Al-Ma‘ārijالمعارج
Muṣḥaf order 70
Cairo 1924 order #79 Meccan
Verses 44 (Ḥafṣ)
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ ١
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A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall
لِّلْكَٰفِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُۥ دَافِعٌ ٢
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Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,
مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ ذِى ٱلْمَعَارِجِ ٣
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From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways
تَعْرُجُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِى يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُۥ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ ٤
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(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years.
فَٱصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا ٥
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But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.
إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا ٦
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Lo! they behold it afar off
وَنَرَىٰهُ قَرِيبًا ٧
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While we behold it nigh:
يَوْمَ تَكُونُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ كَٱلْمُهْلِ ٨
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The day when the sky will become as molten copper,
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٩
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And the hills become as flakes of wool,
وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا ١٠
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And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend
يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ ٱلْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِى مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍۭ بِبَنِيهِ ١١
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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
وَصَٰحِبَتِهِۦ وَأَخِيهِ ١٢
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And his spouse and his brother
وَفَصِيلَتِهِ ٱلَّتِى تُـْٔوِيهِ ١٣
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And his kin that harboured him
وَمَن فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ ١٤
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And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him.
كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ ١٥
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But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell
نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ ١٦
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Eager to roast;
تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ١٧
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It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),
وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰٓ ١٨
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And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.
۞ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا ١٩
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Lo! man was created anxious,
إِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا ٢٠
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Fretful when evil befalleth him
وَإِذَا مَسَّهُ ٱلْخَيْرُ مَنُوعًا ٢١
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And, when good befalleth him, grudging;
ٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ دَآئِمُونَ ٢٣
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Who are constant at their worship
وَٱلَّذِينَ فِىٓ أَمْوَٰلِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ ٢٤
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And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged
لِّلسَّآئِلِ وَٱلْمَحْرُومِ ٢٥
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For the beggar and the destitute;
وَٱلَّذِينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ ٱلدِّينِ ٢٦
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And those who believe in the Day of Judgment,
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم مِّنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِم مُّشْفِقُونَ ٢٧
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And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom -
إِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍ ٢٨
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Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure -
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَٰفِظُونَ ٢٩
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And those who preserve their chastity
إِلَّا عَلَىٰٓ أَزْوَٰجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَٰنُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ ٣٠
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Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for thus they are not blameworthy;
فَمَنِ ٱبْتَغَىٰ وَرَآءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْعَادُونَ ٣١
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But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors;
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ لِأَمَٰنَٰتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَٰعُونَ ٣٢
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And those who keep their pledges and their covenant,
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِشَهَٰدَٰتِهِمْ قَآئِمُونَ ٣٣
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And those who stand by their testimony
وَٱلَّذِينَ هُمْ عَلَىٰ صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَ ٣٤
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And those who are attentive at their worship.
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ فِى جَنَّٰتٍ مُّكْرَمُونَ ٣٥
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These will dwell in Gardens, honoured.
فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعِينَ ٣٦
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What aileth those who disbelieve, that they keep staring toward thee (O Muhammad), open-eyed,
عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ ٣٧
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On the right and on the left, in groups?
أَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ ٱمْرِئٍ مِّنْهُمْ أَن يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعِيمٍ ٣٨
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Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight?
كَلَّآ ۖ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَٰهُم مِّمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ ٣٩
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Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know.
فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ ٱلْمَشَٰرِقِ وَٱلْمَغَٰرِبِ إِنَّا لَقَٰدِرُونَ ٤٠
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But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising-places and the setting-places of the planets that We verily are Able
عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ ٤١
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To replace them by (others) better than them. And we are not to be outrun.
فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا۟ وَيَلْعَبُوا۟ حَتَّىٰ يُلَٰقُوا۟ يَوْمَهُمُ ٱلَّذِى يُوعَدُونَ ٤٢
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So let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised,
يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعًا كَأَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَ ٤٣
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The day when they come forth from the graves in haste, as racing to a goal,
خَٰشِعَةً أَبْصَٰرُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمُ ٱلَّذِى كَانُوا۟ يُوعَدُونَ ٤٤
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With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised.