| | Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) rendition of Surah The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders(al-Ma`arij)
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| 70:1 | | A questioner asks for the torment to befall. |
| 70:2 | | Upon the infidels, which there is none to repel. |
| 70:3 | | It will be from Allah the Master of Ascending heights. |
| 70:4 | | The angels and Jibrael ascend towards Him. That chastisement will fall on a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years. |
| 70:5 | | So be you patient with a goodly patience. |
| 70:6 | | They are thinking it to be far off. |
| 70:7 | | And We are seeing it to be near. |
| 70:8 | | The day when the heaven will become like molten silver. |
| 70:9 | | And the mountains will become so light as wool. |
| 70:10 | | And no friend will ask any friend. |
| 70:11 | | They will be seeing them. The culprit will long that he might ransom himself from the torment of that day by his sons, |
| 70:12 | | And his wife and his brother, |
| 70:13 | | And his clan in which there is place for him. |
| 70:14 | | And all those who are on the earth, then this ransom might save him. |
| 70:15 | | Never, it is indeed a raging fire. |
| 70:16 | | Putting off the skin. |
| 70:17 | | It is calling him who turned his back and turned his face. |
| 70:18 | | And hoarded wealth and withheld it. |
| 70:19 | | Undoubtedly, man has been made impatient greedy. |
| 70:20 | | When evil touches him, he is badly perplexed, |
| 70:21 | | And when good reaches him, he withheld, |
| 70:22 | | But those who pray, |
| 70:23 | | Those who are constant in their prayer. |
| 70:24 | | And those in whose wealth there are a known right. |
| 70:25 | | For one who asks for and for one who could not even ask for and remains deprived. |
| 70:26 | | And those who know the Day of judgement a reality. |
| 70:27 | | And those who are afraid of the torment of their Lord. |
| 70:28 | | Undoubtedly, the torment of their Lord is not a thing to become un-fearful. |
| 70:29 | | And those who guard their private parts. |
| 70:30 | | But from their wives and from those whom their hands possess. They are not to be blamed for them. |
| 70:31 | | And who seeks others save those two then they are the transgressors. |
| 70:32 | | And those who safeguard their trusts and their covenant, |
| 70:33 | | And those who are firm on their testimonies, |
| 70:34 | | And those who preserve their prayers. |
| 70:35 | | They are, who shall be honoured in the Gardens. |
| 70:36 | | But what happened to those infidels, that they see towards you with sharp eyes. |
| 70:37 | | On the right and the left, groups after groups. |
| 70:38 | | Does every man among those covet that he shall enter the Garden of comfort? |
| 70:39 | | Never, undoubtedly, We have made them of that which they know. |
| 70:40 | | I swear by the Lord of the easts and wests that We are surely, Authoritative. |
| 70:41 | | That We may exchange better than they are, and no one can go out of Our hands. |
| 70:42 | | So leave them in their idle talks and play until they meet that day of theirs, which they are promised with. |
| 70:43 | | The day when they will come forth from their graves hurrying as if they were hastening towards marks, |
| 70:44 | | With their eyes cast down, covered with disgrace. This is their that day of which they were promised |
