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Surat Al-Ma`ārij (The Ascending Stairways) - سورة المعارج
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![70:17](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_17.png)
Sahih International
It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]![70:28](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_28.png)
Sahih International
Indeed, the punishment of their Lord is not that from which one is safe -![70:30](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_30.png)
Sahih International
Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they are not to be blamed -![70:36](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_36.png)
Sahih International
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muhammad],![70:40](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_40.png)
Sahih International
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able![70:41](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_41.png)
Sahih International
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.![70:42](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_42.png)
Sahih International
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -![70:43](https://df61994948e9a54a5259-ad04094bac72ed4d481dba65a1920e88.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/70_43.png)
Sahih International
The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.![](/images/boxBottomBR.gif)