Surah An Naziat with English translation
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
79:1 وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا
By those [angels] who extract with violence
79:2 وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا
And [by] those who remove with ease
79:3 وَالسَّابِحَاتِ سَبْحًا
And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
79:4 فَالسَّابِقَاتِ سَبْقًا
And those who race each other in a race
79:5 فَالْمُدَبِّرَاتِ أَمْرًا
And those who arrange [each] matter,
79:6 يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ الرَّاجِفَةُ
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
79:7 تَتْبَعُهَا الرَّادِفَةُ
There will follow it the subsequent [one].
79:8 قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاجِفَةٌ
Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
79:9 أَبْصَارُهَا خَاشِعَةٌ
Their eyes humbled.
79:10 يَقُولُونَ أَإِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِي الْحَافِرَةِ
They are [presently] saying, “Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
79:11 أَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا نَخِرَةً
Even if we should be decayed bones?
79:12 قَالُوا تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ
They say, “That, then, would be a losing return.”
79:13 فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
79:14 فَإِذَا هُمْ بِالسَّاهِرَةِ
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth’s surface.
79:15 هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰ
Has there reached you the story of Moses? –
79:16 إِذْ نَادَاهُ رَبُّهُ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
79:17 اذْهَبْ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ طَغَىٰ
“Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
79:18 فَقُلْ هَلْ لَكَ إِلَىٰ أَنْ 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 فَأَرَاهُ الْآيَةَ الْكُبْرَىٰ
And he showed him the greatest sign,
79:21 فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ
But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
79:22 ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَىٰ
Then he turned his back, striving.
79:23 فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَىٰ
And he gathered [his people] and called out
79:24 فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَىٰ
And said, “I am your most exalted lord.”
79:25 فَأَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ نَكَالَ الْآخِرَةِ وَالْأُولَىٰ
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
79:26 إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِمَنْ يَخْشَىٰ
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
79:27 أَأَنْتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ السَّمَاءُ ۚ بَنَاهَا
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
79:28 رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّاهَا
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
79:29 وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَاهَا
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
79:30 وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَاهَا
And after that He spread the earth.
79:31 أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءَهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
79:32 وَالْجِبَالَ أَرْسَاهَا
And the mountains He set firmly
79:33 مَتَاعًا لَكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
79:34 فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الطَّامَّةُ الْكُبْرَىٰ
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity –
79:35 يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنْسَانُ مَا سَعَىٰ
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
79:36 وَبُرِّزَتِ الْجَحِيمُ لِمَنْ يَرَىٰ
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see –
79:37 فَأَمَّا مَنْ طَغَىٰ
So as for he who transgressed
79:38 وَآثَرَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا
And preferred the life of the world,
79:39 فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
79:40 وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
79:41 فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
79:42 يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
79:43 فِيمَ أَنْتَ مِنْ ذِكْرَاهَا
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
79:44 إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنْتَهَاهَا
To your Lord is its finality.
79:45 إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُنْذِرُ مَنْ يَخْشَاهَا
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
79:46 كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا
It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.