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
And [by] those who remove with ease
By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);
والناشطات نشطا
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),
والسابحات سبحا
And those who race each other in a race
Then press forward as in a race,
فالسابقات سبقا
And those who arrange [each] matter,
Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),
فالمدبرات أمرا
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
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):
تتبعها الرادفة
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
Hearts that Day will be in agitation;
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Their eyes humbled.
Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.
أبصارها خاشعة
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
Even if we should be decayed bones?
"What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
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
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
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
Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
Has the story of Moses reached thee?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
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
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
"Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
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
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
And he showed him the greatest sign,
Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.
فأراه الآية الكبرى
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);
فكذب وعصى
Then he turned his back, striving.
Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).
ثم أدبر يسعى
And he gathered [his people] and called out
Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,
فحشر فنادى
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
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
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
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
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
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
And after that He spread the earth.
And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
And the mountains He set firmly
And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -
والجبال أرساها
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
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
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
So as for he who transgressed
Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,
فأما من طغى
And preferred the life of the world,
And had preferred the life of this world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
The Abode will be Hell - Fire;
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
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
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
Their abode will be the Garden.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
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
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
To your Lord is its finality.
With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.
إلى ربك منتهاها
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
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