A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

Saala sa-ilun biAAathabin waqiAA

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAA

[It is] from Allāh, owner of the ways of ascent.

Mina Allahi thee almaAAarij

The angels and the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

TaAAruju almala-ikatu warroohuilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfasana

So be patient with gracious patience.

Fasbir sabran jameela

Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

Innahum yarawnahu baAAeeda

But We see it [as] near.

Wanarahu qareeba

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

Yawma takoonu assamao kalmuhl

And the mountains will be like wool,

Watakoonu aljibalu kalAAihn

And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,

Wala yas-alu hameemun hameema

They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children.

Yubassaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu lawyaftadee min AAathabi yawmi-ithin bibaneeh

And his wife and his brother

Wasahibatihi waakheeh

And his nearest kindred who shelter him.

Wafaseelatihi allatee tu/weeh

And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.

Waman fee al-ardi jameeAAan thummayunjeeh

No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],

Kalla innaha latha

A remover of exteriors.

NazzaAAatan lishshawa

It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]

TadAAoo man adbara watawalla

And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

WajamaAAa faawAAa

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

Inna al-insana khuliqa halooAAa

When evil touches him, impatient,

Itha massahu ashsharrujazooAAa

And when good touches him, withholding [of it],

Wa-itha massahu alkhayru manooAAa

Except the observers of prayer -

Illa almusalleen

Those who are constant in their prayer

Allatheena hum AAala salatihimda-imoon

And those within whose wealth is a known right

Wallatheena fee amwalihimhaqqun maAAloom

For the petitioner and the deprived -

Lissa-ili walmahroom

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

Wallatheena yusaddiqoonabiyawmi addeen

And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -

Wallatheena hum min AAathabirabbihim mushfiqoon

Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -

Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru ma/moon

And those who guard their private parts

Wallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoon

Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -

Illa AAala azwajihim awma malakat aymanuhum fa-innahum ghayru maloomeen

But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -

Famani ibtagha waraa thalikafaola-ika humu alAAadoon

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive.

Wallatheena hum li-amanatihimwaAAahdihim raAAoon

And those who are in their testimonies upright

Wallatheena hum bishahadatihimqa-imoon

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

Wallatheena hum AAala salatihimyuhafithoon

They will be in gardens, honored.

Ola-ika fee jannatin mukramoon

So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muḥammad],

Famali allatheena kafarooqibalaka muhtiAAeen

[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?

AAani alyameeni waAAani ashshimaliAAizeen

Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?

AyatmaAAu kullu imri-in minhum anyudkhala jannata naAAeem

No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.

Kalla inna khalaqnahummimma yaAAlamoon

So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able

Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqiwalmagharibi inna laqadiroon

To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.

AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wamanahnu bimasbooqeen

So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -

Fatharhum yakhoodoowayalAAaboo hatta yulaqoo yawmahumu allatheeyooAAadoon

The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.

Yawma yakhrujoona mina al-ajdathi siraAAankaannahum ila nusubin yoofidoon

Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.

KhashiAAatan absaruhumtarhaquhum thillatun thalika alyawmu allatheekanoo yooAAadoon