Sura al-Maʿārij 70:37

عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ

ʿani l-yamīni wa-ʿani l-shimāli ʿizīna

From the right and from the left, in crowds?

Sura al-Maʿārij 70:38

أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ

ayaṭmaʿu kullu imriʾin minhum an yudkhala jannata naʿīmin

Does every man of them long to enter the Garden of Bliss?

Sura al-Maʿārij 70:39

كَلَّآ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ

kallā innā khalaqnāhum mimmā yaʿlamūna

By no means! For We have created them out of the (base matter) they know!

Sura al-Maʿārij 70:40

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَٰدِرُونَ

fa-lā uqsimu bi-rabbī l-mashāriqi wa-l-maghāribi innā la-qādirūna

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

Sura al-Maʿārij 70:41

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

ʿala an nubaddila khayran minhum wa-mā naḥnu bi-masbūqīna

Substitute for them better (men) than they; And We are not to be defeated (in Our Plan).

Sura al-Maʿārij 70:42

فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

fa-dharhum yakhūḍū wa-yalʿabū ḥattā yulāqū yawmahumu alladhī yūʿadūna

So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they encounter that Day of theirs which they have been promised!-

Sura al-Maʿārij 70:43

يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ

yawma yakhrujūna mina l-ajdāthi sirāʿan ka-annahum ilā nuṣubin yūfiḍūna

The Day whereon they will issue from their sepulchres in sudden haste as if they were rushing to a goal-post (fixed for them),-