Chapter 77, 50 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والمرسلات عرفا
I swear by the emissary winds, sent one after another (for men's benefit),
By the raging hurricanes,
فالعاصفات عصفا
By the raging hurricanes,
By those which cause earth's vegetation to revive;
والناشرات نشرا
Which scatter clouds to their destined places,
By those who winnow with a winnowing,
فالفارقات فرقا
Then separate them one from another,
By those who bring down the Reminder,
فالملقيات ذكرا
Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation,
To excuse or to warn,
عذرا أو نذرا
To clear or to warn.
Surely that which ye are promised will befall.
إنما توعدون لواقع
Most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass.
So when the stars are put out,
فإذا النجوم طمست
So when the stars are made to lose their light,
And when the sky is riven asunder,
وإذا السماء فرجت
And when the heaven is rent asunder,
And when the mountains are blown away,
وإذا الجبال نسفت
And when the mountains are carried away as dust,
And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed -
وإذا الرسل أقتت
And when the apostles are gathered at their appointed time
For what day is the time appointed ?
لأي يوم أجلت
To what day is the doom fixed?
For the Day of Decision.
ليوم الفصل
To the day of decision.
And what will convey unto thee what the Day of Decision is! -
وما أدراك ما يوم الفصل
And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Destroyed We not the former folk,
ألم نهلك الأولين
Did We not destroy the former generations?
Then caused the latter folk to follow after ?
ثم نتبعهم الآخرين
Then did We follow them up with later ones.
Thus deal We ever with the guilty.
كذلك نفعل بالمجرمين
Even thus shall We deal with the guilty.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Did We not create you from a base fluid
ألم نخلقكم من ماء مهين
Did We not create you from contemptible water?
Which We laid up in a safe abode
فجعلناه في قرار مكين
Then We placed it in a secure resting - place,
For a known term ?
إلى قدر معلوم
Till an appointed term,
Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging!
فقدرنا فنعم القادرون
So We proportion it - - how well are We at proportioning (things).
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Have We not made the earth a receptacle
ألم نجعل الأرض كفاتا
Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,
Both for the living and the dead,
أحياء وأمواتا
The living and the dead,
And placed therein high mountains and given you to drink sweet water therein ?
وجعلنا فيها رواسي شامخات وأسقيناكم ماء فراتا
And made therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink of sweet water?
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
(It will be said unto them:) Depart unto that (doom) which ye used to deny;
انطلقوا إلى ما كنتم به تكذبون
Walk on to that which you called a lie.
Depart unto the shadow falling threefold,
انطلقوا إلى ظل ذي ثلاث شعب
Walk on to the covering having three branches,
(Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.
لا ظليل ولا يغني من اللهب
Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.
Lo! it throweth up sparks like the castles,
إنها ترمي بشرر كالقصر
Surely it sends up sparks like palaces,
(Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue.
كأنه جمالت صفر
As if they were tawny camels.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
This is a day wherein they speak not,
هذا يوم لا ينطقون
This is the day on which they shall not speak,
Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.
ولا يؤذن لهم فيعتذرون
And permission shall not be given to them so that they should offer excuses.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
This is the Day of Decision, We have brought you and the men of old together.
هذا يوم الفصل ۖ جمعناكم والأولين
This is the day of decision: We have gathered you and those of yore.
If now ye have any wit, outwit Me.
فإن كان لكم كيد فكيدون
So if you have a plan, plan against Me (now).
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Lo! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains,
إن المتقين في ظلال وعيون
Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be amid shades and fountains,
And fruits such as they desire.
وفواكه مما يشتهون
And fruits such as they desire.
(Unto them it is said:) Eat, drink and welcome, O ye blessed, in return for what ye did.
كلوا واشربوا هنيئا بما كنتم تعملون
Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.
Thus do We reward the good.
إنا كذلك نجزي المحسنين
Surely thus do We reward the doers of good.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
Eat and take your ease (on earth) a little. Lo! ye are guilty.
كلوا وتمتعوا قليلا إنكم مجرمون
Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; surely you are guilty.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
When it is said unto them: Bow down, they bow not down!
وإذا قيل لهم اركعوا لا يركعون
And where it is said to them: Bow down, they do not bow down.
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!
ويل يومئذ للمكذبين
Woe on that day to the rejecters.
In what statement, after this, will they believe ?
فبأي حديث بعده يؤمنون
In what announcement, then, after it, will they believe?