SURAH AN-NAZI'AT

By those [angels] who extract with violence[1833]

And [by] those who remove with ease[1834]

And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming[1835]

And those who race each other in a race[1836]

And those who arrange [each] matter,[1837]

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

There will follow it the subsequent [one].

Hearts,[1838] that Day, will tremble,

Their eyes[1839] humbled.

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

Even if we should be decayed bones?"[1840]

They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."[1841]

Indeed, it will be but one shout,

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

Has there reached you the story of Moses? -

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

"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

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

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

And he showed him the greatest sign,[1842]

But he [i.e., Pharaoh] denied and disobeyed.

Then he turned his back, striving [i.e., plotting].[1843]

And he gathered [his people] and called out

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

So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].[1844].

Indeed in that is a lesson [i.e., warning] for whoever would fear [Allāh].

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it.

He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.[1845]

And after that He spread the earth.

He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

And the mountains He set firmly

As enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.

But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity[1846] -

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

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

So as for he who transgressed

And preferred the life of the world,

Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

But as for he who feared the position of his Lord[1847] and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,

Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.

They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?[1848]

In what [position] are you that you should mention it?[1849]

To your Lord is its finality.[1850]

You are only a warner for those who fear it.

It will be, on the Day they see it,[1851] as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.