70Al-Ma'aarij

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ سَأَلَ سَائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ

A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

لِلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ

Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,

مِنَ اللَّهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ

From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

تَعْرُجُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ

(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years.

فَاصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا

But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.

إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا

Lo! they behold it afar off

وَنَرَاهُ قَرِيبًا

While we behold it nigh:

يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَاءُ كَالْمُهْلِ

The day when the sky will become as molten copper,

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ

And the hills become as flakes of wool,

وَلَا يَسْأَلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا

And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ

Though they will be given sight of them. The guilty man will long to be able to ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children

وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَأَخِيهِ

And his spouse and his brother

وَفَصِيلَتِهِ الَّتِي تُؤْوِيهِ

And his kin that harboured him

وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنْجِيهِ

And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him.

كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ

But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell

نَزَّاعَةً لِلشَّوَىٰ

Eager to roast;

تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰ

And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.

۞ إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا

Lo! man was created anxious,

إِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا

Fretful when evil befalleth him

وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ الْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا

And, when good befalleth him, grudging;

إِلَّا الْمُصَلِّينَ

Save worshippers.

الَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَائِمُونَ

Who are constant at their worship

وَالَّذِينَ فِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَعْلُومٌ

And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged

لِلسَّائِلِ وَالْمَحْرُومِ

For the beggar and the destitute;

وَالَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ الدِّينِ

And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ مِنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِمْ مُشْفِقُونَ

And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom -

إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ

Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure -

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ

And those who preserve their chastity

إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ

Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for thus they are not blameworthy;

فَمَنِ ابْتَغَىٰ وَرَاءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْعَادُونَ

But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors;

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَانَاتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَ

And those who keep their pledges and their covenant,

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ بِشَهَادَاتِهِمْ قَائِمُونَ

And those who stand by their testimony

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ

And those who are attentive at their worship.

أُولَٰئِكَ فِي جَنَّاتٍ مُكْرَمُونَ

These will dwell in Gardens, honoured.

فَمَالِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ

What aileth those who disbelieve, that they keep staring toward thee (O Muhammad), open-eyed,

عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ

On the right and on the left, in groups?

أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ أَنْ يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ

Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight?

كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُمْ مِمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ

Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know.

فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَالْمَغَارِبِ إِنَّا لَقَادِرُونَ

But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising-places and the setting-places of the planets that We verily are Able

عَلَىٰ أَنْ نُبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

To replace them by (others) better than them. And we are not to be outrun.

فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا وَيَلْعَبُوا حَتَّىٰ يُلَاقُوا يَوْمَهُمُ الَّذِي يُوعَدُونَ

So let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised,

يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ

The day when they come forth from the graves in haste, as racing to a goal,

خَاشِعَةً أَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي كَانُوا يُوعَدُونَ

With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised.