English - Chapter 70 - Al-Maarij

A SUITOR sued for punishment to light suddenly

On the infidels: none can hinder

God from inflicting it, the master of those ASCENTS

By which the angels and the spirit ascend to him in a day, whose length is fifty thousand years

Be thou patient therefore with becoming patience

They forsooth regard that day as distant

But we see it nigh

The day when the heavens shall become as molten brass

And the mountains shall become like flocks of wool

And friend shall not question of friend

Though they look at one another. Fain would the wicked redeem himself from punishment on that day at the price of his children

Of his spouse and his brother

And of his kindred who shewed affection for him

And of all who are on the earth that then it might deliver him

But no. For the fire

Dragging by the scalp

Shall claim him who turned his back and went away

And amassed and hoarded

Man truly is by creation hasty

When evil befalleth him, impatient

But when good falleth to his lot, tenacious

Not so the prayerful

Who are ever constant at their prayers

And of whose substance there is a due and stated portion

For him who asketh, and for him who is ashamed to beg

And who own the judgment - day a truth

And who thrill with dread at the chastisement of their Lord

For there is none safe from the chastisement of their Lord

And who control their desires

Save with their wives or the slaves whom their right hands have won, for there they shall be blameless

But whoever indulge their desires beyond this are transgressors

And who are true to their trusts and their engagements

And who witness uprightly

And who keep strictly the hours of prayer

These shall dwell, laden with honours, amid gardens

But what hath come to the unbelievers that they run at full stretch around thee

On the right hand and on the left, in bands

Is it that every man of them would fain enter that garden of delights

Not at all. We have created them, they know of what

It needs not that I swear by the Lord of the East and of the West that we have power

To replace them with better than themselves: neither are we to be hindered

Wherefore let them flounder on and disport them, till they come face to face with their threatened day

The day on which they shall flock up out of their graves in haste like men who rally to a standard

Their eyes downcast; disgrace shall cover them. Such their threatened day