بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ
English Translation:
I swear by the Day of Resurrection
وَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلنَّفْسِ ٱللَّوَّامَةِ
English Translation:
And I swear by the reproaching soul [to the certainty of resurrection]
أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَلَّن نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَهُۥ
English Translation:
Does man think that We will not assemble his bones
بَلَىٰ قَٰدِرِينَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّسَوِّىَ بَنَانَهُۥ
English Translation:
Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips
بَلْ يُرِيدُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُۥ
English Translation:
But man desires to continue in sin
يَسْـَٔلُ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ
English Translation:
He asks, "When is the Day of Resurrection
فَإِذَا بَرِقَ ٱلْبَصَرُ
English Translation:
So when vision is dazzled
وَخَسَفَ ٱلْقَمَرُ
English Translation:
And the moon darkens
وَجُمِعَ ٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ
English Translation:
And the sun and the moon are joined
يَقُولُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَيْنَ ٱلْمَفَرُّ
English Translation:
Man will say on that Day, "Where is the [place of] escape
كَلَّا لَا وَزَرَ
English Translation:
No! There is no refuge
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمُسْتَقَرُّ
English Translation:
To your Lord, that Day, is the [place of] permanence
يُنَبَّؤُا۟ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِمَا قَدَّمَ وَأَخَّرَ
English Translation:
Man will be informed that Day of what he sent ahead and kept back
بَلِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِۦ بَصِيرَةٌ
English Translation:
Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness
وَلَوْ أَلْقَىٰ مَعَاذِيرَهُۥ
English Translation:
Even if he presents his excuses
لَا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِۦ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعْجَلَ بِهِۦٓ
English Translation:
Move not your tongue with it, [O Muhammad], to hasten with recitation of the Qur'an
إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُۥ وَقُرْءَانَهُۥ
English Translation:
Indeed, upon Us is its collection [in your heart] and [to make possible] its recitation
فَإِذَا قَرَأْنَٰهُ فَٱتَّبِعْ قُرْءَانَهُۥ
English Translation:
So when We have recited it [through Gabriel], then follow its recitation
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُۥ
English Translation:
Then upon Us is its clarification [to you]
كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ
English Translation:
No! But you love the immediate
وَتَذَرُونَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ
English Translation:
And leave the Hereafter
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاضِرَةٌ
English Translation:
[Some] faces, that Day, will be radiant
إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ
English Translation:
Looking at their Lord
وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بَاسِرَةٌ
English Translation:
And [some] faces, that Day, will be contorted
تَظُنُّ أَن يُفْعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٌ
English Translation:
Expecting that there will be done to them [something] backbreaking
كَلَّآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلتَّرَاقِىَ
English Translation:
No! When the soul has reached the collar bones
وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاقٍ
English Translation:
And it is said, "Who will cure [him]
وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ ٱلْفِرَاقُ
English Translation:
And the dying one is certain that it is the [time of] separation
وَٱلْتَفَّتِ ٱلسَّاقُ بِٱلسَّاقِ
English Translation:
And the leg is wound about the leg
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمَسَاقُ
English Translation:
To your Lord, that Day, will be the procession
فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ
English Translation:
And the disbeliever had not believed, nor had he prayed
وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
English Translation:
But [instead], he denied and turned away
ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ يَتَمَطَّىٰٓ
English Translation:
And then he went to his people, swaggering [in pride]
أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰ
English Translation:
Woe to you, and woe
ثُمَّ أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰٓ
English Translation:
Then woe to you, and woe
أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَن يُتْرَكَ سُدًى
English Translation:
Does man think that he will be left neglected
أَلَمْ يَكُ نُطْفَةً مِّن مَّنِىٍّ يُمْنَىٰ
English Translation:
Had he not been a sperm from semen emitted
ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةً فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ
English Translation:
Then he was a clinging clot, and [Allah] created [his form] and proportioned [him]
فَجَعَلَ مِنْهُ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ
English Translation:
And made of him two mates, the male and the female
أَلَيْسَ ذَٰلِكَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يُحْۦِىَ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ
English Translation:
Is not that [Creator] Able to give life to the dead