Quran Surah 79 - An-Nazi'at (Those Who Yearn)



Ayat 1 - I CALL TO WITNESS those who dive and drag,
Ayat 2 - And those who undo the bonds gently,
Ayat 3 - And those who glide swimmingly,
Ayat 4 - Then outpace the others swiftly
Ayat 5 - And direct affairs by command,
Ayat 6 - The day the convulsive (first blast) shatters convulsively
Ayat 7 - Followed by the second blast,
Ayat 8 - Hearts will pound loudly on that day,
Ayat 9 - Eyes be lowered in submission.
Ayat 10 - They say: "Shall we go back to our original state
Ayat 11 - After having turned to carious bones?"
Ayat 12 - They say: "Then this returning will be a dead loss."
Ayat 13 - It will only be a single blast,
Ayat 14 - And they will wake up suddenly.
Ayat 15 - Has the story of Moses come to you
Ayat 16 - When his Lord called to him in Tuwa´s holy vale?
Ayat 17 - "Go to the Pharaoh who has become refractory,
Ayat 18 - And say: ´Would you like to grow (in virtue)?
Ayat 19 - Then I will guide you to your Lord that you may come to fear Him.´"
Ayat 20 - So he showed him the greater sign;
Ayat 21 - But (the Pharaoh) disavowed and disobeyed.
Ayat 22 - Then he turned away, deliberating,
Ayat 23 - And assembled (his council) and proclaimed,
Ayat 24 - Saying: "I am alone your lord, the highest of them all."
Ayat 25 - So God seized him for the punishment of the Hereafter and this world.
Ayat 26 - Truly there is a lesson in this for those who fear (the consequences).
Ayat 27 - Are you more difficult to create or the heavens? He built it,
Ayat 28 - Raised it high, proportioned it,
Ayat 29 - Gave darkness to its night, and brightness to its day;
Ayat 30 - And afterwards spread out the earth.
Ayat 31 - He brought out its water and its pastures from it,
Ayat 32 - And stabilized the mountains
Ayat 33 - As convenience for you and your cattle.
Ayat 34 - When the great calamity comes,
Ayat 35 - The day when man remembers all that he had done,
Ayat 36 - And Hell made visible to him who can see,
Ayat 37 - Then he who had been rebellious
Ayat 38 - And who preferred the life of the world,
Ayat 39 - Will surely have Hell for his abode.
Ayat 40 - But he who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained his self from vain desires,
Ayat 41 - Will surely have Paradise for abode.
Ayat 42 - They ask you: "When will the Hour be? When is its time fixed?"
Ayat 43 - What do you have to do with explaining it?
Ayat 44 - The extent of its knowledge goes to your Lord.
Ayat 45 - Your duty is only to warn him who fears it.
Ayat 46 - The day they see it, it will seem they had stayed in the world but only an evening or its turning into dawn.