| | Ali Quli Qara'i rendition of Surah The Ascending Stairways, The Ladders(al-Ma`arij)
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| 70:1 | | An asker asked for a punishment bound to befal |
| 70:2 | | —which none can avert from the faithless&mdash |
| 70:3 | | from Allah, Lord of the lofty stations |
| 70:4 | | The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose span is fifty thousand years |
| 70:5 | | So be patient, with a patience that is graceful |
| 70:6 | | Indeed they see it to be far off |
| 70:7 | | and We see it to be near |
| 70:8 | | The day when the sky will be like molten copper |
| 70:9 | | and the mountains like [tufts of] dyed wool |
| 70:10 | | and no friend will inquire about [the welfare of his] friend |
| 70:11 | | [though] they will be placed within each other’s sight. The guilty one will wish he could ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children |
| 70:12 | | his spouse and his brother |
| 70:13 | | his kin which had sheltered hi |
| 70:14 | | and all those who are upon the earth, if that might deliver him |
| 70:15 | | Never! Indeed it is a blazing fire |
| 70:16 | | which strips away the scalp |
| 70:17 | | It invites him who has turned back [from the truth] and forsaken [it] |
| 70:18 | | amassing [wealth] and hoarding [it] |
| 70:19 | | Indeed man has been created covetous |
| 70:20 | | anxious when an ill befalls hi |
| 70:21 | | and grudging when good comes his wa |
| 70:22 | | —[all are such] except the prayerful |
| 70:23 | | those who are persevering in their prayer |
| 70:24 | | and in whose wealth there is a known righ |
| 70:25 | | for the beggar and the deprived |
| 70:26 | | and who affirm the Day of Retribution |
| 70:27 | | and those who are apprehensive of the punishment of their Lor |
| 70:28 | | (there is indeed no security from the punishment of their Lord |
| 70:29 | | and those who guard their private part |
| 70:30 | | (except from their spouses and their slave women, for then they are not blameworthy |
| 70:31 | | but whoever seeks beyond that —it is they who are the transgressors |
| 70:32 | | and those who keep their trusts and covenants |
| 70:33 | | and those who are observant of their testimonies |
| 70:34 | | and those who are watchful of their prayers |
| 70:35 | | They will be in gardens, held in honour |
| 70:36 | | What is the matter with the faithless that they scramble toward yo |
| 70:37 | | from the left and the right in batches |
| 70:38 | | Does each man among them hope to enter the garden of bliss |
| 70:39 | | Never! Indeed We created them from what they know |
| 70:40 | | So I swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests that We are abl |
| 70:41 | | to replace them by [others] better than them and We are not to be outmaneuvered |
| 70:42 | | So leave them to gossip and play until they encounter their day, which they are promised |
| 70:43 | | the day when they emerge from the graves, hastening, as if racing toward a target |
| 70:44 | | with a humbled look [in their eyes], overcast by abasement. That is the day they had been promised |
