Al-Ma‘ārij

{بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ سَأَلَ سَائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ}

(1) A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen[1748]

{لِلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ}

(2) To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

{مِنَ اللَّهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ}

(3) [It is] from Allāh, owner of the ways of ascent.

{تَعْرُجُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ}

(4) The angels and the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

{فَاصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا}

(5) So be patient with gracious patience.

{إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا}

(6) Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

{وَنَرَاهُ قَرِيبًا}

(7) But We see it [as] near.

{يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَاءُ كَالْمُهْلِ}

(8) On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,[1749]

{وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ}

(9) And the mountains will be like wool,[1750]

{وَلَا يَسْأَلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا}

(10) And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,

{يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ}

(11) They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children.

{وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَأَخِيهِ}

(12) And his wife and his brother

{وَفَصِيلَتِهِ الَّتِي تُؤْوِيهِ}

(13) And his nearest kindred who shelter him.

{وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنْجِيهِ}

(14) And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.

{كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ}

(15) No![1751] Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],

{نَزَّاعَةً لِلشَّوَىٰ}

(16) A remover of exteriors.[1752]

{تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ}

(17) It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]

{وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰ}

(18) And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

{۞ إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا}

(19) Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

{إِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا}

(20) When evil touches him, impatient,

{وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا}

(21) And when good touches him, withholding [of it],

{إِلَّا الْمُصَلِّينَ}

(22) Except the observers of prayer -

{الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَائِمُونَ}

(23) Those who are constant in their prayer

{وَالَّذِينَ فِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَعْلُومٌ}

(24) And those within whose wealth is a known right[1753]

{لِلسَّائِلِ وَالْمَحْرُومِ}

(25) For the petitioner and the deprived -

{وَالَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ}

(26) And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

{وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ مِنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِمْ مُشْفِقُونَ}

(27) And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -

{إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ}

(28) Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -

{وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ}

(29) And those who guard their private parts

{إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ}

(30) Except from their wives or those their right hands possess,[1754] for indeed, they are not to be blamed -

{فَمَنِ ابْتَغَىٰ وَرَاءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْعَادُونَ}

(31) But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -

{وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَانَاتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ}

(32) And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive.

{وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ بِشَهَادَاتِهِمْ قَائِمُونَ}

(33) And those who are in their testimonies upright

{وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ}

(34) And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

{أُولَٰئِكَ فِي جَنَّاتٍ مُكْرَمُونَ}

(35) They will be in gardens,[1755] honored.

{فَمَالِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ}

(36) So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muḥammad],

{عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ}

(37) [To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?[1756]

{أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ أَنْ يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ}

(38) Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?

{كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُمْ مِمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ}

(39) No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.[1757]

{فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَالْمَغَارِبِ إِنَّا لَقَادِرُونَ}

(40) So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings[1758] that indeed We are able

{عَلَىٰ أَنْ نُبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ}

(41) To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.

{فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا وَيَلْعَبُوا حَتَّىٰ يُلَاقُوا يَوْمَهُمُ الَّذِي يُوعَدُونَ}

(42) So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -

{يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ}

(43) The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.[1759]

{خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي كَانُوا يُوعَدُونَ}

(44) Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.

English Translation - Saheeh International