Meccan, 44 verses
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
A questioner asked about a punishment bound to happen.
None can prevent it for the disbelievers.
(It is) from God, the owner of the places of ascent.
The angels and the spirit ascend to Him in a day that its measure is fifty thousand years.
So be patient, a nice patience.
Indeed they see it far
while We see it near.
A day that the sky is like the melted copper,
and the mountains are like the colored wool,
and a friend does not ask about a friend
(although) they are made to see them. The guilty wishes to redeem himself from the punishment of that day by (offering) his children
and his spouse and his brother
and his family who sheltered him
and everyone on the earth, so that it saves him.
No way. Indeed it is flame (of hell)
stripping off the scalp (by burning it),
calling anyone who turned his back and turned away
and collected and withheld (his wealth).
Indeed human being is created greedy (and anxious),
impatient (and worried) when badness touches him,
and miserly (and stingy) when goodness touches him,
except the performers of mandatory prayers,
those who perform their mandatory prayer all the time
and those in their wealth there is a known right
for the beggar and the disadvantaged,
and those who acknowledge the Judgment Day
and those who are afraid of their Lord's punishment,
as indeed no one is safe from their Lord's punishment,
and those who guard their private parts,
except from their spouses or what their right hands own as indeed they are blameless
and anyone who looks for (anything) beyond this then they are of those exceeding the limits,
and those who observe their trusts and their promise
and those who are upstanding in their testimony
and those who guard their mandatory prayer,
they are the honored ones in gardens.
So what is with those who disbelieve, rushing (and staring) toward you
from the right and from the left, in groups?
Does every one of them expect to enter a garden of delight?
No way. Indeed We created them from what they know.
So I swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests that We are certainly able
to substitute (them with) better than them, and We are not incapable (and can not be stopped from doing that).
So leave them to engage in useless/false discussion and play until they meet their day which they are promised.
A day that they come out of the graves in a hurry as if they are rushing to an idol.
Lowering their eyes, humiliation overcomes them, that is the day that they were being promised.