Chapter 79, 46 verses
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. By those (angels) who pull out (the souls of the disbelievers and the wicked) with great violence.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
By those (angels) who gently take out (the souls of the believers).
والناشطات نشطا
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
And by those that swim along (i.e. angels or planets in their orbits).
والسابحات سبحا
And by those who float in space,
And by those that press forward as in a race (i.e. the angels or stars or the horses).
فالسابقات سبقا
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
And by those angels who arrange to do the Commands of their Lord, (so verily, you disbelievers will be called to account).
فالمدبرات أمرا
Then those who regulate the affair.
On the Day (when the first blowing of the Trumpet is blown), the earth and the mountains will shake violently (and everybody will die).
يوم ترجف الراجفة
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
The second blowing of the Trumpet follows it (and everybody will be resurrected).
تتبعها الرادفة
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
(Some) hearts that Day will shake with fear and anxiety.
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
Their eyes will be downcast.
أبصارها خاشعة
Their eyes cast down.
They say: "Shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state of life?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
"Even after we are crumbled bones?"
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
What! when we are rotten bones?
They say: "It would in that case, be a return with loss!"
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
But it will be only a single Zajrah [shout (i.e., the second blowing of the Trumpet)], (See Verse 37:19).
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
But it shall be only a single cry,
When behold, they find themselves on the surface of the earth alive after their death,
فإذا هم بالساهرة
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
Has there come to you the story of Musa (Moses)?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
When his Lord called him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
Go to Fir'aun (Pharaoh); verily he has transgressed all bounds (in crimes, sins, polytheism, disbelief).
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
And say to him: "Would you purify yourself (from the sin of disbelief by becoming a believer)?"
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
"And that I guide you to your Lord, so you should fear Him?"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
Then [Musa (Moses)] showed him the great sign (miracles).
فأراه الآية الكبرى
So he showed him the mighty sign.
But [Fir'aun (Pharaoh)] belied and disobeyed.
فكذب وعصى
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
Then he turned his back, striving (against Allah).
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then he went back hastily.
Then he gathered (his people) and cried aloud,
فحشر فنادى
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
Saying: "I am your lord, most high."
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
So Allah, seized him with punishment for his last and first transgression. [Tafsir At-Tabari]
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
Verily, in this is an instructive admonition for whosoever fears Allah.
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
Are you more difficult to create or is the heaven that He constructed?
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
He raised its height, and has perfected it.
رفع سمكها فسواها
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
Its night He covers with darkness and its forenoon He brings out (with light)
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
And after that He spread the earth,
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
And the earth, He expanded it after that.
And brought forth therefrom its water and its pasture.
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
And the mountains He has fixed firmly,
والجبال أرساها
And the mountains, He made them firm,
(To be) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
A provision for you and for your cattle.
But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense) -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
The Day when man shall remember what he strove for.
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
And Hell-fire shall be made apparent in full view for (every) one who sees.
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
Then for him who transgressed all bounds, (in disbelief, oppression and evil deeds of disobedience to Allah).
فأما من طغى
Then as for him who is inordinate,
And preferred the life of this world (by following his evil desires and lusts),
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
And prefers the life of this world,
Verily, his abode will be Hell-fire;
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires and lusts.
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
Verily, Paradise will be his abode.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
They ask you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) about the Hour - when will be its appointed time?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
You have no knowledge to say anything about it.
فيم أنت من ذكراها
About what! You are one to remind of it.
To your Lord belongs (the knowledge of) the term thereof?
إلى ربك منتهاها
To your Lord is the goal of it.
You (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) are only a warner for those who fear it,
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning.
كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحاها
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.