Chapter 79, 46 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By those who drag forth to destruction,
By those [angels] who extract with violence
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
By the meteors rushing,
And [by] those who remove with ease
والناشطات نشطا
By the lone stars floating,
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
والسابحات سبحا
By the angels hastening,
And those who race each other in a race
فالسابقات سبقا
And those who govern the event,
And those who arrange [each] matter,
فالمدبرات أمرا
On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
يوم ترجف الراجفة
And the second followeth it,
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
تتبعها الرادفة
On that day hearts beat painfully
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
While eyes are downcast
Their eyes humbled.
أبصارها خاشعة
(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
Even after we are crumbled bones ?
Even if we should be decayed bones?
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
Surely it will need but one shout,
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
And lo! they will be awakened.
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
فإذا هم بالساهرة
Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
هل أتاك حديث موسى
How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
And he showed him the tremendous token.
And he showed him the greatest sign,
فأراه الآية الكبرى
But he denied and disobeyed,
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
فكذب وعصى
Then turned he away in haste,
Then he turned his back, striving.
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then gathered he and summoned
And he gathered [his people] and called out
فحشر فنادى
And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built ?
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
رفع سمكها فسواها
And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
And after that He spread the earth,
And after that He spread the earth.
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
And He made fast the hills,
And the mountains He set firmly
والجبال أرساها
A provision for you and for your cattle.
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
But when the great disaster cometh,
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
Then, as for him who rebelled
So as for he who transgressed
فأما من طغى
And chose the life of the world,
And preferred the life of the world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
Lo! hell will be his home.
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى
Lo! the Garden will be his home.
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
To your Lord is its finality.
إلى ربك منتهاها
Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.
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.
كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحاها