Learn Sūrat al-Maʿārij
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What Sūrat al-Maʿārij is about
Sūrat al-Maʿārij has 44 āyāt in the twenty-ninth juzʼ. It opens with someone asking for a punishment that is bound to come, from Allah, Lord of the ways of ascent, which give the sūrah its name (70:1–3). The angels and the Spirit rise to Him in a day whose length is fifty thousand years (70:4). The Prophet is told to be patient with a beautiful patience (70:5).
The sūrah says the human is created anxious: impatient when harm touches him and grasping when good comes (70:19–21). The exception is those who pray: they keep up their prayers, give the beggar and the deprived a known share of their wealth, believe in the Day, guard their chastity and keep their trusts (70:22–34). They will be honoured in gardens (70:35).
- Āyāt 1–18
A day of fifty thousand years
The angels and the Spirit ascend to Allah in a day of fifty thousand years. Be patient with a beautiful patience. On that Day the sky is like molten metal and the mountains like wool. No friend asks after a friend, and the guilty would give his children, wife and brother to be saved (70:11–14).
- Āyāt 19–35
Except those who pray
The human is created anxious, impatient in hardship and grasping in good times, except those who pray and keep up their prayers. A known share of their wealth is for the beggar and the deprived (70:24–25). They believe in the Day, fear their Lord’s punishment, guard their chastity, keep their trusts and promises, and stand by their testimony.
- Āyāt 36–44
Racing from the graves
Why do the deniers rush around the Prophet in groups? Does each hope to enter the Garden of bliss? Allah is able to replace them with better (70:41). Leave them until they meet their Day, when they come out of the graves racing, eyes downcast and covered in disgrace (70:43–44).
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