سُورَةُ المَعَارِجِ

A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

Sa ala saaa'ilum bi'azaa binw-waaqi'

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

Lilkaafireen laisa lahoo daafi'

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

Minal laahi zil ma'aarij

The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

Ta'rujul malaaa'ikatu war Roohu ilaihi fee yawmin kaana miqdaaruhoo khamseena alfa sanah

So be patient with gracious patience.

Fasbir ssabran jameelaa

Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

Inaahum yarawnahoo ba'eedaa

But We see it [as] near.

Wa naraahu qareebaa

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

Yawma takoonus samaaa'u kalmuhl

And the mountains will be like wool,

Wa takoonul jibaalu kal'ihn

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

Wa laa yas'alu hameemun hameemaa

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

Yubassaroonahum; ya waddul mujrimu law yaftadee min 'azaabi yawma'izim bibaneeh

And his wife and his brother

Wa saahibatihee wa akheeh

And his nearest kindred who shelter him

Wa faseelathil latee tu'weeh

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

Wa man fil ardi jamee'an summa yunjeeh

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

Kallaa innahaa lazaa

A remover of exteriors.

Nazzaa'atal lishshawaa

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

Tad'oo man adbara wa tawallaa

And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

W jama'a fa aw'aa

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

Innal insaana khuliqa haloo'aa

When evil touches him, impatient,

Izaa massahush sharru jazoo'aa

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

Wa izaa massahul khairu manoo'aa

Except the observers of prayer -

Illal musalleen

Those who are constant in their prayer

Allazeena hum 'alaa Salaatihim daaa'imoon

And those within whose wealth is a known right

Wallazeena feee amwaalihim haqqum ma'loom

For the petitioner and the deprived -

Lissaaa 'ili walmahroom

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

Wallazeena yusaddiqoona bi yawmid Deen

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

Wallazeena hum min 'azaabi Rabbihim mushfiqoon

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

Inna 'azaaba Rabbihim ghairu maamoon

And those who guard their private parts

Wallazeena hum lifuroo jihim haafizoon

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

Illaa 'alaaa azwaajihim aw maa malakat aymaanuhum fainnahum ghairu maloomeen

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

Famanib taghaa waraaa'a zaalika fa ulaaa'ika humul 'aadoon

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

Wallazeena hum li amaa naatihim wa 'ahdihim raa'oon

And those who are in their testimonies upright

Wallazeena hum bishahaadaatihim qaaa'imoon

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

Wallazeena hum 'alaa salaatihim yuhaafizoon

They will be in gardens, honored.

Ulaaa'ika fee jannaatim mukramoon

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

Famaa lil lazeena kafaroo qibalaka muhti'een

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

'Anil yameeni wa 'anish shimaali 'izeen

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

Ayatma'u kullum ri'im minhum anyyudkhala jannata Na'eem

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

Kallaaa innaa khalaq nahum mimmaa ya'lamoon

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

Falaaa uqsimu bi Rabbil mashaariqi wal maghaaribi innaa laqaadiroon

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

'Alaaa an nubaddila khairam minhum wa maa Nahnu bimasbooqeen

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

Fazarhum yakhoodoo wa yal'aboo hattaa yulaaqoo yaw mahumul lazee yoo'adoon

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

Yawma yakhrujoona minal ajdaasi siraa'an ka anna hum ilaa nusubiny yoofidoon

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

Khaashi'atan absaaruhum tarhaquhum zillah; zaalikal yawmul lazee kaanoo yoo'adoon