Surah Al-Ma'aarij in Arabic and English

1. 1 Al-Ma'aarij 70:1

   سَاَلَ سَٓائِلٌ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍۙ

   Transliteration

   Saala sāilun biʿathābin wāqiʿin

   Translation

   A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen

2. 2 Al-Ma'aarij 70:2

   لِلْكَافِرٖينَ لَيْسَ لَهُ دَافِـعٌۙ

   Transliteration

   Lilkāfireena laysa lahu dāfiʿun

   Translation

   To the disbelievers; of it there is no preventer.

3. 3 Al-Ma'aarij 70:3

   مِنَ اللّٰهِ ذِي الْمَعَارِجِؕ

   Transliteration

   Mina Allāhi thee almaʿāriji

   Translation

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

4. 4 Al-Ma'aarij 70:4

   تَعْرُجُ الْمَلٰٓئِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ اِلَيْهِ فٖي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ خَمْسٖينَ اَلْفَ سَنَةٍۚ

   Transliteration

   Taʿruju almalāikatu waalrrooḥu ilayhi fee yawmin kāna miqdāruhu khamseena alfa sanatin

   Translation

   The angels and the Spirit will ascend to Him during a Day the extent of which is fifty thousand years.

5. 5 Al-Ma'aarij 70:5

   فَاصْبِرْ صَبْراً جَمٖيلاً

   Transliteration

   Faiṣbir ṣabran jameelān

   Translation

   So be patient with gracious patience.

6. 6 Al-Ma'aarij 70:6

   اِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعٖيداًۙ

   Transliteration

   Innahum yarawnahu baʿeedān

   Translation

   Indeed, they see it [as] distant,

7. 7 Al-Ma'aarij 70:7

   وَنَرٰيهُ قَرٖيباًؕ

   Transliteration

   Wanarāhu qareebān

   Translation

   But We see it [as] near.

8. 8 Al-Ma'aarij 70:8

   يَوْمَ تَكُونُ السَّمَٓاءُ كَالْمُهْلِۙ

   Transliteration

   Yawma takoonu alssamāo kaalmuhli

   Translation

   On the Day the sky will be like murky oil,

9. 9 Al-Ma'aarij 70:9

   وَتَكُونُ الْجِبَالُ كَالْعِهْنِۙ

   Transliteration

   Watakoonu aljibālu kaalʿihni

   Translation

   And the mountains will be like wool,

10. 10 Al-Ma'aarij 70:10

    وَلَا يَسْـَٔلُ حَمٖيمٌ حَمٖيماًۚ

    Transliteration

    Walā yasalu ḥameemun ḥameemān

    Translation

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

11. 11 Al-Ma'aarij 70:11

    يُبَصَّرُونَهُمْؕ يَوَدُّ الْمُجْرِمُ لَوْ يَفْتَدٖي مِنْ عَذَابِ يَوْمِئِذٍ بِبَنٖيهِۙ

    Transliteration

    Yubaṣṣaroonahum yawaddu almujrimu law yaftadee min ʿathābi yawmiithin bibaneehi

    Translation

    They will be shown each other. The criminal will wish that he could be ransomed from the punishment of that Day by his children

12. 12 Al-Ma'aarij 70:12

    وَصَاحِبَتِهٖ وَاَخٖيهِۙ

    Transliteration

    Waṣāḥibatihi waakheehi

    Translation

    And his wife and his brother

13. 13 Al-Ma'aarij 70:13

    وَفَصٖيلَتِهِ الَّتٖي تُـْٔوٖيهِۙ

    Transliteration

    Wafaṣeelatihi allatee tuweehi

    Translation

    And his nearest kindred who shelter him

14. 14 Al-Ma'aarij 70:14

    وَمَنْ فِي الْاَرْضِ جَمٖيعاًۙ ثُمَّ يُنْجٖيهِۙ

    Transliteration

    Waman fee alarḏi jameeʿan thumma yunjeehi

    Translation

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

15. 15 Al-Ma'aarij 70:15

    كَلَّاؕ اِنَّهَا لَظٰىۙ

    Transliteration

    Kallā innahā lathā

    Translation

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

16. 16 Al-Ma'aarij 70:16

    نَزَّاعَةً لِلشَّوٰىۚ

    Transliteration

    Nazzāʿatan lilshshawā

    Translation

    A remover of exteriors.

