Surah Naziat
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By those who snatch away violently; [79:1]
and those who let loose gently; [79:2]
and those who float along [79:3]
and those who race ahead [79:4]
and manage some affair, [79:5]
one day the quake will convulse [79:6]
and another will follow: [79:7]
hearts will be troubled that day, [79:8]
their gazes lowered. [79:9]
They say, “What? Are we to be returned to the original state, [79:10]
“when we have become worm-eaten bones?” [79:11]
They say, “That would be a turn for the worse.” [79:12]
Now it will be just a single shout [79:13]
and lo—they’ll be on the alert. [79:14]
Has the story of Moses reached you? [79:15]
His Lord called him in the sacred valley of Tuwa: [79:16]
“Go to Pharaoh, for he is a tyrant: [79:17]
“and say to him, ‘Have you any inclination to become pure, [79:18]
“‘so I might guide you to your Lord, whereat you will be awed?’” [79:19]
Then he showed him the great sign, [79:20]
but he scoffed and defied [79:21]
and turned his back in a hurry [79:22]
and mustered troops and proclaimed [79:23]
“I am your Lord, the supreme!” [79:24]
So God punished him as an example, in the hereafter and before: [79:25]
in that there is a lesson for anyone who’s in awe. [79:26]
Are you harder to create than the sky? God constructed that, [79:27]
raising its ceiling and proportioning it, [79:28]
making its night dark and bringing forth its daylight, [79:29]
unrolling the earth after that, [79:30]
bringing forth its water and its grassland from it, [79:31]
and anchoring its mountains [79:32]
for your convenience, and that of your livestock. [79:33]
Then when the greatest calamity comes, [79:34]
the day that man remembers what he strove for, [79:35]
and hellfire will be exposed for anyone to see. [79:36]
Then, for those who were excessive, [79:37]
preferring the life of the world, [79:38]
hellfire will be the abode. [79:39]
And for those who dreaded standing before their Lord and restrained the self from caprice, [79:40]
the garden will be the abode. [79:41]
They ask you about the end of time, for when it is set: [79:42]
What have you to do with reminder of that? [79:43]
Its end is up to your Lord. [79:44]
You are just a warner of those who dread it. [79:45]
It will seem to them, the day that they behold it, that they had stayed but an evening, or till the next day. [79:46]