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.Sura 79 | The Draggers | Translation Yusuf Ali
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  1 By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;  
  2 By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed);  
  3 And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy),  
  4 Then press forward as in a race,  
  5 Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord),  
  6 One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion,  
  7 Followed by oft-repeated (commotions):  
  8 Hearts that Day will be in agitation;  
  9 Cast down will be (their owners') eyes.  
  10 They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?  
  11 "What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?"  
  12 They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!"  
  13 But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry,  
  14 When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment).  
  15 Has the story of Moses reached thee?  
  16 Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa:-  
  17 "Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds:  
  18 "And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)?-  
  19 "'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'"  
  20 Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign.  
  21 And he will be in a life of Bliss,  
  22 In a Garden on high,  
  23 The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.  
  24 "Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"  
  25 And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!  
  26 "And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!  
  27 "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!  
  28 "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!  
  29 "My power has perished from me!"...  
  30 (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,  
  31 "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.  
  32 "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!  
  33 "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.  
  34 "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!  
  35 "So no friend hath he here this Day.  
  36 "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,  
  37 "Which none do eat but those in sin."  
  38 So I do call to witness what ye see,  
  39 And what ye see not,  
  40 That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;  
  41 Their abode will be the Garden.  
  42 They ask thee about the Hour,-'When will be its appointed time?  
  43 Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof?  
  44 With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor.  
  45 Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it.  
  46 The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn!