Al Nazaat

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

1 By those [angels] who extract with violence

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

2 And [by] those who remove with ease

3 And by those who float in space,

3 And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming

4 Then those who are foremost going ahead,

4 And those who race each other in a race

5 Then those who regulate the affair.

5 And those who arrange [each] matter,

6 The day on which the quaking one shall quake,

6 On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],

7 What must happen afterwards shall follow it.

7 There will follow it the subsequent [one].

8 Hearts on that day shall palpitate,

8 Hearts, that Day, will tremble,

9 Their eyes cast down.

9 Their eyes humbled.

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

10 They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?

11 What! when we are rotten bones?

11 Even if we should be decayed bones?

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

12 They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."

13 But it shall be only a single cry,

13 Indeed, it will be but one shout,

14 When lo! they shall be wakeful.

14 And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.

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

15 Has there reached you the story of Moses? -

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

16 When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,

17 Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.

17 "Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

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

18 And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself

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

19 And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"

20 So he showed him the mighty sign.

20 And he showed him the greatest sign,

21 But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.

21 But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.

22 Then he went back hastily.

22 Then he turned his back, striving.

23 Then he gathered (men) and called out.

23 And he gathered [his people] and called out

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

24 And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

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

25 So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].

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

26 Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].

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

27 Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.

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

28 He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

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

29 And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

30 And the earth, He expanded it after that.

30 And after that He spread the earth.

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

31 He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

32 And the mountains, He made them firm,

32 And the mountains He set firmly

33 A provision for you and for your cattle.

33 As provision for you and your grazing livestock.

34 But when the great predominating calamity comes;

34 But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

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

35 The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

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

36 And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

37 Then as for him who is inordinate,

37 So as for he who transgressed

38 And prefers the life of this world,

38 And preferred the life of the world,

39 Then surely the hell, that is the abode.

39 Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

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

40 But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,

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

41 Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.

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

42 They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?

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

43 In what [position] are you that you should mention it?

44 To your Lord is the goal of it.

44 To your Lord is its finality.

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

45 You are only a warner for those who fear it.

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.

46 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.