Chapter 79, 46 verses
WaalnnaziAAati gharqan
By those [angels] who extract with violence
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
Waalnnashitati nashtan
And [by] those who remove with ease
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
Waalssabihati sabhan
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
And by those who float in space,
Faalssabiqati sabqan
And those who race each other in a race
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
Faalmudabbirati amran
And those who arrange [each] matter,
Then those who regulate the affair.
Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
TatbaAAuha alrradifatu
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
Quloobun yawmaithin wajifatun
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
Absaruha khashiAAatun
Their eyes humbled.
Their eyes cast down.
Yaqooloona ainna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
Aitha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan
Even if we should be decayed bones?
What! when we are rotten bones?
Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
Fainnama hiya zajratun wahidatun
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
But it shall be only a single cry,
Faitha hum bialssahirati
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
Hal ataka hadeethu moosa
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
Faarahu alayata alkubra
And he showed him the greatest sign,
So he showed him the mighty sign.
Fakaththaba waAAasa
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
Thumma adbara yasAAa
Then he turned his back, striving.
Then he went back hastily.
Fahashara fanada
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
Faqala ana rabbukumu alaAAla
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
Faakhathahu Allahu nakala alakhirati waaloola
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
RafaAAa samkaha fasawwaha
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
Waalarda baAAda thalika dahaha
And after that He spread the earth.
And the earth, He expanded it after that.
Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
Waaljibala arsaha
And the mountains He set firmly
And the mountains, He made them firm,
MataAAan lakum walianAAamikum
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
A provision for you and for your cattle.
Faitha jaati alttammatu alkubra
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
Yawma yatathakkaru alinsanu ma saAAa
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
Faamma man tagha
So as for he who transgressed
Then as for him who is inordinate,
Waathara alhayata alddunya
And preferred the life of the world,
And prefers the life of this world,
Fainna aljaheema hiya almawa
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
Waama man khafa maqama rabbihi wanaha alnnafsa AAani alhawa
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
Fainna aljannata hiya almawa
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
Yasaloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
Feema anta min thikraha
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
About what! You are one to remind of it.
Ila rabbika muntahaha
To your Lord is its finality.
To your Lord is the goal of it.
Innama anta munthiru man yakhshaha
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha
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.
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.