Chapter 79, 46 verses
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
By those [angels] who extract with violence
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
والناشطات نشطا
And [by] those who remove with ease
And by those who float in space,
والسابحات سبحا
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
فالسابقات سبقا
And those who race each other in a race
Then those who regulate the affair.
فالمدبرات أمرا
And those who arrange [each] matter,
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
يوم ترجف الراجفة
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
تتبعها الرادفة
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
Their eyes cast down.
أبصارها خاشعة
Their eyes humbled.
They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
What! when we are rotten bones?
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
Even if we should be decayed bones?
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
But it shall be only a single cry,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
فإذا هم بالساهرة
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
So he showed him the mighty sign.
فأراه الآية الكبرى
And he showed him the greatest sign,
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
فكذب وعصى
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
Then he went back hastily.
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then he turned his back, striving.
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
فحشر فنادى
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
رفع سمكها فسواها
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
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
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
And the mountains, He made them firm,
والجبال أرساها
And the mountains He set firmly
A provision for you and for your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
Then as for him who is inordinate,
فأما من طغى
So as for he who transgressed
And prefers the life of this world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
And preferred the life of the world,
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
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 he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
About what! You are one to remind of it.
فيم أنت من ذكراها
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
To your Lord is the goal of it.
إلى ربك منتهاها
To your Lord is its finality.
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
You are only a warner for those who fear 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
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.