Chapter 79, 46 verses
By those [angels] who extract with violence
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا
And [by] those who remove with ease
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
And by those who float in space,
وَالسَّابِحَاتِ سَبْحًا
And those who race each other in a race
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
فَالسَّابِقَاتِ سَبْقًا
And those who arrange [each] matter,
Then those who regulate the affair.
فَالْمُدَبِّرَاتِ أَمْرًا
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ الرَّاجِفَةُ
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
تَتْبَعُهَا الرَّادِفَةُ
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاجِفَةٌ
Their eyes humbled.
Their eyes cast down.
أَبْصَارُهَا خَاشِعَةٌ
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
يَقُولُونَ أَإِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِي الْحَافِرَةِ
Even if we should be decayed bones?
What! when we are rotten bones?
أَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا نَّخِرَةً
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
قَالُوا تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
But it shall be only a single cry,
فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
فَإِذَا هُم بِالسَّاهِرَةِ
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰ
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
إِذْ نَادَاهُ رَبُّهُ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
اذْهَبْ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ طَغَىٰ
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
فَقُلْ هَل لَّكَ إِلَىٰ أَن تَزَكَّىٰ
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
وَأَهْدِيَكَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَتَخْشَىٰ
And he showed him the greatest sign,
So he showed him the mighty sign.
فَأَرَاهُ الْآيَةَ الْكُبْرَىٰ
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ
Then he turned his back, striving.
Then he went back hastily.
ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَىٰ
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَىٰ
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَىٰ
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
فَأَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ نَكَالَ الْآخِرَةِ وَالْأُولَىٰ
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّمَن يَخْشَىٰ
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
أَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ السَّمَاءُ ۚ بَنَاهَا
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّاهَا
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَاهَا
And after that He spread the earth.
And the earth, He expanded it after that.
وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَاهَا
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءَهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا
And the mountains He set firmly
And the mountains, He made them firm,
وَالْجِبَالَ أَرْسَاهَا
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
A provision for you and for your cattle.
مَتَاعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الطَّامَّةُ الْكُبْرَىٰ
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ مَا سَعَىٰ
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
وَبُرِّزَتِ الْجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَىٰ
So as for he who transgressed
Then as for him who is inordinate,
فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ
And preferred the life of the world,
And prefers the life of this world,
وَآثَرَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
About what! You are one to remind of it.
فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَاهَا
To your Lord is its finality.
To your Lord is the goal of it.
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَاهَا
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُنذِرُ مَن يَخْشَاهَا
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 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.
كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا