The Translation Of The Holy Quran
79. THOSE WHO DRAG FORTH
SOUL-SNATCHERS
Revealed before the Hijrah. This chapter has 46 verses.
In the name of God,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful
| 79:1 | By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence; |
| 79:2 | By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed); |
| 79:3 | And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy), |
| 79:4 | Then press forward as in a race, |
| 79:5 | Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord), |
| 79:6 | One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion, |
| 79:7 | Followed by oft-repeated (commotions): |
| 79:8 | Hearts that Day will be in agitation; |
| 79:9 | Cast down will be (their owners') eyes. |
| 79:10 | They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state? |
| 79:11 | "What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?" |
| 79:12 | They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!" |
| 79:13 | But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry, |
| 79:14 | When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment). |
| 79:15 | Has the story of Moses reached thee? |
| 79:16 | Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa:- |
| 79:17 | "Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds: |
| 79:18 | "And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)?- |
| 79:19 | "'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'" |
| 79:20 | Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign. |
| 79:21 | But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance); |
| 79:22 | Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against God). |
| 79:23 | Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation, |
| 79:24 | Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High". |
| 79:25 | But God did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life. |
| 79:26 | Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (God). |
| 79:27 | What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (God) hath constructed it: |
| 79:28 | On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection. |
| 79:29 | Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light). |
| 79:30 | And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse); |
| 79:31 | He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture; |
| 79:32 | And the mountains hath He firmly fixed;- |
| 79:33 | For use and convenience to you and your cattle. |
| 79:34 | Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event),- |
| 79:35 | The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for, |
| 79:36 | And Hell-Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see,- |
| 79:37 | Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds, |
| 79:38 | And had preferred the life of this world, |
| 79:39 | The Abode will be Hell-Fire; |
| 79:40 | And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires, |
| 79:41 | Their abode will be the Garden. |
| 79:42 | They ask thee about the Hour,-'When will be its appointed time? |
| 79:43 | Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof? |
| 79:44 | With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor. |
| 79:45 | Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it. |
| 79:46 | The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn! |