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70. Al-Ma'arij - The Ways of Ascent
| 1 | A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fall |
| 2 | for the unbelievers, which none may avert, |
| 3 | from God, the Lord of the Stairways. |
| 4 | To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up, in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years. |
| 5 | So be thou patient with a sweet patience; |
| 6 | behold, they see it as if far off; |
| 7 | but We see it is nigh. |
| 8 | Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten copper |
| 9 | and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts, |
| 10 | no loyal friend shall question loyal friend, |
| 11 | as they are given sight of them. The sinner will wish that he might ransom himself from the chastisement of that day even by his sons, |
| 12 | his companion wife, his brother, |
| 13 | his kin who sheltered him, |
| 14 | and whosoever is in the earth, all together, so that then it might deliver him. |
| 15 | Nay, verily it is a furnace |
| 16 | snatching away the scalp, |
| 17 | calling him who drew back and turned away, |
| 18 | who amassed and hoarded. |
| 19 | Surely man was created fretful, |
| 20 | when evil visits him, impatient, |
| 21 | when good visits him, grudging, |
| 22 | save those that pray |
| 23 | and continue at their prayers, |
| 24 | those in whose wealth is a right known |
| 25 | for the beggar and the outcast, |
| 26 | who confirm the Day of Doom |
| 27 | and go in fear of the chastisement of their Lord |
| 28 | (from their Lord's chastisement none feels secure) |
| 29 | and guard their private parts |
| 30 | save from their wives and what their right hands own, then not being blameworthy |
| 31 | (but whoso seeks after more than that, they are the transgressors), |
| 32 | and who preserve their trusts and their covenant, |
| 33 | and perform their witnessings, |
| 34 | and who observe their prayers. |
| 35 | Those shall be in Gardens, high-honoured. |
| 36 | What ails the unbelievers, running with outstretched necks |
| 37 | towards thee on the right hand and on the left hand in knots? |
| 38 | What, is every man of them eager to be admitted to a Garden of Bliss? |
| 39 | Not so; for We have created them of what they know. |
| 40 | No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are able |
| 41 | to substitute a better than they; We shall not be outstripped. |
| 42 | Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised, |
| 43 | the day they shall come forth from the tombs hastily, as if they were hurrying unto a waymark, |
| 44 | humbled their eyes, overspreading them abasement. That is the day which they were promised. |