One demanded and called for vengeance to fall on the unbelievers
There shall be none to avert the sam
from being inflicted by God, the possessor of the steps
by which the angels ascend unto Him, and the spirit Gabriel also, in a day whose space is fifty thousand years
Wherefore bear the insults of the Meccans with becoming patience
for they see their punishment afar off
but We see it nigh at hand
On a certain day the heaven shall become like molten brass
and the mountains like wool of various colours, scattered abroad by the wind
And a friend shall not ask a friend concerning his condition, althoug
they see one another. The wicked shall wish to redeem himself from the punishment of that day, by giving up his children
and his wife, and his brother
and his kindred who shewed kindness unto him
and all who are in the earth; and that this might deliver him
By no means: For hell fire
dragging them by their scalps
shall call him who shall have turned his back, and fled from the faith
and shall have amassed riches, and covetously hoarded them
Verily man is created extremely impatient
When evil toucheth him, he is full of complaint
but when good befalleth him, he becometh niggardly
Except those who are devoutly given
and who persevere in their prayers
and those of whose substance a due and certain portion is ready to be give
unto him who asketh, and him who is forbidden by shame to ask
And those who sincerely believe the day of judgment
and who dread the punishment of their Lord
-- For there is none secure from the punishment of their Lord: -
And who abstain from the carnal knowledg
of women other than their wives, or the slaves which their right hands possess; -- for as to them they shall be blameless
but whoever coveteth any woman besides these, they are transgressors: -
And those who faithfully keep what they are intrusted with, and their covenant
and who are upright in their testimonies
and who carefully observe the requisite rites in their prayers
These shall dwell amidst gardens, highly honoured
What aileth the unbelievers, that they run before the
in companies, on the right hand and on the left
Doth every man of them wish to enter into a garden of delight
By no means: Verily We have created them of that which they know
I swear by the Lord of the east and of the west, that We are able to destroy them
and to substitute better than them in their room; neither are We to be prevented, if We shall please so to do
Wherefore suffer them to wade in vain disputes, and to amuse themselves with sport: Until they meet their day with which they have been threatened
the day whereon they shall come forth hastily from their graves, as though they were troops hastening to their standard
Their looks shall be downcast; ignominy shall attend them. This is the day with which they have been threatened