Category: Chapters / Surah

A questioner asked you about the punishment which is bound to happen.

It is for the disbelievers and there is none to avert it.
Meaning:-
Avert: turn away, prevent, avoid.

It will come from Allah, the Owner of the Ways of Ascent.
Meaning:-
Ascent: to climb, rise, scaling

The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years:
Meaning:-
Ascend: to climb, rise, scale,

But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.

They see it (Day of Judgement) to be far-off:

but We see it quite near.
Meaning:-
Quite: absolutely,

On that Day, the sky shall become like molten brass
Meaning:-
Molten: liquefied by heat.

And the mountains will be like flakes of wool,

even a close friend will not ask of his friend,

though they will see each other. To save himself from the punishment of that Day, the culprit (disbeliever) will wish to give his children,
Meaning:-
Culprit: a person who is responsible for a crime or other misdeed.

And his wife and his brother,

his relatives – who gave him shelter –

And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.

By no means! Verily, it will be the Fire of Hell!

Taking away (burning completely) the head skin!

it will be calling all those who try to escape and turn their back,

And collect (wealth) and hide it (from spending it in the Cause of Allah).

Indeed, man has been created impatient,

When evil touches him, impatient,

but when blessed with good fortune, he becomes stingy;
Meaning:-
Stingy: penny-pinching, miserly, unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous.

Except those who pray,

Those who are constant at their prayer

And those in whose wealth there is a known right,

For the beggar who asks, and for the unlucky who has lost his property and wealth, (and his means of living has been straitened);

And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,

And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord –

Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe –

And those who guard their private parts

Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed –

But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors –
Meaning:-
Transgressors: a person who is actually breaking the law, offend; sin.

Those who keep their trusts and honor their promises,

who stand firm in their testimonies
Meaning:-
Testimony: witness, the statement or declaration of a witness under oath

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

Those will be in Gardens, high-honored.

So what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten to listen from you (O Muhammad), in order to belie you and to mock at you, and at Allah’s Book (this Quran).
Meaning:-
Belie: to show (something) to be false or wrong.
Mock: to laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way, make fun of

(Sitting) in groups on the right and on the left (of you, O Muhammad)?

Does every man of them hope to enter the Paradise of delight?

By no means! Surely, We have created them out of that what they (unbelievers) know.

Now I do call to witness the Lord of all points in the East and the West that We can certainly-

to destroy them and replace them with others better than them, and nothing can hinder Us from doing so.
Meaning:-
Hinder: to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in.

So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they meet their Day which they are promised.
Meaning:-
Plunge: push or thrust quickly.
Vain: useless, pointless, to no purpose, hopeless.

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.
Meaning:-
Downcast: (of a person’s eyes) looking downward.
Countenance: especially the look or expression of the face
Distorted: giving a misleading or false account or impression; misrepresented.

Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.
Meaning:-
Humble: lower (someone) in dignity or importance.