1 | By those who drag forth to destruction, |
2 | By the meteors rushing, |
3 | By the lone stars floating, |
4 | By the angels hastening, |
5 | And those who govern the event, |
6 | On the day when the first trump resoundeth. |
7 | And the second followeth it, |
8 | On that day hearts beat painfully |
9 | While eyes are downcast |
10 | (Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state |
11 | Even after we are crumbled bones ? |
12 | They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding. |
13 | Surely it will need but one shout, |
14 | And lo! they will be awakened. |
15 | Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ? |
16 | How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa, |
17 | (Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled - |
18 | And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ? |
19 | Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him). |
20 | And he showed him the tremendous token. |
21 | But he denied and disobeyed, |
22 | Then turned he away in haste, |
23 | Then gathered he and summoned |
24 | And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest." |
25 | So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former. |
26 | Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth. |
27 | Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built ? |
28 | He raised the height thereof and ordered it; |
29 | And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof. |
30 | And after that He spread the earth, |
31 | And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof, |
32 | And He made fast the hills, |
33 | A provision for you and for your cattle. |
34 | But when the great disaster cometh, |
35 | The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour, |
36 | And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth, |
37 | Then, as for him who rebelled |
38 | And chose the life of the world, |
39 | Lo! hell will be his home. |
40 | But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust, |
41 | Lo! the Garden will be his home. |
42 | They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ? |
43 | Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ? |
44 | Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof. |
45 | Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it. |
46 | On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof. |