By the souls that extract themselves from a state of drowning.
By the souls that depart in ease.
By the souls that proceed by swimming.
By the souls that race swiftly.
By the souls that receive first hand commandment [from their Lord].
Day when the quaking will take place.
Followed by the second quaking.
Hearts that day will be in palpitation.
The sights thereof [the hearts] will be cast down in humility.
They will say, “Are we surely going to be brought back in our graves to our former state?
Even when we have become bones decomposed”
They will say, “That then will be a return of complete loss.”
However it is all but a single compelling outcry.
And lo! They are all in full awakening.
Has the story of Moses come to you?
When his Lord called out to him in the holy valley of Tuwa.
“Go hence to Pharaoh. Truly he has transgressed.
and say unto him ‘Do you wish to sanctify your soul?’
‘That I may guide you to your Lord so that you may come to defer to Him’”
Then he showed him the great sign.
But he belied [the sign] and disobeyed [the messenger].
Then he turned away in view to work hard [for his plans].
So he assembled [his people] and made a declaration.
Thereupon he said, “I am your Lord the most high.”
So Allah seized him as an example of the punishment of the hereafter and of this life.
Truly in that is surely a transcending lesson for whoever defers to Allah.
Are you stronger in creation or the heaven? He built it up
He raised its roofing and then made it even.
And He darkened its night and He brought forth its radiance.
And the earth after that, He laid it down [like a cradle].
From it He brought forth its water and its pasture.
And the mountains, He anchored them firmly.
As a temporary provision for you and for your cattle.
But when the overwhelming calamity comes to pass.
The day when the human being will remember all that he had endeavored for.
And the hellfire is brought out in full view for anyone who is supposed to see it.
As for him who had transgressed.
And had preferred the life of the present world.
Then truly the hellfire is the abode.
And as for him who had feared the station of his Lord and restrained the soul from the vain desires,
then truly the garden is the abode.
They ask you about the hour when will it reach its final port?
What do you have to do with declaring it?
Final knowledge thereof is to your Lord.
You are but a warner for anyone who has deference for it.
The day they will see it as though they had not remained [in this world] except a single hour of the night or of the day.