Surah Al-Ma'arij English Translation & Transliteration

¹Someone asked for the punishment that is to befall to come at once.

²Yes, that punishment will befall the disbelievers who cover up the truths, and no one will be able to prevent it.

³For that punishment will come from Allah, Owner of the many heights of exaltation.

⁴The angels and the spirit ascend to His heavens/heights in a day whose length by your reckoning is fifty thousand years.

⁵So bear it with beautiful patience.

⁶For they see the day of reckoning as a very remote possibility.

⁷But We know that it will come very soon.

⁸On that day the sky will be like molten metal,

⁹and the mountains will fly about like carded wool.

¹⁰Then no close relative will have the strength to ask after another.

¹¹True, on that day relatives will be allowed to see one another, but no one will be of any use to anyone. On that day the guilty one will wish to give even his own children as ransom to escape the punishment,

¹²his wife and his brother,

¹³all his kin who once protected him,

¹⁴indeed everyone on the earth, if only he himself could be saved.

¹⁵But by no means! What awaits them is a fire that throws out flames,

¹⁶one that scorches and strips away the skin.

¹⁷It is a fire that calls to itself the one who turned his back on Allah's call and turned away from the Quran,

¹⁸and who amassed wealth and sat upon it!

¹⁹It is a fact that the human being has been created impatient and greedy.

²⁰When some evil befalls him, he begins to wail.

²¹And when he attains some blessing, he is most stingy.

²²Except for those who turn to Allah with their whole being.

²³They are attentive and constant in their prayers/their turning to Allah.

²⁴In their wealth certain people have a right:

²⁵the needy, those who are able to ask and those who are not.

²⁶For they affirm the day of reckoning from the heart.

²⁷They are wary of their Lord's punishment and feel a deep shudder of awe.

²⁸For they know that no one can feel safe from their Lord's punishment.

²⁹They guard their chastity and honor,

³⁰except with their spouses, that is, those they lawfully possess; and for this they are not to be blamed.

³¹But those who go beyond this limit, they are the ones who overstep the limits.

³²And they are faithful to their trusts and to the covenants they have made.

³³When it comes to bearing witness, they carry it out as it should be carried out.

³⁴They carefully guard their prayers/their turning to Allah.

³⁵These will be treated with great honor in the gardens of Paradise.

³⁶And what is the matter with these disbelievers who cover up the truths,

³⁷that they come flocking around you from the right and from the left?

³⁸Does each of them suppose that he will be admitted to gardens full of blessings?

³⁹No, never! We created them, like everyone else, from what they know.

⁴⁰(40-41) By the Lord of every one of the different points where the sun rises and sets, We are well able to destroy those disbelievers and bring in their place others better than them, for there is nothing beyond Our power.

⁴¹(40-41) By the Lord of every one of the different points where the sun rises and sets, We are well able to destroy those disbelievers and bring in their place others better than them, for there is nothing beyond Our power.

⁴²Leave them to themselves! Let them wallow in lies and falsehood and amuse themselves until they meet the day they are promised!

⁴³On that day they will spring out of their graves, just as in the world they used to rush to their idols.

⁴⁴Then fear will cloud their eyes, and a sense of degradation will engulf their whole being. That is the day of which they were constantly warned!