[70:1] One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall

[70:2] The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it--

[70:3] From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.

[70:4] To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.

[70:5] Therefore endure with a goodly patience.

[70:6] Surely they think it to be far off,

[70:7] And We see it nigh.

[70:8] On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper

[70:9] And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

[70:10] And friend shall not ask of friend

[70:11] (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,

[70:12] And his wife and his brother

[70:13] And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,

[70:14] And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.

[70:15] By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire

[70:16] Dragging by the head,

[70:17] It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),

[70:18] And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.

[70:19] Surely man is created of a hasty temperament

[70:20] Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him

[70:21] And niggardly when good befalls him

[70:22] Except those who pray,

[70:23] Those who are constant at their prayer

[70:24] And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.

[70:25] For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)

[70:26] And those who accept the truth of the judgment day

[70:27] And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord--

[70:28] Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of--

[70:29] And those who guard their private parts,

[70:30] Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely are not to be blamed,

[70:31] But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits--

[70:32] And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant

[70:33] And those who are upright in their testimonies,

[70:34] And those who keep a guard on their prayer,

[70:35] Those shall be in gardens, honored.

[70:36] But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,

[70:37] On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?

[70:38] Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?

[70:39] By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.

[70:40] But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able

[70:41] To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.

[70:42] 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;

[70:43] The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal,

[70:44] Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with.