70. Al-Ma'aarij

70:1

سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ ﴿١﴾

Saʾala sāʾilun biʿadhābin wāqiʿ

A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

70:2

لِّلْكَـٰفِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٌ ﴿٢﴾

Lilkāfirīna laysa lahu dāfiʿ

Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,

70:3

مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِى ٱلْمَعَارِجِ ﴿٣﴾

Mina Allāhi dhī al-maʿārij

From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

70:4

تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَـٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ ﴿٤﴾

Taʿruju al-malāʾikatu war-rūḥu ilayhi fī yawmin kāna miqdāruhu khamsīna alfa sanah

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

70:5

فَٱصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا ﴿٥﴾

Fāṣbir ṣabran jamīlā

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

70:6

إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا ﴿٦﴾

Innahum yarawnahu baʿīdā

Lo! they behold it afar off

70:7

وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبًا ﴿٧﴾

Wanarāhu qarībā

While we behold it nigh:

70:8

يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ ﴿٨﴾

Yawma takūnu as-samāʾu kal-muhl

The day when the sky will become as molten copper,

70:9

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ﴿٩﴾

Watakūnu al-jibālu kal-ʿihn

And the hills become as flakes of wool,

70:10

وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا ﴿١٠﴾

Walā yasʾalu ḥamīmun ḥamīmā

And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

70:11

يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ ٱلْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِى مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍۭ بِبَنِيهِ ﴿١١﴾

Yubaṣṣarūnahum yawaddu al-mujrimu law yaftadī min ʿadhābi yawmiʾidhin bibanīh

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

70:12

وَصَـٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ ﴿١٢﴾

Waṣāḥibatihi waʾakhīh

And his spouse and his brother

70:13

وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِى تُـْٔوِيهِ ﴿١٣﴾

Wafaṣīlatihi allatī tuʾwīh

And his kin that harboured him

70:14

وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ ﴿١٤﴾

Waman fī al-arḍi jamīʿan thumma yunjīh

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

70:15

كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ ﴿١٥﴾

Kallā innahā laẓā

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

70:16

نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ ﴿١٦﴾

Nazzāʿatan lilshshawā

Eager to roast;

70:17

تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ﴿١٧﴾

Tadʿū man adbara watawallā

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

70:18

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ ﴿١٨﴾

Wajamaʿa faʾawʿā

And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.

70:19

۞ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا ﴿١٩﴾

Inna al-insāna khuliqa halūʿā

Lo! man was created anxious,

70:20

إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا ﴿٢٠﴾

Idhā massahu ash-sharru jazūʿā

Fretful when evil befalleth him

70:21

وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا ﴿٢١﴾

Waʾidhā massahu al-khayru manūʿā

And, when good befalleth him, grudging;

70:22

إِلَّا ٱلْمُصَلِّينَ ﴿٢٢﴾

Illā al-muṣallīn

Save worshippers.

70:23

ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَآئِمُونَ ﴿٢٣﴾

Alladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim dāʾimūn

Who are constant at their worship

70:24

وَٱلَّذِينَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ ﴿٢٤﴾

Walladhīna fī amwālihim ḥaqqun maʿlūm

And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged

70:25

لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ ﴿٢٥﴾

Lilssāʾili wal-maḥrūm

For the beggar and the destitute;

70:26

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ ﴿٢٦﴾

Walladhīna yuṣaddiqūna biyawmi ad-dīn

And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,

70:27

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ ﴿٢٧﴾

Walladhīna hum min ʿadhābi rabbihim mushfiqūn

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

70:28

إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ ﴿٢٨﴾

Inna ʿadhāba rabbihim ghayru maʾmūn

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

70:29

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَـٰفِظُونَ ﴿٢٩﴾

Walladhīna hum lifurūjihim ḥāfiẓūn

And those who preserve their chastity

70:30

إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ ﴿٣٠﴾

Illā ʿalā azwājihim aw mā malakat aymānuhum faʾinnahum ghayru malūmīn

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

70:31

فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ ﴿٣١﴾

Famani ibtaghā warāʾa dhālika faʾulāʾika humu al-ʿādūn

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

70:32

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَـٰنَـٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ ﴿٣٢﴾

Walladhīna hum liʾamānātihim waʿahdihim rāʿūn

And those who keep their pledges and their covenant,

70:33

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَـٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ ﴿٣٣﴾

Walladhīna hum bishahādātihim qāʾimūn

And those who stand by their testimony

70:34

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ ﴿٣٤﴾

Walladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim yuḥāfiẓūn

And those who are attentive at their worship.

70:35

أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ فِى جَنَّـٰتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ ﴿٣٥﴾

Ulāʾika fī jannātin mukramūn

These will dwell in Gardens, honoured.

70:36

فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ ﴿٣٦﴾

Famāli alladhīna kafarū qibalaka muhṭiʿīn

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

70:37

عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ ﴿٣٧﴾

ʿani al-yamīni waʿani ash-shimāli ʿizīn

On the right and on the left, in groups?

70:38

أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ ﴿٣٨﴾

Ayaṭmaʿu kullu imriʾin minhum an yudkhala jannata naʿīm

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

70:39

كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَـٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٣٩﴾

Kallā innā khalaqnāhum mimmā yaʿlamūn

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

70:40

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَـٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَـٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَـٰدِرُونَ ﴿٤٠﴾

Falā uqsimu birabbi al-mashāriqi wal-maghāribi innā laqādirūn

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

70:41

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ ﴿٤١﴾

ʿalā an nubaddila khayran minhum wamā naḥnu bimasbūqīn

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

70:42

فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَـٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ ﴿٤٢﴾

Fadharhum yakhūḍū wayalʿabū ḥattā yulāqū yawmahumu alladhī yūʿadūn

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

70:43

يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ ﴿٤٣﴾

Yawma yakhrujūna mina al-ajdāthi sirāʿan kaʾannahum ilā nuṣubin yūfiḍūn

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

70:44

خَـٰشِعَةً أَبْصَـٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ ﴿٤٤﴾

Khāshiʿatan abṣāruhum tarhaquhum dhillatun dhālika al-yawmu alladhī kānū yūʿadūn

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