Chapter 79, 46 verses
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);
والناشطات نشطا
And by those who float in space,
And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),
والسابحات سبحا
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
Then press forward as in a race,
فالسابقات سبقا
Then those who regulate the affair.
Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),
فالمدبرات أمرا
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,
يوم ترجف الراجفة
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):
تتبعها الرادفة
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
Hearts that Day will be in agitation;
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Their eyes cast down.
Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.
أبصارها خاشعة
They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
What! when we are rotten bones?
"What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
But it shall be only a single cry,
But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).
فإذا هم بالساهرة
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
Has the story of Moses reached thee?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: -
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
"Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
"And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)? -
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
"'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
So he showed him the mighty sign.
Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.
فأراه الآية الكبرى
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);
فكذب وعصى
Then he went back hastily.
Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,
فحشر فنادى
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life.
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.
رفع سمكها فسواها
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
And the earth, He expanded it after that.
And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
And the mountains, He made them firm,
And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -
والجبال أرساها
A provision for you and for your cattle.
For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
And Hell - Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, -
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
Then as for him who is inordinate,
Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,
فأما من طغى
And prefers the life of this world,
And had preferred the life of this world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
The Abode will be Hell - Fire;
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires,
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
Their abode will be the Garden.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
They ask thee about the Hour, - 'When will be its appointed time?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
About what! You are one to remind of it.
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
To your Lord is the goal of it.
With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.
إلى ربك منتهاها
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
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.
The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!
كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحاها