Those Who Drag Forth, Soul-snatchers, Those Who Pulled Out — John Medows Rodwell Translation

79:1

وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا

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By those angels who DRAG FORTH souls with violence

WaalnnaziAAati gharqan

79:2

وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا

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And by those who with joyous release release them

Waalnnashitati nashtan

79:3

وَالسَّابِحَاتِ سَبْحًا

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By those who swim swimmingly along

Waalssabihati sabhan

79:4

فَالسَّابِقَاتِ سَبْقًا

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By those who are foremost with foremost speed

Faalssabiqati sabqan

79:5

فَالْمُدَبِّرَاتِ أَمْرًا

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By those who conduct the affairs of the universe

Faalmudabbirati amran

79:6

يَوْمَ تَرْجُفُ الرَّاجِفَةُ

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One day, the disturbing trumpet-blast shall disturb it

Yawma tarjufu alrrajifatu

79:7

تَتْبَعُهَا الرَّادِفَةُ

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Which the second blast shall follow

TatbaAAuha alrradifatu

79:8

قُلُوبٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَاجِفَةٌ

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Men's hearts on that day shall quake:

Quloobun yawma-ithin wajifatun

79:9

أَبْصَارُهَا خَاشِعَةٌ

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Their looks be downcast

Absaruha khashiAAatun

79:10

يَقُولُونَ أَإِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِي الْحَافِرَةِ

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The infidels will say, "Shall we indeed be restored as at first

Yaqooloona a-inna lamardoodoona fee alhafirati

79:11

أَإِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا نَّخِرَةً

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What! when we have become rotten bones?"

A-itha kunna AAithaman nakhiratan

79:12

قَالُوا تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ

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"This then," say they, "will be a return to loss."

Qaloo tilka ithan karratun khasiratun

79:13

فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ

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Verily, it will be but a single blast

Fa-innama hiya zajratun wahidatun

79:14

فَإِذَا هُم بِالسَّاهِرَةِ

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And lo! they are on the surface of the earth

Fa-itha hum bialssahirati

79:15

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰ

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Hath the story of Moses reached thee

Hal ataka hadeethu moosa

79:16

إِذْ نَادَاهُ رَبُّهُ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى

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When his Lord called to him in Towa's holy vale

Ith nadahu rabbuhu bialwadi almuqaddasi tuwan

79:17

اذْهَبْ إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ طَغَىٰ

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Go to Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds

Ithhab ila firAAawna innahu tagha

79:18

فَقُلْ هَل لَّكَ إِلَىٰ أَن تَزَكَّىٰ

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And say, "Wouldest thou become just

Faqul hal laka ila an tazakka

79:19

وَأَهْدِيَكَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ فَتَخْشَىٰ

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Then I will guide thee to thy Lord that thou mayest fear him."

Waahdiyaka ila rabbika fatakhsha

79:20

فَأَرَاهُ الْآيَةَ الْكُبْرَىٰ

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And he showed him a great miracle,

Faarahu al-ayata alkubra

79:21

فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَىٰ

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But he treated him as an impostor, and rebelled

Fakaththaba waAAasa

79:22

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَىٰ

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Then turned he his back all hastily

And gathered an assembly and proclaimed

Fahashara fanada

79:24

فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَىٰ

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And said, "I am your Lord supreme."

Faqala ana rabbukumu al-aAAla

79:25

فَأَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ نَكَالَ الْآخِرَةِ وَالْأُولَىٰ

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So God visited on him the punishment of this life and of the other

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

79:26

إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّمَن يَخْشَىٰ

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Verily, herein is a lesson for him who hath the fear of God

Inna fee thalika laAAibratan liman yakhsha

79:27

أَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ السَّمَاءُ بَنَاهَا

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Are ye the harder to create, or the heaven which he hath built

Aantum ashaddu khalqan ami alssamao banaha

79:28

رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّاهَا

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He reared its height and fashioned it

RafaAAa samkaha fasawwaha

79:29

وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَاهَا

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And gave darkness to its night, and brought out its light

Waaghtasha laylaha waakhraja duhaha

79:30

وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَاهَا

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And afterwards stretched forth the earth,

Waal-arda baAAda thalika dahaha

79:31

أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءَهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا

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He brought forth from it its waters and its pastures

Akhraja minha maaha wamarAAaha

79:32

وَالْجِبَالَ أَرْسَاهَا

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And set the mountains fir

Waaljibala arsaha

79:33

مَتَاعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ

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For you and your cattle to enjoy

MataAAan lakum wali-anAAamikum

79:34

فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الطَّامَّةُ الْكُبْرَىٰ

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But when the grand overthrow shall come

Fa-itha jaati alttammatu alkubra

79:35

يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ مَا سَعَىٰ

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The day when a man shall reflect on the pains that he hath taken

Yawma yatathakkaru al-insanu ma saAAa

79:36

وَبُرِّزَتِ الْجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَىٰ

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And Hell shall be in full view of all who are looking on

Waburrizati aljaheemu liman yara

79:37

فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ

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Then, as for him who hath transgresse

Faamma man tagha

79:38

وَآثَرَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

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And hath chosen this present life

Waathara alhayata alddunya

79:39

فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ

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Verily, Hell - that shall be his dwelling-place

Fa-inna aljaheema hiya alma/wa

79:40

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ

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But as to him who shall have feared the majesty of his Lord, and shall have refrained 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 - that shall be his dwelling-place

Fa-inna aljannata hiya alma/wa

79:42

يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ السَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرْسَاهَا

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They will ask thee of "the Hour," when will be its fixed time

Yas-aloonaka AAani alssaAAati ayyana mursaha

79:43

فِيمَ أَنتَ مِن ذِكْرَاهَا

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But what knowledge hast thou of it

Feema anta min thikraha

79:44

إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ مُنتَهَاهَا

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Its period is known only to thy Lord

Ila rabbika muntahaha

79:45

إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُنذِرُ مَن يَخْشَاهَا

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And thou art only charged with the warning of those who fear it

Innama anta munthiru man yakhshaha

79:46

كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا

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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

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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