Al-Qiyama

No! I swear by the Day of Appearance; and no! I swear by the self-censuring Self.

لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ وَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلنَّفْسِ ٱللَّوَّامَةِ

We are able to proportion even his phalanges.

قَٰدِرِينَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّسَوِّىَ بَنَانَهُۥ

But the human being wants to persist in depravity, there, before him.

بَلْ يُرِيدُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُۥ

He asks, "When will the Day of Appearance be?"

يَسْـَٔلُ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ

So when the sight is blinded with glare, and the moon eclipses, and the sun and the moon are joined together, the human being will say on that Day, "Where to flee?"

فَإِذَا بَرِقَ ٱلْبَصَرُ وَخَسَفَ ٱلْقَمَرُ وَجُمِعَ ٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ يَقُولُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَيْنَ ٱلْمَفَرُّ

By no means! There is no bulwark.

كَلَّا لَا وَزَرَ

To your Guardian, that Day, will be the stable place.

إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمُسْتَقَرُّ

The human being will be informed, that Day, of what he put forward and kept back.

يُنَبَّؤُا۟ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِمَا قَدَّمَ وَأَخَّرَ

Rather, the human being is clear-sighted over himself, even if he puts forward his excuses.

بَلِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِۦ بَصِيرَةٌۭ وَلَوْ أَلْقَىٰ مَعَاذِيرَهُۥ

Do not move your tongue with it to hasten it;

لَا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِۦ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعْجَلَ بِهِۦٓ

for upon Us is its assembling and its recitation.

إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُۥ وَقُرْءَانَهُۥ

then, when We have read it, follow its recitation; then, indeed, upon Us is its explanation.

فَإِذَا قَرَأْنَٰهُ فَٱتَّبِعْ قُرْءَانَهُۥ ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُۥ

By no means! But they love the immediate life, and forsake the last life.

كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ وَتَذَرُونَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ

Some faces, that Day, will be radiant, looking toward their Guardian.

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاضِرَةٌ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌۭ

And some faces, that Day, will be gloomy, presuming that a catastrophe is about to be inflicted on them.

وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بَاسِرَةٌۭ تَظُنُّ أَن يُفْعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٌۭ

By no means! When it reaches the collarbones, and it is said, "Who will raise up?" and he presumes that it is the parting, and the leg is intertwined with the leg — to your Guardian, that Day, will be the drive.

كَلَّآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلتَّرَاقِىَ وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاقٍۢ وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ ٱلْفِرَاقُ وَٱلْتَفَّتِ ٱلسَّاقُ بِٱلسَّاقِ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمَسَاقُ

For he neither declared true, nor made the Contact,

فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ

but he denied and turned his back,

وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

then he went to his people, walking in vain pride.

ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ يَتَمَطَّىٰٓ

Closer to you, and closer! Then closer to you, and closer!

أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰ ثُمَّ أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰٓ

Does the human being think that he will be left without purpose?

أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَن يُتْرَكَ سُدًى

Was he not a drop of emitted semen? Then he was a clinging form; then He created and proportioned him, and made of him two mates, the male and the female.

أَلَمْ يَكُ نُطْفَةًۭ مِّن مَّنِىٍّۢ يُمْنَىٰ ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةًۭ فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ فَجَعَلَ مِنْهُ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