79. An-Nazi'at

وَٱلنَّٰزِعَٰتِ غَرۡقࣰ ا

By those (angels) that pluck out the soul from depths

وَٱلنَّٰشِطَٰتِ نَشۡطࣰ ا

and gently take it away

وَٱلسَّٰبِحَٰتِ سَبۡحࣰ ا

and by those that speedily glide along (the cosmos)

فَٱلسَّٰبِقَٰتِ سَبۡقࣰ ا

and vie with the others (in carrying out their Lord's behests)

فَٱلۡمُدَبِّرَٰتِ أَمۡرࣰ ا

and then manage the affairs of the Universe (according to their Lord's commands)

يَوۡمَ تَرۡجُفُ ٱلرَّاجِفَةُ

The Day when the quaking will cause a violent convulsion

تَتۡبَعُهَا ٱلرَّادِفَةُ

and will be followed by another quaking

قُلُوبࣱ يَوۡمَئِذࣲ وَاجِفَةٌ

On that Day some hearts shall tremble (with fright)

أَبۡصَٰرُهَا خَٰشِعَةࣱ‏

and their eyes shall be downcast with dread

يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرۡدُودُونَ فِي ٱلۡحَافِرَةِ

They say: “Shall we indeed be restored to life

أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمࣰ ا نَّخِرَةࣰ‏

even after we have been reduced to bones, hollow and rotten?”

قَالُواْ تِلۡكَ إِذࣰ ا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةࣱ‏

They say: “That will then be a return with a great loss!”

فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجۡرَةࣱ وَٰحِدَةࣱ‏

Surely they will need no more than a single stern blast

فَإِذَا هُم بِٱلسَّاهِرَةِ

and lo, they will all be in the open plain

هَلۡ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰٓ

Has Moses' story reached you

إِذۡ نَادَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ بِٱلۡوَادِ ٱلۡمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

When his Lord called him in the sacred valley of Tuwa

ٱذۡهَبۡ إِلَىٰ فِرۡعَوۡنَ إِنَّهُۥ طَغَىٰ

and directed him: “Go to Pharaoh, he has rebelled

فَقُلۡ هَل لَّكَ إِلَىٰٓ أَن تَزَكَّىٰ

and say to him: 'Are you willing to be purified

وَأَهۡدِيَكَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَتَخۡشَىٰ

that I may direct you to your Lord and then you hold Him in awe?'”

فَأَرَىٰهُ ٱلۡأٓيَةَ ٱلۡكُبۡرَىٰ

Then Moses (went to Pharaoh and) showed him the Great Sign

فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ

but he denied it as false and disobeyed

ثُمَّ أَدۡبَرَ يَسۡعَىٰ

and then he turned back to have recourse to his craftiness

فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَىٰ

and gathered his people and declared

فَقَالَ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمُ ٱلۡأَعۡلَىٰ

“I am the supreme lord of you all.”

فَأَخَذَهُ ٱللَّهُ نَكَالَ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ وَٱلۡأُولَىٰٓ

Thereupon Allah seized him for the chastisement of the World to Come as well as of the present

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبۡرَةࣰ لِّمَن يَخۡشَىٰٓ

Surely there is a great lesson in it for whoever would fear (Allah)

ءَأَنتُمۡ أَشَدُّ خَلۡقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَآءُۚ بَنَىٰهَا

Is it harder to create you or the heaven? But Allah built it

رَفَعَ سَمۡكَهَا فَسَوَّىٰهَا

and raised its vault high and proportioned it

وَأَغۡطَشَ لَيۡلَهَا وَأَخۡرَجَ ضُحَىٰهَا

and covered its night with darkness and brought forth from it its day

وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ بَعۡدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَىٰهَآ

and thereafter spread out the earth

أَخۡرَجَ مِنۡهَا مَآءَهَا وَمَرۡعَىٰهَا

and brought out of it its water and its pasture

وَٱلۡجِبَالَ أَرۡسَىٰهَا

and firmly fixed in it mountains

مَتَٰعࣰ ا لَّكُمۡ وَلِأَنۡعَٰمِكُمۡ

all this as provision for you and your cattle

فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلطَّآمَّةُ ٱلۡكُبۡرَىٰ

But when the great calamity will come about

يَوۡمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ مَا سَعَىٰ

on the Day when man will recall all his strivings

وَبُرِّزَتِ ٱلۡجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَىٰ

and Hell will be brought in sight for anyone to see

فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ

then he who transgressed

وَءَاثَرَ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنۡيَا

and preferred the life of this world

فَإِنَّ ٱلۡجَحِيمَ هِيَ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ

most surely his abode shall be Hell

وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفۡسَ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰ

But he who feared to stand before his Lord, and restrained himself from evil desires

فَإِنَّ ٱلۡجَنَّةَ هِيَ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ

most surely his abode shall be Paradise

يَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرۡسَىٰهَا

They ask you about the Hour: “When will it be?”

فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكۡرَىٰهَآ

What concern do you have to speak about that

إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَىٰهَآ

Its knowledge rests with your Lord

إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُنذِرُ مَن يَخۡشَىٰهَا

You are only a warner to him who has a fear of it

كَأَنَّهُمۡ يَوۡمَ يَرَوۡنَهَا لَمۡ يَلۡبَثُوٓاْ إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوۡ ضُحَىٰهَا

On the Day they see it, they will feel as though they had stayed (in the grave) no more than one evening or one morning