English - Chapter 70 - Al-Maarij

A questioner asked of a befalling torment

For the disbelievers, for which there is no repelling

From Allah, The Owner of the Stairways

So (endure) patiently with a becoming patience

Surely they see it far off

And We see it near

On the Day when the heaven will be as molten metal

And the mountains will be as wool-tufts

And no intimate (friend) will ask (another) intimate friend

(As) they are made to behold them (i.e., each other). The criminal would like that he might ransom himself of the torment upon that Day (even) by his seeds

And his female companion and his brother

And the nearest of his kin who gave him abode

And whoever is in the earth all together, so that thereafter it might deliver him

Not at all! Surely it is a fierce Blaze

Constantly plucking forth the scalps

Calling him who withdrew and turned away

And (who) gathered (riches); (so he) prudently kept them

Surely man was created most fretful

When evil touches him, (he is) most impatient

And when charity touches him, (he is) a constant preventer of it

Except the ones who are (constantly) praying

They are the ones who are permanently preserving their prayers

And (they) are the ones in whose riches is a truthful (duty) known

For the beggar and the dispossessed

And the ones who sincerely (believe) in the Day of Doom

And they are the ones who are timorous of the torment of their Lord

Surely the torment of their Lord (leaves) none secure (Literally: other than to be secure)

And they are the ones who preserve their private parts

Except with their spouses or what their right hands possess; then surely they are not blameworthy (Literally: other than being blameworthy)

Yet, whoever inequitably seeks (anything) beyond that, then those are the ones who are the aggressors

And they (The thought continues from verse 29) are the ones who pay heed (i.e., rightly observe) to their deposits and their covenant

And they are the ones who keep up their testimonies

And they are the ones who (strictly) preserve their prayer

Those will be in Gardens, high-honored

So, for what (reason) are the ones who have disbelieved (hurrying with heads) protruding, facing you

On the right and on the left in sundry batches

Does every person of them long to be made to enter a Garden of Bliss

Not at all! Surely We created them of what they know

Yet no, I swear by The Lord of the easts and the wests; surely We are indeed (the) Determiners

To exchange a more charitable (i.e., better) (people) instead of them, and in no way will We ever be outstripped

So leave them out to wade (Or: be engrossed "in vain talk") and play until they meet the Day of theirs which they are promised

The Day they will go out of the graves swiftly, as if they were rushing to a standard

Submissive will be their be holdings (i.e., gazes).They will be oppressed by humbleness. That is the Day which they were promised