| | Musharraf Hussain rendition of Surah The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders(al-Ma`arij)
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| 70:1 | | A sceptical questioner demanded a punishment to fall |
| 70:2 | | upon the disbelievers; nothing can ward it off once it comes |
| 70:3 | | from Allah, the Lord of the spiritual stairways to the Heavens, |
| 70:4 | | by which the angels and the Noble Spirit ascend to Him on a Day with a time-span of fifty thousand years. |
| 70:5 | | So Messenger! Be patient in a beautiful manner! |
| 70:6 | | Indeed, they consider it a long way off, |
| 70:7 | | yet We know it is near. |
| 70:8 | | The Day when the sky will be like molten brass, |
| 70:9 | | and the hanging mountains will be like masses of fluffed wool |
| 70:10 | | It will be a Day when no close friend will bother to ask anything of his close friend, |
| 70:11 | | yet they will be within sight of one another. The wicked person will wish to give away everything to save himself from punishment that Day, even his children, |
| 70:12 | | his spouse, his brother, |
| 70:13 | | his blood relatives who sheltered him, |
| 70:14 | | and everyone on Earth, to save his own skin. |
| 70:15 | | That will not happen! There will be a raging flame |
| 70:16 | | that peels away the skin. |
| 70:17 | | Hell shall call out to all who turned their backs and turned away, |
| 70:18 | | the one who gathered wealth and hoarded it |
| 70:19 | | Humans were created anxious; |
| 70:20 | | when misfortune befalls them, they are impatient, |
| 70:21 | | and when good fortune befalls them, they are selfish; |
| 70:22 | | except the worshippers, |
| 70:23 | | who perform their prayer constantly, |
| 70:24 | | in whose wealth is a due share |
| 70:25 | | for the beggar and the deprived, |
| 70:26 | | who believe in Judgement Day, |
| 70:27 | | who are fearful of their Lord’s punishment, |
| 70:28 | | their Lord’s punishment from which no one is safe |
| 70:29 | | Who guard their sexual purity, |
| 70:30 | | except from their spouses, or their slave maids; for that they can’t be blamed. |
| 70:31 | | But those whose lustful desires go beyond that, they are the transgressors. |
| 70:32 | | Who fulfil their trusts and promises, |
| 70:33 | | who give honest testimonies, |
| 70:34 | | who are focused and regular in their prayers. |
| 70:35 | | They will be honoured in delightful gardens |
| 70:36 | | What is the matter with the disbelievers? They all stare at you Prophet, |
| 70:37 | | from the right and the left. |
| 70:38 | | Does each one of them expect to be admitted into a Garden of Delight? |
| 70:39 | | That will never happen; We created them from something they know. |
| 70:40 | | So I swear by the Lord of the Eastern and the Western horizons, indeed We are fully capable |
| 70:41 | | of replacing them with people better than them, and no one can stop Us. |
| 70:42 | | So leave them pandering to their idle talk and playing games, until they face Judgement Day, which they are promised. |
| 70:43 | | The Day they will quickly come out of the graves, as if racing towards goal posts, |
| 70:44 | | their eyes cast down and faces covered with humiliation. That is the Day, which they were promised |
