Al-Ma'arij

A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

sa-ala sāilun biʿadhābin wāqiʿin

To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

lil'kāfirīna laysa lahu dāfiʿun

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

mina l-lahi dhī l-maʿāriji

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

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

So be patient with gracious patience.

fa-iṣ'bir ṣabran jamīlan

Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

innahum yarawnahu baʿīdan

But We see it [as] near.

wanarāhu qarīban

On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

yawma takūnu l-samāu kal-muh'li

And the mountains will be like wool,

watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni

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

walā yasalu ḥamīmun ḥamīman

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

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

And his wife and his brother

waṣāḥibatihi wa-akhīhi

And his nearest kindred who shelter him

wafaṣīlatihi allatī tu'wīhi

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

waman fī l-arḍi jamīʿan thumma yunjīhi

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

kallā innahā laẓā

A remover of exteriors.

nazzāʿatan lilshawā

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

tadʿū man adbara watawallā

And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

wajamaʿa fa-awʿā

Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

inna l-insāna khuliqa halūʿan

When evil touches him, impatient,

idhā massahu l-sharu jazūʿan

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

wa-idhā massahu l-khayru manūʿan

Except the observers of prayer -

illā l-muṣalīna

Those who are constant in their prayer

alladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim dāimūna

And those within whose wealth is a known right

wa-alladhīna fī amwālihim ḥaqqun maʿlūmun

For the petitioner and the deprived -

lilssāili wal-maḥrūmi

And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

wa-alladhīna yuṣaddiqūna biyawmi l-dīni

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

wa-alladhīna hum min ʿadhābi rabbihim mush'fiqūna

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

inna ʿadhāba rabbihim ghayru mamūnin

And those who guard their private parts

wa-alladhīna hum lifurūjihim ḥāfiẓūna

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

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

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

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

And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

wa-alladhīna hum li-amānātihim waʿahdihim rāʿūna

And those who are in their testimonies upright

wa-alladhīna hum bishahādātihim qāimūna

And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

wa-alladhīna hum ʿalā ṣalātihim yuḥāfiẓūna

They will be in gardens, honored.

ulāika fī jannātin muk'ramūna

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

famāli alladhīna kafarū qibalaka muh'ṭiʿīna

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

ʿani l-yamīni waʿani l-shimāli ʿizīna

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

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

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

kallā innā khalaqnāhum mimmā yaʿlamūna

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

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

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

ʿalā an nubaddila khayran min'hum wamā naḥnu bimasbūqīna

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

fadharhum yakhūḍū wayalʿabū ḥattā yulāqū yawmahumu alladhī yūʿadūna

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

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

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

khāshiʿatan abṣāruhum tarhaquhum dhillatun dhālika l-yawmu alladhī kānū yūʿadūna