Al Nazaat

1 By those [angels] who extract with violence

1 I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,

1 By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;

2 And [by] those who remove with ease

2 And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,

2 By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);

3 And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming

3 And by those who float in space,

3 And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),

4 And those who race each other in a race

4 Then those who are foremost going ahead,

4 Then press forward as in a race,

5 And those who arrange [each] matter,

5 Then those who regulate the affair.

5 Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),

6 On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],

6 The day on which the quaking one shall quake,

6 One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,

7 There will follow it the subsequent [one].

7 What must happen afterwards shall follow it.

7 Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):

8 Hearts, that Day, will tremble,

8 Hearts on that day shall palpitate,

8 Hearts that Day will be in agitation;

9 Their eyes humbled.

9 Their eyes cast down.

9 Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.

10 They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?

10 They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?

10 They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?

11 Even if we should be decayed bones?

11 What! when we are rotten bones?

11 "What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"

12 They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."

12 They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.

12 They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"

13 Indeed, it will be but one shout,

13 But it shall be only a single cry,

13 But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,

14 And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.

14 When lo! they shall be wakeful.

14 When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).

15 Has there reached you the story of Moses? -

15 Has not there come to you the story of Musa?

15 Has the story of Moses reached thee?

16 When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,

16 When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,

16 Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: -

17 "Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

17 Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.

17 "Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:

18 And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself

18 Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:

18 "And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)? -

19 And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"

19 And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.

19 "'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"

20 And he showed him the greatest sign,

20 So he showed him the mighty sign.

20 Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.

21 But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.

21 But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.

21 But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);

22 Then he turned his back, striving.

22 Then he went back hastily.

22 Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).

23 And he gathered [his people] and called out

23 Then he gathered (men) and called out.

23 Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,

24 And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

24 Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.

24 Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".

25 So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].

25 So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.

25 But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life.

26 Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].

26 Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.

26 Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).

27 Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.

27 Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.

27 What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:

28 He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

28 He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.

28 On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.

29 And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

29 And He made dark its night and brought out its light.

29 Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).

30 And after that He spread the earth.

30 And the earth, He expanded it after that.

30 And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);

31 He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

31 He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.

31 He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;

32 And the mountains He set firmly

32 And the mountains, He made them firm,

32 And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -

33 As provision for you and your grazing livestock.

33 A provision for you and for your cattle.

33 For use and convenience to you and your cattle.

34 But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

34 But when the great predominating calamity comes;

34 Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -

35 The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

35 The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,

35 The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,

36 And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

36 And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees

36 And Hell - Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, -

37 So as for he who transgressed

37 Then as for him who is inordinate,

37 Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,

38 And preferred the life of the world,

38 And prefers the life of this world,

38 And had preferred the life of this world,

39 Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

39 Then surely the hell, that is the abode.

39 The Abode will be Hell - Fire;

40 But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,

40 And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,

40 And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires,

41 Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.

41 Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.

41 Their abode will be the Garden.

42 They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?

42 They ask you about the hour, when it will come.

42 They ask thee about the Hour, - 'When will be its appointed time?

43 In what [position] are you that you should mention it?

43 About what! You are one to remind of it.

43 Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?

44 To your Lord is its finality.

44 To your Lord is the goal of it.

44 With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.

45 You are only a warner for those who fear it.

45 You are only a warner to him who would fear it.

45 Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it.

46 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.

46 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.

46 The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!