70:1 سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ — A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen 1 70:2 لِّلْكَـٰفِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٌ — To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer. 70:3 مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِى ٱلْمَعَارِجِ — [It is] from Allāh, owner of the ways of ascent. 70:4 تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ — The angels and the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years. 70:5 فَٱصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا — So be patient with gracious patience. 70:6 إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا — Indeed, they see it [as] distant, 70:8 يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ — On the Day the sky will be like murky oil, 1 70:9 وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ — And the mountains will be like wool, 1 70:10 وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا — And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend, 70:11 يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ ٱلْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِى مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍۭ بِبَنِيهِ — They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children. 70:12 وَصَـٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ 70:13 وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِى تُـْٔوِيهِ — And his nearest kindred who shelter him. 70:14 وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ — And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him. 70:15 كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ — No! 1 Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell], 70:17 تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ — It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience] — And collected [wealth] and hoarded. 70:19 ۞ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا — Indeed, mankind was created anxious: 70:20 إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا — When evil touches him, impatient, 70:21 وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا — And when good touches him, withholding [of it], — Except the observers of prayer - 70:23 ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَآئِمُونَ — Those who are constant in their prayer 70:24 وَٱلَّذِينَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ — And those within whose wealth is a known right 1 70:25 لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ — For the petitioner and the deprived - 70:26 وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ — And those who believe in the Day of Recompense 70:27 وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ — And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord - 70:28 إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ — Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe - 70:29 وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَـٰفِظُونَ — And those who guard their private parts 70:30 إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ — Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, 1 for indeed, they are not to be blamed - 70:31 فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ — But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors - 70:32 وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَـٰنَـٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ — And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive. 70:33 وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَـٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ — And those who are in their testimonies upright 70:34 وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ — And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer: 70:35 أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ فِى جَنَّـٰتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ — They will be in gardens, 1 honored. 70:36 فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ — So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muḥammad], 70:37 عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ — [To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups? 1 70:38 أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ — Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure? 70:39 كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ — No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know. 1 70:40 فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَـٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَـٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَـٰدِرُونَ — So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings 1 that indeed We are able 70:41 عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ — To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone. 70:42 فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَـٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ — So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised - 70:43 يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ — The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening. 1 70:44 خَـٰشِعَةً أَبْصَـٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ — Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.