Al-Ma'aarij

Saala sa-ilun biAAathabin waqiAA

A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAA

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

Mina Allahi thee almaAAarij

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

TaAAruju almala-ikatu warroohuilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfasana

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

Fasbir sabran jameela

So be patient with gracious patience.

Innahum yarawnahu baAAeeda

Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

Wanarahu qareeba

But We see it [as] near.

Yawma takoonu assamao kalmuhl

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

Watakoonu aljibalu kalAAihn

And the mountains will be like wool,

Wala yas-alu hameemun hameema

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

Yubassaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu lawyaftadee min AAathabi yawmi-ithin bibaneeh

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

Wasahibatihi waakheeh

And his wife and his brother

Wafaseelatihi allatee tu/weeh

And his nearest kindred who shelter him.

Waman fee al-ardi jameeAAan thummayunjeeh

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

Kalla innaha latha

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

NazzaAAatan lishshawa

A remover of exteriors.

TadAAoo man adbara watawalla

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

WajamaAAa faawAAa

And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

Inna al-insana khuliqa halooAAa

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

Itha massahu ashsharrujazooAAa

When evil touches him, impatient,

Wa-itha massahu alkhayru manooAAa

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

Illa almusalleen

Except the observers of prayer -

Allatheena hum AAala salatihimda-imoon

Those who are constant in their prayer

Wallatheena fee amwalihimhaqqun maAAloom

And those within whose wealth is a known right

Lissa-ili walmahroom

For the petitioner and the deprived -

Wallatheena yusaddiqoonabiyawmi addeen

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

Wallatheena hum min AAathabirabbihim mushfiqoon

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

Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru ma/moon

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

Wallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoon

And those who guard their private parts

Illa AAala azwajihim awma malakat aymanuhum fa-innahum ghayru maloomeen

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

Famani ibtagha waraa thalikafaola-ika humu alAAadoon

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

Wallatheena hum li-amanatihimwaAAahdihim raAAoon

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive.

Wallatheena hum bishahadatihimqa-imoon

And those who are in their testimonies upright

Wallatheena hum AAala salatihimyuhafithoon

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

Ola-ika fee jannatin mukramoon

They will be in gardens, honored.

Famali allatheena kafarooqibalaka muhtiAAeen

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

AAani alyameeni waAAani ashshimaliAAizeen

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

AyatmaAAu kullu imri-in minhum anyudkhala jannata naAAeem

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

Kalla inna khalaqnahummimma yaAAlamoon

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

Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqiwalmagharibi inna laqadiroon

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

AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wamanahnu bimasbooqeen

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

Fatharhum yakhoodoowayalAAaboo hatta yulaqoo yawmahumu allatheeyooAAadoon

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

Yawma yakhrujoona mina al-ajdathi siraAAankaannahum ila nusubin yoofidoon

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

KhashiAAatan absaruhumtarhaquhum thillatun thalika alyawmu allatheekanoo yooAAadoon

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