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