المعارج
Al-Ma'arij
The Ascending Ways
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. A petitioner asked for a punishment bound to befall those who disown — none can repel it — coming from God, Holder of the Ascending Ways.
ٮسم الله الرحمں الرحٮم سال ساٮل ٮعداٮ واڡع للكڡرٮں لٮس له داڡع مں الله دى المعارح
The Agents and the Influx ascend to Him in a Day whose measure is fifty thousand years.
ٮعرح الملٮكه والروح الٮه ڡى ٮوم كاں مڡداره حمسٮں الڡ سٮه
So be patient, with a gracious patience.
ڡاصٮر صٮرا حمٮلا
They indeed see it as distant, while We see it as near.
اٮهم ٮروٮه ٮعٮدا وٮرٮه ڡرٮٮا
The Day the sky will be like molten metal, and the mountains will be like wool, and no warm friend will ask after a warm friend, though they are made to see one another clearly.
ٮوم ٮكوں السما كالمهل وٮكوں الحٮال كالعهں ولا ٮسل حمٮم حمٮما ٮٮصروٮهم
The severed one would like to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day with his sons, his consort, his brother, the line that took him in, and everyone on earth, if that would then save him. By no means!
ٮود المحرم لو ٮڡٮدى مں عداٮ ٮومٮد ٮٮٮٮه وصحٮٮه واحٮه وڡصٮلٮه الٮى ٮوٮه ومں ڡى الارص حمٮعا ٮم ٮٮحٮه كلا
It is indeed the ardent Flame, stripping away the scalp, calling him who retreated and turned his back, and amassed and locked away.
اٮها لطى ٮراعه للسوى ٮدعوا مں ادٮر وٮولى وحمع ڡاوعى
The human being was indeed created anxious: when ill touches him, he panics; and when good touches him, he hinders it — except those who make contact, constant in their Contact,
اں الاٮسں حلٯ هلوعا ادا مسه السر حروعا وادا مسه الحٮر مٮوعا الا المصلٮں الدٮں هم على صلاٮهم داٮموں
and those in whose goods there is a known right for the one who asks and the one who is deprived,
والدٮں ڡى امولهم حٯ معلوم للساٮل والمحروم
and those who declare true the Day of the Due,
والدٮں ٮصدڡوں ٮٮوم الدٮں
and those who are apprehensive of the punishment of their Guardian — the punishment of their Guardian is not that from which one is secure —
والدٮں هم مں عداٮ رٮهم مسڡڡوں اں عداٮ رٮهم عٮر ماموں
and those who preserve their private parts, except with their spouses or those bound by oath — for then they are not censurable;
والدٮں هم لڡروحهم حڡطوں الا على اروحهم او ما ملكٮ اٮمٮهم ڡاٮهم عٮر ملومٮں
but whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the ones who cross the limits;
ڡمں اٮٮعى ورا دلك ڡاولٮك هم العادوں
and those who are watchful over their trusts and their pact,
والدٮں هم لامٮٮهم وعهدهم رعوں
and those who maintain their testimonies,
والدٮں هم ٮسهدٮهم ڡاٮموں
and those who carefully preserve their Contact: those will be in gardens, honored.
والدٮں هم على صلاٮهم ٮحاڡطوں اولٮك ڡى حٮٮ مكرموں
So what is with those who disown, hastening toward you, right and left, in separate groups?
ڡمال الدٮں كڡروا ڡٮلك مهطعٮں عں الٮمٮں وعں السمال عرٮں
Does every person among them covet entry into a garden of bliss? By no means!
اٮطمع كل امرى مٮهم اں ٮدحل حٮه ٮعٮم كلا
Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
اٮا حلڡٮهم مما ٮعلموں
No! I swear by the Guardian of the risings and the settings that surely We are able to replace them with better than them, and nothing can outrun Us.
ڡلا اڡسم ٮرٮ المسرٯ والمعرٮ اٮا لڡدروں على اں ٮٮدل حٮرا مٮهم وما ٮحں ٮمسٮوڡٮں
So let them be: let them immerse themselves and play, until they meet their Day, the one they are promised — the Day they will emerge from the sepulchres rapidly as if racing toward an erected marker, their sights humble, humiliation veiling them.
ڡدرهم ٮحوصوا وٮلعٮوا حٮى ٮلڡوا ٮومهم الدى ٮوعدوں ٮوم ٮحرحوں مں الاحداٮ سراعا كاٮهم الى ٮصٮ ٮوڡصوں حسعه اٮصرهم ٮرهڡهم دله
That is the Day which they had been promised.
دلك الٮوم الدى كاٮوا ٮوعدوں