A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fall
for the unbelievers, which none may avert
from God, the Lord of the Stairways
To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up, in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years
So be thou patient with a sweet patience
behold, they see it as if far off
but We see it is nigh
Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten copper
and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts
no loyal friend shall question loyal friend
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
his companion wife, his brother
his kin who sheltered him
and whosoever is in the earth, all together, so that then it might deliver him
Nay, verily it is a furnace
snatching away the scalp
calling him who drew back and turned away
who amassed and hoarded
Surely man was created fretful
when evil visits him, impatient
when good visits him, grudging
save those that pray
and continue at their prayers
those in whose wealth is a right know
for the beggar and the outcast
who confirm the Day of Doo
and go in fear of the chastisement of their Lord
(from their Lord's chastisement none feels secure
and guard their private part
save from their wives and what their right hands own, then not being blameworth
(but whoso seeks after more than that, they are the transgressors)
and who preserve their trusts and their covenant
and perform their witnessings
and who observe their prayers
Those shall be in Gardens, high-honoured
What ails the unbelievers, running with outstretched neck
towards thee on the right hand and on the left hand in knots
What, is every man of them eager to be admitted to a Garden of Bliss
Not so; for We have created them of what they know
No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are abl
to substitute a better than they; We shall not be outstripped
Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised
the day they shall come forth from the tombs hastily, as if they were hurrying unto a waymark
humbled their eyes, overspreading them abasement. That is the day which they were promised