Al-Ma'arij

سَأَلَ سَآئِلُۢ بِعَذَابٖ وَاقِعٖ ١

Saʾala sāʾilum biʿadhābiw wāqiʿ.

A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen¹

لِّلۡكَٰفِرِينَ لَيۡسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٞ ٢

Lil-kāfirīna laysa lahū dāfiʿ.

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِي ٱلۡمَعَارِجِ ٣

Minallāhi dhil-maʿārij.

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

تَعۡرُجُ ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيۡهِ فِي يَوۡمٖ كَانَ مِقۡدَارُهُۥ خَمۡسِينَ أَلۡفَ سَنَةٖ ٤

Taʿrujul-malāʾikatu war-rūḥu ilayhi fī yawmin kāna miqdāruhū khamsīna alfa sanah.

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

فَٱصۡبِرۡ صَبۡرٗا جَمِيلًا ٥

Faṣbir ṣabran jamīlā.

So be patient with gracious patience.

إِنَّهُمۡ يَرَوۡنَهُۥ بَعِيدٗا ٦

Innahum yarawnahū baʿīdā.

Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبٗا ٧

Wa narāhu qarībā.

But We see it [as] near.

يَوۡمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلۡمُهۡلِ ٨

Yawma takūnus-samāʾu kal-muhl.

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,¹

وَتَكُونُ ٱلۡجِبَالُ كَٱلۡعِهۡنِ ٩

Wa takūnul-jibālu kal-ʿihn.

And the mountains will be like wool,¹

وَلَا يَسۡـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمٗا ١٠

Wa lā yasʾalu ḥamīmun ḥamīmā.

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

يُبَصَّرُونَهُمۡۚ يَوَدُّ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُ لَوۡ يَفۡتَدِي مِنۡ عَذَابِ يَوۡمِئِذِۭ بِبَنِيهِ ١١

Yubaṣṣarūnahum, yawaddul-mujrimu law yaftadī min ʿadhābi yawmiʾidhim bibanīh.

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

وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ ١٢

Wa ṣāḥibatihī wa akhīh.

And his wife and his brother

وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِي تُـٔۡوِيهِ ١٣

Wa faṣīlatihil-latī tuʾwīh.

And his nearest kindred who shelter him

وَمَن فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ جَمِيعٗا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ ١٤

Wa man fil-arḍi jamīʿan thumma yunjīh.

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

كـَلَّآۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ ١٥

Kallā, innahā laẓā.

No!¹ Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],

نَزَّاعَةٗ لِّلشَّوَىٰ ١٦

Nazzāʿatal lish-shawā.

A remover of exteriors.¹

تَدۡعُواْ مَنۡ أَدۡبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ١٧

Tadʿū man adbara wa tawallā.

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

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوۡعَىٰٓ ١٨

Wa jamaʿa fa awʿā.

And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

۞ إِنَّ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا ١٩

Innal-insāna khuliqa halūʿā.

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعٗا ٢٠

Idhā massahush-sharru jazūʿā.

When evil touches him, impatient,

وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلۡخَيۡرُ مَنُوعًا ٢١

Wa idhā massahul-khayru manūʿā.

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

إِلَّا ٱلۡمُصَلِّينَ ٢٢

Illal-muṣallīn.

Except the observers of prayer -

ٱلَّذِينَ هُمۡ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمۡ دَآئِمُونَ ٢٣

Al-ladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim dāʾimūn.

Those who are constant in their prayer

وَٱلَّذِينَ فِيٓ أَمۡوَٰلِهِمۡ حَقّٞ مَّعۡلُومٞ ٢٤

Wal-ladhīna fī amwālihim ḥaqqum maʿlūm.

And those within whose wealth is a known right¹

لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلۡمَحۡرُومِ ٢٥

Lis-sāʾili wal-maḥrūm.

For the petitioner and the deprived -

وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوۡمِ ٱلدِّينِ ٢٦

Wal-ladhīna yuṣaddiqūna biyawmid-dīn.

