1A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen¹⁶²¹

2To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

3[It is] from Allāh, owner of the ways of ascent.

4The angels and the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

5So be patient with gracious patience.

6Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

7But We see it [as] near.

8On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,¹⁶²²

9And the mountains will be like wool,¹⁶²³

10And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,

11They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children

12And his wife and his brother

13And his nearest kindred who shelter him

14And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.

15No!¹⁶²⁴ Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],

16A remover of exteriors.¹⁶²⁵

17It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]

18And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

19Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

20When evil touches him, impatient,

21And when good touches him, withholding [of it],

22Except the observers of prayer –

23Those who are constant in their prayer

24And those within whose wealth is a known right¹⁶²⁶

25For the petitioner and the deprived –

26And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

27And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord –

28Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe –

29And those who guard their private parts

30Except from their wives or those their right hands possess,¹⁶²⁷ for indeed, they are not to be blamed –

31But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors –

32And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

33And those who are in their testimonies upright

34And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

35They will be in gardens,¹⁶²⁸ honored.

36So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muḥammad],

37[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?¹⁶²⁹

38Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?

39No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.¹⁶³⁰

40So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings¹⁶³¹ that indeed We are able

41To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.

42So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised –

43The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.¹⁶³²

44Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.