden of delight

By no means: Verily We have created them of that which they know

I swear by the Lord of the east and of the west, that We are able to destroy them

Wherefore suffer them to wade in vain disputes, and to amuse themselves with sport: Until they meet their day with which they have been threatened

the day whereon they shall come forth hastily from their graves, as though they were troops hastening to their standard

Their looks shall be downcast; ignominy shall attend them. This is the day with which they have been threatened