70.Surah Ma'Arij

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

كَلَّا إِنَّهَا لَظَى ﴿١٥﴾

7: 15.  By no means!

For it would be the Fire of Hell! --

Asad’s Version:

(6) behold, men 6 look upon that [reckoning] as something far away

(7) but, We see it as near! (8) [It will take place] on a Day when the sky will be like molten lead, (9) and the mountains will be like tufts of wool,

(10) and [when] no friend will ask about his friend, (11) though they may be in one another's sight: [for,] everyone who was lost in sin will on that Day but desire to ransom himself from suffering at the price of his own children, (12) and of his spouse, and of his brother, (13) and of all the kinsfolk who ever sheltered him, (14) and of whoever [else] lives on earth, all of them - so that he could but save himself.

70:15 But nay! Verily, all [that awaits him] is a raging flame, (16) tearing away his skin! (17) It will claim all such as turn their backs [on what is right], and turn away [from the truth], (18) and amass [wealth] and thereupon withhold [it from their fellow -men] .