An-Naazi'aat

بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِیمِ وَٱلنَّـٰزِعَـٰتِ غَرۡقࣰا

By those [angels] who extract with violence

وَٱلنَّـٰشِطَـٰتِ نَشۡطࣰا

And [by] those who remove with ease

وَٱلسَّـٰبِحَـٰتِ سَبۡحࣰا

And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming

فَٱلسَّـٰبِقَـٰتِ سَبۡقࣰا

And those who race each other in a race

فَٱلۡمُدَبِّرَ ٰ⁠تِ أَمۡرࣰا

And those who arrange [each] matter,

یَوۡمَ تَرۡجُفُ ٱلرَّاجِفَةُ

On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],

تَتۡبَعُهَا ٱلرَّادِفَةُ

There will follow it the subsequent [one].

قُلُوبࣱ یَوۡمَىِٕذࣲ وَاجِفَةٌ

Hearts, that Day, will tremble,

أَبۡصَـٰرُهَا خَـٰشِعَةࣱ

Their eyes humbled.

یَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرۡدُودُونَ فِی ٱلۡحَافِرَةِ

They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?

أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـٰمࣰا نَّخِرَةࣰ

Even if we should be decayed bones?

قَالُوا۟ تِلۡكَ إِذࣰا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةࣱ

They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."

فَإِنَّمَا هِیَ زَجۡرَةࣱ وَ ٰ⁠حِدَةࣱ

Indeed, it will be but one shout,

فَإِذَا هُم بِٱلسَّاهِرَةِ

And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.

هَلۡ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِیثُ مُوسَىٰۤ

Has there reached you the story of Moses? -

إِذۡ نَادَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ بِٱلۡوَادِ ٱلۡمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,

ٱذۡهَبۡ إِلَىٰ فِرۡعَوۡنَ إِنَّهُۥ طَغَىٰ

"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

فَقُلۡ هَل لَّكَ إِلَىٰۤ أَن تَزَكَّىٰ

And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself

وَأَهۡدِیَكَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَتَخۡشَىٰ

And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"

فَأَرَىٰهُ ٱلۡـَٔایَةَ ٱلۡكُبۡرَىٰ

And he showed him the greatest sign,

فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ

But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.

ثُمَّ أَدۡبَرَ یَسۡعَىٰ

Then he turned his back, striving.

فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَىٰ

And he gathered [his people] and called out

فَقَالَ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمُ ٱلۡأَعۡلَىٰ

And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

فَأَخَذَهُ ٱللَّهُ نَكَالَ ٱلۡـَٔاخِرَةِ وَٱلۡأُولَىٰۤ

So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].

إِنَّ فِی ذَ ٰ⁠لِكَ لَعِبۡرَةࣰ لِّمَن یَخۡشَىٰۤ

Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].

ءَأَنتُمۡ أَشَدُّ خَلۡقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَاۤءُۚ بَنَىٰهَا

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.

رَفَعَ سَمۡكَهَا فَسَوَّىٰهَا

He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

وَأَغۡطَشَ لَیۡلَهَا وَأَخۡرَجَ ضُحَىٰهَا

And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ بَعۡدَ ذَ ٰ⁠لِكَ دَحَىٰهَاۤ

And after that He spread the earth.

أَخۡرَجَ مِنۡهَا مَاۤءَهَا وَمَرۡعَىٰهَا

He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

وَٱلۡجِبَالَ أَرۡسَىٰهَا

And the mountains He set firmly

مَتَـٰعࣰا لَّكُمۡ وَلِأَنۡعَـٰمِكُمۡ

As provision for you and your grazing livestock.

فَإِذَا جَاۤءَتِ ٱلطَّاۤمَّةُ ٱلۡكُبۡرَىٰ

But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

یَوۡمَ یَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلۡإِنسَـٰنُ مَا سَعَىٰ

The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

وَبُرِّزَتِ ٱلۡجَحِیمُ لِمَن یَرَىٰ

And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ

So as for he who transgressed

وَءَاثَرَ ٱلۡحَیَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنۡیَا

And preferred the life of the world,

فَإِنَّ ٱلۡجَحِیمَ هِیَ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ

Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

وَأَمَّا مَنۡ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفۡسَ عَنِ ٱلۡهَوَىٰ

But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,

فَإِنَّ ٱلۡجَنَّةَ هِیَ ٱلۡمَأۡوَىٰ

Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.

یَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ أَیَّانَ مُرۡسَىٰهَا

They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?

فِیمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكۡرَىٰهَاۤ

In what [position] are you that you should mention it?

إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَىٰهَاۤ

To your Lord is its finality.

إِنَّمَاۤ أَنتَ مُنذِرُ مَن یَخۡشَىٰهَا

You are only a warner for those who fear it.

كَأَنَّهُمۡ یَوۡمَ یَرَوۡنَهَا لَمۡ یَلۡبَثُوۤا۟ إِلَّا عَشِیَّةً أَوۡ ضُحَىٰهَا

It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.