English - Chapter 79 - An-Naziat

By those that wrest violently

by those that draw out quickly

by those that glide serenely

by those that race to the fore, outstripping

and by those that govern affairs

on the Day when the quaker quakes

and the successor follows upon it

Hearts that Day shall tremble

with eyes humbled

They will say, “Are we to be restored as we were before

What! When we have become decayed bones?”

They say, “This, then, would be a ruinous return!”

Yet it shall be but a single cry

then, behold, they will be upon a wide expanse

Hast thou heard tell of Moses

when his Lord called out to him in the holy valley of ?uwa

“Go unto Pharaoh! Truly he has rebelled

And say, ‘Dost thou wish to be purified

and that I guide thee to thy Lord that thou mightest have fear?’”

Then he showed him the greatest sign

But he denied and disobeyed

Then turned his back, moving swiftly

Then he gathered and proclaimed

and said, “I am your lord most high.”

So God seized him with a punishment exemplary in the Hereafter and in this world

Truly in that is a lesson for whosoever fears

Are you more difficult to create or the sky that He has built

He raised high its canopy and fashioned it

darkened its night, and brought forth its day

And after that He spread out the earth

From it He brought forth its water and its pastures

and the mountains He set firm

as sustenance for you and for your flocks

So when the Great Calamity befalls—

a day when man shall remember that for which he endeavored

and Hellfire is made visible for one who sees—

as for one who rebels

truly Hellfire is the refuge

As for one who fears standing before his Lord and forbids the soul from caprice

truly the Garden is the refuge

They ask thee about the Hour, “When shall it set in?”

What hast thou to do with mentioning it

Unto thy Lord is [knowledge of] the end thereof

Thou art but a warner for whosoever fears it

The Day they see it, it will be as if they had tarried but an evening or the morning thereof