Chapter 79, 46 verses
By those [angels] who extract with violence
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;
And [by] those who remove with ease
والناشطات نشطا
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 glide along (on errands of mercy),
And those who race each other in a race
فالسابقات سبقا
Then press forward as in a race,
And those who arrange [each] matter,
فالمدبرات أمرا
Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
يوم ترجف الراجفة
One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
تتبعها الرادفة
Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Hearts that Day will be in agitation;
Their eyes humbled.
أبصارها خاشعة
Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?
Even if we should be decayed bones?
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
"What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
فإذا هم بالساهرة
When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Has the story of Moses reached thee?
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: -
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
"Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
"And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)? -
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
"'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"
And he showed him the greatest sign,
فأراه الآية الكبرى
Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
فكذب وعصى
But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);
Then he turned his back, striving.
ثم أدبر يسعى
Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).
And he gathered [his people] and called out
فحشر فنادى
Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life.
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
رفع سمكها فسواها
On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).
And after that He spread the earth.
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;
And the mountains He set firmly
والجبال أرساها
And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
And Hell - Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, -
So as for he who transgressed
فأما من طغى
Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,
And preferred the life of the world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
And had preferred the life of this world,
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
The Abode will be Hell - Fire;
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 for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires,
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Their abode will be the Garden.
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
They ask thee about the Hour, - 'When will be its appointed time?
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?
To your Lord is its finality.
إلى ربك منتهاها
With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
Thou art but a Warner for such as 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
The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!