WaalnnaziAAati gharqan
By those [angels] who extract with violence
Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu
On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
Yaqooloona ainna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati
They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?
Aitha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan
Even if we should be decayed bones?
Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun
They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
Fainnama hiya zajratun wahidatun
Indeed, it will be but one shout,
Faitha hum bialssahirati
And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan
When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
Faqala ana rabbukumu alaAAla
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
Faakhathahu Allahu nakala alakhirati waaloola
So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].
Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha
Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.
Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
Waalarda baAAda thalika dahaha
And after that He spread the earth.
Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
MataAAan lakum walianAAamikum
As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
Faitha jaati alttammatu alkubra
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
Yawma yatathakkaru alinsanu ma saAAa
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
Fainna aljaheema hiya almawa
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
Waama man khafa maqama rabbihi wanaha alnnafsa AAani alhawa
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
Fainna aljannata hiya almawa
Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
Yasaloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha
They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
Feema anta min thikraha
In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
Innama anta munthiru man yakhshaha
You are only a warner for those who fear it.
Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha
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.