The Ascending Stairways - Al-Ma'aarij

And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

And friend shall not ask of friend

(Though) they shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children,

And his wife and his brother

And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,

And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.

By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire

Dragging by the head,