What will a guilty person wish (in vain) to redeem himself from the punishment of that day?

 

Verses 6-18 of Chapter 70:
They think it is far off, but We see it as near at hand. (The torment shall befall on the Day) when the heavens shall be like molten silver, and the mountains like carded wool of different colors. And no close friend shall ask after his close friend, though they will be shown to each other. To save himself from the torment of that Day, the culprit shall wish to give his children, his wife, his brother, his kinsfolk who gave him shelter, and all the people of the earth, in ransom that this device might rescue him. No, never! It will be the flame of the blazing Fire, that will eat up the very flesh. It shall summon to itself every such person who drew away and turned his back and amassed wealth and guarded it jealously.