The Qur'an · Pickthall Translation

70. Al-Ma'arij

Pickthall translation · 44 verses

Surah Al-Ma'arij (70) of the Holy Qur'an, in the respected public domain Pickthall translation. It opens: “A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall” — the complete text of all 44 verses is below, free to read online, no account needed.

1A questioner questioned concerning the doom about to fall

2Upon the disbelievers, which none can repel

3From Allah, Lord of the Ascending Stairways

4(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years

5But be patient (O Muhammad) with a patience fair to see

6Lo! they behold it afar off

7While we behold it nigh

8The day when the sky will become as molten copper

9And the hills become as flakes of wool

10And no familiar friend will ask a question of his friend

11Though they will be given sight of them. The guilty man will long to be able to ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children

12And his spouse and his brother

13And his kin that harboured him

14And all that are in the earth, if then it might deliver him

15But nay! for lo! it is the fire of hell

16Eager to roast

17It calleth him who turned and fled (from truth)

18And hoarded (wealth) and withheld it

19Lo! man was created anxious

20Fretful when evil befalleth him

21And, when good befalleth him, grudging

22Save worshippers

23Who are constant at their worship

24And in whose wealth there is a right acknowledged

25For the beggar and the destitute

26And those who believe in the Day of Judgment

27And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom

28Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure

29And those who preserve their chastity

30Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for thus they are not blameworthy

31But whoso seeketh more than that, those are they who are transgressors

32And those who keep their pledges and their covenant

33And those who stand by their testimony

34And those who are attentive at their worship

35These will dwell in Gardens, honoured

36What aileth those who disbelieve, that they keep staring toward thee (O Muhammad), open-eyed

37On the right and on the left, in groups

38Doth every man among them hope to enter the Garden of Delight

39Nay, verily. Lo! We created them from what they know

40But nay! I swear by the Lord of the rising-places and the setting-places of the planets that We verily are Able

41To replace them by (others) better than them. And we are not to be outrun

42So let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised

43The day when they come forth from the graves in haste, as racing to a goal

44With eyes aghast, abasement stupefying them: Such is the Day which they are promised

44 verses · Pickthall translation (public domain)

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