In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
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, | |
