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A questioner asked you about the punishment which is bound to happen.[1] It is for the disbelievers and there is none to avert it.[2] It will come from Allah, the Owner of the Ways of Ascent.[3] The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a Day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.[4] Therefore, endure with graceful patience.[5] They see it (Day of Judgment) to be far-off:[6] but We see it quite near.[7] On that Day, the sky shall become like molten brass[8] and the mountains like tufts of wool;[9] even a close friend will not ask of his friend,[10] though they will see each other. To save himself from the punishment of that Day, the culprit (disbeliever) will wish to give his children,[11] his wife, his brother,[12] his relatives - who gave him shelter - [13] and all that is in the earth, in ransom to save himself.[14] By no means! It will be the fire of hell,[15] eager to pluck out his skull,[16] it will be calling all those who try to escape and turn their back,[17] who collected wealth and withheld it.[18] Indeed, man has been created impatient,[19] when evil befalls him, he becomes despondent;[20] but when blessed with good fortune, he becomes stingy;[21] with the exception of those who offer the Salah (prayer),[22] remain steadfast in their Salah (prayer),[23] set aside a due share in their wealth[24] for the beggars and the deprived,[25] accept the truth of the Day of Judgment,[26] dread the punishment of their Rabb[27] - for none is secure from the punishment of their Rabb -[28] and guard their private parts,[29] except from their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for in their case they are not blameworthy.[30] As for those who seek to go beyond this, they are transgressors.[31] Those who keep their trusts and honor their promises,[32] who stand firm in their testimonies[33] and strictly guard their Salah (prayers).[34] It is they who shall live with honor in paradise.[35]

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What is the matter with the disbelievers that they are rushing towards you,[36] from the right and from the left, in groups?[37] Are they each seeking to enter the garden of bliss?[38] By no means! Surely, We have created them out of that what they (unbelievers) know.[39] But nay! I swear by the Rabb of the easts and the wests, that We have the power[40] to destroy them and replace them with others better than them, and nothing can hinder Us from doing so.[41] Therefore, leave them to plunge in vain talk and blunder about until they face that Day of theirs which they are being promised.[42] The Day when they shall rush forward from their graves, as if they were racing towards a goal, with downcast eyes and countenances distorted with shame.[43] Such will be the Day, which they are being promised.[44]