| Surah An-Nazi'aat | |||
| In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. | |||
| 1 | By those ( angels ) who pull out ( the souls of the disbelievers and the wicked ) with great violence; | ||
| 2 | By those ( angels ) who gently take out ( the souls of the believers ); | ||
| 3 | And by those that swim along ( i. e. angels or planets in their orbits, etc. ). | ||
| 4 | And by those that press forward as in a race ( i. e. the angels or stars or the horses, etc. ). | ||
| 5 | And by those angels who arrange to do the Commands of their Lord, ( so verily, you disbelievers will be called to account ). | ||
| 6 | On the Day ( when the first blowing of the Trumpet is blown ), the earth and the mountains will shake violently ( and everybody will die ), | ||
| 7 | The second blowing of the Trumpet follows it ( and everybody will be raised up ), | ||
| 8 | ( Some ) hearts that Day will shake with fear and anxiety. | ||
| 9 | Their eyes cast down. | ||
| 10 | They say: " Shall we indeed be returned to ( our ) former state of life? | ||
| 11 | " Even after we are crumbled bones? " | ||
| 12 | They say: " It would in that case, be a return with loss! " | ||
| 13 | But only, it will be a single Zajrah [ shout ( i. e., the second blowing of the Trumpet ) ]. ( See Verse 37: 19 ). | ||
| 14 | When, behold, they find themselves over the earth alive after their death, | ||
| 15 | Has there come to you the story of Mûsa ( Moses )? | ||
| 16 | When his Lord called him in the sacred valley of Tûwa, | ||
| 17 | Go to Fir'aun ( Pharaoh ), verily, he has transgressed all bounds ( in crimes, sins, polytheism, disbelief, etc. ). | ||
| 18 | And say to him: " Would you purify yourself ( from the sin of disbelief by becoming a believer ) ", | ||
| 19 | And that I guide you to your Lord, so you should fear Him? | ||
| 20 | Then [ Mûsa ( Moses ) ] showed him the great sign ( miracles ). | ||
| 21 | But [ Fir'aun ( Pharaoh ) ] belied and disobeyed; | ||
| 22 | Then he turned his back, striving hard ( against Allâh ). | ||
| 23 | Then he gathered his people and cried aloud, | ||
| 24 | Saying: " I am your lord, most high ", | ||
| 25 | So Allâh, seized him with punishment for his last [ i. e. his saying: " I am your lord, most high " ) ( see Verse 79: 24 ) ] and first [ ( i. e. his saying, " O chiefs! I know not that you have a god other than I " ( see Verse 28: 38 ) ] transgression. | ||
| 26 | Verily, in this is an instructive admonition for whosoever fears Allâh. | ||
| 27 | Are you more difficult to create, or is the heaven that He constructed? | ||
| 28 | He raised its height, and He has equally ordered it, | ||
| 29 | Its night He covers with darkness, and its forenoon He brings out ( with light ). | ||
| 30 | And after that He spread the earth; | ||
| 31 | And brought forth therefrom its water and its pasture; | ||
| 32 | And the mountains He has fixed firmly; | ||
| 33 | ( To be ) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle. | ||
| 34 | But when there comes the greatest catastrophe ( i. e. the Day of Recompense, etc. ), | ||
| 35 | The Day when man shall remember what he strove for, | ||
| 36 | And Hell-fire shall be made apparent in full view for ( every ) one who sees, | ||
| 37 | Then, for him who Taghâ ( transgressed all bounds, in disbelief, oppression and evil deeds of disobedience to Allâh ). | ||
| 38 | And preferred the life of this world ( by following his evil desires and lusts ), | ||
| 39 | Verily, his abode will be Hell-fire; | ||
| 40 | But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires, and lusts. | ||
| 41 | Verily, Paradise will be his abode. | ||
| 42 | They ask you ( O Muhammad ) about the Hour, - when will be its appointed time? | ||
| 43 | You have no knowledge to say anything about it, | ||
| 44 | To your Lord belongs ( the knowledge of ) the term thereof? | ||
| 45 | You ( O Muhammad ) are only a warner for those who fear it, | ||
| 46 | The Day they see it, ( it will be ) as if they had not tarried ( in this world ) except an afternoon or a morning. | ||