Surah An-Nazi'at (Those who Drag Forth) 79

Revealed 81st in the Qur'an

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By those [angels] who extract with violence,

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And [by] those who remove with ease,

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And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming,

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And those who race each other in a race,

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And those who arrange [each] command,

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On the Day, the quake will quake, *Revelation 6:12

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[And] the subsequent [one] will follow it.

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Hearts will tremble that Day,

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Their eyes [will be] humbled.

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[Yet] they are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our] former state [of life]?

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Even if we should be decayed bones?"

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They say, "That would then be a losing return."

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Indeed, it will only be one shout, ~*Jeremiah 25:30

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And suddenly they will be awakened.

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Has the story of Moses come to you?

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When his Lord called to him in the holy valley of Tuwa,

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"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

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

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

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And he showed him the greatest sign,

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But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.

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Then he turned his back, striving.

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And he gathered [his people] and called out

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And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

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So God seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].

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Indeed there is a lesson in that for whoever would fear [God].

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Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? [God] constructed it.

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He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

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And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

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And after that, He spread the earth. *Isaiah 42:5, *Isaiah 44:24

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He extracted its water from it and its pasture,

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And He set the mountains firmly

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As provision for you and your grazing livestock.

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But when the greatest Overwhelming Calamity comes -

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

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And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see.

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So as for he who transgressed

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And preferred the life of the world,

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Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

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But as for he who feared standing [before] his Lord and forbade the soul from [unlawful] desires,

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Then indeed, the Garden will be [his] refuge.

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They ask you about the Hour, when is its arrival?

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In what [position] are you [to] mention it?

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Its Utmost Boundary is to your Lord.

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You are only a warner for those who fear it.

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On the Day they see it, it will be as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an evening or a morning thereof.