Chapter 79, 46 verses
By those [angels] who extract with violence
By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
WaalnnaziAAati gharqan
And [by] those who remove with ease
By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);
والناشطات نشطا
Waalnnashitati nashtan
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),
والسابحات سبحا
Waalssabihati sabhan
And those who race each other in a race
Then press forward as in a race,
فالسابقات سبقا
Faalssabiqati sabqan
And those who arrange [each] matter,
Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),
فالمدبرات أمرا
Faalmudabbirati amran
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,
يوم ترجف الراجفة
Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):
تتبعها الرادفة
TatbaAAuha alrradifatu
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
Hearts that Day will be in agitation;
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Quloobun yawmaithin wajifatun
Their eyes humbled.
Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.
أبصارها خاشعة
Absaruha khashiAAatun
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
Yaqooloona ainna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati
Even if we should be decayed bones?
"What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
Aitha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
Fainnama hiya zajratun wahidatun
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).
فإذا هم بالساهرة
Faitha hum bialssahirati
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
Has the story of Moses reached thee?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Hal ataka hadeethu moosa
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: -
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
"Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
"And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)? -
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
"'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha
And he showed him the greatest sign,
Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.
فأراه الآية الكبرى
Faarahu alayata alkubra
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);
فكذب وعصى
Fakaththaba waAAasa
Then he turned his back, striving.
Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).
ثم أدبر يسعى
Thumma adbara yasAAa
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,
فحشر فنادى
Fahashara fanada
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
Faqala ana rabbukumu alaAAla
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life.
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
Faakhathahu Allahu nakala alakhirati waaloola
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.
رفع سمكها فسواها
RafaAAa samkaha fasawwaha
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha
And after that He spread the earth.
And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
Waalarda baAAda thalika dahaha
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha
And the mountains He set firmly
And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -
والجبال أرساها
Waaljibala arsaha
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
MataAAan lakum walianAAamikum
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
Faitha jaati alttammatu alkubra
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
Yawma yatathakkaru alinsanu ma saAAa
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
And Hell - Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, -
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara
So as for he who transgressed
Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,
فأما من طغى
Faamma man tagha
And preferred the life of the world,
And had preferred the life of this world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
Waathara alhayata alddunya
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
The Abode will be Hell - Fire;
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Fainna aljaheema hiya almawa
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires,
وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى النفس عن الهوى
Waama man khafa maqama rabbihi wanaha alnnafsa AAani alhawa
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
Their abode will be the Garden.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Fainna aljannata hiya almawa
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
They ask thee about the Hour, - 'When will be its appointed time?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
Yasaloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
Feema anta min thikraha
To your Lord is its finality.
With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.
إلى ربك منتهاها
Ila rabbika muntahaha
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
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.
The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!
كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحاها
Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha