| | John Medows Rodwell rendition of Surah Those Who Drag Forth, Soul-snatchers, Those Who Pulled Out(an-Nazi`at)
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| 79:1 | | By those angels who DRAG FORTH souls with violence |
| 79:2 | | And by those who with joyous release release them |
| 79:3 | | By those who swim swimmingly along |
| 79:4 | | By those who are foremost with foremost speed |
| 79:5 | | By those who conduct the affairs of the universe |
| 79:6 | | One day, the disturbing trumpet-blast shall disturb it |
| 79:7 | | Which the second blast shall follow |
| 79:8 | | Men's hearts on that day shall quake: |
| 79:9 | | Their looks be downcast |
| 79:10 | | The infidels will say, "Shall we indeed be restored as at first |
| 79:11 | | What! when we have become rotten bones?" |
| 79:12 | | "This then," say they, "will be a return to loss." |
| 79:13 | | Verily, it will be but a single blast |
| 79:14 | | And lo! they are on the surface of the earth |
| 79:15 | | Hath the story of Moses reached thee |
| 79:16 | | When his Lord called to him in Towa's holy vale |
| 79:17 | | Go to Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds |
| 79:18 | | And say, "Wouldest thou become just |
| 79:19 | | Then I will guide thee to thy Lord that thou mayest fear him." |
| 79:20 | | And he showed him a great miracle, |
| 79:21 | | But he treated him as an impostor, and rebelled |
| 79:22 | | Then turned he his back all hastily |
| 79:23 | | And gathered an assembly and proclaimed |
| 79:24 | | And said, "I am your Lord supreme." |
| 79:25 | | So God visited on him the punishment of this life and of the other |
| 79:26 | | Verily, herein is a lesson for him who hath the fear of God |
| 79:27 | | Are ye the harder to create, or the heaven which he hath built |
| 79:28 | | He reared its height and fashioned it |
| 79:29 | | And gave darkness to its night, and brought out its light |
| 79:30 | | And afterwards stretched forth the earth, |
| 79:31 | | He brought forth from it its waters and its pastures |
| 79:32 | | And set the mountains fir |
| 79:33 | | For you and your cattle to enjoy |
| 79:34 | | But when the grand overthrow shall come |
| 79:35 | | The day when a man shall reflect on the pains that he hath taken |
| 79:36 | | And Hell shall be in full view of all who are looking on |
| 79:37 | | Then, as for him who hath transgresse |
| 79:38 | | And hath chosen this present life |
| 79:39 | | 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 from lust |
| 79:41 | | Verily, Paradise - that shall be his dwelling-place |
| 79:42 | | They will ask thee of "the Hour," when will be its fixed time |
| 79:43 | | But what knowledge hast thou of it |
| 79:44 | | Its period is known only to thy Lord |
| 79:45 | | And thou art only charged with the warning of those who fear it |
| 79:46 | | 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 |
