70 - The Ways Of Ascent |
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. |
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| 1 | A questioner asked about a Chastisement to befall- |
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| 2 | The Unbelievers, the which there is none to ward off,- |
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| 3 | (A Penalty) from Allah, Lord of the Ways of Ascent. |
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| 4 | The angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years: |
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| 5 | Therefore do thou hold Patience,- a Patience of beautiful (contentment). |
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| 6 | They see the (Day) indeed as a far-off (event): |
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| 7 | But We see it (quite) near. |
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| 8 | The Day that the sky will be like molten brass, |
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| 9 | And the mountains will be like wool, |
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| 10 | And no friend will ask after a friend, |
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| 11 | Though they will be put in sight of each other,- the sinner's desire will be: would that he could redeem himself from the Chastisement of that Day by (sacrificing) his children, |
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| 12 | His wife and his brother, |
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| 13 | His kindred who sheltered him, |
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| 14 | And all, all that is on earth,- so it could deliver him: |
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| 15 | By no means! for it would be the Blazing Fire!- |
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| 16 | Plucking out (his being) right to the skull!- |
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| 17 | Inviting (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from the Right). |
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| 18 | And collect (wealth) and hide it (from use)! |
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| 19 | Truly man was created very impatient;- |
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| 20 | Fretful when evil touches him; |
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| 21 | And niggardly when good reaches him;- |
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| 22 | Not so those devoted to Prayer;- |
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| 23 | Those who remain steadfast to their prayer; |
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| 24 | And those in whose wealth is a recognized right. |
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| 25 | For the (needy) who asks and him who is deprived (for some reason from asking); |
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| 26 | And those who hold to the truth of the Day of Judgment; |
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| 27 | And those who fear the punishment of their Lord,- |
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| 28 | For their Lord's punishment is not a thing to feel secure from;- |
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| 29 | And those who guard their chastity, |
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| 30 | Except with their wives and the (captives) whom their right hands possess,- for (then) they are not to be blamed, |
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| 31 | But those who trespass beyond this are transgressors;- |
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| 32 | And those who respect their trusts and covenants; |
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| 33 | And those who stand firm in their testimonies; |
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| 34 | And those who (strictly) guard their worship;- |
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| 35 | Such will be the honored ones in the Gardens (of Bliss). |
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| 36 | Now what is the matter with the Unbelievers that they rush madly before thee- |
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| 37 | From the right and from the left, in crowds? |
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| 38 | Does every man of them long to enter the Garden of Bliss? |
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| 39 | By no means! For We have created them out of the (base matter) they know! |
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| 40 | Now I do call to witness the Lord of all points in the East and the West that We can certainly- |
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| 41 | Substitute for them better (men) than they; And We are not to be defeated (in Our Plan). |
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| 42 | So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they encounter that Day of theirs which they have been promised!- |
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| 43 | The Day whereon they will issue from their sepulchers in sudden haste as if they were rushing to a goal-post (fixed for them),- |
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| 44 | Their eyes lowered in dejection,- ignominy covering them (all over)! such is the Day the which they are promised! |
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