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,
By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;
And [by] those who remove with ease
By the meteors rushing,
By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
By the lone stars floating,
And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),
And those who race each other in a race
By the angels hastening,
Then press forward as in a race,
And those who arrange [each] matter,
And those who govern the event,
Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
And the second followeth it,
Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
On that day hearts beat painfully
Hearts that Day will be in agitation;
Their eyes humbled.
While eyes are downcast
Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.
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
They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?
Even if we should be decayed bones?
Even after we are crumbled bones ?
"What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
Surely it will need but one shout,
But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
And lo! they will be awakened.
When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?
Has the story of Moses reached thee?
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: -
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
"Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?
"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]?'"
Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
"'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"
And he showed him the greatest sign,
And he showed him the tremendous token.
Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
But he denied and disobeyed,
But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);
Then he turned his back, striving.
Then turned he away in haste,
Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Then gathered he and summoned
Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".
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.
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].
Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).
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 ?
What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).
And after that He spread the earth.
And after that He spread the earth,
And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;
And the mountains He set firmly
And He made fast the hills,
And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
A provision for you and for your cattle.
For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
But when the great disaster cometh,
Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
And Hell - Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, -
So as for he who transgressed
Then, as for him who rebelled
Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,
And preferred the life of the world,
And chose the life of the world,
And had preferred the life of this world,
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
Lo! hell will be his home.
The Abode will be Hell - Fire;
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,
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.
Lo! the Garden will be his home.
Their abode will be the Garden.
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?
They ask thee about the Hour, - 'When will be its appointed time?
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?
To your Lord is its finality.
Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.
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.
On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.
The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!