Al-Ma'arij

sa-ala sāilun biʿadhābin wāqiʿin

A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

lil'kāfirīna laysa lahu dāfiʿun

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

mina l-lahi dhī l-maʿāriji

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

taʿruju l-malāikatu wal-rūḥu ilayhi fī yawmin kāna miq'dāruhu khamsīna alfa sanatin

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

fa-iṣ'bir ṣabran jamīlan

So be patient with gracious patience.

innahum yarawnahu baʿīdan

Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

wanarāhu qarīban

But We see it [as] near.

yawma takūnu l-samāu kal-muh'li

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni

And the mountains will be like wool,

walā yasalu ḥamīmun ḥamīman

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

yubaṣṣarūnahum yawaddu l-muj'rimu law yaftadī min ʿadhābi yawmi-idhin bibanīhi

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

waṣāḥibatihi wa-akhīhi

And his wife and his brother

wafaṣīlatihi allatī tu'wīhi

And his nearest kindred who shelter him.

waman fī l-arḍi jamīʿan thumma yunjīhi

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

kallā innahā laẓā

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

nazzāʿatan lilshawā

A remover of exteriors.

tadʿū man adbara watawallā

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

wajamaʿa fa-awʿā

And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

inna l-insāna khuliqa halūʿan

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

idhā massahu l-sharu jazūʿan

When evil touches him, impatient,

wa-idhā massahu l-khayru manūʿan

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

illā l-muṣalīna

Except the observers of prayer -

alladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim dāimūna

Those who are constant in their prayer

wa-alladhīna fī amwālihim ḥaqqun maʿlūmun

And those within whose wealth is a known right

lilssāili wal-maḥrūmi

For the petitioner and the deprived -

wa-alladhīna yuṣaddiqūna biyawmi l-dīni

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

wa-alladhīna hum min ʿadhābi rabbihim mush'fiqūna

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

inna ʿadhāba rabbihim ghayru mamūnin

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

wa-alladhīna hum lifurūjihim ḥāfiẓūna

And those who guard their private parts

illā ʿalā azwājihim aw mā malakat aymānuhum fa-innahum ghayru malūmīna

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

famani ib'taghā warāa dhālika fa-ulāika humu l-ʿādūna

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

wa-alladhīna hum li-amānātihim waʿahdihim rāʿūna

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive.

wa-alladhīna hum bishahādātihim qāimūna

And those who are in their testimonies upright

wa-alladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim yuḥāfiẓūna

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

ulāika fī jannātin muk'ramūna

They will be in gardens, honored.

famāli alladhīna kafarū qibalaka muh'ṭiʿīna

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

ʿani l-yamīni waʿani l-shimāli ʿizīna

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

ayaṭmaʿu kullu im'ri-in min'hum an yud'khala jannata naʿīmin

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

kallā innā khalaqnāhum mimmā yaʿlamūna

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

falā uq'simu birabbi l-mashāriqi wal-maghāribi innā laqādirūna

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

ʿalā an nubaddila khayran min'hum wamā naḥnu bimasbūqīna

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

fadharhum yakhūḍū wayalʿabū ḥattā yulāqū yawmahumu alladhī yūʿadūna

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

yawma yakhrujūna mina l-ajdāthi sirāʿan ka-annahum ilā nuṣubin yūfiḍūna

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

khāshiʿatan abṣāruhum tarhaquhum dhillatun dhālika l-yawmu alladhī kānū yūʿadūna

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