Al Ma'arij

Saheeh International

1 A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

Transliteration

1 Saala sailun biAAathabin waqiAAin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

1 In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. A questioner asked concerning a torment about to befall

Saheeh International

2 To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

Transliteration

2 Lilkafireena laysa lahu dafiAAun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 Upon the disbelievers, which none can avert,

Saheeh International

3 [It is] from Allah, owner of the ways of ascent.

Transliteration

3 Mina Allahi thee almaAAariji

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

3 From Allah, the Lord of the ways of ascent.

Saheeh International

4 The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

Transliteration

4 TaAAruju almalaikatu waalrroohu ilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfa sanatin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 The angels and the Ruh [Jibril (Gabriel)] ascend to Him in a Day the measure whereof is fifty thousand years.

Saheeh International

5 So be patient with gracious patience.

Transliteration

5 Faisbir sabran jameelan

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

5 So be patient (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), with a good patience.

Saheeh International

6 Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

Transliteration

6 Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

6 Verily, they see it (the torment) afar off.

Saheeh International

7 But We see it [as] near.

Transliteration

7 Wanarahu qareeban

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

7 But We see it (quite) near.

Saheeh International

8 On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

Transliteration

8 Yawma takoonu alssamao kaalmuhli

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

8 The Day that the sky will be like the boiling filth of oil, (or molten copper or silver or lead).

Saheeh International

9 And the mountains will be like wool,

Transliteration

9 Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

9 And the mountains will be like flakes of wool.

Saheeh International

10 And no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,

Transliteration

10 Wala yasalu hameemun hameeman

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

10 And no friend will ask a friend (about his condition),

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11 They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children

Transliteration

11 Yubassaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu law yaftadee min AAathabi yawmiithin bibaneehi

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

11 Though they shall be made to see one another [(i.e. on the Day of Resurrection), there will be none but see his father, children and relatives, but he will neither speak to them nor will ask them for any help]. The Mujrim, (criminal, sinner, disbeliever) would desire to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day by his children,

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12 And his wife and his brother

Transliteration

12 Wasahibatihi waakheehi

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

12 And his wife and his brother,

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13 And his nearest kindred who shelter him

Transliteration

13 Wafaseelatihi allatee tuweehi

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

13 And his kindred who sheltered him,

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14 And whoever is on earth entirely [so] then it could save him.

Transliteration

14 Waman fee alardi jameeAAan thumma yunjeehi

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

14 And all that are in the earth, so that it might save him.

Saheeh International

15 No! Indeed, it is the Flame [of Hell],

Transliteration

15 Kalla innaha latha

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

15 By no means! Verily, it will be the Fire of Hell,

Saheeh International

16 A remover of exteriors.

Transliteration

16 NazzaAAatan lilshshawa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

16 Taking away (burning completely) the head skin!

Saheeh International

17 It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]

Transliteration

17 TadAAoo man adbara watawalla

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

17 Calling (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind on the Day of Resurrection just as a bird picks up a food-grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up] (Tafsir Al-Qurtubi)

Saheeh International

18 And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

Transliteration

18 WajamaAAa faawAAa

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

18 And collect (wealth) and hide it (from spending it in the Cause of Allah).

Saheeh International

19 Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

Transliteration

19 Inna alinsana khuliqa halooAAan

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

19 Verily, man (disbeliever) was created very impatient;

Saheeh International

20 When evil touches him, impatient,

Transliteration

20 Itha massahu alshsharru jazooAAan

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

20 Irritable (discontented) when evil touches him;

Saheeh International

21 And when good touches him, withholding [of it],

Transliteration

21 Waitha massahu alkhayru manooAAan

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

21 And niggardly when good touches him.

Saheeh International

22 Except the observers of prayer -

Transliteration

22 Illa almusalleena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

22 Except those who are devoted to Salat (prayers).

Saheeh International

23 Those who are constant in their prayer

Transliteration

23 Allatheena hum AAala salatihim daimoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

23 Those who remain constant in their Salat (prayers);

Saheeh International

24 And those within whose wealth is a known right

Transliteration

24 Waallatheena fee amwalihim haqqun maAAloomun

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

24 And those in whose wealth there is a recognised right

Saheeh International

25 For the petitioner and the deprived -

Transliteration

25 Lilssaili waalmahroomi

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

25 For the beggar who asks, and for the unlucky who has lost his property and wealth, (and his means of living has been straitened).

