Chapter 79, 46 verses
By those [angels] who extract with violence
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
And [by] those who remove with ease
والناشطات نشطا
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
والسابحات سبحا
And by those who float in space,
And those who race each other in a race
فالسابقات سبقا
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
And those who arrange [each] matter,
فالمدبرات أمرا
Then those who regulate the affair.
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
يوم ترجف الراجفة
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
تتبعها الرادفة
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
Their eyes humbled.
أبصارها خاشعة
Their eyes cast down.
They are [presently] saying, "Will 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 if we should be decayed bones?
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
What! when we are rotten bones?
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
But it shall be only a single cry,
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
فإذا هم بالساهرة
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
When his Lord called to 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 Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
And he showed him the greatest sign,
فأراه الآية الكبرى
So he showed him the mighty sign.
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
فكذب وعصى
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
Then he turned his back, striving.
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then he went back hastily.
And he gathered [his people] and called out
فحشر فنادى
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
رفع سمكها فسواها
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
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.
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
And the mountains He set firmly
والجبال أرساها
And the mountains, He made them firm,
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 predominating calamity comes;
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
So as for he who transgressed
فأما من طغى
Then as for him who is inordinate,
And preferred the life of the world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
And prefers the life of this world,
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
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
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
About what! You are one to remind of it.
To your Lord is its finality.
إلى ربك منتهاها
To your Lord is the goal of it.
You 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.
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 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.