| | Mir Aneesuddin rendition of Surah The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders(al-Ma`arij)
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| 70:1 | | A questioner asked about the punishment to fall. |
| 70:2 | | For the infidels, there will be no defender for it. |
| 70:3 | | (It will be) from Allah, Possessor of the ways of ascent. |
| 70:4 | | The angels and the spirit ascend to Him, in a day (period), the measure of which is fifty thousand years. |
| 70:5 | | So be patient with the patience that is good. |
| 70:6 | | They certainly see it far, |
| 70:7 | | while We see it near. |
| 70:8 | | The day when the sky will become like molten brass |
| 70:9 | | and the mountains will be like coloured wool |
| 70:10 | | and (even) an intimate friend will not inquire from another intimate friend |
| 70:11 | | (though) they will be made to see each other. The criminal would love to ransom himself from the punishment of that day by (sacrificing even) his sons, |
| 70:12 | | and his wife and his brother |
| 70:13 | | and his family which gave him shelter, |
| 70:14 | | and whosoever is in the earth, all, (and) then save himself. |
| 70:15 | | By no means ! it is certainly a flaming fire |
| 70:16 | | taking off the skin. |
| 70:17 | | It will invite him who turned back (from the truth) and went away |
| 70:18 | | and amassed (wealth) then withheld (it). |
| 70:19 | | Man is certainly hasty (by) character; |
| 70:20 | | when evil afflicts him he is impatient |
| 70:21 | | and when good (even) touches him (he) is niggardly |
| 70:22 | | except the worshippers (those who offer salat) |
| 70:23 | | who are constant at their worship (salat) |
| 70:24 | | and in whose wealth there is a known (portion as the) right |
| 70:25 | | of one who asks and of one who is deprived (yet does not ask); |
| 70:26 | | and those who accept the truth of the day of judgment |
| 70:27 | | and those who are fearful of the punishment of their Fosterer, |
| 70:28 | | the punishment of their Fosterer is certainly (something from which) one should not feel secure; |
| 70:29 | | and those who guard their private parts |
| 70:30 | | except from their wives or whom their right hands possess, so in their case they are not to be blamed, |
| 70:31 | | but whoever seeks (something) beyond that, then those are the persons who are transgressors; |
| 70:32 | | and those who are faithful to their trusts and their agreements; |
| 70:33 | | and those who stand firm on their testimonies; |
| 70:34 | | and those who are custodians of their worship (salat). |
| 70:35 | | They will be honoured in gardens. |
| 70:36 | | So what is the matter with those who do not believe that they rush towards you |
| 70:37 | | from your right and from your left, in groups? |
| 70:38 | | Does every man among them hope that he will be made to enter the garden of bliss? |
| 70:39 | | By no means ! they know (the thing) from which We created them. |
| 70:40 | | So I do swear by the Fosterer of the rising places/times and setting places/times (of the sun), that We are certainly able |
| 70:41 | | to replace (them by others) better than them and We are not to be overcome. |
| 70:42 | | So leave them involved in idle talk and play, till they meet their day which they are promised. |
| 70:43 | | The day they will come out from their graves in haste, as if rushing towards a goal, |
| 70:44 | | (with) their eyes humbled, disgrace covering them, that is the day which they were promised. |
