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Muhsin Khan - English translation

Translation of Surah Al-Ma'arij in الإنجليزية from Muhsin Khan - English translation

Muhsin Khan - English translation

Verse 1

Al-Ma'arij


A questioner asked concerning a torment about to befall
Verse 5

So be patient (O Muhammad SAW), with a good patience.
Verse 8

The Day that the sky will be like the boiling filth of oil, (or molten copper or silver or lead, etc.).

Though they shall be made to see one another [(i.e. on the Day of Resurrection), there will be none but see his father, children and relatives, but he will neither speak to them nor will ask them for any help)], - the Mujrim, (criminal, sinner, disbeliever, etc.) would desire to ransom himself from the punishment of that Day by his children.
Verse 16

Taking away (burning completely) the head skin!
Verse 17

Calling: "[O Kafir (O disbeliever in Allah, His angels, His Book, His Messengers, Day of Resurrection and in Al-Qadar (Divine Preordainments), O Mushrik (O polytheist, disbeliever in the Oneness of Allah)] (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from Faith) [picking and swallowing them up from that great gathering of mankind (on the Day of Resurrection) just as a bird picks up a food-grain from the earth with its beak and swallows it up] [Tafsir Al-Qurtubi, Vol. 18, Page 289]
Verse 18

And collect (wealth) and hide it (from spending it in the Cause of Allah).
Verse 22

Except those devoted to Salat (prayers)
Verse 25

For the beggar who asks, and for the unlucky who has lost his property and wealth, (and his means of living has been straitened);

Verily! The torment of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure,
Verse 29

And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts from illegal sexual acts).

So what is the matter with those who disbelieve that they hasten to listen from you (O Muhammad SAW), in order to belie you and to mock at you, and at Allah's Book (this Quran).

(Sitting) in groups on the right and on the left (of you, O Muhammad SAW)?

No, that is not like that! Verily, We have created them out of that which they know!

So I swear by the Lord of all [the three hundred and sixty (360)] points of sunrise and sunset in the east and the west that surely We are Able
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