Sura 70: Al-Ma'arij map

Surah maps — Sura 70: Al-Ma'arij

1. The Mocking Question and Beautiful Patience · 1–7
   Answering the mocker who demanded the punishment: it will certainly befall, with no repeller; the angels ascend on a Day of fifty thousand years; and the command to beautiful patience.
2. The Day's Terrors and the Blaze · 8–18
   The Day portrayed: sky like molten metal, mountains like carded wool, the criminal wishing to ransom himself with his kin, and the Blaze calling those who turned away.
   • Sky and Mountains Transformed · 8–10
   • The Criminal's Wish to Ransom Himself · 11–14
   • The Blaze · 15–18
3. Man's Impatience and the Traits of the Prayerful · 19–35
   Man's ingrained nature: fretful, panicking at harm, withholding at good — except the prayerful, with their traits: constant prayer, charity, belief in the Day, guarding chastity and trusts.
   • Man's Fretfulness · 19–21
   • Traits of the Prayerful · 22–35
4. Rebuking the Deniers and Leaving Them · 36–44
   Rebuke of the deniers' haste and their hope of Paradise; an oath on Allah's power to replace them; then the command to leave them until their promised Day.
   • Their Hope of Paradise Denied · 36–41
   • Leave Them: The Scene of Emergence · 42–44