Surah Al-Ma'arij

A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fall

for the unbelievers, which none may avert,

from God, the Lord of the Stairways.

To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up, in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years.

So be thou patient with a sweet patience;

behold, they see it as if far off;

but We see it is nigh.

Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten copper

and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts,

no loyal friend shall question loyal friend,

as they are given sight of them. The sinner will wish that he might ransom himself from the chastisement of that day even by his sons,

his companion wife, his brother,

his kin who sheltered him,

and whosoever is in the earth, all together, so that then it might deliver him.

Nay, verily it is a furnace