70:1  A questioner asked about a punishment that will surely happen

70:2  to the disbelievers, and which none can avert.

70:3  It is from God: Possessor of the Ascending Stairways.

70:4  The angels and the Ruh ascend to Him in a day the measure of which was fifty thousand years.

70:5  So be patient; a gracious patience.

70:6  They see it as something distant,

70:7  while We see it imminent.

70:8  The Day when the sky will be like molten brass,

70:9  and the mountains will be like tufts of wool,

70:10  and no friend will ask about another friend,

70:11  even though they will be made to see them. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children,

70:12  his wife, his brother,

70:13  his clan that sheltered him

70:14  and all who are in the earth, that it might save him.

70:15  But no! It is a raging flame

70:16  that strips away the scalps.

70:17  It invites those who drew back and turned away,

70:18  and amassed and hoarded.

70:19  The human being is created anxious.

70:20  If touched by adversity, he is miserable,

70:21  and if good fortune comes his way, he is stingy.

70:22  Except the observers of the Salat;

70:23  the ones who always maintain their Salat,

70:24  and the ones in whose money there is an acknowledged decreed right

70:25  for the beggar and the deprived,

70:26  and those who believe in the Day of the Religion,

70:27  and those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord.

70:28  Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe.

70:29  And those who guard their private parts,

70:30  except from their spouses or what their right hands possess, in which case they are free from blame.

70:31  Then whoever seeks beyond that, they are indeed the transgressors.

70:32  And those who honour what they have been entrusted with and their pledges,

70:33  and those who stand by their testimonies,

70:34  and those who maintain their Salat;

70:35  they shall be in Gardens, honoured.

70:36  What is the matter with the disbelievers rushing headlong towards you

70:37  from the right and from the left in flocks?

70:38  Does each one of them aspire to be admitted into a Garden of Bliss?

70:39  No indeed! We created them from that which they know.

70:40  So I swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests; We are indeed Capable

70:41  of replacing them with better than them, and We can never be outstripped.

70:42  So leave them to engage in vain discourse and play until they meet their Day that they are promised;

70:43  the Day they hurriedly emerge out of the graves as if they were hastening towards an altar.

70:44  With their eyesight subdued, humiliation will overwhelm them. That is the Day that they had been promised.