- 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.