79. An-Naazi'aat

1 By those who drag forth to destruction

2 By the meteors rushing

3 By the lone stars floating

4 By the angels hastening

5 And those who govern the event

6 On the day when the first trump resoundeth

7 And the second followeth it

8 On that day hearts beat painfully

9 While eyes are downcast

10 (Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state

11 Even after we are crumbled bones

12 They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding

13 Surely it will need but one shout

14 And lo! they will be awakened

15 Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses

16 How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa

17 (Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled

18 And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace)

19 Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him)

20 And he showed him the tremendous token

21 But he denied and disobeyed

22 Then turned he away in haste

23 Then gathered he and summoned

24 And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest

25 So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former

26 Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth

27 Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built

28 He raised the height thereof and ordered it

29 And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof

30 And after that He spread the earth

31 And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof

32 And He made fast the hills

33 A provision for you and for your cattle

34 But when the great disaster cometh

35 The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour

36 And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth

37 Then, as for him who rebelled

38 And chose the life of the world

39 Lo! hell will be his home

40 But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust

41 Lo! the Garden will be his home

42 They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port

43 Why (ask they)? What hast thou to tell thereof

44 Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof

45 Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it

46 On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof