Surah Al-Ma'aarij (The Ascending Stairways)

44 Verse(s) • Surah number 70 • Meccan

يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْ ۚ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدِي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنِيهِ


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

وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَأَخِيهِ


12. And his wife and his brother

وَفَصِيلَتِهِ الَّتِي تُؤْوِيهِ


13. And his nearest kindred who shelter him

وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ يُنْجِيهِ


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

كَلَّا ۖ إِنَّهَا لَظَىٰ


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

نَزَّاعَةً لِلشَّوَىٰ


16. A remover of exteriors.

تَدْعُو مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ


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

وَجَمَعَ فَأَوْعَىٰ


18. And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

۞ إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعًا


19. Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

إِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ جَزُوعًا


20. When evil touches him, impatient,