Al-Ma'arij

Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin

A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAAun

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer

Mina Allahi thee almaAAariji

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

TaAAruju almalaikatu waalrroohu ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfa sanatin

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

Faisbir sabran jameelan

So be patient with gracious patience

Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan

Indeed, they see it [as] distant

Wanarahu qareeban

But We see it [as] near

Yawma takoonu alssamao kaalmuhli

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil

Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni

And the mountains will be like wool

Wala yasalu hameemun hameeman

And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend

Yubassaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu law yaftadee min AAathabi yawmiithin bibaneehi

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 waakheehi

And his wife and his brother

Wafaseelatihi allatee tuweehi

And his nearest kindred who shelter him

Waman fee alardi jameeAAan thumma yunjeehi

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

Kalla innaha latha

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

NazzaAAatan lilshshawa

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 alinsana khuliqa halooAAan

Indeed, mankind was created anxious

Itha massahu alshsharru jazooAAan

When evil touches him, impatient

Waitha massahu alkhayru manooAAan

And when good touches him, withholding [of it]

Illa almusalleena

Except the observers of prayer

Allatheena hum AAala salatihim daimoona

Those who are constant in their prayer

Waallatheena fee amwalihim haqqun maAAloomun

And those within whose wealth is a known right

Lilssaili waalmahroomi

For the petitioner and the deprived

Waallatheena yusaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

Waallatheena hum min AAathabi rabbihim mushfiqoona

And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord

Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin

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

Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoona

And those who guard their private parts

Illa AAala azwajihim aw ma malakat aymanuhum fainnahum ghayru maloomeena

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

Famani ibtagha waraa thalika faolaika humu alAAadoona

But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors

Waallatheena hum liamanatihim waAAahdihim raAAoona

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

Waallatheena hum bishahadatihim qaimoona

And those who are in their testimonies upright

Waallatheena hum AAala salatihim yuhafithoona

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer

Olaika fee jannatin mukramoona

They will be in gardens, honored

Famali allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhtiAAeena

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

AAani alyameeni waAAani alshshimali AAizeena

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

AyatmaAAu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naAAeemin

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

Kalla inna khalaqnahum mimma yaAAlamoona

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

Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqi waalmagharibi inna laqadiroona

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

AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wama nahnu bimasbooqeena

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

Fatharhum yakhoodoo wayalAAaboo hatta yulaqoo yawmahumu allathee yooAAadoona

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

Yawma yakhrujoona mina alajdathi siraAAan kaannahum ila nusubin yoofidoona

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

KhashiAAatan absaruhum tarhaquhum thillatun thalika alyawmu allathee kanoo yooAAadoona

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