Chapter 79, 46 verses
By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والنازعات غرقا
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);
والناشطات نشطا
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),
والسابحات سبحا
And by those who float in space,
Then press forward as in a race,
فالسابقات سبقا
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),
فالمدبرات أمرا
Then those who regulate the affair.
One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,
يوم ترجف الراجفة
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
Followed by oft - repeated (commotions):
تتبعها الرادفة
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
Hearts that Day will be in agitation;
قلوب يومئذ واجفة
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.
أبصارها خاشعة
Their eyes cast down.
They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?
يقولون أإنا لمردودون في الحافرة
They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
"What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"
أإذا كنا عظاما نخرة
What! when we are rotten bones?
They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"
قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة
They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,
فإنما هي زجرة واحدة
But it shall be only a single cry,
When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).
فإذا هم بالساهرة
When lo! they shall be wakeful.
Has the story of Moses reached thee?
هل أتاك حديث موسى
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: -
إذ ناداه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
"Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:
اذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى
Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
"And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)? -
فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى
Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
"'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"
وأهديك إلى ربك فتخشى
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.
فأراه الآية الكبرى
So he showed him the mighty sign.
But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);
فكذب وعصى
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).
ثم أدبر يسعى
Then he went back hastily.
Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,
فحشر فنادى
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".
فقال أنا ربكم الأعلى
Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life.
فأخذه الله نكال الآخرة والأولى
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).
إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:
أأنتم أشد خلقا أم السماء ۚ بناها
Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.
رفع سمكها فسواها
He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).
وأغطش ليلها وأخرج ضحاها
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
والأرض بعد ذلك دحاها
And the earth, He expanded it after that.
He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;
أخرج منها ماءها ومرعاها
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
And the mountains hath He firmly fixed; -
والجبال أرساها
And the mountains, He made them firm,
For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
متاعا لكم ولأنعامكم
A provision for you and for your cattle.
Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event), -
فإذا جاءت الطامة الكبرى
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,
يوم يتذكر الإنسان ما سعى
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
And Hell - Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see, -
وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,
فأما من طغى
Then as for him who is inordinate,
And had preferred the life of this world,
وآثر الحياة الدنيا
And prefers the life of this world,
The Abode will be Hell - Fire;
فإن الجحيم هي المأوى
Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
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
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
Their abode will be the Garden.
فإن الجنة هي المأوى
Then surely the garden - - that is the abode.
They ask thee about the Hour, - 'When will be its appointed time?
يسألونك عن الساعة أيان مرساها
They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?
فيم أنت من ذكراها
About what! You are one to remind of it.
With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.
إلى ربك منتهاها
To your Lord is the goal of it.
Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it.
إنما أنت منذر من يخشاها
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
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
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.