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By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: Al-Maarij
English: The Ascending Stairways
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 69 (Al-Haaqqa - The Reality)
> Sura 71 (Nooh - Nooh)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 69 (Al-Haaqqa - The Reality)
> Sura 78 (An-Naba - The Tidings)
Verses: 44
| 1 | A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fall | |
| 2 | for the unbelievers, which none may avert, | |
| 3 | from God, the Lord of the Stairways. | |
| 4 | To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up, in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years. | |
| 5 | So be thou patient with a sweet patience; | |
| 6 | behold, they see it as if far off; | |
| 7 | but We see it is nigh. | |
| 8 | Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten copper | |
| 9 | and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts, | |
| 10 | no loyal friend shall question loyal friend, | |
| 11 | as they are given sight of them. The sinner will wish that he might ransom himself from the chastisement of that day even by his sons, | |
| 12 | his companion wife, his brother, | |
| 13 | his kin who sheltered him, | |
| 14 | and whosoever is in the earth, all together, so that then it might deliver him. | |
| 15 | Nay, verily it is a furnace | |
| 16 | snatching away the scalp, | |
| 17 | calling him who drew back and turned away, | |
| 18 | who amassed and hoarded. | |
| 19 | Surely man was created fretful, | |
| 20 | when evil visits him, impatient, | |
| 21 | when good visits him, grudging, | |
| 22 | save those that pray | |
| 23 | and continue at their prayers, | |
| 24 | those in whose wealth is a right known | |
| 25 | for the beggar and the outcast, | |
| 26 | who confirm the Day of Doom | |
| 27 | and go in fear of the chastisement of their Lord | |
| 28 | (from their Lord's chastisement none feels secure) | |
| 29 | and guard their private parts | |
| 30 | save from their wives and what their right hands own, then not being blameworthy | |
| 31 | (but whoso seeks after more than that, they are the transgressors), | |
| 32 | and who preserve their trusts and their covenant, | |
| 33 | and perform their witnessings, | |
| 34 | and who observe their prayers. | |
| 35 | Those shall be in Gardens, high-honoured. | |
| 36 | What ails the unbelievers, running with outstretched necks | |
| 37 | towards thee on the right hand and on the left hand in knots? | |
| 38 | What, is every man of them eager to be admitted to a Garden of Bliss? | |
| 39 | Not so; for We have created them of what they know. | |
| 40 | No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are able | |
| 41 | to substitute a better than they; We shall not be outstripped. | |
| 42 | Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised, | |
| 43 | the day they shall come forth from the tombs hastily, as if they were hurrying unto a waymark, | |
| 44 | humbled their eyes, overspreading them abasement. That is the day which they were promised. |