— By those [angels] who extract with violence 1 — And [by] those who remove with ease 1 — And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming 1 — And those who race each other in a race 1 — And those who arrange [each] matter, 1 79:6 يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ ٱلرَّاجِفَةُ — On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation], — There will follow it the subsequent [one]. 79:8 قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاجِفَةٌ — Hearts, 1 that Day, will tremble, 79:10 يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى ٱلْحَافِرَةِ — They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]? 79:11 أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـٰمًا نَّخِرَةً — Even if we should be decayed bones?" 1 79:12 قَالُوا۟ تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ — They say, "That, then, would be a losing return." 1 79:13 فَإِنَّمَا هِىَ زَجْرَةٌ وَٰحِدَةٌ — Indeed, it will be but one shout, 79:14 فَإِذَا هُم بِٱلسَّاهِرَةِ — And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface. 79:15 هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰٓ — Has there reached you the story of Moses? - 79:16 إِذْ نَادَىٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ بِٱلْوَادِ ٱلْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى — When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Ṭuwā, 79:17 ٱذْهَبْ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُۥ طَغَىٰ — "Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed. 79:18 فَقُلْ هَل لَّكَ إِلَىٰٓ أَن تَزَكَّىٰ — And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself 79:19 وَأَهْدِيَكَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَتَخْشَىٰ — And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'" 79:20 فَأَرَىٰهُ ٱلْـَٔايَةَ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ — And he showed him the greatest sign, 1 — But he [i.e., Pharaoh] denied and disobeyed. — Then he turned his back, striving [i.e., plotting]. 1 — And he gathered [his people] and called out. 79:24 فَقَالَ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمُ ٱلْأَعْلَىٰ — And said, "I am your most exalted lord." 79:25 فَأَخَذَهُ ٱللَّهُ نَكَالَ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ وَٱلْأُولَىٰٓ — So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression]. 1. 79:26 إِنَّ فِى ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّمَن يَخْشَىٰٓ — Indeed in that is a lesson [i.e., warning] for whoever would fear [Allāh]. 79:27 ءَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ ٱلسَّمَآءُ ۚ بَنَىٰهَا — Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it. 79:28 رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّىٰهَا — He raised its ceiling and proportioned it. 79:29 وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَىٰهَا — And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness. 1 79:30 وَٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَىٰهَآ — And after that He spread the earth. 79:31 أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَآءَهَا وَمَرْعَىٰهَا — He extracted from it its water and its pasture, — And the mountains He set firmly 79:33 مَتَـٰعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَـٰمِكُمْ — As enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock. 79:34 فَإِذَا جَآءَتِ ٱلطَّآمَّةُ ٱلْكُبْرَىٰ — But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity 1 - 79:35 يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ مَا سَعَىٰ — The Day when man will remember that for which he strove, 79:36 وَبُرِّزَتِ ٱلْجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَىٰ — And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see - — So as for he who transgressed 79:38 وَءَاثَرَ ٱلْحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنْيَا — And preferred the life of the world, 79:39 فَإِنَّ ٱلْجَحِيمَ هِىَ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰ — Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge. 79:40 وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِۦ وَنَهَى ٱلنَّفْسَ عَنِ ٱلْهَوَىٰ — But as for he who feared the position of his Lord 1 and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination, 79:41 فَإِنَّ ٱلْجَنَّةَ هِىَ ٱلْمَأْوَىٰ — Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge. 79:42 يَسْـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَىٰهَا — They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival? 1 79:43 فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَىٰهَآ — In what [position] are you that you should mention it? 1 79:44 إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَىٰهَآ — To your Lord is its finality. 1 79:45 إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُنذِرُ مَن يَخْشَىٰهَا — You are only a warner for those who fear it. 79:46 كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوٓا۟ إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَىٰهَا — It will be, on the Day they see it, 1 as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.