سَأَلَ سَائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ
1. A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen
لِلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ
2. To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.
مِنَ اللَّهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ
3. [It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.
إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا
6. Indeed, they see it [as] distant,
وَنَرَاهُ قَرِيبًا
7. But We see it [as] near.
يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَاءُ كَالْمُهْلِ
8. On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,
وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ
9. And the mountains will be like wool,
وَلَا يَسْأَلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا
10. And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ
11. They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children
وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَأَخِيهِ
12. And his wife and his brother
