A questioner asked about an impending punishmen
upon the disbelievers which none can avert
from God, Lord of the ascending ways
Unto Him ascend the angels and the Spirit on a day whose measure is fifty thousand years
So be patient with beautiful patience
Truly they see it as far off
but We see it as nigh
On a day when the sky is as molten lead
and the mountains are as carded wool
and no loyal friend shall ask about a loyal friend
[though] they will be made to see them. The guilty would wish to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day at the price of his children
his spouse, and his brother
his kin who had sheltered him
and all who are on the earth, that it might save him
Nay, but it is a churning fire
ripping away the scalp
calling to those who turned their backs and fled
who amassed and hoarded
Truly man was created anxious
when evil befalls him, fretful
and when good befalls him, begrudging
save those who perform prayer
who are constant in their prayers
and in whose wealth is an acknowledged du
for the beggar and the deprived
those who affirm the Day of Judgment
and who are wary of the punishment of their Lord
truly there is no security from the punishment of their Lord
those who guard their private parts
save from their spouses or those whom their right hands possess, for then they are not blameworthy
but whosoever seeks beyond that, they are the transgressors
those who abide by their trusts and their pact
who uphold their testimony
and who are mindful of their prayers
those shall be in Gardens, honored
So how is it that those who disbelieve scramble toward the
from the right and from the left in droves
Does every man among them desire to be admitted into a Garden of bliss
Nay! Truly We created them from that which they know
So I swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests that We are abl
to replace [them] with what is better than them; and none outstrips Us
So leave them to indulge in idle talk and play until they meet the Day that they are promised
a day when they come forth from their graves, hastening as if racing to a goal
their eyes humbled, abasement shall overcome them. That is the Day they have been promised