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79:1  By those [angels] who wrest [the soul] violently,
79:2  by those who draw [it] out gently,
79:3  by those who swim smoothly,
79:4  by those who, racing, take the lead,
79:5  by those who direct the affairs [of creatures]:
79:6  the day when the Quaker quakes
79:7  and is followed by the Successor,
79:8  hearts will be trembling on that day,
79:9  bearing a humbled look.
79:10  They will say, ‘Are we being returned to our earlier state?
79:11  What, even after we have been decayed bones?!’
79:12  They will say, ‘This is, then, a ruinous return!’
79:13  Yet it will be only a single shout,
79:14  and behold, they will be awake.
79:15  Did you receive the story of Moses,
79:16  when his Lord called out to him in the holy valley of Tuwa?
79:17  [And said,] ‘Go to Pharaoh, for indeed he has rebelled,
79:18  and say, ‘‘Would you purify yourself?
79:19  I will guide you to your Lord, that you may fear [Him]?’’ ’
79:20  Then he showed him the greatest sign.
79:21  But he denied, and disobeyed.
79:22  Then he turned back, walking swiftly,
79:23  and gathered [the people] and proclaimed,
79:24  saying, ‘I am your exalted lord!’
79:25  So Allah seized him with the punishment of this life and the Hereafter.
79:26  There is indeed a moral in that for someone who fears!
79:27  Is your creation more prodigious or that of the heaven He has built?
79:28  He raised its vault and fashioned it,
79:29  and darkened its night, and brought forth its forenoon.
79:30  Thereafter He spread out the earth,
79:31  brought forth from it its water and pastures,
79:32  setting firm the mountains,
79:33  as a [place of] sustenance for you and your livestock.
79:34  When the Greatest Catastrophe befalls
79:35  —the day when man will remember his endeavours
79:36  and hell is brought into view for those who can see—
79:37  as for him who has been rebellious
79:38  and preferred the life of this world,
79:39  his refuge will indeed be hell.
79:40  But as for him who is awed to stand before his Lord and restrains his soul from [following] desires,
79:41  his refuge will indeed be paradise.
79:42  They ask you concerning the Hour, “When will it set in,
79:43  considering your frequent mention of it?”
79:44  Its outcome is with your Lord.
79:45  You are only a warner for those who are afraid it.
79:46  The day they see it, it shall be as if they had not stayed [in the world] except for an evening or forenoon.