بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ
Ahmed Ali
I CALL TO WITNESS the Day of Resurrection,
سُورَةُ القِيَامَةِ
Al-Qiyaama · 40 verses
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ لَآ أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ
Ahmed Ali
I CALL TO WITNESS the Day of Resurrection,
وَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلنَّفْسِ ٱللَّوَّامَةِ
Ahmed Ali
And I call the reprehensive soul to witness:
أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَلَّن نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَهُۥ
Ahmed Ali
Does man think We shall not put his bones together?
بَلَىٰ قَٰدِرِينَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن نُّسَوِّىَ بَنَانَهُۥ
Ahmed Ali
Surely We are able to reform even his finger-tips.
بَلْ يُرِيدُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُۥ
Ahmed Ali
Yet man is sceptical of what is right before him.
يَسْـَٔلُ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ ٱلْقِيَٰمَةِ
Ahmed Ali
He asks: "When will the Day of Resurrection be?"
فَإِذَا بَرِقَ ٱلْبَصَرُ
Ahmed Ali
Yet when the eyes are dazzled,
وَخَسَفَ ٱلْقَمَرُ
Ahmed Ali
The moon eclipsed,
وَجُمِعَ ٱلشَّمْسُ وَٱلْقَمَرُ
Ahmed Ali
And the sun and moon are conjoined,
يَقُولُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَيْنَ ٱلْمَفَرُّ
Ahmed Ali
That day man will say: "Where can I find escape?"
كَلَّا لَا وَزَرَ
Ahmed Ali
Never so, for there will be no escape.
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمُسْتَقَرُّ
Ahmed Ali
With your Lord alone will be the retreat on that day.
يُنَبَّؤُا۟ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بِمَا قَدَّمَ وَأَخَّرَ
Ahmed Ali
Then man will be told what he had sent ahead (of good) and what he had left behind.
بَلِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِۦ بَصِيرَةٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
In fact man is a witness against himself,
وَلَوْ أَلْقَىٰ مَعَاذِيرَهُۥ
Ahmed Ali
Whatever the excuses he may offer.
لَا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِۦ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعْجَلَ بِهِۦٓ
Ahmed Ali
Do not forestall (the revelation before its completion) by acting in haste.
إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُۥ وَقُرْءَانَهُۥ
Ahmed Ali
Surely its collection and recitation are Our responsibility.
فَإِذَا قَرَأْنَٰهُ فَٱتَّبِعْ قُرْءَانَهُۥ
Ahmed Ali
So, as We recite it, follow its reading.
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُۥ
Ahmed Ali
The exposition of its meaning surely rests on Us.
كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ ٱلْعَاجِلَةَ
Ahmed Ali
But no. You love this transient life,
وَتَذَرُونَ ٱلْءَاخِرَةَ
Ahmed Ali
And neglect the Hereafter.
وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاضِرَةٌ
Ahmed Ali
How many faces will be refulgent on that Day,
إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
Waiting for their Lord.
وَوُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۭ بَاسِرَةٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
And how many faces on that Day will be woe-begone
تَظُنُّ أَن يُفْعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٌۭ
Ahmed Ali
Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them.
كَلَّآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلتَّرَاقِىَ
Ahmed Ali
Never so, for when life withdraws into the clavicula,
وَقِيلَ مَنْ ۜ رَاقٍۢ
Ahmed Ali
And it is asked: "Is there any reciter of charms and amulets?"
وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ ٱلْفِرَاقُ
Ahmed Ali
He will then realise it is the parting,
وَٱلْتَفَّتِ ٱلسَّاقُ بِٱلسَّاقِ
Ahmed Ali
And anguish will be heaped upon anguish:
إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ ٱلْمَسَاقُ
Ahmed Ali
To your Lord then will be the driving.
فَلَا صَدَّقَ وَلَا صَلَّىٰ
Ahmed Ali
For he neither believed nor prayed,
وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ
Ahmed Ali
But only disavowed and turned away;
ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ إِلَىٰٓ أَهْلِهِۦ يَتَمَطَّىٰٓ
Ahmed Ali
Then he strutted back to his people.
أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰ
Ahmed Ali
Alas the woe for you, alas!
ثُمَّ أَوْلَىٰ لَكَ فَأَوْلَىٰٓ
Ahmed Ali
Alas, the woe for you!
أَيَحْسَبُ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ أَن يُتْرَكَ سُدًى
Ahmed Ali
Does man think that he will be left alone to himself, free?
أَلَمْ يَكُ نُطْفَةًۭ مِّن مَّنِىٍّۢ يُمْنَىٰ
Ahmed Ali
Was he not an emitted drop of semen,
ثُمَّ كَانَ عَلَقَةًۭ فَخَلَقَ فَسَوَّىٰ
Ahmed Ali
Then formed into an embryo? Then He fashioned, shaped and proportioned
فَجَعَلَ مِنْهُ ٱلزَّوْجَيْنِ ٱلذَّكَرَ وَٱلْأُنثَىٰٓ
Ahmed Ali
And assigned it sexes, male and female.
أَلَيْسَ ذَٰلِكَ بِقَٰدِرٍ عَلَىٰٓ أَن يُحْۦِىَ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ
Ahmed Ali
Cannot such as He bring the dead to life?
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