Sura LXXIX (79)
Those Who Drag Forth
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By
those angels who drag forth souls with violence,
And by
those who with joyous release release them;
By
those who swim swimmingly along;
By
those who are foremost with foremost speed;
By
those who conduct the affairs of the universe!
One
day, the disturbing trumpet-blast shall disturb it,
Which
the second blast shall follow:
Men's
hearts on that day shall quake: --
Their
looks be downcast.
79:10 The infidels will say, "Shall we
indeed be restored as at first?
What!
when we have become rotten bones?"
"This
then," say they, "will be a return to loss."
Verily,
it will be but a single blast,
And
lo! they are on the surface of the earth.
Hath
the story of Moses reached thee?
When
his lord called to him in Towa's holy vale:
Go to
Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds:
And
say: "Wouldest thou become just?
Then I
will guide thee to thy Lord that thou mayest fear him."
79:20 And he showed him a great miracle, --
But he
treated him as an impostor, and rebelled;
Then
turned he his back all hastily,
And
gathered an assembly and proclaimed,
And
said, "I am your Lord supreme."
So God
visited on him the punishment of this life and of the other.
Verily,
herein is a lesson for him who hath the fear of God.
Are
you the harder to create, or the heaven which he hath built?
He
reared its height and fashioned it,
And
gave darkness to its night, and brought out its light,
79:30 And afterwards stretched forth the
earth, --
He
brought forth from it its waters and its pastures;
And
set the mountains firm
For
you and your cattle to enjoy.
But
when the grand overthrow shall come,
The
day when a man shall reflect on the pains that he hath taken,
And
Hell shall be in full view of all who are looking on;
Then,
as for him who hath transgressed
And
hath chosen this present life,
Verily,
Hell -- that shall be his dwelling-place:
79:40 But as to him who shall have feared
the majesty of his Lord, and shall have refrained his soul form lust,
Verily,
They
will ask thee of "the Hour," when will be its fixed time?
But
what knowledge hast thou of it?
Its
period is known only to thy Lord;
And
thou art only charged with the warning of those who fear it.
On the
day when they shall see it, it shall seem to them as though they had not
tarried in the tomb, longer than its evening or its morn.