Saheeh International

26 And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

Transliteration

26 Waallatheena yusaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

26 And those who believe in the Day of Recompense.

Saheeh International

27 And those who are fearful of the punishment of their Lord -

Transliteration

27 Waallatheena hum min AAathabi rabbihim mushfiqoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

27 And those who fear the torment of their Lord.

Saheeh International

28 Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -

Transliteration

28 Inna AAathaba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

28 Verily, the torment of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure. -

Saheeh International

29 And those who guard their private parts

Transliteration

29 Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim hafithoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

29 And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts from illegal sexual acts).

Saheeh International

30 Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -

Transliteration

30 Illa AAala azwajihim aw ma malakat aymanuhum fainnahum ghayru maloomeena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

30 Except from their wives or the (women slaves) whom their right hands possess - for (then) they are not blameworthy.

Saheeh International

31 But whoever seeks beyond that, then they are the transgressors -

Transliteration

31 Famani ibtagha waraa thalika faolaika humu alAAadoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

31 But whosoever seeks beyond that, then it is those who are trespassers.

Saheeh International

32 And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

Transliteration

32 Waallatheena hum liamanatihim waAAahdihim raAAoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

32 And those who keep their trusts and covenants.

Saheeh International

33 And those who are in their testimonies upright

Transliteration

33 Waallatheena hum bishahadatihim qaimoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

33 And those who stand firm in their testimonies.

Saheeh International

34 And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

Transliteration

34 Waallatheena hum AAala salatihim yuhafithoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

34 And those who guard their Salat (prayers) well.

Saheeh International

35 They will be in gardens, honored.

Transliteration

35 Olaika fee jannatin mukramoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

35 Such shall dwell in the Gardens (i.e. Paradise), honoured.

Saheeh International

36 So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],

Transliteration

36 Famali allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhtiAAeena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

36 So what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten to listen from you [O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم), in order to belie you and to mock at you, and at Allah's Book (this Qur'an)].

Saheeh International

37 [To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?

Transliteration

37 AAani alyameeni waAAani alshshimali AAizeena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

37 (Sitting) in groups on the right and on the left (of you, O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)?

Saheeh International

38 Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?

Transliteration

38 AyatmaAAu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naAAeemin

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

38 Does every man of them hope to enter the Paradise of Delight?

Saheeh International

39 No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.

Transliteration

39 Kalla inna khalaqnahum mimma yaAAlamoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

39 No, that is not like that! Verily, We have created them out of that which they know!

Saheeh International

40 So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able

Transliteration

40 Fala oqsimu birabbi almashariqi waalmagharibi inna laqadiroona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

40 So I swear by the Lord of all the [three hundred and sixty-five (365)] points of sunrise and sunset in the east and the west that surely We are Able

Saheeh International

41 To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.

Transliteration

41 AAala an nubaddila khayran minhum wama nahnu bimasbooqeena

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

41 To replace them by (others) better than them; and We are not to be outrun.

Saheeh International

42 So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -

Transliteration

42 Fatharhum yakhoodoo wayalAAaboo hatta yulaqoo yawmahumu allathee yooAAadoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

42 So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they meet their Day which they are promised -

Saheeh International

43 The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.

Transliteration

43 Yawma yakhrujoona mina alajdathi siraAAan kaannahum ila nusubin yoofidoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

43 The Day when they will come out of the graves quickly as racing to a goal,

Saheeh International

44 Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.

Transliteration

44 KhashiAAatan absaruhum tarhaquhum thillatun thalika alyawmu allathee kanoo yooAAadoona

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

44 With their eyes lowered in fear and humility, ignominy covering them (all over)! That is the Day which they were promised!