Sacred Books

Ayat 1 - AN INQUIRER ASKED for the affliction that is to come

Ayat 2 - Upon the infidels -- which none would be able to repel --

Ayat 3 - From God, the Lord of the steps (of progression),

Ayat 4 - To whom the angels and the soul take a day to ascend, whose length is fifty thousand years.

Ayat 5 - So persevere with becoming patience.

Ayat 6 - They surely take it to be far away,

Ayat 7 - But We see it very near.

Ayat 8 - The day the sky becomes like molten brass,

Ayat 9 - The mountains like the tufts of (carded) wool,

Ayat 10 - And no friend inquires after friend

Ayat 11 - Though within sight of one another. The sinner would like to ransom himself from the torment of that Day by offering his sons,

Ayat 12 - His wife and his brother,

Ayat 13 - And his family who had stood by him,

Ayat 14 - And all those who are on the earth, to save himself.

Ayat 15 - But never. It is pure white flame

Ayat 16 - That would skin the scalp.

Ayat 17 - It will summon whoever turns his back and flees,

Ayat 18 - Who amasses and then hoards.

Ayat 19 - Surely man is greedy by nature.

Ayat 20 - If evil befalls him he is perturbed;

Ayat 21 - If good comes to him he holds back his hand,

Ayat 22 - Except those who closely follow (the Book of God),

Ayat 23 - Who persevere in devotion,

Ayat 24 - In whose wealth a due share is included

Ayat 25 - For the needy and those dispossessed,

Ayat 26 - And those who believe in the Day of Judgement,

Ayat 27 - And those who fear the punishment of their Lord, --

Ayat 28 - Surely no one can be secure from the punishment of his Lord, --

Ayat 29 - And those who guard their sex except from their wives and women slaves of old

Ayat 30 - Are free of blame,

Ayat 31 - But those who seek more than this will be transgressors;

Ayat 32 - And those who fulfil their trusts and covenants,

Ayat 33 - Who uphold their testimonies,

Ayat 34 - And those who are mindful of their moral obligations.

Ayat 35 - They will live in gardens with honour.

Ayat 36 - What is the matter with unbelievers that they stare at you with fixed gazes and hasten towards you

Ayat 37 - In crowds, right and left?

Ayat 38 - Does every one of them wish to enter the garden of tranquility?

Ayat 39 - Never so. We have created them from what they know.

Ayat 40 - So I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able

Ayat 41 - To bring better people than they in their place; and they will not be able to thwart Us.

Ayat 42 - So leave them to their vain disputes and amusement till they meet their day (of reckoning) promised them,

Ayat 43 - The day when they will come out of their graves in all haste as though rushing to their altars,

Ayat 44 - Eyes lowered, shame attending. That is the day they have been promised!