Chapter 79, 46 verses
By those [angels] who extract with violence
WaalnnaziAAati gharqan
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By those who drag forth to destruction,
And [by] those who remove with ease
Waalnnashitati nashtan
By the meteors rushing,
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
Waalssabihati sabhan
By the lone stars floating,
And those who race each other in a race
Faalssabiqati sabqan
By the angels hastening,
And those who arrange [each] matter,
Faalmudabbirati amran
And those who govern the event,
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu
On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
TatbaAAuha alrradifatu
And the second followeth it,
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
Quloobun yawmaithin wajifatun
On that day hearts beat painfully
Their eyes humbled.
Absaruha khashiAAatun
While eyes are downcast
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
Yaqooloona ainna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati
(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state
Even if we should be decayed bones?
Aitha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan
Even after we are crumbled bones ?
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun
They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
Fainnama hiya zajratun wahidatun
Surely it will need but one shout,
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
Faitha hum bialssahirati
And lo! they will be awakened.
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
Hal ataka hadeethu moosa
Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan
How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha
(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka
And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha
Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
And he showed him the greatest sign,
Faarahu alayata alkubra
And he showed him the tremendous token.
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
Fakaththaba waAAasa
But he denied and disobeyed,
Then he turned his back, striving.
Thumma adbara yasAAa
Then turned he away in haste,
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Fahashara fanada
Then gathered he and summoned
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
Faqala ana rabbukumu alaAAla
And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
Faakhathahu Allahu nakala alakhirati waaloola
So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha
Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha
Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built ?
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
RafaAAa samkaha fasawwaha
He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha
And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
And after that He spread the earth.
Waalarda baAAda thalika dahaha
And after that He spread the earth,
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha
And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
And the mountains He set firmly
Waaljibala arsaha
And He made fast the hills,
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
MataAAan lakum walianAAamikum
A provision for you and for your cattle.
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
Faitha jaati alttammatu alkubra
But when the great disaster cometh,
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
Yawma yatathakkaru alinsanu ma saAAa
The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara
And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
So as for he who transgressed
Faamma man tagha
Then, as for him who rebelled
And preferred the life of the world,
Waathara alhayata alddunya
And chose the life of the world,
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
Fainna aljaheema hiya almawa
Lo! hell will be his home.
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
Waama man khafa maqama rabbihi wanaha alnnafsa AAani alhawa
But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
Fainna aljannata hiya almawa
Lo! the Garden will be his home.
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
Yasaloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha
They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
Feema anta min thikraha
Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?
To your Lord is its finality.
Ila rabbika muntahaha
Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
Innama anta munthiru man yakhshaha
Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth 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.
Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha
On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.