English - Chapter 79 - An-Naziat

I swear by (or call to witness) those who tear out to destruction

And by those rushing

And by those who float

Then press forward as in a race

And those who regulate affairs

The day on which the first trump resounds (or that which can quake shall quake)

And others follow it

Hearts on that day shall palpitate

While eyes are cast down

They say, "Shall we indeed be restored to our first state

What! When we are rotten bones

They said, "That then would be a return, causing loss

But it shall be only a single cry

When lo! They will be fully awake

Has not there come to you the story of Moses

When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley of Tuwa

(Saying,) "Go to Pharaoh, surely he has transgressed beyond bounds

Then say, "Have you a desire to purify yourself

So he showed him the Mighty Sign

But he (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed

Then turned he away (from Allah) in haste

Then he gathered (men) and made a proclamation

Saying, "I am your Lord, the most high

So Allah seized him with the punishment of the Hereafter and the former life

Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears

Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He created it

He raised high its height, and gave it order and perfection

And He made dark its night and its splendour does He bring out with light

And after that He expanded (spread) the earth

He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage

And the mountains, He made them firm

A provision for you and for your cattle

But when the great overwhelming calamity comes

The Day on which man shall recollect all he strove after

And Hell shall be made manifest to him who sees

Then for him who has transgressed all bounds

And prefers the life of this world

Surely, Hell will be his abode

And as for him who had feared standing in the presence of his Lord and restrains his soul from lust (or low desires)

Then surely the Garden, that is his abode

They ask you (Muhammad) about the Hour, when it will come

What," ask they, "have you to say about it

To your Lord belongs the knowledge of it

you are only a Warner to him who would fear it

On the day that they behold it, it will be as though they had not tarried but an evening or the morning