English - Chapter 79 - An-Naziat

By those (angels) that pluck out the soul from depths

and gently take it away

and by those that speedily glide along (the cosmos)

and vie with the others (in carrying out their Lord´s behests)

and then manage the affairs of the Universe (according to their Lord´s commands)

The Day when the quaking will cause a violent convulsion

and will be followed by another quaking

and their eyes shall be downcast with dread

They say: "Shall we indeed be restored to life

even after we have been reduced to bones, hollow and rotten

They say: "That will then be a return with a great loss

Surely they will need no more than a single stern blast

and lo, they will all be in the open plain

Has Moses´ story reached you

When his Lord called him in the sacred valley of Tuwa

and directed him: "Go to Pharaoh, he has rebelled

and say to him: ´Are you willing to be purified

that I may direct you to your Lord and then you hold Him in awe?´

Then Moses (went to Pharaoh and) showed him the Great Sign

but he denied it as false and disobeyed

and then he turned back to have recourse to his craftiness

and gathered his people and declared

I am the supreme lord of you all

Thereupon Allah seized him for the chastisement of the World to Come as well as of the present

Surely there is a great lesson in it for whoever would fear (Allah)

Is it harder to create you or the heaven? But Allah built it

and raised its vault high and proportioned it

and covered its night with darkness and brought forth from it its day

and thereafter spread out the earth

and brought out of it its water and its pasture

and firmly fixed in it mountains

all this as provision for you and your cattle

But when the great calamity will come about

on the Day when man will recall all his strivings

and Hell will be brought in sight for anyone to see

then he who transgressed

and preferred the life of this world

most surely his abode shall be Hell

But he who feared to stand before his Lord, and restrained himself from evil desires

most surely his abode shall be Paradise

They ask you about the Hour: "When will it be

What concern do you have to speak about that

Its knowledge rests with your Lord

You are only a warner to him who has a fear of it

On the Day they see it, they will feel as though they had stayed (in the grave) no more than one evening or one morning