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.