| 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! |