Those Who Drag Forth, Soul-snatchers, Those Who Pulled Out — Edward Henry Palmer Translation

79:1

وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا

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By those who tear out violently

WaalnnaziAAati gharqan

79:2

وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا

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And by those who gaily release

Waalnnashitati nashtan

79:3

وَالسَّابِحَاتِ سَبْحًا

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And by those who float through the air

Waalssabihati sabhan

79:4

فَالسَّابِقَاتِ سَبْقًا

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And the preceders who precede

Faalssabiqati sabqan

79:5

فَالْمُدَبِّرَاتِ أَمْرًا

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And those who manage the affair

Faalmudabbirati amran

79:6

يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ الرَّاجِفَةُ

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On the day when the quaking quake

Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu

79:7

تَتْبَعُهَا الرَّادِفَةُ

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which the following one shall succeed

TatbaAAuha alrradifatu

79:8

قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاجِفَةٌ

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Hearts on that day shall tremble

Quloobun yawma-ithin wajifatun

79:9

أَبْصَارُهَا خَاشِعَةٌ

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eyes thereon be humbled

Absaruha khashiAAatun

79:10

يَقُولُونَ أَإِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِي الْحَافِرَةِ

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They say, 'Shall we be sent back to our old course?

Yaqooloona a-inna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati

79:11

أَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا نَّخِرَةً

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What! when we are rotten bones?

A-itha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan

79:12

قَالُوا تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ

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they say, 'That then were a losing return!

Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun

79:13

فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ

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But it will only be one scare

Fa-innama hiya zajratun wahidatun

79:14

فَإِذَا هُم بِالسَّاهِرَةِ

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and lo! they will be on the surface

Fa-itha hum bialssahirati

79:15

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰ

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Has the story of Moses come to you

Hal ataka hadeethu moosa

79:16

إِذْ نَادَاهُ رَبُّهُ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

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when his Lord addressed him in the holy valley of Tuva

Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan

79:17

اذْهَبْ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ طَغَىٰ

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'Go unto Pharaoh, verily, he is outrageous

Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha

79:18

فَقُلْ هَل لَّكَ إِلَىٰ أَن تَزَكَّىٰ

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and say, "Hast thou a wish to purify thyself

Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka

79:19

وَأَهْدِيَكَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَتَخْشَىٰ

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and that I may guide thee to thy Lord, and thou mayest fear?"

Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha

79:20

فَأَرَاهُ الْآيَةَ الْكُبْرَىٰ

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So he showed him the greatest signs

Faarahu al-ayata alkubra

79:21

فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ

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but he called him a liar and rebelled

Fakaththaba waAAasa

79:22

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَىٰ

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Then he retreated hastily

and gathered, and proclaimed

Fahashara fanada

79:24

فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَىٰ

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and said, 'I am your Lord most High!

Faqala ana rabbukumu al-aAAla

79:25

فَأَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ نَكَالَ الْآخِرَةِ وَالْأُولَىٰ

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but God seized him with the punishment of the future life and of the former

Faakhathahu Allahu nakala al-akhirati waal-oola</u

79:26

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّمَن يَخْشَىٰ

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Verily, in that is a lesson to him who fears

Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha

79:27

أَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ السَّمَاءُ بَنَاهَا

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Are ye harder to create or the heaven that He has built

Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha

79:28

رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّاهَا

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He raised its height and fashioned it

RafaAAa samkaha fasawwaha

79:29

وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَاهَا

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and made its night to cover it, and brought forth its noonday light

Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha

79:30

وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَاهَا

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and the earth after that He did stretch out

Waal-arda baAAda thalika dahaha

79:31

أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءَهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا

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He brings forth from it its water and its pasture

Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha

79:32

وَالْجِبَالَ أَرْسَاهَا

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And the mountains He did firmly set

Waaljibala arsaha

79:33

مَتَاعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ

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a provision for you and for your cattle

MataAAan lakum wali-anAAamikum

79:34

فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الطَّامَّةُ الْكُبْرَىٰ

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And when the great predominant calamity shall come

Fa-itha jaati alttammatu alkubra

79:35

يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ مَا سَعَىٰ

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on the day when man shall remember what he strove after

Yawma yatathakkaru al-insanu ma saAAa

79:36

وَبُرِّزَتِ الْجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَىٰ

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and hell shall be brought out for him who sees

Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara

79:37

فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ

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And as for him who was outrageou

Faamma man tagha

79:38

وَآثَرَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

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and preferred the life of this world

Waathara alhayata alddunya

79:39

فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ

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verily, hell is the resort

Fa-inna aljaheema hiya alma/wa

79:40

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ

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But as for him who feared the station of his Lord, and prohibited his soul from lust

Waama man khafa maqama rabbihi wanaha alnnafsa AAani alhawa

79:41

فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ

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verily, Paradise is the resort

Fa-inna aljannata hiya alma/wa

79:42

يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا

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They shall ask thee about the Hour, for when it is set

Yas-aloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha

79:43

فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَاهَا

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Whereby canst thou mention it

Feema anta min thikraha

79:44

إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَاهَا

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Unto thy Lord its period belongs

Ila rabbika muntahaha

79:45

إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُنذِرُ مَن يَخْشَاهَا

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Thou art only a warner to him who fears it

Innama anta munthiru man yakhshaha

79:46

كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا

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On the day they see it, it will be as though they had only tarried an evening or the noon thereof

Kaannahum yawma yarawnaha lam yalbathoo illa AAashiyyatan aw duhaha

Surah 79. Those Who Drag Forth, Soul-snatchers, Those Who Pulled Out (an-Nazi`at)

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