Al Nazaat

Shakir

1 I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,

Yusuf Ali

1 By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;

Shakir

2 And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,

Yusuf Ali

2 By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);

Shakir

3 And by those who float in space,

Yusuf Ali

3 And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),

Shakir

4 Then those who are foremost going ahead,

Yusuf Ali

4 Then press forward as in a race,

Shakir

5 Then those who regulate the affair.

Yusuf Ali

5 Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),

Shakir

6 The day on which the quaking one shall quake,

Yusuf Ali

6 One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,

Shakir

7 What must happen afterwards shall follow it.

Yusuf Ali

7 Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):

Shakir

8 Hearts on that day shall palpitate,

Yusuf Ali

8 Hearts that Day will be in agitation;

Shakir

9 Their eyes cast down.

Yusuf Ali

9 Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.

Shakir

10 They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?

Yusuf Ali

10 They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?

Shakir

11 What! when we are rotten bones?

Yusuf Ali

11 "What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"

Shakir

12 They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.

Yusuf Ali

12 They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"

Shakir

13 But it shall be only a single cry,

Yusuf Ali

13 But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,

Shakir

14 When lo! they shall be wakeful.

Yusuf Ali

14 When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).

Shakir

15 Has not there come to you the story of Musa?

Yusuf Ali

15 Has the story of Moses reached thee?

Shakir

16 When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,

Yusuf Ali

16 Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: -

Shakir

17 Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.

Yusuf Ali

17 "Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:

Shakir

18 Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:

Yusuf Ali

18 "And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)? -

Shakir

19 And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.

Yusuf Ali

19 "'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"

Shakir

20 So he showed him the mighty sign.

Yusuf Ali

20 Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.

Shakir

21 But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.

Yusuf Ali

21 But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);

Shakir

22 Then he went back hastily.

Yusuf Ali

22 Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).

Shakir

23 Then he gathered (men) and called out.

Yusuf Ali

23 Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,

Shakir

24 Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.

Yusuf Ali

24 Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".

Shakir

25 So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.

Yusuf Ali

25 But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life.

Shakir

26 Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.

Yusuf Ali

26 Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).

Shakir

27 Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.

Yusuf Ali

27 What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:

Shakir

28 He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.

Yusuf Ali

28 On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.

Shakir

29 And He made dark its night and brought out its light.

Yusuf Ali

29 Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).

Shakir

30 And the earth, He expanded it after that.

Yusuf Ali

30 And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);

Shakir

31 He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.

Yusuf Ali

31 He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;

Shakir

32 And the mountains, He made them firm,

Yusuf Ali

32 And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -

Shakir

33 A provision for you and for your cattle.

Yusuf Ali

33 For use and convenience to you and your cattle.

Shakir

34 But when the great predominating calamity comes;

Yusuf Ali

34 Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -

Shakir

35 The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,

Yusuf Ali

35 The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,

Shakir

36 And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees

Yusuf Ali

36 And Hell - Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, -

Shakir

37 Then as for him who is inordinate,

Yusuf Ali

37 Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,

Shakir

38 And prefers the life of this world,

Yusuf Ali

38 And had preferred the life of this world,

Shakir

39 Then surely the hell, that is the abode.

Yusuf Ali

39 The Abode will be Hell - Fire;

Shakir

40 And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,

Yusuf Ali

40 And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires,

Shakir

41 Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.

Yusuf Ali

41 Their abode will be the Garden.

Shakir

42 They ask you about the hour, when it will come.

Yusuf Ali

42 They ask thee about the Hour, - 'When will be its appointed time?

Shakir

43 About what! You are one to remind of it.

Yusuf Ali

43 Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?

Shakir

44 To your Lord is the goal of it.

Yusuf Ali

44 With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.

Shakir

45 You are only a warner to him who would fear it.

Yusuf Ali

45 Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it.

Shakir

46 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.

Yusuf Ali

46 The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!