بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلنَّٰزِعَٰتِ غَرْقًا
English Translation:
By those [angels] who extract with violence
وَٱلنَّٰشِطَٰتِ نَشْطًا
English Translation:
And [by] those who remove with ease
وَٱلسَّٰبِحَٰتِ سَبْحًا
English Translation:
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
فَٱلسَّٰبِقَٰتِ سَبْقًا
English Translation:
And those who race each other in a race
فَٱلْمُدَبِّرَٰتِ أَمْرًا
English Translation:
And those who arrange [each] matter
يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ ٱلرَّاجِفَةُ
English Translation:
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation]
تَتْبَعُهَا ٱلرَّادِفَةُ
English Translation:
There will follow it the subsequent [one]
قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاجِفَةٌ
English Translation:
Hearts, that Day, will tremble
أَبْصَٰرُهَا خَٰشِعَةٌ
English Translation:
Their eyes humbled
يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى ٱلْحَافِرَةِ
English Translation:
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]
أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَٰمًا نَّخِرَةً
English Translation:
Even if we should be decayed bones
قَالُوا۟ تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ
English Translation:
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return
فَإِنَّمَا هِىَ زَجْرَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ
English Translation:
Indeed, it will be but one shout
فَإِذَا هُم بِٱلسَّاهِرَةِ
English Translation:
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰٓ
English Translation:
Has there reached you the story of Moses
إِذْ نَادَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ بِٱلْوَادِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى
English Translation:
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa
ٱذْهَبْ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُۥ طَغَىٰ
English Translation:
Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed
فَقُلْ هَل لَّكَ إِلَىٰٓ أَن تَزَكَّىٰ
English Translation:
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
وَأَهْدِيَكَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَتَخْشَىٰ
English Translation:
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]
فَأَرَىٰهُ ٱلْءَايَةَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ
English Translation:
And he showed him the greatest sign
فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ
English Translation:
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed
ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَىٰ
English Translation:
Then he turned his back, striving
فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَىٰ
English Translation:
And he gathered [his people] and called out
فَقَالَ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمُ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ
English Translation:
And said, "I am your most exalted lord
فَأَخَذَهُ ٱللَّهُ نَكَالَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةِ وَٱلْأُولَىٰٓ
English Translation:
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression]
إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّمَن يَخْشَىٰٓ
English Translation:
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah]
ءَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ بَنَىٰهَا
English Translation:
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it
رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّىٰهَا
English Translation:
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it
وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَىٰهَا
English Translation:
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness
وَٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَىٰهَآ
English Translation:
And after that He spread the earth
أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَآءَهَا وَمَرْعَىٰهَا
English Translation:
He extracted from it its water and its pasture
وَٱلْجِبَالَ أَرْسَىٰهَا
English Translation:
And the mountains He set firmly
مَتَٰعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ
English Translation:
As provision for you and your grazing livestock
فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلطَّآمَّةُ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ
English Translation:
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity
يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مَا سَعَىٰ
English Translation:
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove
وَبُرِّزَتِ ٱلْجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَىٰ
English Translation:
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see
فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ
English Translation:
So as for he who transgressed
وَءَاثَرَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا
English Translation:
And preferred the life of the world
فَإِنَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ هِىَ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰ
English Translation:
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفْسَ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰ
English Translation:
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination
فَإِنَّ ٱلْجَنَّةَ هِىَ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰ
English Translation:
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge
يَسْـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَىٰهَا
English Translation:
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival
فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَىٰهَآ
English Translation:
In what [position] are you that you should mention it
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَىٰهَآ
English Translation:
To your Lord is its finality
إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُنذِرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰهَا
English Translation:
You are only a warner for those who fear it
كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَىٰهَا
English Translation:
It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof