| | Arthur John Arberry rendition of Surah The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders(al-Ma`arij)
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| 70:1 | | A questioner asked of a chastisement about to fal |
| 70:2 | | for the unbelievers, which none may avert |
| 70:3 | | from God, the Lord of the Stairways |
| 70:4 | | To Him the angels and the Spirit mount up, in a day whereof the measure is fifty thousand years |
| 70:5 | | So be thou patient with a sweet patience |
| 70:6 | | behold, they see it as if far off |
| 70:7 | | but We see it is nigh |
| 70:8 | | Upon the day when heaven shall be as molten coppe |
| 70:9 | | and the mountains shall be as plucked wool-tufts |
| 70:10 | | no loyal friend shall question loyal friend |
| 70:11 | | 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 |
| 70:12 | | his companion wife, his brother |
| 70:13 | | his kin who sheltered him |
| 70:14 | | and whosoever is in the earth, all together, so that then it might deliver him |
| 70:15 | | Nay, verily it is a furnac |
| 70:16 | | snatching away the scalp |
| 70:17 | | calling him who drew back and turned away |
| 70:18 | | who amassed and hoarded |
| 70:19 | | Surely man was created fretful |
| 70:20 | | when evil visits him, impatient |
| 70:21 | | when good visits him, grudging |
| 70:22 | | save those that pra |
| 70:23 | | and continue at their prayers |
| 70:24 | | those in whose wealth is a right know |
| 70:25 | | for the beggar and the outcast |
| 70:26 | | who confirm the Day of Doo |
| 70:27 | | and go in fear of the chastisement of their Lor |
| 70:28 | | (from their Lord's chastisement none feels secure |
| 70:29 | | and guard their private part |
| 70:30 | | save from their wives and what their right hands own, then not being blameworth |
| 70:31 | | (but whoso seeks after more than that, they are the transgressors) |
| 70:32 | | and who preserve their trusts and their covenant |
| 70:33 | | and perform their witnessings |
| 70:34 | | and who observe their prayers |
| 70:35 | | Those shall be in Gardens, high-honoured |
| 70:36 | | What ails the unbelievers, running with outstretched neck |
| 70:37 | | towards thee on the right hand and on the left hand in knots |
| 70:38 | | What, is every man of them eager to be admitted to a Garden of Bliss |
| 70:39 | | Not so; for We have created them of what they know |
| 70:40 | | No! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and Wests, surely We are abl |
| 70:41 | | to substitute a better than they; We shall not be outstripped |
| 70:42 | | Then leave them alone to plunge and play until they encounter that day of theirs which they are promised |
| 70:43 | | the day they shall come forth from the tombs hastily, as if they were hurrying unto a waymark |
| 70:44 | | humbled their eyes, overspreading them abasement. That is the day which they were promised |
