English - Chapter 70 - Al-Maarij

A questioner asked about an impending punishment

upon the disbelievers which none can avert

from God, Lord of the ascending ways

Unto Him ascend the angels and the Spirit on a day whose measure is fifty thousand years

So be patient with beautiful patience

Truly they see it as far off

but We see it as nigh

On a day when the sky is as molten lead

and the mountains are as carded wool

and no loyal friend shall ask about a loyal friend

[though] they will be made to see them. The guilty would wish to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day at the price of his children

his spouse, and his brother

his kin who had sheltered him

and all who are on the earth, that it might save him

Nay, but it is a churning fire

ripping away the scalp

calling to those who turned their backs and fled

who amassed and hoarded

Truly man was created anxious

when evil befalls him, fretful

and when good befalls him, begrudging

save those who perform prayer

who are constant in their prayers

and in whose wealth is an acknowledged due

for the beggar and the deprived

those who affirm the Day of Judgment

and who are wary of the punishment of their Lord—

truly there is no security from the punishment of their Lord

those who guard their private parts

save from their spouses or those whom their right hands possess, for then they are not blameworthy

but whosoever seeks beyond that, they are the transgressors

those who abide by their trusts and their pact

who uphold their testimony

and who are mindful of their prayers

those shall be in Gardens, honored

So how is it that those who disbelieve scramble toward thee

from the right and from the left in droves

Does every man among them desire to be admitted into a Garden of bliss

So I swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests that We are able

to replace [them] with what is better than them; and none outstrips Us

So leave them to indulge in idle talk and play until they meet the Day that they are promised

a day when they come forth from their graves, hastening as if racing to a goal

their eyes humbled, abasement shall overcome them. That is the Day they have been promised