An-Nazi'at

By those who drag forth to destruction

By the meteors rushing

By the lone stars floating

By the angels hastening

And those who govern the event

On the day when the first trump resoundeth

And the second followeth it

On that day hearts beat painfully

While eyes are downcast

(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state

Even after we are crumbled bones

They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding

Surely it will need but one shout

And lo! they will be awakened

Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses

How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa

(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled

And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace)

Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him)

And he showed him the tremendous token

But he denied and disobeyed

Then turned he away in haste

Then gathered he and summoned

And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest

So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former

Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth

Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built

He raised the height thereof and ordered it

And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof

And after that He spread the earth

And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof

And He made fast the hills

A provision for you and for your cattle

But when the great disaster cometh

The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour

And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth

Then, as for him who rebelled

And chose the life of the world

Lo! hell will be his home

But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust

Lo! the Garden will be his home

They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port

Why (ask they)? What hast thou to tell thereof

Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof

Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it

On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof