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سَأَلَ سَائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ
One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
لِلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ
The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it--
مِنَ اللَّهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ
From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
تَعْرُجُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ الرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ
To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
فَاصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا
Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا
Surely they think it to be far off,
وَ نَرَاهُ قَرِيبًا
And We see it nigh.
يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَاءُ كَالْمُهْلِ
On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
وَ تَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ
And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
وَ لَا يَسْأَلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا
And friend shall not ask of friend
يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ
(Though) they shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children,
وَ صَاحِبَتِهِ وَ أَخِيهِ
And his wife and his brother
وَ فَصِيلَتِهِ الَّتِي تُؤْوِيهِ
And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
وَ مَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنْجِيهِ
And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.
كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ
By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
نَزَّاعَةً لِلشَّوَىٰ
Dragging by the head,
تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَ تَوَلَّىٰ
It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
وَ جَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰ
And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا
Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
إِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
وَ إِذَا مَسَّهُ الْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا
And niggardly when good befalls him
إِلَّا الْمُصَلِّينَ
Except those who pray,
الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَائِمُونَ
Those who are constant at their prayer
وَ الَّذِينَ فِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَعْلُومٌ
And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
لِلسَّائِلِ وَ الْمَحْرُومِ
For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
وَ الَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ
And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
وَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ مِنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِمْ مُشْفِقُونَ
And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord--
إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ
Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of--
وَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ
And those who guard their private parts,
إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ
Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely are not to be blamed,
فَمَنِ ابْتَغَىٰ وَرَاءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْعَادُونَ
But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits--
وَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَانَاتِهِمْ وَ عَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ
And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
وَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ بِشَهَادَاتِهِمْ قَائِمُونَ
And those who are upright in their testimonies,
وَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ
And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
أُولَٰئِكَ فِي جَنَّاتٍ مُكْرَمُونَ
Those shall be in gardens, honored.
فَمَالِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ
But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,
عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَ عَنِ الشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ
On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ أَنْ يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ
Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?
كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُمْ مِمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ
By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.
فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَ الْمَغَارِبِ إِنَّا لَقَادِرُونَ
But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
عَلَىٰ أَنْ نُبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِنْهُمْ وَ مَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ
To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.
فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا وَ يَلْعَبُوا حَتَّىٰ يُلَاقُوا يَوْمَهُمُ الَّذِي يُوعَدُونَ
Therefore leave them alone to go on with the false discourses and to sport until they come face to face with that day of theirs with which they are threatened;
يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ
The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal,
خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي كَانُوا يُوعَدُونَ
Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with.