By those angels who DRAG FORTH souls with violence
And by those who with joyous release release them
By those who swim swimmingly along
By those who are foremost with foremost speed
By those who conduct the affairs of the universe
One day, the disturbing trumpet-blast shall disturb it
Which the second blast shall follow
Men's hearts on that day shall quake:
Their looks be downcast
The infidels will say, "Shall we indeed be restored as at first
What! when we have become rotten bones?"
"This then," say they, "will be a return to loss."
Verily, it will be but a single blast
And lo! they are on the surface of the earth
Hath the story of Moses reached thee
When his Lord called to him in Towa's holy vale
Go to Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds
And say, "Wouldest thou become just
Then I will guide thee to thy Lord that thou mayest fear him."
And he showed him a great miracle,
But he treated him as an impostor, and rebelled
Then turned he his back all hastily
And gathered an assembly and proclaimed
And said, "I am your Lord supreme."
So God visited on him the punishment of this life and of the other
Verily, herein is a lesson for him who hath the fear of God
Are ye the harder to create, or the heaven which he hath built
He reared its height and fashioned it
And gave darkness to its night, and brought out its light
And afterwards stretched forth the earth,
He brought forth from it its waters and its pastures
And set the mountains fir
For you and your cattle to enjoy
But when the grand overthrow shall come
The day when a man shall reflect on the pains that he hath taken
And Hell shall be in full view of all who are looking on
Then, as for him who hath transgresse
And hath chosen this present life
Verily, Hell - that shall be his dwelling-place
But as to him who shall have feared the majesty of his Lord, and shall have refrained his soul from lust
Verily, Paradise - that shall be his dwelling-place
They will ask thee of "the Hour," when will be its fixed time
But what knowledge hast thou of it
Its period is known only to thy Lord
And thou art only charged with the warning of those who fear it
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