Chapter 79, 46 verses
By those [angels] who extract with violence
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By those who drag forth to destruction,
And [by] those who remove with ease
والناشطات نشطا
By the meteors rushing,
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
والسابحات سبحا
By the lone stars floating,
And those who race each other in a race
فالسابقات سبقا
By the angels hastening,
And those who arrange [each] matter,
فالمدبرات أمرا
And those who govern the event,
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
يوم ترجف الراجفة
On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
تتبعها الرادفة
And the second followeth it,
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
On that day hearts beat painfully
Their eyes humbled.
أبصارها خاشعة
While eyes are downcast
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state
Even if we should be decayed bones?
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
Even after we are crumbled bones ?
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
Surely it will need but one shout,
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
فإذا هم بالساهرة
And lo! they will be awakened.
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
And he showed him the greatest sign,
فأراه الآية الكبرى
And he showed him the tremendous token.
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
فكذب وعصى
But he denied and disobeyed,
Then he turned his back, striving.
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then turned he away in haste,
And he gathered [his people] and called out
فحشر فنادى
Then gathered he and summoned
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built ?
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
رفع سمكها فسواها
He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
And after that He spread the earth.
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
And after that He spread the earth,
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
And the mountains He set firmly
والجبال أرساها
And He made fast the hills,
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
A provision for you and for your cattle.
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
But when the great disaster cometh,
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
So as for he who transgressed
فأما من طغى
Then, as for him who rebelled
And preferred the life of the world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
And chose the life of the world,
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Lo! hell will be his home.
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى
But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Lo! the Garden will be his home.
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?
To your Lord is its finality.
إلى ربك منتهاها
Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.
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.
كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحاها
On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.