Al-Ma‘ârij

سَأَلَ سَائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ ١

A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

لِّلْكَافِرِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِعٌ ٢

Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,

مِّنَ اللَّهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِ ٣

From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

تَعْرُجُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسِينَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ ٤

(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years.

فَاصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا ٥

But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see.

إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيدًا ٦

Lo! they behold it afar off

وَنَرَاهُ قَرِيبًا ٧

While we behold it nigh:

يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَاءُ كَالْمُهْلِ ٨

The day when the sky will become as molten copper,

وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِ ٩

And the hills become as flakes of wool,

وَلَا يَسْأَلُ حَمِيمٌ حَمِيمًا ١٠

And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ ١١

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

وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَأَخِيهِ ١٢

And his spouse and his brother

وَفَصِيلَتِهِ الَّتِي تُؤْوِيهِ ١٣

And his kin that harboured him

وَمَن فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنجِيهِ ١٤

And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him.

كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ ١٥

But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell

نَزَّاعَةً لِّلشَّوَىٰ ١٦

Eager to roast;

تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ١٧

It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth),

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰ ١٨

And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it.

۞ إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا ١٩

Lo! man was created anxious,

إِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا ٢٠

Fretful when evil befalleth him