| | Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar rendition of Surah Those Who Drag Forth, Soul-snatchers, Those Who Pulled Out(an-Nazi`at)
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| 79:1 | | By the ones who tear out vehemently, |
| 79:2 | | by the ones who draw out a drawing out, |
| 79:3 | | by the ones who are swimmers, swimming, |
| 79:4 | | the ones who take the lead, taking the lead, |
| 79:5 | | by the ones who manage a command, |
| 79:6 | | on a Day when the quake quakes, |
| 79:7 | | succeeds the one that comes close behind it, |
| 79:8 | | hearts beating painfully on that Day, |
| 79:9 | | their sight, that which is humble. |
| 79:10 | | They say: Will we be restored to our original state |
| 79:11 | | when we had been crumbled bones? |
| 79:12 | | They said: That is a return again of one who is a loser. |
| 79:13 | | Truly, there will be but one scare. |
| 79:14 | | That is when they would be the ones awakening. |
| 79:15 | | Approached thee the discourse of Moses |
| 79:16 | | when his Lord cried out to him in the sanctified valley of Tuwa: |
| 79:17 | | Be thou gone to Pharaoh. Truly, he was defiant. |
| 79:18 | | And say: Wouldst thou purify thyself? |
| 79:19 | | And I will guide thee to thy Lord, then, thou wilt dread Him. |
| 79:20 | | And he caused him to see the greater sign. |
| 79:21 | | But Pharaoh denied and rebelled. |
| 79:22 | | Again, Pharaoh drew back, hastening about. |
| 79:23 | | Then, Pharaoh assembled them; then, proclaimed. |
| 79:24 | | Then, Pharaoh said: I am your lofty lord. |
| 79:25 | | So God took him with an exemplary punishment for the last and for the first. |
| 79:26 | | Truly, in that is a lesson for whoever dreads God. |
| 79:27 | | Is your constitution harder to create or the heaven which He built? |
| 79:28 | | He exalted its vault and shaped it |
| 79:29 | | and He made its night dark and brought out its forenoon. |
| 79:30 | | And, after that, He spread out the earth. |
| 79:31 | | He brought out from it its water and its pasture. |
| 79:32 | | And the mountains He set firm, |
| 79:33 | | an enjoyment for you and for your flocks. |
| 79:34 | | When the Greater Catastrophe would draw near, |
| 79:35 | | on that Day the human being will recollect for what he endeavored. |
| 79:36 | | Hellfire will be advanced for whoever sees. |
| 79:37 | | As for whoever was defiant |
| 79:38 | | and held this present life in greater favor, |
| 79:39 | | then, truly, hellfire will be the place of shelter! |
| 79:40 | | And as for him who feared the Station of his Lord and prohibited desire from his soul, |
| 79:41 | | truly, the Garden will be the place of shelter! |
| 79:42 | | They ask thee about the Hour. When will it berth? |
| 79:43 | | Then, what art thou about that thou remind of it? |
| 79:44 | | To thy Lord is the Utmost Boundary of it. |
| 79:45 | | And thou art only one who warns to such a one whoever dreads it. |
| 79:46 | | It will be as though a Day they see it, they linger not in expectation but an evening or a forenoon. |
