Sūrah 70 · Makkah · 44 āyāt

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Al-Maʿārij

The Ascending Stairways

المعارج

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A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

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For the disbelievers, which none can avert,

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The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

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So be patient with gracious patience.

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On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

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And the mountains will be like wool,

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And no friend will ask about a friend,

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Seeing one another, the criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children

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No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hellfire]

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A remover of the skin of the head,

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Indeed, man was created anxious:

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When evil touches him, distressed,

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And when good touches him, withholding [of it],

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Except those who pray -

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Those who are constant in their prayer

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And those within whose wealth is a known right

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For the petitioner and the deprived -

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And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord,

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And those who guard their private parts

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And those who are to their trusts and their promises attentive

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And those who are in their testimonies upright

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And those who are to their prayer attentive

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They will be in the Gardens, honored.

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No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.

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But no, I swear by the Lord of the sunrises and sunsets that We are able

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

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Their eyes humbly downcast, humiliation covering them. That is the Day which they had been promised.

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