| | Shakir rendition of Surah The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders(al-Ma`arij)
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| 70:1 | | One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befal |
| 70:2 | | The unbelievers-- there is none to avert it- |
| 70:3 | | From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent |
| 70:4 | | To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years |
| 70:5 | | Therefore endure with a goodly patience |
| 70:6 | | Surely they think it to be far off |
| 70:7 | | And We see it nigh |
| 70:8 | | On the day when the heaven shall be as molten coppe |
| 70:9 | | And the mountains shall be as tufts of woo |
| 70:10 | | And friend shall not ask of frien |
| 70:11 | | (Though) they shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children |
| 70:12 | | And his wife and his brothe |
| 70:13 | | And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter |
| 70:14 | | And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him |
| 70:15 | | By no means! Surely it is a flaming fir |
| 70:16 | | Dragging by the head |
| 70:17 | | It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth) |
| 70:18 | | And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up |
| 70:19 | | Surely man is created of a hasty temperamen |
| 70:20 | | Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts hi |
| 70:21 | | And niggardly when good befalls hi |
| 70:22 | | Except those who pray |
| 70:23 | | Those who are constant at their praye |
| 70:24 | | And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion |
| 70:25 | | For him who begs and for him who is denied (good |
| 70:26 | | And those who accept the truth of the judgment da |
| 70:27 | | And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord- |
| 70:28 | | Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of- |
| 70:29 | | And those who guard their private parts |
| 70:30 | | Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess-- for these surely are not to be blamed |
| 70:31 | | But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits- |
| 70:32 | | And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenan |
| 70:33 | | And those who are upright in their testimonies |
| 70:34 | | And those who keep a guard on their prayer |
| 70:35 | | Those shall be in gardens, honored |
| 70:36 | | But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you |
| 70:37 | | On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties |
| 70:38 | | Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss |
| 70:39 | | By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know |
| 70:40 | | But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly abl |
| 70:41 | | To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome |
| 70:42 | | Therefore leave them alone to go on with the false discourses and to sport until they come face to face with that day of theirs with which they are threatened |
| 70:43 | | The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal |
| 70:44 | | Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with |
