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.