English - Chapter 70 - Al-Maarij

One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall

The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it

From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent

To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years

Therefore endure with a goodly patience

Surely they think it to be far off

And We see it nigh

On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper

And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

And friend shall not ask of friend

(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

And his wife and his brother

And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter

And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him

By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire

Dragging by the head

It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth)

And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up

Surely man is created of a hasty temperament

Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him

And niggardly when good befalls him

Except those who pray

Those who are constant at their prayer

And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion

For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)

And those who accept the truth of the judgment day

And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord

Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of

And those who guard their private parts

Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely are not to be blamed

But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits

And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant

And those who are upright in their testimonies

And those who keep a guard on their prayer

Those shall be in gardens, honored

But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you

On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties

Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss

By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know

But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able

To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome

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

The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal

Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with