| Surah 70. Al-Ma'arij | |||
| 1 | A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall | ||
| 2 | Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel, | ||
| 3 | From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways | ||
| 4 | ( Whereby ) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years. | ||
| 5 | But be patient ( O Muhammad ) with a patience fair to see. | ||
| 6 | Lo! they behold it afar off | ||
| 7 | While We behold it nigh: | ||
| 8 | The day when the sky will become as molten copper, | ||
| 9 | And the hills become as flakes of wool, | ||
| 10 | And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend | ||
| 11 | Though they will be given sight of them. The guilty man will long be able to ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children | ||
| 12 | And his spouse and his brother | ||
| 13 | And his kin that harbored him | ||
| 14 | And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him. | ||
| 15 | But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell | ||
| 16 | Eager to roast; | ||
| 17 | It calleth him who turned and fled ( from truth ), | ||
| 18 | And hoarded ( wealth ) and withheld it. | ||
| 19 | Lo! man was created anxious, | ||
| 20 | Fretful when evil befalleth him | ||
| 21 | And, when good befalleth him, grudging; | ||
| 22 | Save worshippers | ||
| 23 | Who are constant at their worship | ||
| 24 | And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged | ||
| 25 | For the beggar and the destitute; | ||
| 26 | And those who believe in the Day of Judgment, | ||
| 27 | And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom | ||
| 28 | Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure | ||
| 29 | And those who preserve their chastity | ||
| 30 | Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for thus they are not blameworthy; | ||
| 31 | But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors; | ||
| 32 | And those who keep their pledges and their covenant. | ||
| 33 | And those who stand by their testimony | ||
| 34 | And those who are attentive at their worship, | ||
| 35 | These will dwell in Gardens, honored. | ||
| 36 | What aileth those who disbelieve, that they keep staring toward thee ( O Muhammad ), open eyed, | ||
| 37 | On the right and on the left, in groups? | ||
| 38 | Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight? | ||
| 39 | Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know. | ||
| 40 | But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising places and the setting places of the planets that We are Able | ||
| 41 | To replace them by ( others ) better than them. And We are not to be outrun. | ||
| 42 | So let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised, | ||
| 43 | The day when they come forth from the graves in haste. as racing to a goal, | ||
| 44 | With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised. | ||