A questioner asked about a punishment that will surely happen
to the disbelievers, and which none can avert.
It is from God: Possessor of the Ascending Stairways.
The angels and the Ruh ascend to Him in a day the measure of which was fifty thousand years.
So be patient; a gracious patience.
They see it as something distant,
while We see it imminent.
The Day when the sky will be like molten brass,
and the mountains will be like tufts of wool,
and no friend will ask about another friend,
even though they will be made to see them. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children,
his wife, his brother,
his clan that sheltered him
and all who are in the earth, that it might save him.
But no! It is a raging flame
that strips away the scalps.
It invites those who drew back and turned away,
and amassed and hoarded.
The human being is created anxious.
If touched by adversity, he is miserable,
and if good fortune comes his way, he is stingy.
Except the observers of the Salat;
the ones who always maintain their Salat,
and the ones in whose money there is an acknowledged decreed right
for the beggar and the deprived,
and those who believe in the Day of the Religion,
and those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord.
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe.
And those who guard their private parts,
except from their spouses or what their right hands possess, in which case they are free from blame.
Then whoever seeks beyond that, they are indeed the transgressors.
And those who honour what they have been entrusted with and their pledges,
and those who stand by their testimonies,
and those who maintain their Salat;
they shall be in Gardens, honoured.
What is the matter with the disbelievers rushing headlong towards you
from the right and from the left in flocks?
Does each one of them aspire to be admitted into a Garden of Bliss?
No indeed! We created them from that which they know.
So I swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests; We are indeed Capable
of replacing them with better than them, and We can never be outstripped.
So leave them to engage in vain discourse and play until they meet their Day that they are promised;
the Day they hurriedly emerge out of the graves as if they were hastening towards an altar.
With their eyesight subdued, humiliation will overwhelm them. That is the Day that they had been promised.