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English - Chapter 75 - Al-Qiyamah

Translation by Edward Henry Palmer — Permalink

Verse 1 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:1

I need not swear by the resurrection day

Verse 2 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:2

Nor need I swear by the self-accusing soul

Verse 3 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:3

Does man think that we shall not collect his bones

Verse 4 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:4

Able are we to arrange his finger tips

Verse 5 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:5

Nay, but man wishes to be wicked henceforward

Verse 6 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:6

he asks, When is the resurrection day

Verse 7 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:7

But when the sight shall be dazed

Verse 8 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:8

and the moon be eclipsed

Verse 9 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:9

and the sun and the moon be together

Verse 10 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:10

and man shall say upon that day, 'Where is a place to flee to

Verse 11 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:11

Verse 12 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:12

and to thy Lord that day is the sure settlement

Verse 13 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:13

He will inform man on that day of what He has sent forward or delayed

Verse 14 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:14

Nay, man is an evidence against himself

Verse 15 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:15

and even if he thrusts forward his excuses

Verse 16 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:16

Do not move thy tongue thereby to hasten it

Verse 17 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:17

It is for us to collect it and to read it

Verse 18 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:18

and when we read it then follow its reading

Verse 19 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:19

And again it is for us to explain it

Verse 20 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:20

Nay, indeed, but ye love the transient life

Verse 21 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:21

and ye neglect the hereafter

Verse 22 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:22

Faces on that day shall be bright

Verse 23 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:23

gazing on their Lord

Verse 24 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:24

And faces on that day shall be dismal

Verse 25 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:25

Thou wilt think that a back-breaking calamity has happened to them

Verse 26 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:26

Nay, but when the [soul] comes up into the throat

Verse 27 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:27

and it is said, 'Who will charm it back

Verse 28 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:28

and he will think that it is his parting [hour]

Verse 29 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:29

And leg shall be pressed on leg

Verse 30 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:30

unto thy Lord on that day shall the driving be

Verse 31 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:31

For he did not believes and did not pray

Verse 32 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:32

but he said it was a lie, and turned his back

Verse 33 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:33

Then he went to his people haughtily

Verse 34 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:34

woe to thee, and woe to thee

Verse 35 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:35

again woe to thee, and woe to thee

Verse 36 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:36

Does man think that he shall be left to himself

Verse 37 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:37

Wasn't he a clot of emitted seed

Verse 38 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:38

Then he was congealed blood, and (God) created him, and fashioned him

Verse 39 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:39

and made of him pairs, male and female

Verse 40 — Surah Al-Qiyamah 75:40

Is not He able to quicken the dead