79. An-Naazi'aat سُورَةُ النَّازِعَاتِ

Yusuf AliBy the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence

Yusuf AliBy those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed)

Yusuf AliAnd by those who glide along (on errands of mercy)

Yusuf AliThen press forward as in a race

Yusuf AliThen arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord)

Yusuf AliOne Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion

Yusuf AliFollowed by oft-repeated (commotions)

Yusuf AliHearts that Day will be in agitation

Yusuf AliCast down will be (their owners') eyes

Yusuf AliThey say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state

Yusuf AliWhat! - when we shall have become rotten bones

Yusuf AliThey say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss

Yusuf AliBut verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry

Yusuf AliWhen, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment)

Yusuf AliHas the story of Moses reached thee

Yusuf AliBehold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa

Yusuf AliGo thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds

Yusuf AliAnd say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)

Yusuf AliAnd that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him

Yusuf AliThen did (Moses) show him the Great Sign

Yusuf AliBut (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance)

Yusuf AliFurther, he turned his back, striving hard (against God)

Yusuf AliThen he collected (his men) and made a proclamation

Yusuf AliSaying, "I am your Lord, Most High

Yusuf AliBut God did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life

Yusuf AliVerily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (God)

Yusuf AliWhat! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (God) hath constructed it

Yusuf AliOn high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection

Yusuf AliIts night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light)

Yusuf AliAnd the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse)

Yusuf AliHe draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture

Yusuf AliAnd the mountains hath He firmly fixed

Yusuf AliFor use and convenience to you and your cattle

Yusuf AliTherefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event)

Yusuf AliThe Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for

Yusuf AliAnd Hell-Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see

Yusuf AliThen, for such as had transgressed all bounds

Yusuf AliAnd had preferred the life of this world

Yusuf AliThe Abode will be Hell-Fire

Yusuf AliAnd for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires

Yusuf AliTheir abode will be the Garden

Yusuf AliThey ask thee about the Hour,-'When will be its appointed time

Yusuf AliWherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof

Yusuf AliWith thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor

Yusuf AliThou art but a Warner for such as fear it

Yusuf AliThe Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn