1. A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

2. Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,

3. From God, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

4. Whereby the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years.

5. But be patient O Mohammed with a patience fair to see.

6. Lo! they behold it afar off

7. While we behold it nigh:

8. The day when the sky will become as molten copper,

9. And the hills become as flakes of wool,

10. And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

11. Though they will be given sight of them. The guilty man will long to be able to ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children

12. And his spouse and his brother

13. And his kin that harboured him

14. And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him.

15. But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell

16. Eager to roast;

17. It calleth him who turned and fled from truth,

18. And hoarded wealth and withheld it.

19. Lo! man was created anxious,

20. Fretful when evil befalleth him

21. And, when good befalleth him, grudging;

22. Save worshippers.

23. Who are constant at their worship

24. And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged

25. For the beggar and the destitute;

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