"The Ways of Ascent"
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
"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.
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