79. AL NAZIATH - (Those who seize)

Chapter :79

An-Nazi’at – Those who seize.

Total verses:46

As the first verse of this chapter mentions about the as who seize the soul, it is named ‘An-Nazi’at’.

In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent and the most Merciful.

1 .By the promise on those who seize with violence.

2 .And by the promise on those who seize with ease.

3,4,5. And by the promise on those who swim along, those who over-take and those who administer affairs²⁶.

6 .The day, the occurance of the great shaking (due to the blowing of the ‘Sur’)

7 .The next will follow it.

8 .On that day, certain minds will be trembling.

9 .Its sights  remain humbled.

10 .They ask, “Will we indeed be raised from graves?”

11 .Even after becoming decayed bones?

12 .They say, “Then it is only a return causing loss.”

13 .Indeed, it will be but one soul.

14 .And at once, they will stand in the open space.

15 . (O Muhammad), has the news about Musa reached you?

16 .His God called him in the sacred valley of ‘Tuva’.

17 .You go to Firaun. Indeed, he has transgressed.

18,19. And ask, “Have you the desire to be purified? I guide the way towards your God. Fear (Him).”

20 .And He showed him a very great sign.

21 .He sinned considering it a lie.

22 .Then he retraced quickly.

23 .And gathered the people and declared.

24 .And He said, “I am the greatest God.”

25 .Allah  seized him with torment in this world and in the Hereafter.

26 .Indeed, there is a lesson for the righteness (of God).

27 .Are you a difficult creation or the heaven?⁵⁰⁷

28 .He raised the roof and fastioned it.

29 .And covered the night and showed the day.

30 .And He spread the earth.

31 .From it He brought forth the water for it and grazing pastu

32.And fixed the mountains as pegs²⁴

33. (He made them) amenities of life for you and for your cattle

34,35. Man will think about what he has done on that day when the greatest calamity occurs²⁶.

36 .And the Hell will be exposed (near) to those who see.

37,38,39. Indeed, for him the home is Hell, whoever transgressed and selected this wordly life²⁶.

40, 41. Indeed, whoever feared standing before his God and kept himself  away from the inclination, (for him) Paradise is the home²⁶.

42 . (O Muhammad), they ask about the time, to you, “When will it occur?.”

43 .Where do you have the explanation about it?

44 .Its end is only with your God.

45 .Indeed, you are only a warner for those who fear it.

46 .When they see it, it will seem as though they had not lived except for an evening or a morning.