An-Nazi'at

By those who tear away, submerging, those who release gently, those who swim, swimming, those who race ahead, racing, those who govern the affair — the Day the first quaking quakes, followed by the one that comes after,

والنزعت غرقا والنشطت نشطا والسبحت سبحا فالسبقت سبقا فالمدبرت امرا يوم ترجف الراجفه تتبعها الرادفه

cores, that Day, will tremble, their sights humble.

قلوب يوميذ واجفه ابصرها خشعه

They will say, "Are we really to be brought back to our former state, once we have become decayed bones?"

يقولون انا لمردودون في الحافره اذا كنا عظما نخره

They will say, "That, then, would be a losing comeback!" Yet it will be but a single rumbling blast, and there they are, upon the surface of the world.

قالوا تلك اذا كره خاسره فانما هي زجره وحده فاذا هم بالساهره

Has the discourse concerning Moussa reached you? When his Guardian called him in the sanctified valley of Tuwa,

هل اتيك حديث موسي اذ ناديه ربه بالواد المقدس طوي

"Go to Fir'awn; he has exceeded all measure. And say to him, 'Would you purify yourself, that I may guide you to your Guardian, so that you may dread Him?'"

اذهب الي فرعون انه طغي فقل هل لك الي ان تزكي واهديك الي ربك فتخشي

So he showed him the greatest sign; but he denied and disobeyed. Then he turned his back, endeavouring, and gathered, and called out, and said, "I am your master, the most high." So God seized him with the exemplary deterrent of the last life and the first.

فاريه الايه الكبري فكذب وعصي ثم ادبر يسعي فحشر فنادي فقال انا ربكم الاعلي فاخذه الله نكال الاخره والاولي

Surely, in that is a lesson for whoever dreads.

ان في ذلك لعبره لمن يخشي

Are you more difficult to create, or is the sky?

انتم اشد خلقا ام السما

He built it, elevated its vault, and proportioned it; and He darkened its night and brought forth its morning light.

بنيها رفع سمكها فسويها واغطش ليلها واخرج ضحيها

And the earth, after that, He made it hatch forth: He brought forth from it its water and its pasture, and the mountains, He anchored them — as enjoyment for you and your cattle.

والارض بعد ذلك دحيها اخرج منها ماها ومرعيها والجبال ارسيها متعا لكم ولانعمكم

Then, when the great Cataclysm comes — the Day the human being will remember what he endeavoured, and the Blaze will be shown to whoever sees,

فاذا جات الطامه الكبري يوم يتذكر الانسن ما سعي وبرزت الجحيم لمن يري

as for him who exceeded all measure and preferred the near life, then the Blaze will indeed be his resort;

فاما من طغي واثر الحيوه الدنيا فان الجحيم هي الماوي

but as for him who feared standing before his Guardian, and forbade the Self emotion, then the Garden will indeed be his resort.

واما من خاف مقام ربه ونهي النفس عن الهوي فان الجنه هي الماوي

They ask you about the Hour: when will it drop anchor?

يسلونك عن الساعه ايان مرسيها

What have you to do with mentioning it?

فيم انت من ذكريها

To your Guardian is its utmost boundary.

الي ربك منتهيها

You are only the warner of whoever dreads it.

انما انت منذر من يخشيها

It will seem to them, the Day they see it, as though they had remained no more than an evening, or its morning.

كانهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا الا عشيه او ضحيها