17. 17 Al-Ma'aarij 70:17

    تَدْعُوا مَنْ اَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلّٰىۙ

    Transliteration

    Tadʿoo man adbara watawallā

    Translation

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

18. 18 Al-Ma'aarij 70:18

    وَجَمَعَ فَاَوْعٰى

    Transliteration

    Wajamaʿa faawʿā

    Translation

    And collected [wealth] and hoarded.

19. 19 Al-Ma'aarij 70:19

    اِنَّ الْاِنْسَانَ خُلِقَ هَلُوعاًۙ

    Transliteration

    Inna alinsāna khuliqa halooʿān

    Translation

    Indeed, mankind was created anxious:

20. 20 Al-Ma'aarij 70:20

    اِذَا مَسَّهُ الشَّرُّ جَزُوعاًۙ

    Transliteration

    Ithā massahu alshsharru jazooʿān

    Translation

    When evil touches him, impatient,

21. 21 Al-Ma'aarij 70:21

    وَاِذَا مَسَّهُ الْخَيْرُ مَنُوعاًۙ

    Transliteration

    Waithā massahu alkhayru manooʿān

    Translation

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

22. 22 Al-Ma'aarij 70:22

    اِلَّا الْمُصَلّٖينَۙ

    Transliteration

    Illā almuṣalleena

    Translation

    Except the observers of prayer -

23. 23 Al-Ma'aarij 70:23

    اَلَّذٖينَ هُمْ عَلٰى صَلَاتِهِمْ دَٓائِمُونَۖ

    Transliteration

    Allatheena hum ʿalā ṣalātihim dāimoona

    Translation

    Those who are constant in their prayer

24. 24 Al-Ma'aarij 70:24

    وَالَّذٖينَ فٖٓي اَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَعْلُومٌۙ

    Transliteration

    Waallatheena fee amwālihim ḥaqqun maʿloomun

    Translation

    And those within whose wealth is a known right

25. 25 Al-Ma'aarij 70:25

    لِلسَّٓائِلِ وَالْمَحْرُومِۖ

    Transliteration

    Lilssāili waalmaḥroomi

    Translation

    For the petitioner and the deprived -

26. 26 Al-Ma'aarij 70:26

    وَالَّذٖينَ يُصَدِّقُونَ بِيَوْمِ الدّٖينِۖ

    Transliteration

    Waallatheena yuṣaddiqoona biyawmi alddeeni

    Translation

    And those who believe in the Day of Recompense

27. 27 Al-Ma'aarij 70:27

    وَالَّذٖينَ هُمْ مِنْ عَذَابِ رَبِّهِمْ مُشْفِقُونَۚ

    Transliteration

    Waallatheena hum min ʿathābi rabbihim mushfiqoona

    Translation

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

28. 28 Al-Ma'aarij 70:28

    اِنَّ عَذَابَ رَبِّهِمْ غَيْرُ مَأْمُونٍۚ

    Transliteration

    Inna ʿathāba rabbihim ghayru mamoonin

    Translation

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

29. 29 Al-Ma'aarij 70:29

    وَالَّذٖينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Waallatheena hum lifuroojihim ḥāfithoona

    Translation

    And those who guard their private parts

30. 30 Al-Ma'aarij 70:30

    اِلَّا عَلٰٓى اَزْوَاجِهِمْ اَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ اَيْمَانُهُمْ فَاِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومٖينَۚ

    Transliteration

    Illā ʿalā azwājihim aw mā malakat aymānuhum fainnahum ghayru maloomeena

    Translation

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

31. 31 Al-Ma'aarij 70:31

    فَمَنِ ابْتَغٰى وَرَٓاءَ ذٰلِكَ فَاُو۬لٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الْعَادُونَۚ

