An-Nazi'at

By those [angels] who extract with violence

wal-nāziʿāti gharqan

And [by] those who remove with ease

wal-nāshiṭāti nashṭan

And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming

wal-sābiḥāti sabḥan

And those who race each other in a race

fal-sābiqāti sabqan

And those who arrange [each] matter,

fal-mudabirāti amran

On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],

yawma tarjufu l-rājifatu

There will follow it the subsequent [one].

tatbaʿuhā l-rādifatu

Hearts, that Day, will tremble,

qulūbun yawma-idhin wājifatun

Their eyes humbled.

abṣāruhā khāshiʿatun

They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?

yaqūlūna a-innā lamardūdūna fī l-ḥāfirati

Even if we should be decayed bones?

a-idhā kunnā ʿiẓāman nakhiratan

They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."

qālū til'ka idhan karratun khāsiratun

Indeed, it will be but one shout,

fa-innamā hiya zajratun wāḥidatun

And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.

fa-idhā hum bil-sāhirati

Has there reached you the story of Moses? -

hal atāka ḥadīthu mūsā

When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,

idh nādāhu rabbuhu bil-wādi l-muqadasi ṭuwan

"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

idh'hab ilā fir'ʿawna innahu ṭaghā

And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself

faqul hal laka ilā an tazakkā

And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"

wa-ahdiyaka ilā rabbika fatakhshā

And he showed him the greatest sign,

fa-arāhu l-āyata l-kub'rā

But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.

fakadhaba waʿaṣā

Then he turned his back, striving.

thumma adbara yasʿā

And he gathered [his people] and called out

faḥashara fanādā

And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

faqāla anā rabbukumu l-aʿlā

So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].

fa-akhadhahu l-lahu nakāla l-ākhirati wal-ūlā

Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].

inna fī dhālika laʿib'ratan liman yakhshā

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.

a-antum ashaddu khalqan ami l-samāu banāhā

He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

rafaʿa samkahā fasawwāhā

And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

wa-aghṭasha laylahā wa-akhraja ḍuḥāhā

And after that He spread the earth.

wal-arḍa baʿda dhālika daḥāhā

He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

akhraja min'hā māahā wamarʿāhā

And the mountains He set firmly

wal-jibāla arsāhā

As provision for you and your grazing livestock.

matāʿan lakum wali-anʿāmikum

But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

fa-idhā jāati l-ṭāmatu l-kub'rā

The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

yawma yatadhakkaru l-insānu mā saʿā

And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

waburrizati l-jaḥīmu liman yarā

So as for he who transgressed

fa-ammā man ṭaghā

And preferred the life of the world,

waāthara l-ḥayata l-dun'yā

Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

fa-inna l-jaḥīma hiya l-mawā

But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,

wa-ammā man khāfa maqāma rabbihi wanahā l-nafsa ʿani l-hawā

Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.

fa-inna l-janata hiya l-mawā

They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?

yasalūnaka ʿani l-sāʿati ayyāna mur'sāhā

In what [position] are you that you should mention it?

fīma anta min dhik'rāhā

To your Lord is its finality.

ilā rabbika muntahāhā

You are only a warner for those who fear it.

innamā anta mundhiru man yakhshāhā

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.

ka-annahum yawma yarawnahā lam yalbathū illā ʿashiyyatan aw ḍuḥāhā