English - Chapter 79 - An-Naziat

By those who snatch violently

And those who remove gently

And those who glide smoothly

And those who race swiftly

And those who regulate events

On the Day when the Quake quakes

And is followed by the Successor

Hearts on that Day will be pounding

Their sights downcast

They say, “Are we to be restored to the original condition

When we have become hollow bones?”

They say, “This is a losing proposition.”

But it will be only a single nudge

And they will be awake

Has the story of Moses reached you

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

“Go to Pharaoh—he has transgressed.”

And say, “Do you care to be cleansed

And I will guide you to your Lord, and you will turn reverent.”

He showed him the Greatest Miracle

But he denied and defied

Then turned his back, and tried

And gathered and proclaimed

He said, “I am your Lord, the most high.”

So God seized him with an exemplary punishment, in the last and in the first

In this is a lesson for whoever fears

Are you more difficult to create, or the heaven? He constructed it

He raised its masses, and proportioned it

And He dimmed its night, and brought out its daylight

And the earth after that He spread

And from it, He produced its water and its pasture

And the mountains, He anchored

A source of enjoyment for you and for your animals

But when the Great Cataclysm arrives

A Day when man will remember what he has endeavored

And Hell will be displayed to whoever sees

As for him who was defiant

And preferred the life of this world

Then Hell is the shelter

But as for him who feared the Standing of his Lord, and restrained the self from desires

Then Paradise is the shelter

They ask you about the Hour, “When will it take place?”

You have no knowledge of it

To your Lord is its finality

You are just a warner for whoever dreads it

On the Day when they witness it—as though they only stayed an evening, or its morning