بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ

A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

The อาหรับ (อุษมานี) edition prefixes the text of 1:1 to this verse (counted as a verse of its own only at 1:1) · อังกฤษ (Pickthall 1930) has none — left as they are

لِّلْكَٰفِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٌ

Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,

مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِى ٱلْمَعَارِجِ

From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ

(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years.

فَٱصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا

But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.

إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا

Lo! they behold it afar off

وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبًا

While we behold it nigh:

يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ

The day when the sky will become as molten copper,

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ

And the hills become as flakes of wool,

وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا

And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ يَوَدُّ ٱلْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِى مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍۭ بِبَنِيهِ

Though they will be given sight of them. The guilty man will long to be able to ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children

وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ

And his spouse and his brother

وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِى تُـْٔوِيهِ

And his kin that harboured him

وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ

And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him.

كَلَّآ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ

But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell

نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ

Eager to roast;

تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ

And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.

إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا

Lo! man was created anxious,

إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا

Fretful when evil befalleth him

وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا

And, when good befalleth him, grudging;

إِلَّا ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ

Save worshippers.

ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَآئِمُونَ

Who are constant at their worship

وَٱلَّذِينَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ

And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged

لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ

For the beggar and the destitute;

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ

And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ

And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom -

إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ

Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure-

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ

And those who preserve their chastity

إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ

Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for thus they are not blameworthy;

فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ

But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors;

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَٰنَٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ

And those who keep their pledges and their covenant,

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ

And those who stand by their testimony

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ

And those who are attentive at their worship.

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ

These will dwell in Gardens, honoured.

فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ

What aileth those who disbelieve, that they keep staring toward thee (O Muhammad), open-eyed,

عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ

On the right and on the left, in groups?

أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ

Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight?

كَلَّآ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ

Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know.

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَٰدِرُونَ

But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising-places and the setting-places (of the planets) that We verily are Able

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

To replace them by (others) better than them. And we are not to be outrun.

فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

So let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised,

يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ

The day when they come forth from the graves in haste, as racing to a goal,

خَٰشِعَةً أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ

With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised.