Know Quran - Chapter 70

70. The Ascending Stairways - Al-Maarij

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

70:1	One demanding, demanded the chastisement which must befall
70:2	The unbelievers -- there is none to avert it --
70:3	From Allah, the Lord of the ways of Ascent.
70:4	To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
70:5	Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
70:6	Surely they think it to be far off,
70:7	And We see it nigh.
70:8	On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
70:9	And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
70:10	And friend shall not ask of friend
70:11	(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,
70:12	And his wife and his brother
70:13	And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
70:14	And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him.
70:15	By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire
70:16	Dragging by the head,
70:17	It shall claim him who turned and fled (from truth),
70:18	And amasses (wealth) then shuts it up.
70:19	Surely man is created of a hasty temperament
70:20	Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts him
70:21	And niggardly when good befalls him
70:22	Except those who pray,
70:23	Those who are constant at their prayer
70:24	And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion.
70:25	For him who begs and for him who is denied (good)
70:26	And those who accept the truth of the judgment day
70:27	And those who are fearful of the chastisement of their Lord --
70:28	Surely the chastisement of their Lord is (a thing) not to be felt secure of --
70:29	And those who guard their private parts,
70:30	Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess -- for these surely are not to be blamed,
70:31	But he who seeks to go beyond this, these it is that go beyond the limits --
70:32	And those who are faithful to their trusts and their covenant
70:33	And those who are upright in their testimonies,
70:34	And those who keep a guard on their prayer,
70:35	Those shall be in gardens, honored.
70:36	But what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten on around you,
70:37	On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
70:38	Does every man of them desire that he should be made to enter the garden of bliss?
70:39	By no means! Surely We have created them of what they know.
70:40	But nay! I swear by the Lord of the Easts and the Wests that We are certainly able
70:41	To bring instead (others) better than them, and We shall not be overcome.
70:42	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;
70:43	The day on which they shall come forth from their graves in haste, as if they were hastening on to a goal,
70:44	Their eyes cast down; disgrace shall overtake them; that is the day which they were threatened with.

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