Surah 70
Al-Ma'aarij
The Ascending Stairways
المعارج
Editorial study · not independently reviewed.
From a layerPart supplied, part absentAbsent
Name and conventional translation
Part absent
Arabic name
المعارج
Source fact
Transliteration
Al-Ma'aarij
Source fact
English name
The Ascending Stairways
Source fact as Tanzil metadata gives it; Tanzil names no translator for it
Verse count and position
From a layer
Verses
44
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Words
217
Derived link whitespace-separated tokens of the Uthmani text, the rule the morphology layer uses
Position in the mushaf order
70 of 114
Source fact
Position in a revelation ordering
79 of 114
Revelation order as encoded by the Tanzil metadata · Tanzil publishes an "order" value for each surah and documents the field only as "revelation order". It does not name which ordering it encodes, cite a scholar, or reference an edition. We have therefore not established whose ordering this is, and we do not name one. The major orderings disagree about dozens of surahs, so naming the likeliest candidate would be a guess presented as a citation.
Source fact
Place of revelation, as Tanzil classifies it
Meccan
Source fact Tanzil's classification, carried without a named authority
Juzʾ
Within juzʾ 29
Source fact juzʾ start verses from the banked Tanzil metadata file, digest-checked against its source record
Opening formula (basmala) in this edition
stands before verse 1 and is not numbered
Derived link
What the surah says of itself
Absent
Major movements and sections
Part absent
Rukūʿ divisions
| Rukūʿ | Verses | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70:1-35 | سَأَلَ سَآئِلٌۢ بِعَذَابٍ وَاقِعٍ |
| 2 | 70:36-44 | فَمَالِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قِبَلَكَ … |
Source fact rukūʿ start verses from the banked Tanzil metadata file, digest-checked against its source record; each runs to the verse before the next; opening words are the first 4 words of its first verse
Repeated words and themes
Part absent
Verses repeated word for word
No verse of this surah repeats another word for word.
Derived link verses of this surah whose Uthmani text is byte-identical to another verse of it
Phrases repeated word for word
No phrase qualifies under the rule below.
Derived link runs of at least 3 consecutive words, inside one verse, occurring at least 3 times in this surah, kept only where no longer run has the same occurrences; a run that is only ever a whole repeated verse is listed above instead
Roots carried by the most words
217 words75 with one root, counted17 conflicting roots31 no root recorded94 not analysed
| Root | Words, at least | Verses | Forms in this surah |
|---|---|---|---|
| ع.ذ.ب | 4 | 4 | عَذَابِ بِعَذَابٍ عَذَابَ |
| ي.و.م | 4 | 4 | يَوْمَ بِيَوْمِ يَوْمٍ |
| ك.و.ن | 3 | 3 | تَكُونُ كَانَ وَتَكُونُ |
| ج.م.ع | 2 | 2 | جَمِيعًا وَجَمَعَ |
| ج.ن.ن | 2 | 2 | جَنَّةَ جَنَّٰتٍ |
| ح.ف.ظ | 2 | 2 | حَٰفِظُونَ يُحَافِظُونَ |
| ر.ب.ب | 2 | 2 | بِرَبِّ رَبِّهِم |
| غ.ي.ر | 2 | 2 | غَيْرُ |
| م.س.س | 2 | 2 | مَسَّهُ |
| و.ع.د | 2 | 2 | يُوعَدُونَ |
| ح.م.م | 2 | 1 | حَمِيمًا حَمِيمٌ |
Derived link a word counts toward a root only where every analysis Camel Morph kept for it names that one root and no analysis records none; words with no analysis, no root or conflicting roots are not counted anywhere. Roots on at least 2 words.
Not supplied
Words the analyser did not read
94 of this surah's 217 words have no analysis, and a further 48 have no single root, so the root counts are minimums. Camel Morph MSA is a Modern Standard Arabic analyser meeting Qur'anic Arabic.
People and events named
Absent
Common claims the text does not itself establish
Absent
Links to related topical studies
From a layer
Current studies citing a verse of this surah
4 current studies
Money, work & economic ethics2
Resurrection, judgment, paradise & hell1
Derived link every study whose current signature cites at least one verse of this surah, grouped by its /studies theme (largest first, ties by name, no theme last) and ordered by first verse cited. A citation is not a statement that the study is about this surah.
Source and review status
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Sources this page draws on
| Source | Licence | Attribution notice |
|---|---|---|
| Tanzil Qur'an text (Uthmani) Uthmani, Version 1.1 · cleared | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 | Qur'anic text from the Tanzil Project. Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Source: tanzil.net · Updates: tanzil.net/updates/ https://tanzil.net/updates/ |
| Tanzil Qur'an metadata quran-data.xml v1.0 · cleared | Creative Commons Attribution — version not specified by the source | Surah metadata from Tanzil Qur'an metadata (quran-data.xml, version 1.0), Tanzil Project, tanzil.net. (C) 2008-2009 Tanzil.info. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution; the source does not state a version. Values are reproduced unchanged; this site selects and arranges them, and derives verse ranges from the division start points. https://tanzil.net/res/text/metadata/quran-data.xml |
| Camel Morph MSA v1.0, LREC-COLING 2024 release · cleared | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | Morphological analyses from Camel Morph MSA (LREC-COLING 2024 release) by Christian Khairallah, Salam Khalifa, Reham Marzouk, Mayar Mohamadein Nassar and Nizar Habash, CAMeL Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi (Khairallah et al., 2024), https://github.com/CAMeL-Lab/camel_morph. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Modified: this site runs the analyser over its Qur'anic text, keeps only analyses whose vocalisation matches the text, removes duplicates and counts the result. https://github.com/CAMeL-Lab/camel_morph |
Source fact
Verse restatements signed for this surah
0
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Signed introduction to this surah
Forty-four verses answering a questioner who asks for the punishment to be brought on, with a day whose measure is fifty thousand years, and with a description of man as anxious — distressed when evil touches him and withholding when good does — from which those who pray are excepted.
AALAMIN Editor · signed 2026-08-29 · Editorial
Editorial