In the Name of Allaah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. |
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By those (angels) who pull out (the souls of the disbelievers and the wicked) with great violence; |
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By those (angels) who gently take out (the souls of the believers); |
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And by those that swim along (i.e. angels or planets in their orbits, etc.). |
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And by those that press forward as in a race (i.e. the angels or stars or the horses, etc.). |
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And by those angels who arrange to do the Commands of their Lord, (so verily, you disbelievers will be called to account). |
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On the Day (when the first blowing of the Trumpet is blown), the earth and the mountains will shake violently (and everybody will die), |
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The second blowing of the Trumpet follows it (and everybody will be raised up), |
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(Some) hearts that Day will shake with fear and anxiety. |
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Their eyes cast down. |
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They say: "Shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state of life? |
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"Even after we are crumbled bones?" |
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They say: "It would in that case, be a return with loss!" |
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But only, it will be a single Zajrah [shout (i.e., the second blowing of the Trumpet)]. (See (37):19). |
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When, behold, they find themselves over the earth alive after their death, |
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Has there come to you the story of Moosaa (Moses)? |
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When his Lord called him in the sacred valley of Tuwaa, |
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Go to Fir'aun (Pharaoh), verily, he has transgressed all bounds (in crimes, sins, polytheism, disbelief, etc.). |
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And say to him: "Would you purify yourself (from the sin of disbelief by becoming a believer)", |
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And that I guide you to your Lord, so you should fear Him? |
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Then [Moosaa (Moses)] showed him the great sign (miracles). |
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But [Fir'aun (Pharaoh)] belied and disobeyed; |
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Then he turned his back, striving hard (against Allaah). |
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Then he gathered his people and cried aloud, |
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Saying: "I am your lord, most high", |
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So Allaah, seized him with punishment for his last [1] and first [2] transgression. [Tafseer At-Tabaree] |
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Verily, in this is an instructive admonition for whosoever fears Allaah. |
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Are you more difficult to create, or is the heaven that He constructed? |
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He raised its height, and He has equally ordered it, |
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Its night He covers with darkness, and its forenoon He brings out (with light). |
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And after that He spread the earth; |
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And brought forth therefrom its water and its pasture; |
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And the mountains He has fixed firmly; |
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(To be) a provision and benefit for you and your cattle. |
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But when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense) |
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The Day when man shall remember what he strove for. |
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And Hell-fire shall be made apparent in full view for (every) one who sees, |
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Then, for him who Taghaa (transgressed all bounds, in disbelief, oppression and evil deeds of disobedience to Allaah). |
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And preferred the life of this world (by following his evil desires and lusts), |
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Verily, his abode will be Hell-fire; |
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But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires, and lusts. |
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Verily, Paradise will be his abode. |
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They ask you (O Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) about the Hour, - when will be its appointed time? |
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You have no knowledge to say anything about it, |
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To your Lord belongs (the knowledge of) the term thereof? |
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You (O Muhammad sal-Allaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) are only a warner for those who fear it, |
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The Day they see it, (it will be) as if they had not tarried (in this world) except an afternoon or a morning. |
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