English - Chapter 79 - An-Naziat

By the angels who tear forth the souls of some with violence

and by those who draw forth the souls of others with gentleness

by those who glide swimmingly through the air with the commands of God

and those who precede and usher the righteous to paradise

and those who subordinately govern the affairs of this world

On a certain day, the disturbing blast of the trumpet shall disturb the universe

and the subsequent blast shall follow it

Their looks shall be cast down

The infidels say, shall we surely be made to return whence we came

After we shall have become rotten bones, shall we be again raised to life

They say, this then will be a return to loss

Verily it will be but one sounding of the trumpet

and behold, they shall appear alive on the face of the earth

Hath not the story of Moses reached thee

When his Lord called unto him in the holy valley Towa, saying

go unto Pharaoh; for he is insolently wicked

and say, hast thou a desire to become just and holy

And I will direct thee unto thy Lord, that thou mayest fear to transgress

And he shewed him the very great sign of the rod turned into a serpent

But he charged Moses with imposture, and rebelled against God

Then he turned back hastily

and he assembled the magicians, and cried aloud, saying

I am your supreme Lord

Wherefore God chastised him with the punishment of the life to come, and also of this present life

Verily herein is an example unto him who feareth to rebel

Are ye more difficult to create, or the heaven which God hath built

He hath raised the height thereof, and hath perfectly formed the same

And He hath made the night thereof dark, and hath produced the light thereof

After this, He stretched out the earth

whence He caused to spring forth the water thereof, and the pasture thereof

and He established the mountains

for the use of yourselves, and of your cattle

When the prevailing, the great day shall come

on that day shall a man call to remembrance what he hath purposely done

And hell shall be exposed to the view of the spectator

And whoso shall have transgressed

and shall have chosen this present life

verily hell shall be his abode

But whoso shall have dreaded the appearing before his Lord, and shall have refrained his soul from lust

verily paradise shall be his abode

They will ask thee concerning the last hour, when will be the fixed time thereof

By what means canst thou give any information of the same

Unto thy Lord belongeth the knowledge of the period thereof

And thou art only a warner, who fearest the same

The day whereon they shall see the same, it shall seem to them as though they had not tarried in the world longer than an evening, or a morning thereof