IslamAwakened.com Qur'an Tafsir of Surah al-Ma`arij - The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders as rendered by
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
70:1
One who supplicates asked for a punishment that will fall
70:2
on the ones who are ungrateful for which there will be no one to avert
70:3
from God, the Possessor of the Stairways of Ascent.
70:4
The angels and the Spirit go up to Him on a Day whose measure had been fifty thousand years.
70:5
So have thou patience
with
a graceful patience.
70:6
Truly, they see it as distant,
70:7
but We see it as near at hand.
70:8
On a Day the heaven will become as molten copper
70:9
and the mountains be as wool clusters
70:10
and no loyal friend will ask a loyal friend,
70:11
although
they are given sight of them. One who sins would wish that he offer for ransom —from the punishment of that day—his children
70:12
or his companion wife, or his brother
70:13
or his relatives who gave him refuge,
70:14
or whoever is on the earth altogether, again, if that would rescue him.
70:15
No indeed. Truly,
it is
the furnace
of hell
70:16
removing their scalps,
70:17
calling whoever drew back and turned away
70:18
and gathered
wealth
and amassed.
70:19
Truly, the human being was created fretful.
70:20
When the worst afflicted him, he
is
impatient.
70:21
And when the good afflicted him, begrudging.
70:22
But the ones who formally pray,
70:23
those, they are ones who continue with their formal prayers
70:24
and those who in their wealth
there is
a known obligation
towards
70:25
the one who begs and the one who is deprived
70:26
and those who sincerely validate the Day of Judgment.
70:27
And those, they
are
ones who are apprehensive of the punishment of their Lord.
70:28
Truly,
as
to the punishment of their Lord,
there is
no one who is safe
from it
.
70:29
Those, they
are
ones who guard their private parts,
70:30
but not from their spouses or what their right hands possessed. Truly, they
are
not ones who will be reproached.
70:31
But whoever was looking beyond that, those, they
are
ones who turn away.
70:32
And those, they who in their trusts and to their compacts
are
ones who shepherd.
70:33
And those, they who, giving their testimony,
are
ones who uphold.
70:34
And those, they who over their formal prayers are watchful.
70:35
Those
will be
in Gardens, ones who are honored.
70:36
What
is
with those who were ungrateful—ones who run forward towards thee, eyes fixed in horror,
70:37
to the right and the left, tied in knots.
70:38
Is
not every man of them desirous of being caused to enter into a Garden of Bliss?
70:39
No indeed. Truly, We created them out of what they know.
70:40
So I swear an oath by the Lord of the rising places and the setting places, that We certainly
are
ones who have power
70:41
to substitute better for them. And We
are
not ones who are outrun.
70:42
So let them engage in idle talk and play until they encounter the Day of theirs that they are promised,
70:43
the Day when they will go forth swiftly from their tombs as though they had been hurrying to a goal
70:44
with their sight, that which is humbled. Abasement will come over them. That
is
the Day which they had been promised.
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