The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

(1) By those [angels] who extract with violence[1833]

(2) And [by] those who remove with ease[1834]

(3) And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming[1835]

(4) And those who race each other in a race[1836]

(5) And those who arrange [each] matter,[1837]

(6) On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],

(7) There will follow it the subsequent [one].

(8) Hearts,[1838] that Day, will tremble,

(9) Their eyes[1839] humbled.

(10) They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?

(11) Even if we should be decayed bones?"[1840]

(12) They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."[1841]

(13) Indeed, it will be but one shout,

(14) And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.

(15) Has there reached you the story of Moses? -

(16) When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Ṭuwā,

(17) "Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

(18) And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself

(19) And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"

(20) And he showed him the greatest sign,[1842]

(21) But he [i.e., Pharaoh] denied and disobeyed.

(22) Then he turned his back, striving [i.e., plotting].[1843]

(23) And he gathered [his people] and called out

(24) And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

(25) So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].[1844].

(26) Indeed in that is a lesson [i.e., warning] for whoever would fear [Allāh].

(27) Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it.

(28) He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

(29) And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.[1845]

(30) And after that He spread the earth.

(31) He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

(32) And the mountains He set firmly

(33) As enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.

(34) But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity[1846] -

(35) The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

(36) And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

(37) So as for he who transgressed

(38) And preferred the life of the world,

(39) Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

(40) But as for he who feared the position of his Lord[1847] and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,

(41) Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.

(42) They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?[1848]

(43) In what [position] are you that you should mention it?[1849]

(44) To your Lord is its finality.[1850]

(45) You are only a warner for those who fear it.

(46) It will be, on the Day they see it,[1851] as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.