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Surah Al-Ma’arij

Surah Al-Ma’arij (The Ascending Stairways) is the 70. surah in Quran.Al-Ma’arij surah is listed as the 79. by revelation order.

The meaning of surah Al-Ma’arij is The Ascending Stairways. In total this surah is consist of 44 auahs. You can read Al-Ma’arij by word by word if you would like to examine it in details or click one of the ayahs below to check that ayah only.

It is considered to be a Meccan Surah as it was believed to be revealed in Mecca. The Surah takes its name from the word the third ayah.

This surah mainly focuses on the day of Judgment. Humans were created as anxious beings and ask things to happen hastily. The day of judgment will come but it will happen on its own time. When it comes, nothing will save the unbelievers, even if they want to ransom their own children, there is no escaping it.

The surah explains features of hell and what awaits the unbelievers. It also talks about the true characteristics of the believers. The surah ends with telling the prophet to let unbelievers go as they will soon be punished.

A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

Sa’ala saaa’ilun bi ‘azaabinw waaqi’

سأل سآئل بعذاب واقع

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

Lil kaafireena laisa lahoo daafi’

للكـفرين ليس لهۥ دافع

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

Minal laahi zil ma’aarij

من ٱلله ذى ٱلمعارج

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

Ta’rujul malaaa’ikatu war Roohu ilaihi fee yawmin kaana miqdaaruhoo khamseena alfa sanah

تعرج ٱلملـئكة وٱلروح إليه فى يوم كان مقدارهۥ خمسين ألف سنة

So be patient with gracious patience.

Fasbir sabran jameelaa

فٱصبر صبرا جميلا

Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

Inaahum yarawnahoo ba’eedaa

إنهم يرونهۥ بعيدا

But We see it [as] near.

Wa naraahu qareebaa

ونرىه قريبا

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

Yawma takoonus samaaa’u kalmuhl

يوم تكون ٱلسماء كٱلمهل

And the mountains will be like wool,

Wa takoonul jibaalu kal’ihn

وتكون ٱلجبال كٱلعهن

And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,

Wa laa yas’alu hameemun hameemaa

ولا يسـل حميم حميما

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

Yubassaroonahum; ya waddul mujrimu law yaftadee min ‘azaabi yawma’izim bibaneeh

يبصرونهم يود ٱلمجرم لو يفتدى من عذاب يومئذ ببنيه

And his wife and his brother

Wa saahibatihee wa akheeh

وصـحبتهۦ وأخيه

And his nearest kindred who shelter him.

Wa faseelathil latee tu’weeh

وفصيلته ٱلتى تـويه

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

Wa man fil ardi jamee’an summa yunjeeh

ومن فى ٱلأرض جميعا ثم ينجيه

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

Kallaa innahaa lazaa

كلا إنها لظى

A remover of exteriors.

Nazzaa’atal lishshawaa

نزاعة للشوى

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

Tad’oo man adbara wa tawallaa

تدعوا من أدبر وتولى

And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

Wa jama’a fa aw’aa

وجمع فأوعى

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

Innal insaana khuliqa haloo’aa

إن ٱلإنسـن خلق هلوعا

When evil touches him, impatient,

Izaa massahush sharru jazoo’aa

إذا مسه ٱلشر جزوعا

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

Wa izaa massahul khairu manoo’aa

وإذا مسه ٱلخير منوعا

Except the observers of prayer -

Illal musalleen

إلا ٱلمصلين

Those who are constant in their prayer

Allazeena hum ‘alaa Salaatihim daaa’imoon

ٱلذين هم على صلاتهم دائمون

And those within whose wealth is a known right

Wallazeena feee amwaalihim haqqun ma’loom

وٱلذين فى أمولهم حق معلوم

For the petitioner and the deprived -

Lissaaa ‘ili walmahroom

للسائل وٱلمحروم

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

Wallazeena yusaddiqoona bi yawmid Deen

وٱلذين يصدقون بيوم ٱلدين

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

Wallazeena hum min ‘azaabi Rabbihim mushfiqoon

وٱلذين هم من عذاب ربهم مشفقون

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

Inna ‘azaaba Rabbihim ghairu ma’ moon

إن عذاب ربهم غير مأمون

And those who guard their private parts

Wallazeena hum li furoojihim haafizoon

وٱلذين هم لفروجهم حـفظون

Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -

Illaa ‘alaaa azwaajihim aw maa malakat aymaanuhum fa innahum ghairu maloomeen

إلا على أزوجهم أو ما ملكت أيمـنهم فإنهم غير ملومين

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

Famanib taghaa waraaa’a zaalika fa ulaaa’ika humul ‘aadoon

فمن ٱبتغى وراء ذلك فأولـئك هم ٱلعادون

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive.

Wallazeena hum li amaanaatihim wa ‘ahdihim raa’oon

وٱلذين هم لأمـنـتهم وعهدهم رعون

And those who are in their testimonies upright

Wallazeena hum bi shahaadaatihim qaaa’imoon

وٱلذين هم بشهـدتهم قائمون

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

Wallazeena hum ‘alaa salaatihim yuhaafizoon

وٱلذين هم على صلاتهم يحافظون

They will be in gardens, honored.

Ulaaa’ika fee jannaatim mukramoon

أولـئك فى جنـت مكرمون

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

Famaa lil lazeena kafaroo qibalaka muhti’een

فمال ٱلذين كفروا قبلك مهطعين

[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?

‘Anil yameeni wa ‘anish shimaali ‘izeen

عن ٱليمين وعن ٱلشمال عزين

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

Ayatma’u kullum ri’im minhum anyyudkhala jannata Na’eem

أيطمع كل ٱمرئ منهم أن يدخل جنة نعيم

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

Kallaaa innaa khalaq nahum mimmaa ya’lamoon

كلا إنا خلقنـهم مما يعلمون

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

Falaaa uqsimu bi Rabbil mashaariqi wal maghaaribi innaa laqaadiroon

فلا أقسم برب ٱلمشـرق وٱلمغـرب إنا لقـدرون

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

‘Alaaa an nubaddila khairan minhum wa maa nahnu bi masbooqeen

على أن نبدل خيرا منهم وما نحن بمسبوقين

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

Fazarhum yakhoodoo wa yal’aboo hattaa yulaaqoo yawma humul lazee yoo’adoon

فذرهم يخوضوا ويلعبوا حتى يلـقوا يومهم ٱلذى يوعدون

The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.

Yawma yakhrujoona minal ajdaasi siraa’an ka anna hum ilaa nusubiny yoofidoon

يوم يخرجون من ٱلأجداث سراعا كأنهم إلى نصب يوفضون

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

Khaashi’atan absaaruhum tarhaquhum zillah; zaalikal yawmul lazee kaanoo yoo’adoon

خـشعة أبصـرهم ترهقهم ذلة ذلك ٱليوم ٱلذى كانوا يوعدون

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