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,
WaalnnaziAAati gharqan
And [by] those who remove with ease
By the meteors rushing,
Waalnnashitati nashtan
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
By the lone stars floating,
Waalssabihati sabhan
And those who race each other in a race
By the angels hastening,
Faalssabiqati sabqan
And those who arrange [each] matter,
And those who govern the event,
Faalmudabbirati amran
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
And the second followeth it,
TatbaAAuha alrradifatu
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
On that day hearts beat painfully
Quloobun yawmaithin wajifatun
Their eyes humbled.
While eyes are downcast
Absaruha khashiAAatun
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
Yaqooloona ainna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati
Even if we should be decayed bones?
Even after we are crumbled bones ?
Aitha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
Surely it will need but one shout,
Fainnama hiya zajratun wahidatun
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
And lo! they will be awakened.
Faitha hum bialssahirati
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?
Hal ataka hadeethu moosa
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?
Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka
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).
Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha
And he showed him the greatest sign,
And he showed him the tremendous token.
Faarahu alayata alkubra
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
But he denied and disobeyed,
Fakaththaba waAAasa
Then he turned his back, striving.
Then turned he away in haste,
Thumma adbara yasAAa
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Then gathered he and summoned
Fahashara fanada
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
Faqala ana rabbukumu alaAAla
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.
Faakhathahu Allahu nakala alakhirati waaloola
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha
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 ?
Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
RafaAAa samkaha fasawwaha
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha
And after that He spread the earth.
And after that He spread the earth,
Waalarda baAAda thalika dahaha
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha
And the mountains He set firmly
And He made fast the hills,
Waaljibala arsaha
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
A provision for you and for your cattle.
MataAAan lakum walianAAamikum
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
But when the great disaster cometh,
Faitha jaati alttammatu alkubra
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
Yawma yatathakkaru alinsanu ma saAAa
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara
So as for he who transgressed
Then, as for him who rebelled
Faamma man tagha
And preferred the life of the world,
And chose the life of the world,
Waathara alhayata alddunya
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
Lo! hell will be his home.
Fainna aljaheema hiya almawa
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,
Waama man khafa maqama rabbihi wanaha alnnafsa AAani alhawa
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
Lo! the Garden will be his home.
Fainna aljannata hiya almawa
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?
Yasaloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?
Feema anta min thikraha
To your Lord is its finality.
Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
Ila rabbika muntahaha
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.
Innama anta munthiru man yakhshaha
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.
Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha