Chapter 79, 46 verses
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By those who drag forth to destruction,
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
والناشطات نشطا
By the meteors rushing,
And by those who float in space,
والسابحات سبحا
By the lone stars floating,
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
فالسابقات سبقا
By the angels hastening,
Then those who regulate the affair.
فالمدبرات أمرا
And those who govern the event,
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
يوم ترجف الراجفة
On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
تتبعها الرادفة
And the second followeth it,
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
On that day hearts beat painfully
Their eyes cast down.
أبصارها خاشعة
While eyes are downcast
They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state
What! when we are rotten bones?
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
Even after we are crumbled bones ?
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
But it shall be only a single cry,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
Surely it will need but one shout,
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
فإذا هم بالساهرة
And lo! they will be awakened.
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
So he showed him the mighty sign.
فأراه الآية الكبرى
And he showed him the tremendous token.
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
فكذب وعصى
But he denied and disobeyed,
Then he went back hastily.
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then turned he away in haste,
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
فحشر فنادى
Then gathered he and summoned
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built ?
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
رفع سمكها فسواها
He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
And the earth, He expanded it after that.
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
And after that He spread the earth,
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
And the mountains, He made them firm,
والجبال أرساها
And He made fast the hills,
A provision for you and for your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
A provision for you and for your cattle.
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
But when the great disaster cometh,
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
Then as for him who is inordinate,
فأما من طغى
Then, as for him who rebelled
And prefers the life of this world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
And chose the life of the world,
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Lo! hell will be his home.
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى
But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Lo! the Garden will be his home.
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?
About what! You are one to remind of it.
فيم أنت من ذكراها
Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?
To your Lord is the goal of it.
إلى ربك منتهاها
Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.
On the day that they see it, it will be as though they had not tarried but the latter part of a day or the early part of it.
كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحاها
On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.