In the name of Allah,
the Beneficent,
the Merciful.
[79.1]
I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
[79.2]
And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
[79.3]
And by those who float in space,
[79.4]
Then those who are foremost going ahead,
[79.5]
Then those who regulate the affair.
[79.6]
The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
[79.7]
What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
[79.8]
Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
[79.10]
They say:
Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
[79.11]
What!
when we are rotten bones?
[79.12]
They said:
That then would be a return occasioning loss.
[79.13]
But it shall be only a single cry,
[79.14]
When lo!
they shall be wakeful.
[79.15]
Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
[79.16]
When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley,
twice,
[79.17]
Go to Firon,
surely he has become inordinate.
[79.18]
Then say:
Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
[79.19]
And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
[79.20]
So he showed him the mighty sign.
[79.21]
But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
[79.22]
Then he went back hastily.
[79.23]
Then he gathered (men) and called out.
[79.24]
Then he said:
I am your lord,
the most high.
[79.25]
So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
[79.26]
Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
[79.27]
Are you the harder to create or the heaven?
He made it.
[79.28]
He raised high its height,
then put it into a right good state.
[79.29]
And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
[79.30]
And the earth,
He expanded it after that.
[79.31]
He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
[79.32]
And the mountains,
He made them firm,
[79.33]
A provision for you and for your cattle.
[79.34]
But when the great predominating calamity comes;
[79.35]
The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
[79.36]
And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
[79.37]
Then as for him who is inordinate,
[79.38]
And prefers the life of this world,
[79.39]
Then surely the hell,
that is the abode.
[79.40]
And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
[79.41]
Then surely the garden-- that is the abode.
[79.42]
They ask you about the hour,
when it will come.
[79.43]
About what!
You are one to remind of it.
[79.44]
To your Lord is the goal of it.
[79.45]
You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
[79.46]
On the day that they see it,
it will be as though they had not tarried but the latter part of a day or the early part of it.