Verse 70:7 in Context

Translator Abdel Haleem
3 مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِی ٱلۡمَعَارِجِ ۝٣ mina l-lahi dhī l-maʿārij from God, the Lord of the Ways of Ascent 4 تَعۡرُجُ ٱلۡمَلَـٰۤىِٕكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَیۡهِ فِی یَوۡمࣲ كَانَ مِقۡدَارُهُۥ خَمۡسِینَ أَلۡفَ سَنَةࣲ ۝٤ taʿruju l-malāikatu wal-rūḥu ilayhi fī yawmin kāna miq'dāruhu khamsīna alfa sanati by which the angels and the Spirit ascend to Him, on a Day whose length is fifty thousand years 5 فَٱصۡبِرۡ صَبۡرࣰا جَمِیلًا ۝٥ fa-iṣ'bir ṣabran jamīla So be patient, [Prophet], as befits you 6 إِنَّهُمۡ یَرَوۡنَهُۥ بَعِیدࣰا ۝٦ innahum yarawnahu baʿīda The disbelievers think it is distant
7 وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِیبࣰا ۝٧ wanarāhu qarība but We know it to be close
8 یَوۡمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَاۤءُ كَٱلۡمُهۡلِ ۝٨ yawma takūnu l-samāu kal-muh'l On a Day when the heavens will be like molten bras 9 وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ۝٩ watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'n and the mountains like tufts of wool 10 وَلَا یَسۡءَلُ حَمِیمٌ حَمِیمࣰا ۝١٠ walā yasalu ḥamīmun ḥamīma when no friend will ask about his friend 11 یُبَصَّرُونَهُمۡۚ یَوَدُّ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُ لَوۡ یَفۡتَدِی مِنۡ عَذَابِ یَوۡمِىِٕذِۭ بِبَنِیهِ ۝١١ yubaṣṣarūnahum yawaddu l-muj'rimu law yaftadī min ʿadhābi yawmi-idhin bibanīh even when they are within sight of one another. The guilty person will wish he could save himself from the suffering of that Day by sacrificing his sons

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