| shakir | |
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| 1. * | One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall |
| 2. * | The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it-- |
| 3. * | From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent. |
| 4. * | To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years. |
| 5. * | Therefore endure with a goodly patience. |
| 6. * | Surely they think it to be far off, |
| 7. * | And We see it nigh. |
| 8. * | On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper |
| 9. * | And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool |
| 10. * | And friend shall not ask of friend |
| 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, |
| 12. * | And his wife and his brother |
| 13. * | And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter, |
| 14. * | And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him. |
| 15. * | By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire |
| 16. * | Dragging by the head, |
| 17. * | It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth), |
| 18. * | And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up. |
| 19. * | Surely man is created of a hasty temperament |
| 20. * | Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him |
| 21. * | And niggardly when good befalls him |
| 22. * | Except those who pray, |
| 23. * | Those who are constant at their prayer |
| 24. * | And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion. |
| 25. * | For him who begs and for him who is denied (good) |
| 26. * | And those who accept the truth of the judgment day |
| 27. * | And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord-- |
| 28. * | Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of-- |
| 29. * | And those who guard their private parts, |
| 30. * | Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely are not to be blamed, |
| 31. * | But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits-- |
| 32. * | And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant |
| 33. * | And those who are upright in their testimonies, |
| 34. * | And those who keep a guard on their prayer, |
| 35. * | Those shall be in gardens, honored. |
| 36. * | But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you, |
| 37. * | On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties? |
| 38. * | Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss? |
| 39. * | By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know. |
| 40. * | But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able |
| 41. * | To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome. |
| 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; |
| 43. * | The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal, |
| 44. * | Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with. |