By those that wrest violently
by those that draw out quickly
by those that glide serenely
by those that race to the fore, outstripping
and by those that govern affairs
on the Day when the quaker quake
and the successor follows upon it
Hearts that Day shall tremble
with eyes humbled
They will say, “Are we to be restored as we were before
What! When we have become decayed bones?
They say, “This, then, would be a ruinous return!
Yet it shall be but a single cry
then, behold, they will be upon a wide expanse
Hast thou heard tell of Moses
when his Lord called out to him in the holy valley of Tuwa
“Go unto Pharaoh! Truly he has rebelled
And say, ‘Dost thou wish to be purifie
and that I guide thee to thy Lord that thou mightest have fear?’
Then he showed him the greatest sign
But he denied and disobeyed
Then turned his back, moving swiftly
Then he gathered and proclaimed
and said, “I am your lord most high.
So God seized him with a punishment exemplary in the Hereafter and in this world
Truly in that is a lesson for whosoever fears
Are you more difficult to create or the sky that He has built
He raised high its canopy and fashioned it
darkened its night, and brought forth its day
And after that He spread out the earth
From it He brought forth its water and its pastures
and the mountains He set firm
as sustenance for you and for your flocks
So when the Great Calamity befalls
a day when man shall remember that for which he endeavored
and Hellfire is made visible for one who sees
as for one who rebel
and prefers the life of this world
truly Hellfire is the refuge
As for one who fears standing before his Lord and forbids the soul from caprice
truly the Garden is the refuge
They ask thee about the Hour, “When shall it set in?
What hast thou to do with mentioning it
Unto thy Lord is [knowledge of] the end thereof
Thou art but a warner for whosoever fears it
The Day they see it, it will be as if they had tarried but an evening or the morning thereof