In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By those who drag forth to destruction,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
WaalnnaziAAati gharqan
By those [angels] who extract with violence
Chapter 79, 46 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By those who drag forth to destruction,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
WaalnnaziAAati gharqan
By those [angels] who extract with violence
By the meteors rushing,
والناشطات نشطا
Waalnnashitati nashtan
And [by] those who remove with ease
By the lone stars floating,
والسابحات سبحا
Waalssabihati sabhan
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
By the angels hastening,
فالسابقات سبقا
Faalssabiqati sabqan
And those who race each other in a race
And those who govern the event,
فالمدبرات أمرا
Faalmudabbirati amran
And those who arrange [each] matter,
On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
يوم ترجف الراجفة
Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
And the second followeth it,
تتبعها الرادفة
TatbaAAuha alrradifatu
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
On that day hearts beat painfully
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Quloobun yawmaithin wajifatun
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
While eyes are downcast
أبصارها خاشعة
Absaruha khashiAAatun
Their eyes humbled.
(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
Yaqooloona ainna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
Even after we are crumbled bones ?
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
Aitha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan
Even if we should be decayed bones?
They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
Surely it will need but one shout,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
Fainnama hiya zajratun wahidatun
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
And lo! they will be awakened.
فإذا هم بالساهرة
Faitha hum bialssahirati
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Hal ataka hadeethu moosa
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
And he showed him the tremendous token.
فأراه الآية الكبرى
Faarahu alayata alkubra
And he showed him the greatest sign,
But he denied and disobeyed,
فكذب وعصى
Fakaththaba waAAasa
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
Then turned he away in haste,
ثم أدبر يسعى
Thumma adbara yasAAa
Then he turned his back, striving.
Then gathered he and summoned
فحشر فنادى
Fahashara fanada
And he gathered [his people] and called out
And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
Faqala ana rabbukumu alaAAla
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
Faakhathahu Allahu nakala alakhirati waaloola
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built ?
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
رفع سمكها فسواها
RafaAAa samkaha fasawwaha
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
And after that He spread the earth,
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
Waalarda baAAda thalika dahaha
And after that He spread the earth.
And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
And He made fast the hills,
والجبال أرساها
Waaljibala arsaha
And the mountains He set firmly
A provision for you and for your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
MataAAan lakum walianAAamikum
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
But when the great disaster cometh,
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
Faitha jaati alttammatu alkubra
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
Yawma yatathakkaru alinsanu ma saAAa
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
Then, as for him who rebelled
فأما من طغى
Faamma man tagha
So as for he who transgressed
And chose the life of the world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
Waathara alhayata alddunya
And preferred the life of the world,
Lo! hell will be his home.
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Fainna aljaheema hiya almawa
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى
Waama man khafa maqama rabbihi wanaha alnnafsa AAani alhawa
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
Lo! the Garden will be his home.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Fainna aljannata hiya almawa
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
Yasaloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
Feema anta min thikraha
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
إلى ربك منتهاها
Ila rabbika muntahaha
To your Lord is its finality.
Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
Innama anta munthiru man yakhshaha
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.
كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحاها
Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha
It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.