بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ
English Translation:
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
لِّلْكَٰفِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٌ
English Translation:
To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer
مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِى ٱلْمَعَارِجِ
English Translation:
[It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent
تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
English Translation:
The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years
فَٱصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا
English Translation:
So be patient with gracious patience
إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا
English Translation:
Indeed, they see it [as] distant
وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبًا
English Translation:
But We see it [as] near
يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ
English Translation:
On the Day the sky will be like murky oil
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ
English Translation:
And the mountains will be like wool
وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا
English Translation:
And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend
يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ يَوَدُّ ٱلْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِى مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍۭ بِبَنِيهِ
English Translation:
They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children
وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ
English Translation:
And his wife and his brother
وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِى تُـْٔوِيهِ
English Translation:
And his nearest kindred who shelter him
وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ
English Translation:
And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him
كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ
English Translation:
No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell]
نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ
English Translation:
A remover of exteriors
تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
English Translation:
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]
وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ
English Translation:
And collected [wealth] and hoarded
إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا
English Translation:
Indeed, mankind was created anxious
إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا
English Translation:
When evil touches him, impatient
وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا
English Translation:
And when good touches him, withholding [of it]
إِلَّا ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ
English Translation:
Except the observers of prayer
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَآئِمُونَ
English Translation:
Those who are constant in their prayer
وَٱلَّذِينَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ
English Translation:
And those within whose wealth is a known right
لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ
English Translation:
For the petitioner and the deprived
وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ
English Translation:
And those who believe in the Day of Recompense
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ
English Translation:
And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord
إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ
English Translation:
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ
English Translation:
And those who guard their private parts
إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ
English Translation:
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed
فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ
English Translation:
But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَٰنَٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ
English Translation:
And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ
English Translation:
And those who are in their testimonies upright
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ
English Translation:
And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ
English Translation:
They will be in gardens, honored
فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ
English Translation:
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad]
عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ
English Translation:
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups
أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ
English Translation:
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure
كَلَّآ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ
English Translation:
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَٰدِرُونَ
English Translation:
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ
English Translation:
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone
فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ
English Translation:
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised
يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ
English Translation:
The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening
خَٰشِعَةً أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ
English Translation:
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised