AL-MAARIJ (THE ASCENDING STAIRWAYS)
Total Verses: 44 Revealed At: MAKKA

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

070.001
Y: A questioner asked about a Penalty to befall-

P: A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

S: One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall

070.002
Y: The Unbelievers the which there is none to ward off,-

P: Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel,

S: The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it--

070.003
Y: (A Penalty) from Allah, Lord of the Ways of Ascent.

P: From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

S: From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.

070.004
Y: The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure
whereof is (as) fifty thousand years:

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

S: To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which
is fifty thousand years.

070.005
Y: Therefore do thou hold Patience,- a Patience of beautiful
(contentment).

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

S: Therefore endure with a goodly patience.

070.006
Y: They see the (Day) indeed as a far-off (event):

P: Lo! they behold it afar off

S: Surely they think it to be far off,

070.007
Y: But We see it (quite) near.

P: While we behold it nigh:

S: And We see it nigh.

070.008
Y: The Day that the sky will be like molten brass,

P: The day when the sky will become as molten copper,

S: On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper

070.009
Y: And the mountains will be like wool,

P: And the hills become as flakes of wool,

S: And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

070.010
Y: And no friend will ask after a friend,

P: And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

S: And friend shall not ask of friend

070.011
Y: Though they will be put in sight of each other,- the sinner's desire
will be: Would that he could redeem himself from the Penalty of that
Day by (sacrificing) his children,

P: 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

S: (Though) they shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would
fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (