Chapter 79, An-Nazi'at [ Those who drag forth ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;
- 2. By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);
- 3. And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),
- 4. Then press forward as in a race,
- 5. Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),
- 6. One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,
- 7. Followed by oft-repeated (commotions):
- 8. Hearts that Day will be in agitation;
- 9. Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.
- 10. They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?
- 11. "What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"
- 12. They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"
- 13. But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,
- 14. When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).
- 15. Has the story of Moses reached thee?
- 16. Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa:-
- 17. "Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:
- 18. "And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)?-
- 19. "'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"
- 20. Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.
- 21. But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance);
- 22. Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah).
- 23. Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation,
- 24. Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High".
- 25. But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life.
- 26. Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah).
- 27. What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it:
- 28. On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection.
- 29. Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light).
- 30. And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse);
- 31. He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture;
- 32. And the mountains hath He firmly fixed;-
- 33. For use and convenience to you and your cattle.
- 34. Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event),-
- 35. The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for,
- 36. And Hell-Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see,-
- 37. Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds,
- 38. And had preferred the life of this world,
- 39. The Abode will be Hell-Fire;
- 40. And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires,
- 41. Their abode will be the Garden.
- 42. They ask thee about the Hour,-'When will be its appointed time?
- 43. Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?
- 44. With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.
- 45. Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it.
- 46. The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!