Al-Ma'arij

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ

A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

لِّلْكَـٰفِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٌ

Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel

مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِى ٱلْمَعَارِجِ

From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ

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

فَٱصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا

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

إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا

Lo! they behold it afar off

وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبًا

While we behold it nigh

يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ

The day when the sky will become as molten copper

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ

And the hills become as flakes of wool

وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا

And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ ٱلْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِى مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍۭ 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

وَصَـٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ

And his spouse and his brother

وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِى تُـْٔوِيهِ

And his kin that harboured him

وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ

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

كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ

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

نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ

Eager to roast

تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth)

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ

And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it

۞ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا

Lo! man was created anxious

إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا

Fretful when evil befalleth him

وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا

And, when good befalleth him, grudging

إِلَّا ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ

Save worshippers

ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَآئِمُونَ

Who are constant at their worship

وَٱلَّذِينَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ

And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged

لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ

For the beggar and the destitute

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ

And those who believe in the Day of Judgment

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ

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

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَـٰفِظُونَ

And those who preserve their chastity

إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ

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

فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ

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

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَـٰنَـٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ

And those who keep their pledges and their covenant

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَـٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ

And those who stand by their testimony

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ

And those who are attentive at their worship

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ فِى جَنَّـٰتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ

These will dwell in Gardens, honoured

فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ

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

عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ

On the right and on the left, in groups

أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ

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

كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ

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

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَـٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَـٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَـٰدِرُونَ

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

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

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

فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَـٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ

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

يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ

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

خَـٰشِعَةً أَبْصَـٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ

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