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,

وٱلنزعت غرقا وٱلنشطت نشطا وٱلسبحت سبحا فٱلسبقت سبقا فٱلمدبرت أمرا يوم ترجف ٱلراجفة تتبعها ٱلرادفة

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

قلوب يومئذ واجفة أبصرها خشعة

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

يقولون أءنا لمردودون في ٱلحافرة أءذا كنا عظما نخرة

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

قالوا تلك إذا كرة خاسرة فإنما هي زجرة وحدة فإذا هم بٱلساهرة

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

هل أتىك حديث موسى إذ نادىه ربه بٱلواد ٱلمقدس 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?'"

ٱذهب إلى فرعون إنه طغى فقل هل لك إلى أن تزكى وأهديك إلى 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.

فأرىه ٱلءاية ٱلكبرى فكذب وعصى ثم أدبر يسعى فحشر فنادى فقال أنا ربكم ٱلأعلى فأخذه ٱلله نكال ٱلءاخرة وٱلأولى

Surely, in that is a lesson for whoever dreads.

إن في ذلك لعبرة لمن يخشى

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

ءأنتم أشد خلقا أم ٱلسمآء

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

بنىها رفع سمكها فسوىها وأغطش ليلها وأخرج 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 provision for you and your cattle.

وٱلأرض بعد ذلك دحىهآ أخرج منها مآءها ومرعىها وٱلجبال أرسىها متعا لكم ولأنعمكم

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,

فإذا جآءت ٱلطآمة ٱلكبرى يوم يتذكر ٱلإنسن ما سعى وبرزت ٱلجحيم لمن يرى

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

فأما من طغى وءاثر ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا فإن ٱلجحيم هي ٱلمأوى

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

وأما من خاف مقام ربه ونهى ٱلنفس عن ٱلهوى فإن ٱلجنة هي ٱلمأوى

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

يسلونك عن ٱلساعة أيان مرسىها

What have you to do with mentioning it?

فيم أنت من ذكرىهآ

To your Guardian is its utmost boundary.

إلى ربك منتهىهآ

You are only the warner of whoever dreads it.

إنمآ أنت 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.

كأنهم يوم يرونها لم يلبثوا إلا عشية أو ضحىها