— 44 verses
A questioner asked of a befalling torment
For the disbelievers, for which there is no repelling
From Allah, The Owner of the Stairways
To Him the Angels and the Spirit ascend with difficulty to Him in a Day whereof the determined (length) is fifty thousand years
So (endure) patiently with a becoming patience
Surely they see it far off
And We see it near
On the Day when the heaven will be as molten metal
And the mountains will be as wool-tufts
And no intimate (friend) will ask (another) intimate friend
(As) they are made to behold them (i.e., each other). The criminal would like that he might ransom himself of the torment upon that Day (even) by his seeds
And his female companion and his brother
And the nearest of his kin who gave him abode
And whoever is in the earth all together, so that thereafter it might deliver him
Not at all! Surely it is a fierce Blaze
Constantly plucking forth the scalps
Calling him who withdrew and turned away
And (who) gathered (riches); (so he) prudently kept them
Surely man was created most fretful
When evil touches him, (he is) most impatient
And when charity touches him, (he is) a constant preventer of it
Except the ones who are (constantly) praying
They are the ones who are permanently preserving their prayers
And (they) are the ones in whose riches is a truthful (duty) known
For the beggar and the dispossessed
And the ones who sincerely (believe) in the Day of Doom
And they are the ones who are timorous of the torment of their Lord
Surely the torment of their Lord (leaves) none secure (Literally: other than to be secure)
And they are the ones who preserve their private parts
Except with their spouses or what their right hands possess; then surely they are not blameworthy (Literally: other than being blameworthy)
Yet, whoever inequitably seeks (anything) beyond that, then those are the ones who are the aggressors
And they (The thought continues from verse 29) are the ones who pay heed (i.e., rightly observe) to their deposits and their covenant
And they are the ones who keep up their testimonies
And they are the ones who (strictly) preserve their prayer
Those will be in Gardens, high-honored
So, for what (reason) are the ones who have disbelieved (hurrying with heads) protruding, facing you
On the right and on the left in sundry batches
Does every person of them long to be made to enter a Garden of Bliss
Not at all! Surely We created them of what they know
Yet no, I swear by The Lord of the easts and the wests; surely We are indeed (the) Determiners
To exchange a more charitable (i.e., better) (people) instead of them, and in no way will We ever be outstripped
So leave them out to wade (Or: be engrossed "in vain talk") and play until they meet the Day of theirs which they are promised
The Day they will go out of the graves swiftly, as if they were rushing to a standard
Submissive will be their be holdings (i.e., gazes).They will be oppressed by humbleness. That is the Day which they were promised