ٱلْمَعَارِج : ١

  • سَأَلَ Asked
  • سَآئِلُۢ a questioner
  • بِعَذَابٖ for a punishment
  • وَاقِعٖ bound to happen
A supplicant asked for a punishment bound to happen1
Footnotes
1 - In the Hereafter. Disbelievers had challenged the Prophet (ﷺ) by invoking Allāh to bring on His punishment. See 8:32.
Al-Ma'aarij (the Ascending Stairways) Meccan, consisting of 44 verses A petitioner petitioned, a supplicator supplicated [for], an impending chastisement