- 70:1
- A SCEPTIC² once demanded that punishment be visite
- 70:2
- forthwith upon the unbelievers. No power can hinde
- 70:3
- God from punishing them. He is the Lord of the Stairways
- 70:4
- whereby the angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him in one day whose space is fifty thousand years
- 70:5
- Therefore conduct yourself with becoming patience
- 70:6
- They think the Day of Judgement is far off
- 70:7
- but We see it near at hand
- 70:8
- On that day the sky shall become like molten brass
- 70:9
- and the mountains like tufts of wool scattered in the wind
- 70:10
- No bosom friend shall ask a bosom friend when eye meets eye
- 70:11
- To redeem himself from the torment of that day the sinner will gladly sacrifice his children
- 70:12
- his consort, his brother
- 70:13
- the kin who gave him shelter
- 70:14
- and all that are on the earth, if then this might deliver him
- 70:15
- But no! The fire of Hel
- 70:16
- shall drag him down by the scalp
- 70:17
- shall claim him who had turned his bac
- 70:18
- and amassed riches and covetously hoarded them
- 70:19
- Indeed, man was created impatient
- 70:20
- When evil befalls him he is despondent
- 70:21
- but, blessed with good fortune, he grows niggardly
- 70:22
- Not so the worshippers
- 70:23
- who are steadfast in prayer
- 70:24
- who set aside a due portion of their wealt
- 70:25
- for the beggar and for the dispossessed
- 70:26
- who truly believe in the Day of Reckoning
- 70:27
- and dread the punishment of their Lor
- 70:28
- (for none is secure from the punishment of their Lord)
- 70:29
- who restrain their carnal desir
- 70:30
- (save with their wives and slave-girls, for with these they are blameless
- 70:31
- transgressors are those who lust after other than these)
- 70:32
- who keep their trusts and promise
- 70:33
- and bear true witness
- 70:34
- and who attend to their prayers with promptitude
- 70:35
- These shall be laden with honours, in fair Gardens
- 70:36
- But what has befallen the unbelievers, that they scramble towards yo
- 70:37
- in multitudes from right and left
- 70:38
- Are they each seeking to enter a Garden of Delight
- 70:39
- No! Of what We created them they know full well
- 70:40
- I swear by the Lord of the easts and of the wests that We have the powe
- 70:41
- to replace them by others better than they: nothing can hinder us from so doing
- 70:42
- So let them paddle, let them play until they face the day they are promised
- 70:43
- the day when they shall rush headlong from their graves
- 70:44
- like men rallying to a standard, with downcast eyes and countenances distorted and abject. Such is the day they are promised
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