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 الراجفة تتبعها الرادفة

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

قلوب يوميذ واجفة ابصرها خشعة

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

يقولون اءنا لمردودون في الحافرة اءذا كنا عظما نخرة

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 كرة خاسرة فانما هي زجرة وحدة فاذا هم بالساهرة

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

هل اتىك حديث موسى اذ نادىه ربه بالواد المقدس طوى

"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 الى فرعون انه طغى فقل هل لك الى ان تزكى واهديك الى ربك فتخشى

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.

فارىه الءاية الكبرى فكذب وعصى ثم ادبر يسعى فحشر فنادى فقال انا ربكم الاعلى فاخذه الله نكال الءاخرة والاولى

Surely, in that is a lesson for whoever dreads.

ان في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى

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

ءانتم اشد خلقا ام السماء

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

بنىها رفع سمكها فسوىها واغطش ليلها واخرج ضحىها

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 دحىها اخرج منها ماءها ومرعىها والجبال ارسىها 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 جاءت الطامة الكبرى يوم يتذكر الانسن ما سعى وبرزت الجحيم لمن يرى

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

فاما من طغى وءاثر الحيوة الدنيا فان الجحيم هي الماوى

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 ونهى النفس عن الهوى فان الجنة هي الماوى

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

يسلونك عن الساعة ايان مرسىها

What have you to do with mentioning it?

فيم انت من ذكرىها

To your Guardian is its utmost boundary.

الى ربك منتهىها

You are only the warner of whoever dreads it.

انما انت منذر من يخشىها

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 عشية او ضحىها