Al Ma'arij

Saheeh International

1 A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

1 One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

2 Upon the disbelievers, which none can avert,

Shakir

2 The unbelievers - - there is none to avert it - -

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

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.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

4 To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.

Saheeh International

5 So be patient with gracious patience.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

5 Therefore endure with a goodly patience.

Saheeh International

6 Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

6 Surely they think it to be far off,

Saheeh International

7 But We see it [as] near.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

7 But We see it (quite) near.

Shakir

7 And We see it nigh.

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

8 On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper

Saheeh International

9 And the mountains will be like wool,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

9 And the mountains will be like flakes of wool.

Shakir

9 And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

10 And friend shall not ask of friend

Saheeh International

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

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,

Shakir

11 (Though) they shall be made to see each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children,

Saheeh International

12 And his wife and his brother

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

12 And his wife and his brother,

Shakir

12 And his wife and his brother

Saheeh International

13 And his nearest kindred who shelter him

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

13 And his kindred who sheltered him,

Shakir

13 And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

14 And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

15 By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire

Saheeh International

16 A remover of exteriors.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

16 Taking away (burning completely) the head skin!

Shakir

16 Dragging by the head,

Saheeh International

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

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)

Shakir

17 It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),

Saheeh International

18 And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

18 And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.

Saheeh International

19 Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

19 Surely man is created of a hasty temperament

Saheeh International

20 When evil touches him, impatient,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

20 Irritable (discontented) when evil touches him;

Shakir

20 Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

21 And niggardly when good touches him.

Shakir

21 And niggardly when good befalls him

Saheeh International

22 Except the observers of prayer -

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

22 Except those who pray,

Saheeh International

23 Those who are constant in their prayer

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

23 Those who are constant at their prayer

Saheeh International

24 And those within whose wealth is a known right

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

24 And those in whose wealth there is a recognised right

Shakir

24 And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.

Saheeh International

25 For the petitioner and the deprived -

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).

Shakir

25 For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)

Saheeh International

26 And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

26 And those who believe in the Day of Recompense.

Shakir

26 And those who accept the truth of the judgment day

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

27 And those who fear the torment of their Lord.

Shakir

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

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

28 Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of - -

Saheeh International

29 And those who guard their private parts

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

29 And those who guard their private parts,

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

30 Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess - - for these surely are not to be blamed,

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

31 But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits - -

Saheeh International

32 And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

32 And those who keep their trusts and covenants.

Shakir

32 And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant

Saheeh International

33 And those who are in their testimonies upright

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

33 And those who stand firm in their testimonies.

Shakir

33 And those who are upright in their testimonies,

Saheeh International

34 And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

34 And those who keep a guard on their prayer,

Saheeh International

35 They will be in gardens, honored.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

35 Those shall be in gardens, honored.

Saheeh International

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

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)].

Shakir

36 But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

37 On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

38 Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

39 By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.

Saheeh International

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

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

Shakir

40 But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

41 To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

42 Therefore leave them alone to go on with the false discourses and to sport until they come face to face with that day of theirs with which they are threatened;

Saheeh International

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Shakir

43 The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal,

Saheeh International

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

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!

Shakir

44 Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with.