By those who snatch violently.

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا

And those who remove gently.

وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا

And those who glide smoothly.

وَالسَّابِحَاتِ سَبْحًا

And those who race swiftly.

فَالسَّابِقَاتِ سَبْقًا

And those who regulate events.

فَالْمُدَبِّرَاتِ أَمْرًا

On the Day when the Quake quakes.

يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ الرَّاجِفَةُ

And is followed by the Successor.

تَتْبَعُهَا الرَّادِفَةُ

Hearts on that Day will be pounding.

قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاجِفَةٌ

Their sights downcast.

أَبْصَارُهَا خَاشِعَةٌ

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

يَقُولُونَ أَإِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِي الْحَافِرَةِ

When we have become hollow bones?”

أَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا نَخِرَةً

They say, “This is a losing proposition.”

قَالُوا تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ

But it will be only a single nudge.

فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ

And they will be awake.

فَإِذَا هُمْ بِالسَّاهِرَةِ

Has the story of Moses reached you?

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَى

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

إِذْ نَادَاهُ رَبُّهُ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

“Go to Pharaoh—he has transgressed.”

اذْهَبْ إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ طَغَى

And say, “Do you care to be cleansed?

فَقُلْ هَلْ لَكَ إِلَى أَنْ تَزَكَّى

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

وَأَهْدِيَكَ إِلَى رَبِّكَ فَتَخْشَى

He showed him the Greatest Miracle.

فَأَرَاهُ الْآيَةَ الْكُبْرَى

But he denied and defied.

فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَى

Then turned his back, and tried.

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَى

And gathered and proclaimed.

فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَى

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

فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَى

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

فَأَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ نَكَالَ الْآخِرَةِ وَالْأُولَى

In this is a lesson for whoever fears.

إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِمَنْ يَخْشَى

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

أَأَنْتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ السَّمَاءُ بَنَاهَا

He raised its masses, and proportioned it.

رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّاهَا

And He dimmed its night, and brought out its daylight.

وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَاهَا

And the earth after that He spread.

وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ دَحَاهَا

And from it, He produced its water and its pasture.

أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءَهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا

And the mountains, He anchored.

وَالْجِبَالَ أَرْسَاهَا

A source of enjoyment for you and for your animals.

مَتَاعًا لَكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ

But when the Great Cataclysm arrives.

فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الطَّامَّةُ الْكُبْرَى

A Day when man will remember what he has endeavored.

يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنْسَانُ مَا سَعَى

And Hell will be displayed to whoever sees.

وَبُرِّزَتِ الْجَحِيمُ لِمَنْ يَرَى

As for him who was defiant.

فَأَمَّا مَنْ طَغَى

And preferred the life of this world.

وَآثَرَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

Then Hell is the shelter.

فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَى

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

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَى

Then Paradise is the shelter.

فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَى

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

يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا

You have no knowledge of it.

فِيمَ أَنْتَ مِنْ ذِكْرَاهَا

To your Lord is its finality.

إِلَى رَبِّكَ مُنْتَهَاهَا

You are just a warner for whoever dreads it.

إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُنْذِرُ مَنْ يَخْشَاهَا

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

كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا

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