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English - Chapter 79 - An-Naziat

Translation by Ali Unal — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah An-Naziat 79:1

By those (angels) who immediately fly out and plunge (with God’s command), and plunge (into fulfilling it)

Verse 2 — Surah An-Naziat 79:2

By those (angels) who move gently and eagerly (because of the command they have received)

Verse 3 — Surah An-Naziat 79:3

By those (angels) who swiftly float (through space to fulfill God’s command)

Verse 4 — Surah An-Naziat 79:4

And so hasten along as if in a race

Verse 5 — Surah An-Naziat 79:5

And thus fulfill the commands (in the operation of the universe)

Verse 6 — Surah An-Naziat 79:6

(The Last Hour will have come) on the Day when a blast (of the Trumpet) will convulse (the world)

Verse 7 — Surah An-Naziat 79:7

Followed by the succeeding one

Verse 8 — Surah An-Naziat 79:8

Hearts on that Day will be throbbing in distress

Verse 9 — Surah An-Naziat 79:9

Verse 10 — Surah An-Naziat 79:10

Yet, they (the unbelievers) say: "Will we really be restored to our former state (of life)

Verse 11 — Surah An-Naziat 79:11

Will we when we have become bones rotten and crumbled away

Verse 12 — Surah An-Naziat 79:12

They say (in derision): "Then, that would be a return with loss

Verse 13 — Surah An-Naziat 79:13

It will indeed be but a single cry

Verse 14 — Surah An-Naziat 79:14

And then, they will all have been awakened to life on the plain (of Supreme Gathering)

Verse 15 — Surah An-Naziat 79:15

Has the report of Moses come to you

Verse 16 — Surah An-Naziat 79:16

When His Lord called out to him in the sacred Valley of Tuwa’

Verse 17 — Surah An-Naziat 79:17

Go to the Pharaoh, for he has exceedingly rebelled

Verse 18 — Surah An-Naziat 79:18

And say to him: ‘Would you (do you have intent or inclination to) attain to purity

Verse 19 — Surah An-Naziat 79:19

‘Then I will guide you to your Lord so you stand in awe of Him (and behave with humility).’

Verse 20 — Surah An-Naziat 79:20

He (went to the Pharaoh and) showed him the great sign (the miracle of the Staff)

Verse 21 — Surah An-Naziat 79:21

But the Pharaoh denied (his Messengership) and defied (him)

Verse 22 — Surah An-Naziat 79:22

Thereafter he turned away and set out to struggle (with him)

Verse 23 — Surah An-Naziat 79:23

Then he gathered (his men and hosts), and made a proclamation

Verse 24 — Surah An-Naziat 79:24

Saying: "I am your Supreme Lord

Verse 25 — Surah An-Naziat 79:25

And so God seized him and made an example of him, of punishment in the later and the earlier (life)

Verse 26 — Surah An-Naziat 79:26

For sure, in this there is certainly a lesson for anyone who has awe of and therefore humility before God

Verse 27 — Surah An-Naziat 79:27

(O humankind!) Are you harder to create or is the heaven? He has built it

Verse 28 — Surah An-Naziat 79:28

He has raised its vault and put it in an order

Verse 29 — Surah An-Naziat 79:29

And He obscured its night and brought out its light of day

Verse 30 — Surah An-Naziat 79:30

And after that He has spread out the earth in the egg-shape (for habitability)

Verse 31 — Surah An-Naziat 79:31

Out of it He has brought forth its waters and its herbage

Verse 32 — Surah An-Naziat 79:32

And the mountains He has set firm

Verse 33 — Surah An-Naziat 79:33

(All this) as a means of life for you and your animals

Verse 34 — Surah An-Naziat 79:34

But when the great overwhelming event comes

Verse 35 — Surah An-Naziat 79:35

On that Day human will recall (and understand) for what he strove

Verse 36 — Surah An-Naziat 79:36

And the Blazing Flame will come into view for all who see

Verse 37 — Surah An-Naziat 79:37

And so, whoever rebelled (against God)

Verse 38 — Surah An-Naziat 79:38

And preferred the life of this world

Verse 39 — Surah An-Naziat 79:39

The Blazing Flame will be his (final) refuge

Verse 40 — Surah An-Naziat 79:40

But as for him who lived in awe of his Lord, being ever conscious of His seeing him and of the standing before Him (in the Hereafter), and held back his carnal soul from lusts and caprices

Verse 41 — Surah An-Naziat 79:41

Surely Paradise will be his (final) refuge

Verse 42 — Surah An-Naziat 79:42

They ask you (O Messenger) about the Last Hour: "When will it come to anchor

Verse 43 — Surah An-Naziat 79:43

But how could you have knowledge about its time

Verse 44 — Surah An-Naziat 79:44

With your Lord alone rests (the exact knowledge) of its term

Verse 45 — Surah An-Naziat 79:45

You are only a warner to those who are in awe of it

Verse 46 — Surah An-Naziat 79:46

It will be, on the Day they see it, as if they had remained (in the world) but for the afternoon (of a day) or its morning