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنۡ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشۡفِقُونَ ٢٧

Wal-ladhīna hum min ʿadhābi rabbihim mushfiqūn.

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

إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمۡ غَيۡرُ مَأۡمُونٖ ٢٨

Inna ʿadhāba rabbihim ghayru maʾmūn.

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

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمۡ لِفُرُوجِهِمۡ حَٰفِظُونَ ٢٩

Wal-ladhīna hum lifurūjihim ḥāfiẓūn.

And those who guard their private parts

إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزۡوَٰجِهِمۡ أَوۡ مَا مَلَكَتۡ أَيۡمَٰنُهُمۡ فَإِنَّهُمۡ غَيۡرُ مَلُومِينَ ٣٠

Illā ʿalā azwājihim aw mā malakat aymānuhum fa innahum ghayru malūmīn.

Except from their wives or those their right hands possess,¹ for indeed, they are not to be blamed -

فَمَنِ ٱبۡتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡعَادُونَ ٣١

Famanibtaghā warāʾa dhālika fa ulāʾika humul-ʿādūn.

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

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمۡ لِأَمَٰنَٰتِهِمۡ وَعَهۡدِهِمۡ رَٰعُونَ ٣٢

Wal-ladhīna hum liʾamānātihim wa ʿahdihim rāʿūn.

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَٰدَٰتِهِمۡ قَآئِمُونَ ٣٣

Wal-ladhīna hum bishahādātihim qāʾimūn.

And those who are in their testimonies upright

وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمۡ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمۡ يُحَافِظُونَ ٣٤

Wal-ladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim yuḥāfiẓūn.

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ فِي جَنَّٰتٖ مُّكۡرَمُونَ ٣٥

Ulāʾika fī jannātim mukramūn.

They will be in gardens,¹ honored.

فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ قِبَلَكَ مُهۡطِعِينَ ٣٦

Famālil-ladhīna kafarū qibalaka muhṭiʿīn.

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

عَنِ ٱلۡيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ ٣٧

ʿAnil-yamīni wa ʿanish-shimāli ʿizīn.

[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?¹

أَيَطۡمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمۡرِيٕٖ مِّنۡهُمۡ أَن يُدۡخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٖ ٣٨

Ayaṭmaʿu kullumriʾim minhum ay yudkhala jannata naʿīm.

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

كـَلَّآۖ إِنَّا خَلَقۡنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعۡلَمُونَ ٣٩

Kallā, innā khalaqnāhum mimmā yaʿlamūn.

No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.¹

فَلَآ أُقۡسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلۡمَشَٰرِقِ وَٱلۡمَغَٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَٰدِرُونَ ٤٠

Falā uqsimu birabbil-mashāriqi wal-maghāribi innā laqādirūn.

So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings¹ that indeed We are able

عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيۡرٗا مِّنۡهُمۡ وَمَا نَحۡنُ بِمَسۡبُوقِينَ ٤١

ʿAlā an nubaddila khayram minhum wa mā naḥnu bimasbūqīn.

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

فَذَرۡهُمۡ يَخُوضُواْ وَيَلۡعَبُواْ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُواْ يَوۡمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِي يُوعَدُونَ ٤٢

Fadharhum yakhūḍū wa yalʿabū ḥattā yulāqū yawmahumul-ladhī yūʿadūn.

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

يَوۡمَ يَخۡرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلۡأَجۡدَاثِ سِرَاعٗا كَأَنَّهُمۡ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٖ يُوفِضُونَ ٤٣

Yawma yakhrujūna minal-ajdāthi sirāʿan kaʾannahum ilā nuṣubiy yūfiḍūn.

The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.¹

خَٰشِعَةً أَبۡصَٰرُهُمۡ تَرۡهَقُهُمۡ ذِلَّةٞۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلۡيَوۡمُ ٱلَّذِي كَانُواْ يُوعَدُونَ ٤٤

Khāshiʿatan abṣāruhum tarhaquhum dhillah, dhālikal-yawmul-ladhī kānū yūʿadūn.

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