IslamAwakened.com Qur'an Tafsir of Surah al-Ma`arij - The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders as rendered by
Arthur John Arberry
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A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fal
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for the unbelievers, which none may avert
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from God, the Lord of the Stairways
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To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up, in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years
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So be thou patient with a sweet patience
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behold, they see it as if far off
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but We see it is nigh
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Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten coppe
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and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts
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no loyal friend shall question loyal friend
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as they are given sight of them. The sinner will wish that he might ransom himself from the chastisement of that day even by his sons
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his companion wife, his brother
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his kin who sheltered him
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and whosoever is in the earth, all together, so that then it might deliver him
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Nay, verily it is a furnac
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snatching away the scalp
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calling him who drew back and turned away
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who amassed and hoarded
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Surely man was created fretful
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when evil visits him, impatient
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when good visits him, grudging
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save those that pra
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and continue at their prayers
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those in whose wealth is a right know
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for the beggar and the outcast
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who confirm the Day of Doo
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and go in fear of the chastisement of their Lor
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(from their Lord's chastisement none feels secure
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and guard their private part
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save from their wives and what their right hands own, then not being blameworth
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(but whoso seeks after more than that, they are the transgressors)
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and who preserve their trusts and their covenant
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and perform their witnessings
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and who observe their prayers
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Those shall be in Gardens, high-honoured
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What ails the unbelievers, running with outstretched neck
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towards thee on the right hand and on the left hand in knots
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What, is every man of them eager to be admitted to a Garden of Bliss
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Not so; for We have created them of what they know
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No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are abl
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to substitute a better than they; We shall not be outstripped
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Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised
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the day they shall come forth from the tombs hastily, as if they were hurrying unto a waymark
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humbled their eyes, overspreading them abasement. That is the day which they were promised
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