    Transliteration

    Famani ibtaghā warāa thālika faolāika humu alʿādoona

    Translation

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

32. 32 Al-Ma'aarij 70:32

    وَالَّذٖينَ هُمْ لِاَمَانَاتِهِمْ وَعَهْدِهِمْ رَاعُونَۖ

    Transliteration

    Waallatheena hum liamānātihim waʿahdihim rāʿoona

    Translation

    And those who are to their trusts and promises attentive

33. 33 Al-Ma'aarij 70:33

    وَالَّذٖينَ هُمْ بِشَهَادَاتِهِمْ قَٓائِمُونَۖ

    Transliteration

    Waallatheena hum bishahādātihim qāimoona

    Translation

    And those who are in their testimonies upright

34. 34 Al-Ma'aarij 70:34

    وَالَّذٖينَ هُمْ عَلٰى صَلَاتِهِمْ يُحَافِظُونَؕ

    Transliteration

    Waallatheena hum ʿalā ṣalātihim yuḥāfithoona

    Translation

    And those who [carefully] maintain their prayer:

35. 35 Al-Ma'aarij 70:35

    اُو۬لٰٓئِكَ فٖي جَنَّاتٍ مُكْرَمُونَؕࣖ

    Transliteration

    Olāika fee jannātin mukramoona

    Translation

    They will be in gardens, honored.

36. 36 Al-Ma'aarij 70:36

    فَمَا لِ‌الَّذٖينَ كَفَرُوا قِبَلَكَ مُهْطِعٖينَۙ

    Transliteration

    Famāli allatheena kafaroo qibalaka muhṭiʿeena

    Translation

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

37. 37 Al-Ma'aarij 70:37

    عَنِ الْيَمٖينِۙ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ عِزٖينَ

    Transliteration

    ʿani alyameeni waʿani alshshimāli ʿizeena

    Translation

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

38. 38 Al-Ma'aarij 70:38

    اَيَطْمَعُ كُلُّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ اَنْ يُدْخَلَ جَنَّةَ نَعٖيمٍۙ

    Transliteration

    Ayaṭmaʿu kullu imriin minhum an yudkhala jannata naʿeemin

    Translation

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

39. 39 Al-Ma'aarij 70:39

    كَلَّاؕ اِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُمْ مِمَّا يَعْلَمُونَ

    Transliteration

    Kallā innā khalaqnāhum mimmā yaʿlamoona

    Translation

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

40. 40 Al-Ma'aarij 70:40

    فَلَٓا اُقْسِمُ بِرَبِّ الْمَشَارِقِ وَالْمَغَارِبِ اِنَّا لَقَادِرُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Falā oqsimu birabbi almashāriqi waalmaghāribi innā laqādiroona

    Translation

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

41. 41 Al-Ma'aarij 70:41

    عَلٰٓى اَنْ نُبَدِّلَ خَيْراً مِنْهُمْۙ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقٖينَ

    Transliteration

    ʿalā an nubaddila khayran minhum wamā naḥnu bimasbooqeena

    Translation

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

42. 42 Al-Ma'aarij 70:42

    فَذَرْهُمْ يَخُوضُوا وَيَلْعَبُوا حَتّٰى يُلَاقُوا يَوْمَهُمُ الَّذٖي يُوعَدُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Fatharhum yakhooḏoo wayalʿaboo ḥattā yulāqoo yawmahumu allathee yooʿadoona

    Translation

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

43. 43 Al-Ma'aarij 70:43

    يَوْمَ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْاَجْدَاثِ سِرَاعاً كَاَنَّهُمْ اِلٰى نُصُبٍ يُوفِضُونَۙ

    Transliteration

    Yawma yakhrujoona mina alajdāthi sirāʿan kaannahum ilā nuṣubin yoofiḏoona

    Translation

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

44. 44 Al-Ma'aarij 70:44

    خَاشِعَةً اَبْصَارُهُمْ تَرْهَقُهُمْ ذِلَّةٌؕ ذٰلِكَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذٖي كَانُوا يُوعَدُونَ

    Transliteration

    Khāshiʿatan abṣāruhum tarhaquhum thillatun thālika alyawmu allathee kānoo yooʿadoona

    Translation

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

Translation: Saheeh International. Arabic text: Mushaf of the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Türkiye (Diyanet), 605 pages; kuran.diyanet.gov.tr. Transliteration: Açık Kuran (acikkuran.com).