Meaning: The Ascending Stairways
Total Ayahs: 44
Place of Revelation: Mecca
Surah Al-Ma‘arij opens with disdain from a disbeliever who demands the Day of Judgment come quickly. It then describes that Day as lasting fifty-thousand years. Believers are urged to endure insult and injustice with patience. The surah critiques the avarice and complacency of the wicked—they hoard wealth and neglect prayer. It outlines qualities of true believers: steadfast prayer, charity, chastity, honoring trusts, and maintaining promises. It ends by warning disbelievers that mockery will not save them.
Patience in adversity and commitment to virtuous deeds define true believers. Temporal wealth and status offer no protection when divine judgment arrives.
Recitation imparts resilience in trials, curbs greed, inspires reliable character traits (trustworthiness, prayer, charity), protects from stress, and deepens spiritual awareness.
70:5 "فَاصْبِرْ صَبْرًا جَمِيلًا"; 70:19–24 enumerating believer traits.
Cultivate noble behavior—prayer, generosity, honesty—especially under pressure, and neither be deceived by wealth nor overwhelmed by trials.
Al-Saboor, Al-Razzaq, Al-‘Alim
Judgment Day Patience Generosity Virtues Ascension
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