| | Ahmed Ali rendition of Surah The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders(al-Ma`arij)
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| 70:1 | | AN INQUIRER ASKED for the affliction that is to com |
| 70:2 | | Upon the infidels -- which none would be able to repel - |
| 70:3 | | From God, the Lord of the steps (of progression) |
| 70:4 | | To whom the angels and the soul take a day to ascend, whose length is fifty thousand years |
| 70:5 | | So persevere with becoming patience |
| 70:6 | | They surely take it to be far away |
| 70:7 | | But We see it very near |
| 70:8 | | The day the sky becomes like molten brass |
| 70:9 | | The mountains like the tufts of (carded) wool |
| 70:10 | | And no friend inquires after frien |
| 70:11 | | Though within sight of one another. The sinner would like to ransom himself from the torment of that Day by offering his sons |
| 70:12 | | His wife and his brother |
| 70:13 | | And his family who had stood by him |
| 70:14 | | And all those who are on the earth, to save himself |
| 70:15 | | But never. It is pure white flam |
| 70:16 | | That would skin the scalp |
| 70:17 | | It will summon whoever turns his back and flees |
| 70:18 | | Who amasses and then hoards |
| 70:19 | | Surely man is greedy by nature |
| 70:20 | | If evil befalls him he is perturbed |
| 70:21 | | If good comes to him he holds back his hand |
| 70:22 | | Except those who closely follow (the Book of God) |
| 70:23 | | Who persevere in devotion |
| 70:24 | | In whose wealth a due share is include |
| 70:25 | | For the needy and those dispossessed |
| 70:26 | | And those who believe in the Day of Judgement |
| 70:27 | | And those who fear the punishment of their Lord, - |
| 70:28 | | Surely no one can be secure from the punishment of his Lord, - |
| 70:29 | | And those who guard their sex except from their wives and women slaves of ol |
| 70:30 | | Are free of blame |
| 70:31 | | But those who seek more than this will be transgressors |
| 70:32 | | And those who fulfil their trusts and covenants |
| 70:33 | | Who uphold their testimonies |
| 70:34 | | And those who are mindful of their moral obligations |
| 70:35 | | They will live in gardens with honour |
| 70:36 | | What is the matter with unbelievers that they stare at you with fixed gazes and hasten towards yo |
| 70:37 | | In crowds, right and left |
| 70:38 | | Does every one of them wish to enter the garden of tranquility |
| 70:39 | | Never so. We have created them from what they know |
| 70:40 | | So I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly abl |
| 70:41 | | To bring better people than they in their place; and they will not be able to thwart Us |
| 70:42 | | So leave them to their vain disputes and amusement till they meet their day (of reckoning) promised them |
| 70:43 | | The day when they will come out of their graves in all haste as though rushing to their altars |
| 70:44 | | Eyes lowered, shame attending. That is the day they have been promised |
